GST Council firm on e-way Bill despite traders' concern

Movement of goods to be tracked online from Feb 1, pan-India rollout by June ; move likely to arrest tax evasion but seen as a hurdle for business

An electronic system to track movement of products under the goods and services tax (GST) system will be put in place across the country (inter-city as well as intra-city) by June 1, 2018. While the mechanism for the e-way bill, which implies all goods worth over Rs 50,000 will have to be pre-registered online before they are moved for sale beyond 10 km, will be introduced on February 1 for inter-state carriage, its uniform pan-Indian implementation (covering goods movements within states too) will come into effect by June 1, the GST Council decided at a meeting held through video-conferencing on