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E-way bill


On the introduction of the recent E-way bill legislation, every business person is confused about it and rushing to advocates and tax consultants. Here is a quick tip to prepare your client for the E-way bill.

Under the E-way bill mechanism, every transporter must carry e-way bill when transporting goods valuing more than Rs. 50,000/-. EBN number will be generated for its reference. It is necessary to generate for the sales, transfer, and exchange of goods. It must be generated online on the ewaybill.nic.in portal. The general validity period of the E-way bill is 24 hours.

Persons responsible to generate

The Registered person under GST must generate the E-way bill for the movements of the goods more than Rs. 50,000/- further registered person can choose to generate E-way bill for goods less than Rs. 50,000/- even if it is not necessary to do so.

Unregistered Person – in case of the supply from unregistered person to registered person, responsibility of the compliance is on the recipient of the goods.

Transporter – If a supplier has not generated E-way bill transporters need to generate. Here transport includes rail transport, road transport, air transport etc.

Important points

1.    Vehicle number on the E-way bill can be updated after it is generated in case it is not entered at all while generating the E-way bill or in case of shifting of the goods from the one vehicle to another vehicle.

2.    E-way bill can be canceled by the generator of the E-way bill only within 24 hours of generation.

3.    Once it is verified by the competent officer it cannot be canceled.

4.    Carrying of canceled E-way bill is illegal.

5.    Time limit of the E-way bill can be extended before 4 hours of its expiry.

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