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The Hindu: Transit gambit: on e-way bill mechanism for transport of goods
Already grappling with the Goods and Services Tax transition, businesses are now anxious about how the roll-out of e-way bills will pan out. Starting February 1, all inter-State movement of goods worth over ₹50,000 will be tracked with the introduction of the e-way bill system under the GST regime. All consignments moving more than 10 km from their origin will require prior registration and generation of an e-way bill through the GST Network, which will be valid for varying durations depending on the distance travelled. While a few States have already imposed their own requirements for such bills since the GST roll-out in July, all States must implement the bill system for capturing intra-State trade by June 1. Therefore, a fully integrated tracking system for all taxable goods can be expected only then. This poses an interim headache for firms operating across States, as they will now face differing compliance requirements for inter-State trade and intra-State trade, depending on when individual States launch their own e-way bill systems. To be fair, inter-State movement of goods was also tracked under the VAT (value-added tax) regime, but intra-State transactions were not. Over 150 items of common use, including LPG cylinders, vegetables, foodgrain and jewellery, will be exempt from such transport permits, which can be checked by designated tax officials by intercepting a transporting vehicle. Goods moved on non-motorised conveyance, such as carts, have been left out.
In October, the GST Council had decided to introduce e-way bills in a staggered manner from January 1, with a nationwide roll-out on April 1, 2018. After easing the GST burden on small businesses and exporters in its recent meetings, the GST Council’s decision on Saturday to advance the implementation of e-way bills just two days after polling closed in Gujarat signals that there are serious concerns on the tax collection front. After a monthly ₹90,000 crore-plus inflow in the GST’s first three months, revenue in October plummeted to just over ₹83,000 crore. And this was even before substantive tax rate cuts made by the Council kicked in. With States claiming a revenue shortfall of about ₹40,000 crore so far under the GST, the Centre, which has to fill that gap, is also feeling the pinch. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who faces a serious fiscal dilemma even before he presents the Union Budget in less than two months, has said the next set of GST features, such as e-way bills and matching of invoices, will make tax evasion difficult and bump up collections. Plugging revenue leakages is essential, and encouragingly, Karnataka’s e-way bill experience in the first month saw very few glitches. Given industry’s nervousness, the government must simplify the onerous rules proposed for e-way bills (a one-day validity for distances up to 100 km, for instance), ensure that the IT backbone is robust, and make inspections the exception, not the norm.
1. Grappling (verb) – जूझ
Meaning – engage in a close fight or struggle without weapons; wrestle.
Synonyms – wrestle, struggle, tussle; brawl, fight, scuffle, clash, combat, battle; close, engage.
Antonyms – hide, retreat, run, withdraw.
Usage – he threw himself forward and grappled with him.
2. Consignments (noun) – खेप
Meaning –a batch of goods destined for or delivered to someone.
Synonyms – delivery, shipment, load, containerload, shipload, boatload, lorryload, truckload, cargo; batch, lot, haul.
Usage – a consignment of drugs.
3. Varying (verb) – अलग-अलग
Meaning – differ in size, amount, degree, or nature from something else of the same general class.
Synonyms –range, extend, stretch, reach, cover, go, run, pass.
Antonyms – more unvarying.
Usage –estimates of the development cost vary greatly.
4. Compliance (noun) – अनुपालन
Meaning –the action or fact of complying with a wish or command.
Synonyms –acquiescence, amenability, assent, complaisance, concession, concurrence, conformity, consent, deference, docility, obedience, observance, passivity, resignation, submission, submissiveness, tractability, yielding.
Antonynms –defiance, denial, disagreement, disobedience, dissension, dissent, fight, nonconformity, refusal, veto.
Usage –the ways in which the state maintains order and compliance.
5.Intercepting (verb ) – अवरोध उत्पन्न कर रहा
Meaning – obstruct (someone or something) so as to prevent them from continuing to a destination.
Synonyms – ambush, appropriate, arrest, block, catch, check, curb, cut in, cut off, deflect, head off at pass, hijack, hinder, interlope, interpose, make off with, obstruct, prevent, seize, shortstop, stop, take, take away.
Antonyms – abet, forward, help.
Usage – intelligence agencies intercepted a series of telephone calls.
6.Conveyance (noun) – वाहन
Meaning – the action or process of transporting or carrying someone or something from one place to another.
Synonyms – car, carriage, carrying, communication, machine, movement, transfer, transference, transmission, transportation, vehicle.
Antonyms – hold, possession.
Usage – a busy centre for the conveyance of agricultural produce from the Billingshurst area.
7.Staggered(verb)-टेढ़े
Meaning – walk or move unsteadily, as if about to fall.
Synonyms –lurch, walk unsteadily, reel, sway, teeter, totter, stumble, wobble, move clumsily, weave, flounder, falter, pitch, roll.
Antonyms – straight
Usage –Sonny took the blow on the temple and staggered sideways.
8.Plummeted (verb)-गिरावट
Meaning – fall or drop straight down at high speed.
Synonyms – – plunge, fall headlong, hurtle, nosedive, dive, drop, crash, descend rapidly.
Antonyms – ascend, rise, shoot up.
Usage –a climber was killed when he plummeted 300 feet down an icy gully.
9. Onerous(adjective)- कष्टदायक
Meaning –(of a task or responsibility) involving a great deal of effort, trouble, or difficulty.
Synonyms – – arduous, austere, backbreaking, burdensome, crushing, cumbersome, demanding, difficult, distressing, embittering, exacting, excessive, exhausting, exigent, fatiguing, formidable, galling, grave, grinding, grueling, hard, harsh, headache, heavy, intolerable, irksome, laborious, merciless, oppressive, overpowering, overtaxing, painful, plodding, ponderous, pressing, responsible, rigorous, serious, severe, strenuous, taxing, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, vexatious, weighty.
Antonyms – common, easy, light, trivial.
Usage –the task proved to be more onerous than she had expected.
10.Robust(adjective)- मजबूत
Meaning – strong and healthy; vigorous.
Synonyms – able-bodied, athletic, boisterous, booming, brawny, built, concentrated, fit, fit as fiddle, flourishing, full-bodied, hale, hardy, hearty, hefty, husky, in fine fettle, in good health, in good shape, in the pink, live, lusty, muscular, peppy, potent, powerful, powerhouse, prospering, prosperous, roaring, robustious, robustuous, rough, rugged, sinewy, snappy, sound, stout, strapping, sturdy, thriving, tiger, tough, vigorous, vital, well, wicked, zappy, zippy.
Antonyms –flabby, infirm, soft, unhealthy, weak.
Usage –the Caplan family are a robust lot.
