Accelerating Transport with Omnipresent RFID
Context :
GST officials use RFID to detect tax evasion / 08 July 2021 / Hindustan Times
Extract :
Ø Goods and services tax (GST) authorities have started detecting instances of tax evasion by identifying mismatches between electronic permits issued for transporting goods and the data from radio frequency tags that commercial vehicles use to pass through toll plazas.
Ø GST officials are now identifying vehicles that pose a risk of revenue leakage by comparing details furnished at the time of generating e-way bills for goods movement with the actual movement of vehicles captured at toll plazas.
Ø E-way bills were integrated with the radio frequency identification (RFID) tags in January this year. This means details of proposed goods transportation, including
# classification of the item,
# destination and
# vehicle details furnished at the time of e-way bill generation,
is fed into these radio frequency tags of commercial vehicles. This helps in
cross-verifying the details of vehicle movement specified in the e-way bill
with their physical movement.
Ø “Data analytics helps authorities identify instances of e-way bills that do not result in goods transportation as well as goods movement without e-way bills. This significantly improves the administration’s ability to focus on non-compliant behaviour while not causing inconvenience to honest taxpayers,” said Abhishek Jain, tax partner, EY.
Ø The development is a major milestone in tax administration as it gives greater precision to government efforts to check evasion, although border check posts have been dismantled across states with the introduction of GST. It also helps genuine goods transporters as officials tend to focus on cases flagged in their IT system rather than suspecting all taxpayers.
Ø Technology and data analytics have been playing a greater role in tax administration lately, one of the factors that helped in greater GST revenue collections in recent months. CBIC has been on a drive against tax evasion, which has led to detection of fake input tax credit and tax evasion of over ₹29,000 crore since November, minister of state for finance and corporate affairs Anurag Thakur said on July 1. Another key recent measure aimed at improving tax compliance is e-invoicing or real-time reporting of business-to-business transactions in a designated portal.
MY TAKE :
Ø Some 4 YEARS ago, I sent following blog / e-mail to our Policy Makers :
A New Way to E-Way ?.......................
Where I wrote :
My request / suggestion to GST Council :
· Aim to turn India’s highways into friction-less “ Conveyor Belts of
Commerce “
· Look up conveyor belts in the warehouses of Amazon / Flipkart / UPS /
FedEx etc , which carry hundreds of packages per minute – with each
package carrying dozens of different items ( can we replace “ packages
“ with TRUCKS and “ conveyor belts “ with HIGHWAYS ? )
· Each item within each box, has RFID chip and QR code ( interlinked )
· Sensors placed along the conveyor belt “ read “ each package and
each item inside each package .
No need to stop the flow of the packages
· E-way Bill too, will have all the QR Codes / RFID data, of each item
loaded onto the truck such as :
# Price
# Origin City
# Destination City
# Supplier with GSTN registration number
# Recipient with his GSTN registration number
# GST – ISGST – SGST amount for each item
# Date of Dispatch
# Validity of E Way Bill etc
· Just like today’s Mobile Apps of UPS / FedEx enable online tracking of
each package and of individual items within each package , that
“ high technology interface “ being proposed by the Government should
incorporate the following technologies :
# QR code / RFID chip
https://myblogepage.blogspot.
# Internet of Things ( IoT )
https://myblogepage.
# BlueTooth / NFC
Dear Members of GST Council :
Here is YOUR opportunity to lead the way ( - in this case , the HIGHWAY ! )
There is no technical reason why Software Super Power India, cannot lead the world in ,
“ Ease of Doing Business “
If you guarantee the business / industry that “ NO INSPECTOR “ will stop the truck along its journey , they will willingly implement ANY / ALL technologies to serve the purpose of E Way Bill
Remember, all corruption starts by permitting HUMANS to “ interpret “ whether a given process was “ correct / incorrect “ as prescribed – and collect their “ hafta “ for offering to interpret it in favour of the Business / Industry , violating the process !
Ø By implementing my suggestion
( Internetof Vehicles / https://myblogepage.
- technology will SHUT DOWN the truck engine , upon detection of a violation !
And automatically unlock the engine when the violation gets corrected by EDITING the E-Way Bill , on GSTN web site !
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Dear Gadkariji / Piyush Goyalji :
RFID is helping reduce / eliminate GST TAX EVASION on the highways ( as seen above )
By making RFID compulsory for payment of Highway Toll tax, it is helping TAX INCREASE, as can be seen from following figures of Highway Toll tax collected ( Rs Crore / month ):
# Nov 2019…………… 773
# Dec 2019……………….1,257
# Feb 2020……………… 1,841
# July 2020…………… 1,623
# Dec 2020…………… 2,303
# Feb 2021……………….2,556
( source : https://factly.in/data-can-
# 0n 25 Feb 2021……. 104 ( in one day )
# Expected collection for current year ….. 34,000
# Expected to reach in 3 to 4 years………..134,000 ( Rs 1.34 Lakh*Crore per year )
(source:https://realtyninfra.
It must be noted that, all of this TAX COLLECTION is fully AUTOMATIC, without any Human Intervention !
Also note that, our total Vehicle population is about 340 million in 2021
Assume that, out of this, 80 % are 2-Wheelers (which may not ply on highways ), leaving 20 % of 4 Wheelers ( cars – buses – trucks etc ), numbering approx. 70 million , which use highways and pay toll tax
Of these 70 million, may be no more than 7 million ( 10 % ) use Highways on any given day
It is these 7 million which are expected to contribute Rs 1.34 Lakh*crore per year by way of Toll Tax
Now imagine that we find a method to make all 70 million ( 4 wheelers ) to pay a TRANS-TAX ,
Ø Whether plying on Highways or on City Roads
Ø Every day
Ø Automatically ( using same method of Pre-paid RFID ) / without human intervention
In such an event, I suppose we could , quite possibly collect, Rs 25 Lakh*Crore per year !
Dear Minsters,
One more time with love, I urge you to get Transport Experts / IT Experts , to examine the feasibility of :
Ø Transport : an Integrated Logistic Plan ? ………………………..[ 20 Nov 2018 ]
I have a feeling that my proposal will find strong – and instant – support from our PM Shri Modiji , in light of his following statement :
Modi suggests internet of things tech to track oxygen plants’ performance / The Week / 09 July 2021
Extract :
Ø Modi also asked them to deploy advanced technology like internet of things (IoT) to track the performance and functioning of these oxygen plants at the local and national level.
Ø He was informed by officials that a pilot exercise is being done using IoT for monitoring the performance of the oxygen plants, the PMO said.
With regards,
Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com
Dear Readers,
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