GST Network in its statement has said that Taxpayers who have not filed  Goods and service Tax (GST) returns for two months or quarters up to June 2021 will not be able to generate e-way bills from August 15,  According to expert,  this step would help increase GST collections in August as pending GST returns are expected to be filed.

The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) had earlier suspended the blocking of electronic way (E-way) bill generation for non-filers of GST returns, to give taxpayers compliance relief during the COVID pandemic. In an advisory dated August 4 to taxpayers, the GSTN said, "The government has now decided to resume the blocking of e-way bill generation facility on the EWB portal, for all the taxpayers from August 15 onwards".

Thus, after August 15, 2021, the system will check the status of returns filed in Form GSTR-3B or the statements filed in Form GST CMP-08 (for composition taxpayers filing quarterly returns) and restrict the generation of E-way bill in case of non-filers, it added. Any taxpayer who has not filed two or more returns in GSTR-3B up to June 2021, or has not filed 2 or more statements in GST CMP-08 for the quarters up to April to June 2021, will not be able to generate E-way bill after August 15. E-way bills are mandatory for inter-state transportation of goods valued over Rs 50,000.

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