Penalty for expired e-Way Bill

Transporters must know that failure to submit an e-way bill could result in officials seizing their vehicles and other property. In addition, the protracted delays at the checkpoints would impact your supply chain. Thus, follow the rules to go ahead without an e-way bill penalty, and this blog summarises them all.

What will happen if the e-Way Bill is not generated?

The repercussions of failing to produce and carry the e-Way Bill could cost you money, as well as other types of losses.

Below is the list comprising various penalties for non-generation of e-Way Bills for a shipment of goods made in violation of the law:

Monetary Penalty

Moving goods without an invoice or e-Way Bill is illegal and carries a fine of Rs. 10,000. As a result, the minimum fine for breaking the guidelines is Rs. 10,000.

Detention and Seizure

Suppose a vehicle moves goods without an e-Way Bill. In that case, it may be detained, seized, and released only once the officer has received the penalty for a mistake in the e-Way Bill. There are two possibilities for this:

1. The owner wants to pay the penalty- In this case, he must pay the total amount of the tax.
2. Other cases- In any different scenario, they will have to assess a penalty of 50% of the product’s value.

It is always better to utilise softwares like myBillBook to streamline this tedious procedure to enable the efficient facilitation of commodities from one state to another.