As GST pinches, Surat textile traders send goods through private buses

Goods worth Rs 10 crore are loaded on 100 buses every day and sent to various places, with no GST paid

Three months into the GST regime, textile traders in Surat have devised a new way to avoid paying GST on the goods. Dainik Bhaskar's Surat edition reports that traders in the textile hub are using the services of private buses to transport their goods to different places like Delhi, Rajasthan and elsewhere.

The buses are meant to carry passengers, but in the busy and sprawling Surat textile market, the slew of private buses are loaded with heaps of clothes and are sent across states sans payment of any cess under the GST regime.

Bhaskar reports that instead of sending goods