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Road Transport minister to urge FM to reduce tax rate on hybrid vehicles

26 May 2017 Evaluate

The Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari will soon be urging Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to bring down Goods and Services Tax (GST) rates on hybrid vehicles and other automobiles that run on alternative fuels. As per the GST Council’s fourteenth meeting hybrid cars, which are considered eco-friendly will attract a 15% cess over and above peak rate of 28%, same as those of large luxury cars and SUVs. Currently, hybrid vehicles attract excise duty of 12.5% with an effective overall tax rate of 30.3%.

Road Transport and Highways Minister said ‘I will be meeting Arun Jaitley soon to request that tax slabs for vehicles run on ethanol, bio diesel, bio CNG should be reduced. I will also request him to reduce tax rate on hybrid vehicles in order to tackle air pollution in the long run.’ The minister, who also holds Shipping portfolio, said that the government's policy is to promote electric mobility in the country and GST rate on electric vehicles has been kept at 12%.

Gadkari further said that in order to reduce India's import of crude oil, electric and hybrid vehicles along with alternate fuels like ethanol should be encouraged, and added that India import crude worth Rs 7 lakh crore. Electric, ethanol, bio diesel, bio CNG these are import substitutes and are cost effective, pollution free and indigenous too. He also said that if such vehicles are encouraged on a large scale, the cost will also come down. Besides, the automobile industry has also expressed concern on the high rate on hybrids stating it would put a spanner in the wheels of government plans to promote green vehicles.

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