Road Safety Tax - Applicable to Re.Regn.also.

In some quarter there is a school of thought that Road safety Tax introduced recently does not apply for re.registration of vehicle.

Road safety tax is applicable for all classes of vehicles for registration and as well as re.registration.

The argument put forward is that it is mentioned in Section 3-B that road safety tax shall be collected at the time of registration of motor vehicles .and re.registration is not mentioned.

As there is no mention called re.registration, it is not applicable. But in Central Motor vehicles Rules in Rule 81 under the fees structure there is no mention of re.registration of vehicles. No fees is mentioned for re.registration of vehicles. That does not absolve re.registration cases from the purview of fees.We collect fee for re.registration.

Motor vehicles Act and Rules are best understood only on inferences.

Registration includes re.registration. Whatever applies for registration equally and fully applies for re.registration.

So road safety tax introduced by Act No.9/2009 applies for re.registration too. In cases where it is omitted at least try to collect now otherwise we would be liable to pay from our pocket as per Circular No.5/2008.

Road safety tax is exempted only for State Government vehicles as per Transport Commissioner's letter No.53874/A4/2009 dated 10.11.2009