AHMEDABAD: According to revenue department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, of the 1,72,138 vehicles registered in the city’s main RTO in 2019, vehicle tax is unpaid for 24,487. The department cross-checked information from the RTO and its own records and found the discrepancy is for an amount totalling Rs 17.92 crore.
“We have started the process of issuing notices to for these unpaid taxes. We have also initiated the process of retrieving data of the vehicles registered in 2020 and 2021 from the RTO, which will be verified against our records,” said Jainik Vakil, chairman of the AMC revenue committee.
According to data made available by the department, 19,068 of these 24,487 vehicles are from areas falling in AMC limits before the expansion in 2020. The remaining 5,419 vehicles are registered from areas outside AMC limits. Of the vehicles that have tax pending, 13,068 are two-wheelers, 2,747 are cars and 2,796 are other vehicles including three-wheelers.
“Vehicle tax is usually included in the vehicle bill at the dealership. People do not check their bills, and this may be why this situation arose. We appeal to people to check whether the vehicle tax is included in their bill when buying a vehicle,” Vakil said.
He added that there’s no provision for penalizing vehicle tax defaulters. “We are considering introducing a penalty now,” he said.
AMC collected Rs 97.54 crore in vehicle tax from April 1, 2021 to January 10, 2022, up 61% from Rs 60.48 crore in the same period last year.
