Working professionals with transferable jobs are most affected by laws requiring payment of lifetime taxes once they relocate.
They have to pay tax more than once, on the original cost price, though the vehicle value would have reduced with depreciation. Amit Gehlot from Bengaluru says he is unwilling to buy a car because he could get transferred and would have to repay the road tax.
He paid Rs. 20,000 as lifetime tax for his car in Pune, but found tracking the refundable amount of the tax daunting. In Bengaluru, he paid Rs. 15,000 for a decade-old motorbike, which cost him Rs. 45,000, though its present-day value had reduced.
He wondered why road tax should not be centralised, as in the case of provident fund and bank accounts.
