{"id":267852,"date":"2025-08-31T19:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/india-no-vehicle-tax-on-unused-vehicles-in-public-places-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:14:07","slug":"india-no-vehicle-tax-on-unused-vehicles-in-public-places-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.insurancekhabar.com\/india-no-vehicle-tax-on-unused-vehicles-in-public-places-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India: No vehicle tax on unused vehicles in &#8216;public places&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India has ruled that vehicles not used in &#8220;public places&#8221; will not be taxed. <\/p>\n<p>In its August 29 verdict after hearing a motor vehicle tax case, the supreme court said motor vehicle tax is in the indemnity nature and if a vehicle has not been used or kept for use in a &#8220;public place&#8221;, the owner of the motor vehicle tax should not be burdened with the burden of motor vehicle tax for such period. \u00a0 O<\/p>\n<p>A division bench of Justices Manoj Mishra and Ujjal Bhuyan overturned the December 2024 verdict of the Andhra Pradesh High Court. <\/p>\n<p>Asia Insurance Post quoted the Supreme Court as saying that motor vehicle tax is indemnity nature. It has a direct connection with the end experiment. &#8220;People using public infrastructure such as roads, highways, etc. will have to pay for such use. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Referring to Section 3 of the Andhra Pradesh Motor Vehicle Tax Act, 1963, the bench said the Legislature has consciously used the expression &#8216;public place&#8217; in this provision. <\/p>\n<p>Section 3 of the Act deals with the imposition of tax on motor vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If a motor vehicle has not been used in a &#8216;public place&#8217; or kept for use in a &#8216;public place&#8217;, the person concerned is not benefiting from public infrastructure; Therefore, he should not be burdened with motor vehicle tax for such a period. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu. New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India has ruled that vehicles not used in &#8220;public places&#8221; will not be taxed. In its August 29 verdict after hearing a motor vehicle tax case, the supreme court said motor vehicle tax is in the indemnity nature and if a vehicle has not been used or kept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":84764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45031,45044,45159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banner-news-en","category-international-news-en","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media\/84764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insurancekhabar.com\/ikbrapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}