Summary:
However, the finance department while approving other demands had not given its consent on levying road tax on actual price instead of ex-showroom price, which included the Goods and Services Tax (GST) (earlier value added tax) from the vehicle buyers. Now, the transport department had referred the case again to the government after the legal notice sent by Bansal. Former Chairman Shivalik Vikas Manch and Vijay Bansal, have alleged that the Haryana government was robbing the vehicle buyers by charging tax on ex-showroom price, which includes GST, instead of collecting tax on actual price of the vehicle. They have sent a legal notice to the government for charging tax at actual cost instead of ex-showroom price of the new vehicle, which included the GST. He warned to move to the Punjab and Haryana High Court if the government did not cancel the notification..