6% Tax Proposal To Be Withdrawn, Not Too Many Luxury EVs Says Fadnavis

A week following the assembly passed a bill to amend Maharashtra Motor Vehicles Act to levy a 6% tax electric vehicles (EVs) that cost over Rs 30 lakh, Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis announced that government has decided to withdraw this proposal.

BJP’s Uma Khapre raised the issue of air pollution in Hinjewadi and Pimpri-Chinchwad owing to the presence of ready-mix cement plants and vehicles.

Maharashtra CM said, ‘EVs make up more than 50% of the vehicles will be EVs. We have made a policy for EVs. Maximum pollution is on account of conventional vehicles. Two-wheelers have already shifted to EVs. If four-wheelers too shift, then it will reduce pollution”. He further added that Pune and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar will be the new hub for EV manufacturing.