New Delhi, November 26, 2012: Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has welcomed a proposal to tax diesel cars. The proposal — mooted in the Supreme Court today by amicus curiae Harish Salve — is based on a report from the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority (EPCA), which calls for restraining the rapid increase in diesel cars with effective tax measures (both Salve’s proposal and the EPCA diesel report are available on the CSE website). The apex court has responded positively to the proposal.
The interim application submitted to the Supreme Court proposes:
i) an annual environment compensation charge amounting to 2 per cent of the purchase value of a petrol car and 4 per cent of the purchase value of a diesel car to be levied on all private cars in the NCR region to be collected annually, and
ii) an environment compensation charge of 25 per cent of the sale value of the vehicle to be levied on the sale of each private diesel car, which is to be collected by the dealers at the time of the sale.
The court’s bench has issued a notice to the government, asking for a report on the status of public transport as well as the progress of the eastern and western peripheral expressways needed to bypass the truck traffic in Delhi.
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