three in one omnibus reply below after a longish hiatus from tbhp.
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Originally Posted by nareshov A friend has a KA-registered 2014 Honda Brio and has to move to Chennai for 3 years. She plans to drive between BLR and Chennai on weekends and use the car in Chennai on weekdays. |
The Chennai RTO isn't as eager to chase for re-registration as the Karnataka RTO is. I would suggest that especially as your friend is driving back and forth she should keep a photocopy of her most recent toll receipts and say that she's just visiting Chennai for business meetings, if she is ever asked. Please don't have her re-register based on this use case, it is a long drawn out and complex process. She might find it preferable to sell the car and buy one in Chennai if she feels hassled driving a KA car in TN. Personally - not as much hassle in Chennai except that the traffic "fine" amounts tend to be a couple of hundred rupees higher and a little more frequent for out of state cars.
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Originally Posted by parulkgupta re-registered my car here in December 2013. Paid 10% Tax in Chennai and some more in Faridabad.
The first request for refund of remainder of Life time tax was sent in January 2014. since then I got replies containing yes / no / dont know / cant refund as the tax was paid online / can pay only x when the refund should be 1.8x and some more. |
Congratulations. I'm in the process of a TN refund after moving my car TN->KA myself and re-registering in Karnataka (and thanks to tbhpian @waseem and others for several suggestions during the process). It has been a slow-ish process but so far, no bribery.
A lot of running around though. All done myself rather than through an agent, thank god the relevant Chennai RTO is quite close to my home.
All this was unnecessary except that I was going to bangalore for several months during the time the karnataka RTOs were quite eager to collect road tax on cars that were in town for over a month. Well before Waseem and others managed to recently get a
high court judgement quashing this. Currently back in Chennai and like @nareshov's friend above, commuting back and forth to Bangalore for work - and to run around the relevant RTO there.
After the re-registration and getting my karnataka RC (a process that took three or four months), now was the time to get my TN tax refunded.
I took copies of my new and old RC books, pollution, insurance, the car's sales invoice together with this other
form DT to the Chennai RTO. At this point I had no information beyond various tbhp threads on what specifically was required - nothing documented on the TN RTO (STA) website either.
So the lady at the relevant desk asked me to bring her the original tax paid receipt for the vehicle. You know, the one that the dealer collects as part of the car sale amount and gets your car registered through his broker.
Luckily for me the dealer had paid all his registrations online and so was able to find an accountant in his head office who could scan and whatsapp me a copy within the day. I sent that in along with my application.
Then got told that she would send these documents to the relevant Bangalore RTO for endorsement and it'd take a month. More than a month later - no movement on that. So I went over to the Bangalore RTO (KA51 Electronic City - which had some very polite and helpful staff, full marks to them) and they promptly - well, after a few hours of paperwork - issued me what's called a CRTI. Essentially a letter stating that my car with TN07 xxx, engine yyy and chassis zzz had been re-registered in Karnataka with number KA51-xxx.
They said they'd send that to the TN RTO by speedpost - and what happens but that it just gets lost in the post and never arrives. So I had to make another trip to the KA51 RTO a few weeks later, they were good enough to issue me a second CRTI - this I took with me and hand delivered at the "tappal" (documents reception) section at the TN07 RTO, after getting it initialed by the RTO's PRO (on the same lady official's advice).
The next step - they had to send it to their central records people in their head office because the tax had been paid online rather than as a DD, to issue a certificate that the money paid by the dealer had actually been deposited with the RTO into the state treasury department. No movement a few weeks later, so after asking the lady for details of which office, I went to the head office - in a huge government building complex called Ezhilagam, near the Marina Beach. The computer records section - in an old building allocated to NICNET, behind the main Ezhilagam complex.
Two more friendly officials there - late last week - who explained that as the process of tax refunding an electronically paid lifetime tax was still not computerized it was being handled manually - and they took a printout of the payment from their records, and passed it on to yet another office - in a totally different part of Chennai, mind you, where an official would issue a certificate to the RTO that the LTT money has been received.
According to them - next steps are that the TN07 RTO will take that certificate, assess a pro rata refund based on the car's age and issue a neft transfer or demand draft of the refund amount, and that it can take a couple of months more.
All in all three or four months for the re-registration in bangalore (where I had to use an agent as the RTO was quite far from my apartment) and then maybe six months (of which 4 have been completed so far) for my tax refund in Chennai.
So far polite persistence has worked - though it has meant more half days off than I'd really like. There's at least some actual movement in this case despite the undocumented procedure and extra runarounds.
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Originally Posted by parulkgupta My NoC was verified online by the RTO in front of me. It can not also be verified by general public on open portal for select states, data uploading for other states is going on. |
It can be verified -
https://vahan.nic.in and
https://sarathi.nic.in for RC books and drivers licenses. The RTOs, police etc have enhanced access of course but the general public has some limited access to both websites.