{"id":1001029,"date":"2026-04-04T08:10:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001029"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:07:08","slug":"karnataka-withdraws-exemption-to-slap-lifetime-tax-on-evs-except-two-wheelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/karnataka-withdraws-exemption-to-slap-lifetime-tax-on-evs-except-two-wheelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka withdraws exemption, to slap lifetime tax on EVs, except two-wheelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka withdraws exemption, to slap lifetime tax on EVs, except two-wheelers<\/p>\n<p>The Karnataka government has withdrawn the exemption from lifetime road tax for a range of electric vehicles (EVs) including cars, jeeps, buses and other private vehicles. The exemption, however, will continue for electric two wheelers.<\/p>\n<p>The cash-strapped government has brought all EVs or battery-operated vehicles under the purview of this tax, which was earlier applicable only for vehicles priced at or above Rs 25 lakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karnataka withdraws exemption, to slap lifetime tax on EVs, except two-wheelers The Karnataka government has withdrawn the exemption from lifetime road tax for a range of electric vehicles (EVs) including cars, jeeps, buses and other private vehicles. The exemption, however, will continue for electric two wheelers. The cash-strapped government has brought all EVs or battery-operated vehicles under the purview of this tax, which was earlier applicable only for vehicles priced at or above Rs 25 lakh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}