Lucknow, April 23 -- The Uttar Pradesh government has issued a notification hiking the one-time and annual tax structure for non-transport vehicles (personal vehicles) under the Uttar Pradesh Motor Vehicles Taxation Act, 1997, by one per cent across categories. The new rates, notified on April 21 (Monday) by the transport principal secretary, came into immediate effect.

Under the updated Schedule-I, one-time tax rates for new non-transport vehicles vary based on vehicle type and cost.

The tax slab for two-wheelers costing less than Rs.40,000 remains at 7% of the costs. It went up from 8% to 9% on others costing more than Rs.40,000.

The one-time tax on non-AC private vehicles (cars, SUVs, etc.) costing less than Rs10 lakh has been incre...