coimbatore the number of vehicles getting registered at regional transport offices rtos here has come down by more than 50 since the introduction of goods and services tax gst on july 1 the four rtos in the city together now register hardly 250300 vehicles a day against 600700 earlier as they are unable to generate and download form 20 that is required for registration of vehicles it has hit the revenue flow as well earlier we used to generate an income of close to rs 4 crore a day through vehicle registration now it has considerably come down officials said they however refused to provide the current figures for the past 12 days none of the vehicles bought after july 1 has been registered at the rtos in north south central and west coimbatore form 20 has to be generated downloaded filled and uploaded online for the registration of vehicles since july 1 the form with the new gst rules slabs and rates are not getting generated and downloaded in our systems this problem is faced across the state and not city specific said a regional transport officer it is the national informatics centre nic that has to upload the new forms on the server and make it easily downloadable the officer further said many vehicle dealers are also unable to download the form 20 as there is no clarity about the gst slab that each vehicle falls under said a transport department official they are facing billing and software issues with calculating the gst which varies according to the engine power of vehicles the official said also read auto sector riding cyclical recovery with a growing backlog of vehicles lined up for registration joint regional transport officer p muruganantham took up the issue at a meeting convened by the transport department in chennai on wednesday there is a slowdown in the registrations through the department we have informed the nic and urged it to solve the problem as soon as possible we were told that the issue will be resolved by tomorrow thursday muruganantham said the joint regional transport officer said presently only those vehicles which have bills or were bought prior to july 1 were being registered that too as per the earlier value added tax service tax and road tax according to consumer activists city roads are likely to be flooded with vehicles with temporary registration stickers which are valid for one month if the issue werent addressed soon the present system allows all dealers to upload bills and applications online after the sale and they directly land at a specific rtos server based on the address provided but if the vehicles bought before july 1 are still being registered there is a chance of misusing the system dealers can date their bills before july 1 and upload it now said k kathirmathiyon consumer activist with coimbatore consumer cause tnn published on jul 14 2017 at 0901 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one