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Estimate a vehicle's current value using the motor tariff depreciation slabs, plus the income tax written down value at 15 or 30 percent.
This calculator applies the two depreciation schedules that are written down in Indian rules rather than estimated: the motor tariff schedule of depreciation, which reduces a vehicle's listed price by 5% under six months rising to 50% at five years and is what insurers use to fix insured value, and the income tax written down value method at 15% for a motor car or 30% for a bus, lorry or taxi run on hire. Enter the ex-showroom price and the vehicle's age to see both figures side by side, along with a year-by-year table. Beyond five years the tariff table stops and value is mutually agreed, so the model continues at a rate you choose.
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Insurance value and income tax book value from the same inputs.
Handles the six-month and one-year boundaries the tariff table turns on.
Applies half depreciation when the vehicle was used under 180 days in year one.
It depends which rule you are applying. For insured declared value the motor tariff schedule uses 5% up to six months, 15% up to one year, 20% up to two years, 30% up to three, 40% up to four and 50% up to five years. For income tax, a motor car not used in a hire business is a 15% written-down-value block, while buses, lorries and taxis run on hire get 30%.
The tariff schedule of depreciation only runs to five years. Beyond that the insured declared value is mutually agreed between the insurer and the owner, usually by continuing to reduce the value each year or by taking a dealer's assessment, which is why two insurers can quote different figures for the same old car.
On the manufacturer's listed selling price of the vehicle, that is the ex-showroom price of the model and variant. Registration charges, road tax and insurance are not part of the base, because they are not recoverable on a sale and never form part of the insured value.
If an asset is put to use for less than 180 days in the financial year it is acquired, only half the normal depreciation is allowed in that year under the second proviso to section 32(1). A car bought in January and used from February therefore gets 7.5% instead of 15% in year one, with the full rate resuming from the next year.
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