By reviewing the point-of-sale system, Malaysia’s finance minister hopes to decrease inflated pricing by proposing a 9–10% tax reduction for small and medium-sized vehicles. Bhutanese MPs have questioned the government’s intentions to lower import duties in order to lower the cost of cars for typical households. Under the Excise Tax Bill 2025, the government is enacting tax measures that will encourage environmentally friendly automobiles, discourage powerful, fuel-intensive ones, and impose higher taxes on heavier vehicles. The FOB value of imported cars will be subject to tax under the new bill. Bhutan successfully reduces the taxable value of cars imported from India by adopting FOB as the basis for import tax computations at the point of sale, thereby removing the international freight and insurance components from the import tax calculation.
According to Lyonpo, efforts are underway to address inflated vehicle pricing through a study of the point-of-sale system, and a tax cut of 9 to 10 percent for smaller and medium-sized vehicles has been suggested. It was not feasible to make a drastic cut. The huge profit margins that auto dealers are generating on rising car prices have alarmed Loday Tsheten, a member of parliament for Gangzur-Minjey. He also questioned the government’s attempts to regulate prices, namely the acts of a committee that was set up to examine the cost of cars. According to Lyonpo, auto dealers should control costs by protecting consumers and letting the public and media put pressure on them to lower taxes without going through the government directly.