The Ministry of Construction has proposed to the Ministry of Finance amendments to Decree 90/2023/ND-CP on road usage fees. They suggested removing the road usage fee stickers on car windshields to reduce administrative costs and align with digitization trends.
Ministry of Construction proposes removing road usage fee stickers on cars (illustrative image)
Currently, there are two types of oval-shaped stickers placed on the upper right corner of car windshields, issued by the Ministry of Transport (now the Ministry of Construction). These include the vehicle inspection validity sticker and the road usage fee payment validity sticker. There are approximately 5 million cars in the country, with about 500,000 new registrations each year.
According to the Ministry of Construction, the road usage fee stickers are meant to help authorities verify the fee payment status of vehicle owners. However, there are no regulations specifying which authority is responsible for checking and penalizing vehicles without stickers or those that have not fulfilled their fee obligations. Most road usage fees are paid during the next vehicle inspection, regardless of whether it is overdue or not.
To verify fee payment status, inspection centers can refer to the road usage fee management system or the online portal of the Vietnam Register. Therefore, the Ministry of Construction suggested that there is no need to maintain the paper sticker system and that electronic data could be utilized for quicker and more convenient verification.
The Ministry of Construction believes that removing the road usage fee stickers will not only reduce administrative costs but also align with the trend of digitizing vehicle management, fee collection, and inter-agency data verification. Instead of relying on stickers, authorities can simply check the system to determine whether a vehicle has fulfilled its financial obligations.
Additionally, the Ministry proposed that all cars temporarily suspended from circulation for 30 consecutive days or more should be exempt from road usage fees. The current Decree 90 only allows commercial transport vehicles under such circumstances to be exempt, which is unfair to other car owners.
Assessing the impact of Decree 90/2023 after more than a year of implementation, the Ministry of Construction noted that it has contributed to the growth of state budget revenues and provided a basis for increasing road maintenance funds nationwide. In 2024, the total road usage fee collection exceeded 14 trillion VND for the first time, becoming a significant contributor to the maintenance of transportation infrastructure.
However, the decree has also led to some issues, such as fee retrievals for vehicles that were temporarily impounded for 30 days or more and those that had expired inspections but were not in use. There are also opinions that the fee for buses and public transport vehicles (including those carrying students, pupils, and workers with subsidized fares like buses) should not be the same as for cars with fewer than 10 seats.
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