Cases of cars exempted from new road use fees from February 1, 2024

Can you please tell me in which cases cars are exempt from new road use fees from February 1, 2024? - Reader Duc Uy

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New cases of cars exempted from road use fees from February 1, 2024.

On December 13, the Government issued Decree 90/2023/ND-CP regulating the collection rates, collection, payment, exemption, management and use of road use fees. Decree 90/2023/ND-CP takes effect from February 1, 2024.

Cases of cars exempted from new road use fees from February 1, 2024

Accordingly, Article 3 of Decree 90/2023/ND-CP stipulates exemption of road use fees for those who pay fees for the following types of cars:

- Ambulance.

Fire truck.

- Specialized vehicles for funeral services, including:

+ Vehicles with specialized structures for funeral services (including: hearses, refrigerated trucks used to store and transport bodies).

+ Funeral-related vehicles (including: passenger vehicles accompanying the hearse, flower trucks, and photo-carrying vehicles) are vehicles used only for funeral activities with a vehicle registration certificate bearing the name of the funeral service unit. The funeral service unit must have a written commitment that these vehicles are only used for funeral activities and send it to the vehicle inspection unit when inspecting the vehicle (specifying the number of vehicles and license plate numbers for each type).

- Specialized vehicles serving national defense include vehicles with license plates: Red background, embossed white letters and numbers with specialized equipment for national defense (including: tank trucks, crane trucks, vehicles carrying armed forces on the march are understood as passenger cars with 12 seats or more, covered transport vehicles with seats installed in the trunk, control vehicles, military inspection vehicles, specialized vehicles for transporting prisoners, rescue vehicles, satellite information vehicles and other specialized cars serving national defense).

- Specialized vehicles of units under the organizational system of the people's police force include:

+ Traffic police cars have the words "TRAFFIC POLICE" printed on both sides of the car.

+ Police car 113 has the words: "POLICE 113" printed on both sides of the car body.

+ Mobile police vehicles have the words "MOBILE POLICE" printed on both sides of the vehicle.

+ Transport vehicles with seats installed in the trunk of the police force on duty.

+ Prisoner transport vehicles, rescue vehicles, and other specialized vehicles of the people's police force.

+ Special vehicles (satellite information vehicles, bulletproof vehicles, anti-terrorism and anti-riot vehicles and other special vehicles of the people's police force).

Road toll payers and toll collection organizations

According to Article 4 of Decree 90/2023/ND-CP, the fee payer and fee collection organization are regulated as follows:

- Organizations and individuals who own, use or manage vehicles (hereinafter referred to as vehicle owners) subject to road use fees as prescribed in Article 2 of this Decree are road use fee payers.

- Fee collection organizations include:

+ Vietnam Road Administration collects fees from cars of defense and police forces.

+ Inspection units collect fees from automobiles of organizations and individuals registered in Vietnam (except for automobiles of the national defense and police forces as prescribed above). The Vietnam Register synthesizes the fees collected from inspection units, declares and pays fees according to regulations.

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