Propose the Government to stop collecting road maintenance fees from motorbikes

After Ho Chi Minh City, many provinces and cities want to stop collecting road maintenance fees for motorbikes because the amount of money collected is insignificant, while it creates additional machinery and costs.

After the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council issued a document requesting the City People's Committee to temporarily stop collecting road maintenance fees for motorbikes, many localities have proposed to stop collecting fees such as Hanoi, Da Nang, Khanh Hoa, and Can Tho.

The common paradox mentioned by the above provinces and cities is that toll collection is difficult, people do not agree, and the efficiency is not high. Some localities have to use the budget to collect tolls, such as in Hanoi.

Da Nang City has decided to stop collecting fees from July 7. The reason the Da Nang City People's Council decided to stop collecting fees to report to the Government is because people do not agree, the fee collection is facing many difficulties and especially the amount of fees collected each year is decreasing.

The Ministry of Transport will propose that the Government abolish road tolls for motorbikes. Photo: Hoang Ha.

Minister Thang said that the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Finance will report to the Government to propose amending Decree No. 18 to stop collecting this type of fee.

In Can Tho, through the process of contacting voters in the districts, people also proposed to abolish the road toll collection for motorbikes. Therefore, the Can Tho City People's Council is synthesizing opinions to consider whether to continue collecting or not.

On July 8, at the 10th session, Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Council issued a Resolution to temporarily suspend the implementation of the resolution issued more than 2 years ago on road usage fees for motorbikes in the area.

According to the report of Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee, the implementation of road use fee collection for motorbikes in the locality in the past time has encountered many difficulties, having to mobilize a large number of people to collect but the efficiency is not high. The amount of fee collection has gradually decreased over the years, in which in 2013 it was over 9.7 billion VND, in 2014 it decreased to over 5.4 billion VND. In the first six months of 2015, only over 650 million VND was collected.

After 2 years, Hanoi also wants to stop collecting road maintenance fees from motorbikes, because in many districts, the percentage of the collected fees is not enough to cover the expenses of the collection system. Some districts have to use budget money to cover the expenses.

Hanoi People's Committee said that the city's road maintenance fee collection for motorbikes in 2013 only reached 14% of the plan (55 billion/378 billion VND). The collection in 2014 only reached 36 billion VND (13.28% of the plan). In the first 6 months of 2015, Hanoi only collected nearly 3 billion VND, because all the revenue from the districts was left behind while the districts are starting to implement the work of statistics and fee collection.

The report of the Economic - Budget Committee of the Hanoi People's Council said that Hanoi must spend more budget for road toll collection. Specifically, the survey results in Cat Linh ward, Dong Da district (Hanoi) showed that due to the large population and many residential groups, the rate of revenue collection for toll collection is still not enough. Therefore, the People's Committee of Cat Linh ward had to spend more from the budget for toll collection. Even the compensation for direct collectors is low, not encouraging.

“Hanoi agrees with Ho Chi Minh City’s proposal to abolish road use fees for motorbikes. Hanoi supports if the central government decides to abolish the regulation on collecting road use fees for motorbikes,” said Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc, Chairwoman of the Hanoi People’s Council, on the sidelines of the Hanoi People’s Council meeting.

On July 14, meeting with voters of Hoan Kiem district after the meeting of the City People's Council, Mr. Nguyen The Thao - Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee said that the voters' proposal to abolish road maintenance fees for motorbikes is completely legitimate. Mr. Thao requested that Hanoi's departments and branches carefully study the proposals to respond to voters' recommendations in the coming time.

According to Zing.vn