Plan to auction beautiful license plates to collect thousands of billions

If approved by the National Assembly, popular license plates will be auctioned locally and are expected to bring in tens of thousands of billions in revenue for the budget.

Auctioning beautiful license plates will help ensure fairness, avoid negativity and reduce the burden on the budget. Photo: Hong Hai

The proposal to auction beautiful license plates has been proposed by the Traffic Police Department for many years, but has encountered a deadlock becauseThe Law on Property Auction does not include vehicle license plates in the list of auctioned assets, leaving relevant ministries without a legal basis for implementation.

The leader of the Traffic Police Department said the unitThe idea was proposed in 1993, at which time Hai Phong was the first locality to organize its own license plate auction, but was "whistled" by the authorities.

More than 10 years later, Binh Thuan and Nghe An are two localities that broke the rules to organize an auction of license plates, raising billions of dong to support the poor. Many license plates are worth up to 900 million dong, but later the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Public Security continued to "blow the whistle" on this auction due to legal problems.

In 2008, the Traffic Police Department continued to propose auctioning vehicle license plates, the Prime Minister approved the policy and assigned the Ministries to research and implement. The two Ministries of Public Security and Finance drafted a joint Circular guiding the auction of the right to use road motor vehicle license plate numbers, the regime of collection, management and use of auction money, but the Circular was not passed because it was entangled with the Law on Property Auction as mentioned above.

How does the license plate auction work?

According to the leader of the Traffic Police Department, recently there have been many proposals for the National Assembly to amend the Law on Property Auction to realize the idea of ​​auctioning beautiful license plates. If approved,The auction plan for beautiful license plates will be based on the following principles: Only auction license plates of domestic organizations and individuals (license plates with white background and black numbers).

Starting price for cars is at least 10 times higher, for motorbikes it is 5 times higherRegistration fee. Based on the actual situation of the locality, the Provincial People's Committee decides the starting price.

Specifically, the most popular license plates include those with equal natural numbers, consecutive numbers in increasing order, with the sum of the units digit being 7-8-9; with the first 2 numbers, the last 2 numbers being equal... will be selected for auction, the remaining numbers will be left for people to choose, or randomly enter numbers.

The auction will take place directly and publicly in the localities. Each participant must deposit a certain amount of money in advance (approved by the Provincial People's Committee).

The amount of money from the license plate auction belongs to the state budget. The auction council will temporarily retain 20% for purchasing vehicles, printing forms, books, etc., the remaining 80% will be deposited in the treasury. The provincial People's Committee has the right to decide to spend this amount for charity purposes; quarterly and annually, it must report to the Ministry of Finance for monitoring.

License plate auctions help reduce the burden on the budget

According to the Traffic Police Department, currently the source of 5-digit numbers is still very abundant. If the auction takes place, it will avoid waste and collect a large amount of money, reducing the burden on the state budget.

National Assembly delegate Nguyen Van Canh also said that if the license plate auction is approved, the revenue in the next 3 years could reach at least tens of thousands of billions of VND.Mr. Canh gave an example of a four-digit license plate that Nghe An province piloted auctioning 7 years ago and earned 700 million, while currently there are 14,000 five-digit car license plates (5 identical numbers). If each beautiful license plate is worth 1 billion VND, the revenue would be 14,000 billion VND.

Mr. Canh suggested "there should be 3 categories, the first is beautiful numbers like five spirits, four of a kind, prosperity, and money numbers to organize auctions. Numbers like date of birth according to people's requests can also be charged extra fees. As for randomly selected numbers, there is no fee".

Agree with the above view,Major General Tran The Quan (Deputy Director of the Department of Legislation, Administrative Reform, and Justice, Ministry of Public Security) said that auctions should go hand in hand with regulations.A person is attached to the license plate number he registered for life, when changing to another car he still keeps that license plate number, this helps save on inventory, limits costs and unnecessary negatives.

In addition, according to General Quan, "attaching a license plate to each individual will be very helpful in the management of the authorities, especially in imposing fines."

According to VNE