Which property is subject to registration fees in Vietnam? How much is the current registration fee rates for motorbikes in Vietnam?

Which property is subject to registration fees in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 3 of Decree 10/2022/ND-CP regulating property subject to registration fees:

- Houses, land.

- Hunting guns; guns used for training or sports.

- Ships in accordance with regulations of the law on inland waterway transport and the maritime law (hereinafter referred to as “ships”), including barges, canoes, tugs, pushers, submarines, and submersibles; except for floating docks, floating storage units, and mobile offshore drilling units.

- Boats including yachts.

- Aircraft.

- Two-wheeled or three-wheeled motorcycles, mopeds, and equivalences subject to registration fees and fitted with license plates issued by competent state agencies (hereinafter referred to as “motorcycles”).

- Motor vehicles, trailers or semi-trailers towed by motor vehicles, and equivalences subject to registration fees and fitted with license plates issued by competent state agencies.

- Frame, chassis assembly, engine assembly, and engine block of the property, when replaced, subject to registration with competent state agencies.

Which property is subject to registration fees in Vietnam? How much is the current registration fee rates for motorbikes in Vietnam? (Image from the Internet)

How much is the current registration fee rates for motorbikes in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 8 of Decree 10/2022/ND-CP regulating registration fee rates (%):

Registration fee rates (%)

1. Houses, land: 0,5%.

2. Hunting guns; guns used for training or sports: 2%

3. Ships, including barges, canoes, tugs, pushers, submarines, submersibles; boats, including yachts; aircraft: 1%

4. Motorcycles: 2%

Except:

a) Motorcycles registered for the first time under organizations or individuals in centrally affiliated cities, in provincial cities or in towns where the People's Committee of the province is based, to which the rate of 5% applies.

b) Motorcycles chargeable by re-registration fee, to which a rate of 1% applies.  The re-registration fee rate of 5% applies to motorcycles on which the owner has declared and paid the registration fee at the rate of 2% before conducting the transfer to another organization or individual in an administrative division prescribed in Point a of this Clause.

 

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6. The rate of registration fee payable on the replacement of the frame, chassis assembly, engine assembly and engine block prescribed in Clause 8 Article 3 of this Decree, upon compulsory registration thereof with competent state agencies, shall be based on the type of each property.

7. If an organization or individual that was exempt from or was not required to pay a registration fee upon first-time registration of the ownership of a motor vehicle or motorcycle transfers the ownership to another organization or individual or gives it a new purpose which is ineligible for exemption from registration fees in accordance with regulations, the organization or individual who registers the ownership of such motor vehicle or motorcycle shall pay a first-time registration fee on the residual value of the property.

8. A transferee of a motor vehicle or motorcycle whose public ownership is established in accordance with regulations of law and whose previous ownership was registered shall pay a 2^nd time forth registration fee upon registration of the ownership of such motor vehicle or motorcycle.

A transferee of a motor vehicle or motorcycle whose public ownership is established in accordance with regulations of law but the previous ownership of such motor vehicle or motorcycle was not registered or there are no grounds for determining whether or not the previous ownership was registered shall pay a first-time registration fee upon registration of the ownership of the motor vehicle or motorcycle

The maximum fee for registration of a property specified in this Article shall be 500 million VND per property per application, except for passenger motor vehicles with 9 seats or fewer, aircraft, and yachts.

The Ministry of Finance shall stipulate this Article in detail.

According to this Article, the current registration fee rates for motorbikes are prescribed as follows:

- Motorcycles: 2%, except:

+ Motorcycles registered for the first time under organizations or individuals in centrally affiliated cities, in provincial cities or in towns where the People's Committee of the province is based, to which the rate of 5% applies.

+ Motorcycles chargeable by re-registration fee, to which a rate of 1% applies.

+ The re-registration fee rate of 5% applies to motorcycles on which the owner has declared and paid the registration fee at the rate of 2% before conducting the transfer to another organization or individual in an administrative division.

Note: The maximum registration fee for motorbikes is 500 million VND/1 property/1 registration.

Which types of vehicles are exempt from registration fees in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Clause 21, Article 10 of Decree 10/2022/ND-CP stipulating types of vehicles that are exempt from registration fees:

Exemption from registration fees

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21. Fire engines, ambulances, X-ray vans, rescue vehicle (including towing vehicles and vehicle-carrying vehicles); garbage trucks, sprinkler trucks, jetting trucks, road sweepers, vacuum trucks; and specialized vehicles intended for war invalids, disease-stricken soldiers and other disabled people registered for ownership in the names of such war invalids, disease-stricken soldiers and other disabled people.

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According to this Article, types of vehicles that are exempt from registration fees include: garbage trucks, sprinkler trucks, jetting trucks, road sweepers, vacuum trucks; and specialized vehicles intended for war invalids, disease-stricken soldiers and other disabled people registered for ownership in the names of such war invalids, disease-stricken soldiers and other disabled people.

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