12 types of vehicles exempt from tolls from January 1, 2025 in Vietnam

12 types of vehicles exempt from tolls from January 1, 2025 in Vietnam​ (Image from the Internet)

On November 13, 2024, the Minister of Transport of Vietnam issued Circular 32/2024/TT-BGTVT regulating the management of tolls for road construction investment projects for business purposes, managed by the central government.

12 types of vehicles exempt from tolls from January 1, 2025 in Vietnam

According to Article 3 of Circular 32/2024/TT-BGTVT, the following subjects are exempt from tolls (excluding highway usage services) for business purposes, managed by the central government:

(1) Ambulances.

(2) Fire trucks of the Fire and Rescue Police and other firefighting forces dispatched for firefighting duties with priority signals in accordance with the law.

(3) Agricultural and forestry machinery including tractors, plows, harrows, cultivators, and threshers.

(4) Special vehicles for national defense including vehicles with license plates: red background, embossed white letters and numbers equipped with specialized defense equipment (including: tanker trucks, cranes, troop transport vehicles defined as passenger cars with 12 seats or more, covered trucks equipped with seating, inspection and military control vehicles, special vehicles for transporting prisoners, rescue vehicles, satellite communication vehicles, and other specialized vehicles serving national defense), vehicles on emergency missions using one of the priority signals under the law in urgent situations.

(5) Special vehicles of units within the organizational system of the People's Public Security force including:

- Traffic police patrol vehicles with characteristics: revolving light on the roof and the words "CẢNH SÁT GIAO THÔNG" on both sides of the vehicle;

- Police vehicles 113 printed with "CẢNH SÁT 113" on both sides;

- Mobile police vehicles printed with "CẢNH SÁT CƠ ĐỘNG" on both sides;

- Transport vehicles with seating installed in the People's Public Security force's cargo compartments;

- Vehicles transporting prisoners, rescue vehicles, and other special vehicles of the People's Public Security force;

- Special-purpose vehicles (satellite communication, bulletproof, counter-terrorism, anti-riot, and other special-purpose vehicles of the People's Public Security force);

- Police forces’ vehicles on emergency missions using priority signals as per legal regulations.

(6) Funeral service vehicles, including:

- Vehicles with a special-purpose construction for funeral services (including hearses, refrigerated trucks for storing and transporting corpses);

- Funeral service vehicles (including vehicles for guests accompanying the hearse, flower vehicles, portrait carrying vehicles) are vehicles solely used for funeral activities and have vehicle registration certificates in the name of the funeral service unit. The funeral service unit must submit a declaration of commitment affirming these vehicles are only used for funeral activities to the electronic payment service provider (specifying the number of vehicles, license plates).

(7) Convoys with a lead traffic police vehicle.

(8) Defense force vehicles participating in exercises, mobile troop movements, weapon and equipment transport with military special-purpose vehicles leading the way.

(9) Vehicles of the police and defense forces using nationwide road tickets as per regulations.

(10) Dike protection vehicles; vehicles on emergency missions for flood and storm prevention as directed by competent authorities.

(11) Vehicles on missions transporting medicines, machinery, equipment, materials, goods to disaster areas or epidemic zones under legal regulations concerning emergencies in case of major disasters or dangerous epidemics.

(12) Motorcycles, mopeds, non-motorized vehicles.

Subjects and vehicle owners required to pay tolls in Vietnam from January 1, 2025

(i) Subjects required to pay tolls are road vehicles passing through toll stations of road construction investment projects for business purposes managed by the central government (hereinafter referred to as vehicles).

(ii) Organizations and individuals owning, using, or managing vehicles (hereinafter referred to as vehicle owners) subject to payment of tolls specified in section (i) must pay the fees, except in the cases stipulated in Article 3 of Circular 32/2024/TT-BGTVT.

More details can be found in Circular 32/2024/TT-BGTVT, effective from January 1, 2025.

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