What is the rate of charges for registration and license plate of the vehicles in Vietnam?

18:06, 22/08/2023

What is the rate of charges for registration and license plate of the vehicles in Vietnam? What are the cases of exemption of charges in Vietnam- Nguyet Duong (Khanh Hoa)

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1. What is the rate of charges for registration and license plate of the vehicles in Vietnam?

According to Clause 1, Article 5 of Circular 229/2016/TT-BTC, the rate of charges for registration and license plate of the vehicles is defined below:

No.	Description	Zone I	Zone II	Zone III
I	Granting of new registration and license plate
1	Automobiles, except passenger automobiles with 9 seats or less governed by Point 2 of this Section	150,000 - 500,000	150,000	150,000
2	Passenger automobiles with 9 seats or less	2,000,000 - 20,000,000	1,000,000	200,000
3	Semi-trailers and trailers, separately registered	100,000 - 200,000	100,000	100,000
4	Motorcycles (by base price for registration charge)
a	Valued at VND 15,000,000 or less	500,000 - 1,000,000	200,000	50,000
b	Valued at more than VND 15,000,000 to VND 40,000,000	1,000,000 - 2,000,000	400,000	50,000
c	Valued at more than VND 40,000,000	2,000,000 - 4,000,000	800,000	50,000
d	Motor tricycles specialized for the disabled	50,000	50,000	50,000
II	Renewal of registration
1	Renewal of registration and license plate
a	Automobiles (except passenger automobiles with 9 seats or less transferred to a zone imposing higher charges than those of the previous zone according to Point 4.1, Section 4 of Article 5 of Circular 229/2016/TT-BTC )	150,000	150,000	150,000
b	Semi-trailers separately registered, trailers	100,000	100,000	100,000
c	Motorcycles (except those transferred to a zone imposing higher charges than those of the previous zone according to Point 4.1, Section 4 of Article 5 of Circular 229/2016/TT-BTC)	50,000	50,000	50,000
2	Renewal of automobile or motorcycle registration without license plate	30,000	30,000	30,000
3	Reissuance of license plate	100,000	100,000	100,000
III	Granting of temporary registration and license plate (for automobiles and motorcycles)	50,000	50,000	50,000

Unit: VND/time/vehicle

Pursuant to Section I of this schedule, the People’s Councils of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city shall specify the rate of charges commensurate with local circumstances.

Cases of exemption of charges in Vietnam

The charges are exempted in the following circumstances:

(i) Diplomatic missions, consular offices and representative agencies of United Nations’ international organizations.

(ii) Diplomatic officials, consular officials, administrative and technical coordinators of foreign diplomatic missions and consular offices, members of the United Nations’ international organizations, and their family members who do not hold Vietnamese citizenship or permanent residency and are given a diplomatic, official or consular identity card by the Ministry of Foreign affairs of Vietnam or local external affair agencies authorized by the Ministry of Foreign affairs.

In this circumstance, the applicant has to present the registration agency, upon vehicle registration, the (red) diplomatic identity card or the (yellow) official identity card as per the Ministry of Foreign affairs’ regulations.

(iii) Other foreign organizations and individuals (representative offices of intergovernmental organizations outside the United Nations' system, representative offices of non-government organizations, associations of international organizations, members of other bodies and organizations) not included in (i) and (ii) shall be exempted from or be not subjected to the charges for registration and license plate according to the international treaties to which Vietnam is a signatory or to the agreements between the government of Vietnam and foreign bodies. In this circumstance, the relevant individual has to present to the registration agency:

- The letter of request for exemption from the charges for registration and license plate, which bears the writer's signature and full name and the official seal (of the relevant organization, if applicable).

- The copy of the treaty or agreement between the government of Vietnam and the foreign government, which is presented in Vietnamese and is notarized by a state notary or bears the signature and official seal of the main investor of the relevant program or project).

(Article 6 of Circular 229/2016/TT-BTC)

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