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Road Tax Revised? We
Need Something Out Of The BOX!
By Luk4all.com.my Editor
Posted
1st January 2007
It
is only the first day of the new year and our elected
government have
given each and every one of us a little something to
cheer about. We have
got the Malaysian Road Tax Revised, lowered.....
Below is petrol based vehicle, source from
The Star.
And diesel based vehicles.
Overall vehicles with the lower engine capacity will
have the biggest savings either in RM or percentage.
However we at luk4all.com thinks today's overall road
tax strategy are flawed. Road tax should not be
categorized according to the vehicle engine capacity
anymore, instead the price of the car when its brand
new, and years of service.
The reason for us to believe it should be done that way
is, you cannot have a Naza Ria at 2500cc and a Benz
coupe at 2500cc paying the same road tax. A Naza Ria
owner could just be a lower middle income person, with a
big family, and that is why he needs a bigger car. Naza
Ria is just priced at about 90K++ while a Benz coupe
could cost over 500K++. Road tax should be strategize
the same as commercial business tax, the more you pay
for the vehicle, the pricier the road tax should be. It
is the same for a Volkswagen Beetle or a Mini at 2000cc,
that owner needs only to pay a sum of RM396 while a
poorer lower middle income person with a big family will
be even poorer having needing to pay over RM800 for a
Naza Ria or RM396 for a Toyota Innova.
If the people at Ministry of Transportation are reading
this article, I sure hope they will give the above some
serious thoughts. If they want, they could contact us at
info@luk4all.com
to discuss how we think it should be done.
One other thing.... We surely hope the discount given to
rakyat is not because we are raising some other prices,
such as ........petrol :-(.
Comments:
I really hope this is not the case, got some e-mails flying around since last week that we will have another 50 cent petrol price hike early 2007. If this is true, then there is nothing to celebrate about for this year. Even already considering of getting myself a bike to go to work, as a factory worker with factory paid salary, no way i'm going to survive another petrol price increment coupled with 3 kids to feed.
1/1/2007 9:51:34 AM | maverick
there is always different way of looking at things. Road tax is one thing, you also have excise duty which luxury car owner needs to pay more.
1/1/2007 11:01:54 AM | beetle
I think it only benefit for minor range of population! It will be great & attrative if petrol price is going cheaper instead of road taxes reduction! Anyway,my new year wishs are the economy inflation & all the consumables products will be monitored by government efficiently !
1/1/2007 5:45:30 PM | austin power
petrol price going up is in-evitable... what the government needs to do is ensure it has roll out a very efficient public transportation.
1/1/2007 5:48:49 PM | public transport freak
I dont mind paying more for the petrol if we know that the money will be fully utilized by the Government to improve and upgrade our public transport (or to cushion the high petrol price as claimed), but I do not see any improvement thus far. Even a few cents increment already has billion of Ringgit saving, I bet it could make a lot of difference to our public transport (or building an LRT system in Penang for example, which I think Penang critically need it). Today we still have dirty buses/station, un-timely bus schedule/routes, rude drivers..etc.
1/3/2007 3:39:50 PM | iceman
i am very happy for the price reducing for the roadtax but the highway tol price are keep on increasing
1/27/2007 1:17:20 PM | alan
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