In a bid to improve the lot of individual budget taxi owners, who are facing difficulties arising from increased operating costs and, in many cases, utilising vehicles that have exceeded their economic life, the Government is proposing that assistance be given to them, to both take care of their welfare and improve taxi services in the country.
This assistance will include a 100% excise duty and sales tax exemption on the purchase of locally-made taxis, as well as exemption from payment of excise duty and sales tax on taxis sold or transferred of ownership after seven years.
The Government also proposes to abolish the road tax on all individually owned budget taxis. It will also provide a subsidised interest rate of 2% on a full loan to purchase new locally-made taxis. The loan scheme is to be managed by BSN, and will be offered for a period of two years, beginning January 1, 2012.
Finally, it will provide assistance of RM3,000 for the disposal of old taxis exceeding seven years but less than 10 years old; for taxis 10 years and above, this sum will be RM1,000. The assistance is being granted with the proviso of purchasing a new locally-made taxi, again for a period of two years, starting January 1, 2012.
For all the above assistance, private budget taxi owners are expected to benefit by about RM7,560. This assistance will also be extended to individual owners of hired cars.
This story makes me… Think.
Can I buy a taxi for personal use?
I would gladly offer 5K for a 7 year old Waja taxi.
problem no.1 is taxi .
problem no.2 is the fare .
biggest problem is the service mentality of the taxi drivers
Biggest problem is our G mentality which encourage us to own a car rather than taking public transport.
so we can get better taxi instead of the small saga blm.
please use more of the Exora as taxi…. our local taxis are just too small, old and smelly……
We have a great national product with great potential, why are the taxi companies not capitalising on that?
would this help for improving our public transport? negative…
A good move.
Overdue benefit for the hardworking taxi drivers, those lazy buggers waiting at the LRT station can now put their act together earn a better living than wasting their life lepaking at terminal and taunting for more, such disgraceful Malaysian taxi drivers spoiled the entire image of public services.
Why for local car only. Saga is useless and too small as taxi. Exora or Inspira, too costly for taxi driver.
Lemak betul sesetengah orang ni. Saga useless and too small? Then you want what, 7-series? S-class? Those Hummer stretch limos?!
This is not Germany or UAE. Even indonesia mostly use Vios, while Thailand use Altis. Are you living in the real world?
If you insist, I have seen quite a few Naza Ria and Kia Optima. Still too small? Go run your own taxi business then come back here and we’ll see if you can still cock out unrealistic demands again.
Saga BLM is too small if we compare to ISWARA, WAJA
Naza Ria and Kia Optima are executive cab where fare is double
It will be nice to have Proton Espire taxi
how many “individually-owned” taxis do we have? Not that many i heard as the govt has not been issuing the permits to individuals. Instead, many individual drivers ended up rented taxis from the taxi companies which have all the permits. So I don’t see how this can benefit the wider community of taxi drivers? Perhaps the govt should first look at the issuance of permits to individuals, as opposed to the select few taxi companies – just like the AP issue, isn’t it?
look like we can see some issue among those taxi driver….good to know that
That mean the stupid taxi driver will get the “cash” from the G, how about the taxi fare? only the bid shark will profit from this stupid budget 2012, management cost RM181 billion, development only 51 billion, are u crazy?
Anyone want to sell ticket, i want to but ticket now…………….(Election of …..)
“This assistance will also be extended to individual owners of hired cars.”
Hired cars not necessary repainted as cab right?
Wonder if one can apply but later only for own use and working as cab only one day per week (part time job lah) while still maintain regular job.
Looks like it’s even cheaper to run taxi business (and recouped back investment) as most only bring back forth China Dolls around that mostly don’t mind to pay expensive taxi fares. Just saying!
I have lived in Malaysia for the past nine years and my main complaint is that they are small family cars and unsuitable for use as taxis. In neighbouring Thailand, Singapore & Indonesia, they use larger vehicles, e.g. Toyota Limos. I would ask the authorities to considervthe passengers as well as the drivers please.