The government has announced that the implementation of the Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP) for foreign vehicles, which was supposed to begin in January, has been deferred, Bernama reports. The VEP charge is set to cover foreign registered vehicles coming in from Singapore and Thailand.
According to transport minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai, the deferment was to standardise the system’s implementation for both Malaysia-Singapore and Malaysia-Thailand entry points.
“We still need a little more time to look into certain details as we want to synchronise the system at both border entries. We are still in the process of ensuring that the system is running in parallel, and do not want the VEP to be imposed only for vehicles from Singapore but not from Thailand,” Liow said.
He added that the VEP will be implemented at some point next year, and the date of execution will be announced once details are finalised. Up to November, it was announced that some 236,000 foreign-registered vehicles had registered with JPJ.
At the Johor entry point, the VEP was supposed to have begun operating in June, with collection of the VEP charge starting from mid-July, but it was postponed. After the system’s implementation, every foreign-registered vehicle will need to apply for the VEP when entering either the Johor Bahru Causeway or the Second Link, the two checkpoints in Johor. A processing fee will be levied, and the permit will be valid for five years.
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Malaysia has always been a laughing stock with ministers that talks more than work. Simple stuffs like VEP took years. So many things to consider??? Or year end busy going holidays instead of attending to meetings to finalise the structure.
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real bodoh. Simple thing also take years to implement. Why Singapore can do things so fast??
Already we charging so little than Singapore charging our cars….that also we dont know how to do