Pos Malaysia has announced that effective from September 1, 2019, it will discontinue road tax renewals for private vehicles with an engine capacity of 2,000 cc and above at all its post offices located in Sabah, Sarawak, Langkawi and Labuan. It added that the instruction to suspend the service – which will not impact motorists with vehicles under 2,000 cc displacement – was issued by the road transport department (JPJ).
While not detailed, the move by JPJ is very much aimed at curbing the act of motorists deliberately attempting to avoid paying a higher road tax, in the case of the Sabah and Sarawak connection.
This is because the road tax charged on vehicles in East Malaysia is less compared to vehicles in the Peninsular, and there are many cases of vehicles registered (and operating) in the Peninsular running with a Sabah/Sarawak-issued road tax without JPJ being informed of the change in location.
While the action is an offence under Section 24 of the Road Transport Act 1987, and penalties await those who get caught, it hasn’t stopped many from attempting subterfuge, and getting someone from East Malaysia to renew the road tax at post offices in Sabah/Sarawak has made it easy for this practice to continue.
The suspension of road tax renewal for higher engine capacity vehicles via the post office route in the four locations means that owners of such vehicles will now have to renew their road tax at JPJ/UTC offices, and will likely have to prove that the vehicle is actually within the state and not somewhere else.
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Pls also curb all the road offences
All our AP holders have runner boys to get Sabah Sarawak road tax for rich Semenanjung cars owned by rich people
We help the AP Abang Abang to get rich by giving them business, but they in turn try to cheat the Government of billions on road tax fraud.
End of the day LHDN loses billions per year from these frauds, we rakyat get lesser from the Government ie less schools and hospitals built.
This had to happen. This is because all the Datuk datuk and Tan Sri Tan Sri in Semenanjung all use Sabah Sarawak Road tax and are cheating the Government billions per year.
I give you an example. 9 out of 10 Bentleys in KL all use Sabah and Sarawak Road Tax. For 6750 CC, instead of paying Rm18,000 per year road tax, they only pay RM3000 Sabah Sarawak road tax. Government loses RM15,000 per year on 1 Bentley alone.
Calculate that amount with the hundreds of Bentleys, Ferraris, Porsches etc….LHDN loses RM billions per year.
The previous Government knew about this problem the past 20 years but never took any action because all the big shots, Tan Sri Tan Sris and Datuks Datuks were all their cronies.
Bravo for this action. Well done.
Pretty sure the statistics 9/10 pulled out from your ass
Looks like you re one of those use East Malaysia road tax and is now frustrated you got to pay full price now
Agree brah. this Type dunwan workhard but expect 4ever feedings, plotek, kontrak and sedut.. even our mighty Petronas orso surrender…
You are the one who pull smoke from rear end.
See this expert calculation explanation from Paul Tan:
https://paultan.org/2015/03/11/malaysia-road-tax-structure-explained/
For example of a Rolls Royce (6,592 cc):
Peninsular private owned = RM2130 + (RM4.50*3592) = RM18,294.
Sarawak private owned = RM1024 + (RM1.35*3592) = RM5,893.2
So, yes – the JPJ loses out on about RM12.5k on a Rolls Royce.
Other engines Bentley has are:
5,204 cc
6,230 cc
6,750 cc
7,269 cc
7,439 cc
So yes, the price difference can be a lot.
Tax free lambo and felali supercar from Langkawi and Labuan still roaming KL streets.
Hooray !
good move from ph..finally! rather than looking for car with this ‘illegally’ obtained roadtax, they go for source
Good move! I pay RM874 for my 24 year old E36 325i. How about standardising the road tax for both East and West Malaysia?
No can do. coz then gomen have to standardised road quality also.
Isn’t the reason why road tax in sabah/sarawak cheaper because there are less well maintained roads there?
How about standardizing the road condition and quality for both East and West Malaysia first
Create difficulty for genuine road user at Sarawak, Sabah, Langkawi and Labuan. Perhaps there are better ways to eliminate this fraud ?
These dato, Tan sri, big shot individuals, VIPs, VIPPs, seem to be very rich, flaunting their wealth driving luxurious cars…..but really cheapskate inside.
Worst still, they are simply cheater.
BTW, I have known a Dato (residing in Semenyih) who own a Porsche….but being so cheapskate for using expired tyres for his car.
Well to be honest, most of these dato, tan sri are rich because they cheat, this is the way they get their wealth.
Hi. Basically I’m from Sabah and using Sabah license plate for my car. But the roadtax was registered in semenanjung and i pay normal rate for 2.0L engine which is 380myr per year. Is this legal? I’m just confused.
SABAH ROAD TAX WILL BE 298
Congratulations for being the most idiotic road tax payer on Paultan.org. You may collect your award trophy from JPJ’s office in KK.
Yes its legal!
The government should make the road tax rate based on the value of the car, just like insurance. Not based on cylinder capacity.
Nowadays expensive cars comes with smaller engine paying too cheap road tax.
While old cars with big cc which has lost its value still need to pay extremely high road tax.
The government is losing more actually.
while its good for peninsula and to curb offenders, this really inconveniences people that legitly live in sabah and sarawak
Rumor has it that one car park floor of a shopping mall in Langkawi was used to house just supercars of all kinds. This one floor is not accessible by lift. In fact many Langkawians knew about it.
rumor la…most of these cars never even touch langkawi ground before
2.0L Sabah Sarawak sama dengan 2.0L roadtax semenanjung ? Menyusahkan rakyat luar bandar.
You are the one who pull smoke from rear end.
See this expert calculation explanation from Paul Tan:
https://paultan.org/2015/03/11/malaysia-road-tax-structure-explained/
For example of a Rolls Royce (6,592 cc):
Peninsular private owned = RM2130 + (RM4.50*3592) = RM18,294.
Sarawak private owned = RM1024 + (RM1.35*3592) = RM5,893.2
So, yes – the JPJ loses out on about RM12.5k on a Rolls Royce.
Other engines Bentley has are:
5,204 cc
6,230 cc
6,750 cc
7,269 cc
7,439 cc
So yes, the price difference can be a lot.
AP kings must be cursing the government now. at a stroke, their stocks of cars which have above 5000cc engine capacity suddenly will have much less sales demand.
Ntah la labu
I hope gov can revise the road tax system which is not basing on the engine capacity anymore
The irony…
One day champion for people to run tax via SST…
Next day chase them for road tax…
I’m lost in words…