The Road Transport Department (JPJ) first introduced its JPJeBid online vehicle number plate bidding system in April last year that is meant to provide greater transparency, as a bidder can see his ranking in real time without human intervention. Previously, these special or unique number plate series were handled by NGOs, so not all revenue goes to the JPJ.
Fast forward two years (and rollouts to other states later), the department has now revealed collection figures with the system in place, which amounted to RM110,289,072 over 97 number plate series up until now. This works out to an average of RM1,137,001 per series.
In 2019, 54 number plate series were opened for tender via JPJeBid, with a total haul of RM61,962,724, or an average of RM1,147,458 per series. As for 2020, 43 number plate series have been issued so far and the department has collected RM48,326,348, or an average of RM1,123,869 per series.
The most recent is the SYG series that netted the JPJ RM3.4 million from five days of online bidding, which the department says was RM100,254 higher than the ALL series from last year. The latest number plate series now open for tender is VEV, which is now available on JPJeBid from June 18 to 22.
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Malaysia sudah berjaya, rakyat pula kaya raya. Buying plate number cost 100k without batting an eye.
How many are politicians or benefited from politicians?
Nearly all politicians benefited from politicians, only ones that don’t benefited are dead politicians.
Well, since they are earning that much then the roadtax structute can be revised a little.
Some smart guy said long time ago that roadtax is based on cc as there is fuel subsidy. Now that subsidy is revised and additional income from number plate is there…why not?
covid19 pandemic is not affecting malaysians. they can still spend money buy number plates.
That tells you the business sectors complaining not enough bantuan are just whingers. They can complain going out of business while spending obscene sums of $$$ for numbers.
you are right and these business owners retrench their staffs or cut their salary with the excuse that business is not doing well. then they complain in the papers through their associations that they are closing down their business. ironically, still got money to buy expensive number plates.
Business sector and ultra-rich/super-rich are different classes okay? Those usually get richer during times of crisis because they have the money to prey on opportunities while normal businesses suffer.