Vietnam road fee suspended starting in 2016
The Government has agreed on suspending the collection of the controversial road maintenance fees from motorbike users starting in 2016 after public criticism said the fee was unfair.
The decision was reached in a monthly regular cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung that ended on 1 October.
Transport Minister Dinh La Thang said in a report to the cabinet that although the fee was “in line with the Law on Road Transport and the Order on Fees and Charges,” its collection should be postponed due to a number of difficulties in execution.
Loopholes in regulating the jurisdiction of local authorities over the fees collection made it highly dependent on the residents’ self-decisions to voluntarily pay the fee or not, said Thang.
