SG can anyhow increase VEP fees but Malaysia must explain if they want to do so

Leepotism said:

Singapore responds to Malaysia's move to impose entry fees on foreign vehicles

SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Transport has issued a statement citing concern over whether Malaysia’s decision to impose an entry fee on foreign-registered vehicles is directed towards Singaporean vehicles, as it was reported that it would only be levied in Johor Baru.

A spokesperson from the Ministry said it has contacted its counterparts in Malaysia for details of the fee.

The statement also explained that the basis of Singapore’s Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP) and Goods Vehicle Permit (GVP) fees is not discriminatory, but serves to equalise the cost of owning and using foreign-registered vehicles on Singapore roads with that for Singapore-registered vehicles.

The statement said: "Singapore-registered vehicles are subject to significantly different costs such as the Certificate of Entitlement (COE) and vehicle taxes, amongst others. In fact, the last time the VEP fee for cars was changed in 2004, it was lowered, largely because of the lower cost of COEs during that period."

The spokesperson added that as the cost difference in owning and using foreign-registered and Singapore-registered cars and goods vehicles has widened in recent years, this had given rise to the need to revise the VEP fee for cars and the GVP fee for goods vehicles, from S$20 to S$35 a day for the former, and from S$10 to S$40 per month for the latter. The VEP fee for foreign-registered motorcycles remains unchanged.

"All foreign-registered cars and motorcycles continue to enjoy the following VEP-free days and VEP-free hours:
a) Saturdays, Sundays and Singapore Public Holidays;
b) 10 normal weekdays per calendar year; and
c) Between 5pm and 2am on all other days (these VEP-free hours are extended to start at 12 noon instead of 5pm during the June and December Singapore school holidays).

"The above works out to a total of around 125 days per year that are VEP-free on top of the daily VEP-free hours."

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Debonerman said:

The fucking Government should be more concerned about how to make it more possible to successfully make claims against Malaysian vehicles involved in accidents and are at fault with Singapore vehicles. It's always one thing to be raped by the Lee family and another when foreigners do that and give you the middle fingers.

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Kuailan said:

The PAP doesn't are if the Malaysian vehicle knock into your car or killed some one, all they
want is the money, Pay And Pay just knows money Period!!

The counter part increase their product coming to Singapore, the PAP doesn't care their salary is so fucking high it
doesn't concern them at all, only the poor peasants can KPKB. The don't hear you!! they are not the people's poLeetician
they are the Money PoLeetician, care for their own POCKET !!

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Kuailan said:

The PAP doesn't are if the Malaysian vehicle knock into your car or killed some one, all they
want is the money, Pay And Pay just knows money Period!!

The counter part increase their product coming to Singapore, the PAP doesn't care their salary is so fucking high it
doesn't concern them at all, only the poor peasants can KPKB. The don't hear you!! they are not the people's poLeetician
they are the Money PoLeetician, care for their own POCKET !!

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Leepotism said:

Money is always on their minds, money is always on the PAP white skunks' evil minds.

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sleaguepunter said:

Your hatred for pap so strong that you guys blind to the fact the Malaysians are causing Singaporeans to lose income? Every msian sub con van entering spore mean spore electrician or plumber lose out. Do you guys know how many renov designers/contractors use msian sub con because it is cheaper? Ever seen msian trucks or van doing delivery in spore? Spore freight are losing out. As far as I concern, msian shd pay $100 per entry and their goods vehicle shd pay $200.

JB can up toll to RM100 since most spore registered cars belong to SPRs. As a sporean, RM100 still worthwhile to enter JB occasionally as goods and services in JB still cheap enough to make the trip worthwhile.

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