THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE
No. 238/2016/TT-BTC
| THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness Hanoi, November 11, 2016 |
CIRCULAR
Prescribing prices for technical safety and environmental protection inspection services of currently circulating motor vehicles, special-use equipment and vehicles; assessment and calibration of equipment inspecting motor vehicles
Pursuant to the Law No. 23/2008/QH12 dated November 13, 2008 on Road Traffic;
Pursuant to the Law No. 11/2012/QH13 dated June 20, 2012 on Prices;
Pursuant to the Law No. 97/2015/QH13 dated November 25, 2015 on Charges and Fees;
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 177/2013/ND-CP dated November 14, 2013 detailing and guiding the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Prices and the Government’s Decree No. 149/2016/ND-CP dated November 11, 2016 on amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Decree No. 177/2013/ND-CP dated November 14, 2013;
Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No. 215/2013/ND-CP dated December 23, 2013, defining the functions, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Finance;
At the proposal of the Director of the Price Management Department,
The Minister of Finance promulgates the Circular on prescribing prices for technical safety and environmental protection inspection services of currently circulating motor vehicles, special-use equipment and vehicles; assessment and calibration of equipment inspecting motor vehicles.
Article 1. Scope of regulation
This Circular regulates the prices for technical safety and environmental protection inspection services of currently circulating motor vehicles, special-use equipment and vehicles; assessment and calibration of equipment inspecting motor vehicles.
Article 2. Subjects of application
1. Agencies, organizations and individuals, whose currently circulating motor vehicles, special-use equipment and vehicles undergo the inspection of technical safety and environmental protection carried out by registration units, shall be responsible for paying service prices to the registration units according to the provisions of this Circular.
2. The registration units shall carry out the technical safety and environmental protection inspection of currently circulating motor vehicles, special-use equipment and vehicles.
3. Other relevant organizations and individuals.
Article 3. Inspection service prices
1. Prices for technical safety and environmental protection inspection services for currently circulating motor vehicles, special-use equipment and vehicles; assessment and calibration of equipment inspecting motor vehicles shall comply with the Tables of prices attached to this Circular.
The service prices specified in this Circular are inclusive of value-added tax (VAT) but exclude fees for issuance of the technical safety and environmental protection inspection certificate for motor vehicles and special-use vehicles according to regulations of the Ministry of Finance and expenses for accommodation, travel, and communications to carry out inspection in places more than 100 km away from the head offices of the registration units. Expenses for accommodation, travel, and communications to carry out the inspection in places more than 100 km away from the head offices of the registration units (if any) shall comply with the current regulations of the Ministry of Finance on business trip allowances for state agencies and public non-business units.
2. When collecting service prices, the registration units shall use service provision invoices in accordance with the Government's Decree No. 51/2010/ND-CP dated May 14, 2010 defining goods sale and service provision invoices; the Government’s Decree No. 04/2014/ND-CP dated January 17, 2014, amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Government's Decree No. 51/2010/ND-CP dated May 14, 2010 defining goods sale and service provision invoices; the Circular No. 39/2014/TT-BTC dated March 31, 2014 of the Minister of Finance guiding the implementation of the Decree No. 51/2010/ND-CP dated May 14, 2010 and the Government’s Decree No. 04/2014/ND-CP dated January 17, 2014 on goods sale and service provision invoices and replacing documents or amended and supplemented documents (if any).
The registration units are obliged to publicize information and service prices, pay tax on the collected amount and have the right to manage and use the remaining amount after the tax has been paid in accordance with the law provisions.
Article 4. Implementation organization
1. This Circular takes effect from January 1, 2017 and replaces the Minister of Finance’s Circular No. 114/2013/TT-BTC dated August 20, 2013 prescribing the rates, collection, remittance, management and use of charges for technical safety and quality inspection of components, motor vehicles, special-use equipment and vehicles and the Minister of Finance’s Circular No. 132/2014/TT-BTC dated September 20, 2014 prescribing the rates, collection, remittance, management and use of charges for technical safety and quality inspection of electric bicycles; charges for inspection of technical safety and environmental protection for currently circulating three-wheel motorcycles and similar vehicles.
2. Any difficulty arising in the course of implementation shall be promptly reported to the Ministry of Finance for consideration and guidance./.
| FOR THE MINISTER DEPUTY MINISTER
Tran Van Hieu |
TABLES OF PRICES
For technical safety and environmental protection inspection services of currently circulating motor vehicles, special-use equipment and vehicles; assessment and calibration of equipment inspecting motor vehicles
(Issued together with the Minister of Finance’s Circular No. 238/2016/TT-BTC dated November 11, 2016)
I. Prices for technical safety and environmental protection inspection services of currently circulating motor vehicles
1. Table 1:
Unit: VND 1,000/vehicle
No | Types of motor vehicles | Price |
1 | Trucks with the payload of over 20 tons, tractors with the towing capacity of over 20 tons or special-use vehicles | 560 |
2 | Trucks with the payload of from over 7 tons to 20 tons, tractors with the towing volume of up to 20 tons, and other types of tractors | 350 |
3 | Trucks with the payload of from over 2 tons to 7 tons | 320 |
4 | Trucks with the payload of up to 2 tons | 280 |
5 | Tractors, four-wheel motor vehicles for cargo and passenger transport and similar vehicles | 180 |
6 | Trailers or semi-trailers | 180 |
7 | Passenger cars of over 40 seats (including drivers), buses | 350 |
8 | Passenger cars of from 25 to 40 seats (including drivers) | 320 |
9 | Passenger cars of from 10 to 24 seats (including drivers) | 280 |
10 | Passenger cars with fewer than 10 seats, ambulance cars | 240 |
11 | Three-wheel vehicles and similar vehicles | 100 |
2. Any inspected motor vehicle that fails to meet technical safety and environmental protection standards must be maintained, repaired for re-inspection. The prices of re-inspections are determined as follows:
a) In case the re-inspection is conducted in the same day (in working hours) as the first inspection: motor vehicles shall be exempted from the inspection price for the first and second re-inspection times; and shall, for the third time onwards, be charged 50% of the inspection prices specified in the Table 1 per re-inspection time.
b) Motor vehicles undergoing the re-inspection after 01 day but not exceeding 07 days from the date of the first inspection (excluding days off under provisions) shall be charged 50% of the inspection prices defined in the Table 1 per inspection time.
c) Motor vehicles undergoing the re-inspection after 07 days from the date of the first inspection (excluding days off under provisions) shall be charged as for the first inspection.
3. Motor vehicles undergoing inspection for being granted the technical safety and environmental protection inspection certificate (within no more than 15 days) shall be charged 100% of the prices specified in Table 1.
4. The prices applicable to motor vehicles undergoing the inspection as a technical inspection or quality assessment at request of organizations, individuals shall be agreed upon but not exceed 03 times of that specified in Table 1.
II. Prices for technical safety and environmental protection inspection services of currently circulating special-use equipment and vehicles
1. Table 2
Unit: 1,000 VND/vehicle
No | Types of inspected equipment | Rate |
First inspection | Periodic inspection |
I | Earth-moving machinery |
1 | Bulldozers with the power of up to 100 HP | 340 | 270 |
2 | Bulldozers with the power of from 101 to 200 HP | 420 | 340 |
3 | Bulldozers with the power of over 200 HP | 500 | 400 |
4 | Graders with the power of up to 130 HP | 450 | 365 |
5 | Graders with the power of over 130 HP | 530 | 420 |
6 | Scrapers with the capacity of up to 24m3 | 500 | 410 |
7 | Scrapers with the capacity of over 24m3 | 600 | 480 |
8 | Trenchers; machines digging, raking and transporting materials; demolition machines; demolition hammers; loading and unloading machines, clamping machines; loaders, excavators, backhoe-loaders with bucket volume of up to 1m3 (*) | 560 | 450 |
9 | Loaders, excavators, backhoe-loaders with bucket volume of up to 1m3 (*) | 670 | 530 |
II | Vehicles, machinery and equipment reinforcing foundations and road surfaces |
1 | Drilling machines | 500 | 410 |
2 | Bored pile machines | 560 | 450 |
3 | Pile drivers; machines for driving and removing pile guardrails | 560 | 450 |
4 | Stone spreaders | 390 | 310 |
5 | Hydraulic pile drivers | 280 | 230 |
6 | Wick drain pile drivers | 530 | 420 |
7 | Steel-wheel road rollers of up to 5 tons | 340 | 270 |
8 | Steel-wheel road rollers of over 5 tons | 390 | 310 |
9 | Pneumatic tire rollers | 390 | 310 |
10 | Sheepsfoot rollers; combination rollers; vibratory rollers; vibration-triggering vehicles | 340 | 270 |
11 | Asphalt pavers with the power of up to 90 HP (67kW) | 450 | 360 |
12 | Asphalt pavers with the power of over 90 HP (67kW) | 530 | 420 |
13 | Road planers; Road planning and cold recycling machines; road surface reinforcement machines | 390 | 310 |
III | Vehicles, machinery and equipment for the production of concrete and materials for concrete |
1 | Concrete pumps; concrete pumping and spraying trucks | 340 | 270 |
2 | Jaw crushers and conveyors; jaw crushing and screening machines with capacity of up to 25m3/h; stone cutting machines | 420 | 340 |
3 | Jaw crushers and conveyors; jaw crushing and screening machines with capacity of over 25m3/h | 560 | 450 |
IV | Special-use vehicles for golf courses and amusement parks |
| Off-road vehicles, cargo trucks, refreshment golf carts, golf green rollers, sprayers for golf courses, liquid spraying and watering vehicles for golf courses, sanding trucks in golf courses, amusement parks. | 280 | 180 |
V | Other special-use vehicles |
1 | Floor scrubbers and sweepers; carriers used in factories | 280 | 180 |
2 | Line painting trucks, factory and street sweepers; special-use trucks for mixing trash, logging, transporting materials of all kinds | 560 | 450 |
3 | Pneumatic tire or crawler dumpers | 560 | 450 |
4 | Tractors, agricultural and forestry tractors joining traffic | 390 | 310 |
VI | Types of lifting equipment: cranes, forklifts, lifting cranes (**) |
1 | Under 1 ton | 700 | 700 |
2 | From 1 ton to 3 tons | 840 | 840 |
3 | Over 3 tons to 5 tons | 1.120 | 1.120 |
4 | Over 5 tons to 7,5 tons | 1.400 | 1.400 |
5 | Over 7,5 tons to 10 tons | 2.100 | 2.100 |
6 | Over 10 tons to 15 tons | 2.380 | 2.380 |
7 | Over 15 tons to 20 tons | 2.800 | 2.800 |
8 | Over 20 tons to 30 tons | 3.500 | 3.500 |
9 | Over 30 tons to 50 tons | 3.780 | 3.780 |
10 | Over 50 tons to 75 tons | 4.200 | 4.200 |
11 | Over 75 tons to 100 tons | 4.900 | 4.900 |
12 | Over 100 tons | 5.600 | 5.600 |
VII | Types of CNG, LPG tanks, fuel tanks (***) |
1 | Up to 0,3 m3 | 530 | 130 |
2 | Above 0,3 m3 to 1,0 m3 | 540 | 160 |
3 | Above 1,0 m3 to 2,5 m3 | 570 | 210 |
4 | Above 2,5 m3 to 5,0 m3 | 590 | 260 |
5 | Above 5,0 m3 to 10 m3 | 620 | 320 |
6 | Above 10m3 | 700 | 410 |
(*) The bucket volume is considered as the volume of the largest bucket;
(**) For lifting equipment, if only the moving part is inspected, the prices shall be 40% of the price rates specified in Table 2; if only the lifting part is inspected, the prices shall be 60% of the price rates specified in Table 2;
(***) For CNG and LPG tanks, fuel tanks with the inspection cycle of 1 year or more, the price shall be determined by multiplying the annual price and the number of years in the inspection cycle.
Note: For special-use equipment and vehicles with many features, the prices shall be only determined based on the feature applied with the highest price rate.
2. Inspected special-use equipment and vehicles that fail to meet technical safety and environmental protection standards must have their parts failing to meet the standards maintained and repaired to be re-inspected. The prices of re-inspections will be determined as follows:
a) In case the re-inspection is conducted in the same day (in working hours) as the first inspection: motor vehicles shall be exempted from the inspection price for the first and second re-inspection times; and shall, for the third time onwards, be charged 50% of the inspection prices specified in the Table 2 per re-inspection time.
b) Motor vehicles undergoing the re-inspection after 01 day but not exceeding 07 days from the date of the first inspection (excluding days off under provisions) shall be charged 50% of the inspection prices defined in the Table 2 per re-inspection time.
c) Motor vehicles undergoing the re-inspection after 07 days from the date of the first inspection (excluding days off under provisions) shall be charged as for the first inspection.
3. For any special-use equipment or vehicle other than those specified in this Table, relevant parties shall, according to the State’s provisions, negotiate the inspection price on the principle of ensuring the interest parity.
4. The prices applicable to motor vehicles undergoing the inspection as a technical inspection or quality assessment at request of organizations, individuals shall be agreed upon but not exceed 03 times of that specified in Table 2.
III. Prices for technical safety and quality inspection services of motor vehicles or special-use vehicles used for renovation
1. Table 3a:
Unit: 1,000 VND/vehicle
No | Design appraisal | Rate |
1 | Appraising the design of motor vehicles and special-use vehicles used for renovation | 300 |
2 | Examining dossiers of request for subsequent renovation for motor vehicles or special-use vehicles | 150 |
1. Table 3b:
Unit: 1,000 VND/vehicle
No | Acceptance test of renovation | Rate |
1 | Changes in use purposes of motor vehicles or special-use vehicles | 910 |
2 | Changes in systems or parts of motor vehicles or special-use vehicles | 560 |
IV. Prices for assessment and calibration of equipment inspecting motor vehicles
1. Table 4
Unit: 1,000 VND/equipment
No | Content of work | Rate |
1 | Evaluating and calibrating equipment inspecting motor vehicles | 450 |
2. Any equipment failing to satisfy the producer’s standards shall be repaired, re-assessed and re-calibrated; any equipment surprisingly breaking down shall be repaired, re-assessed and re-calibrated before the required period. The re-assessment and -calibration prices shall be conformable to the Table 4./.
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