THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE ------- | THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness --------------- |
No. 55/2022/TT-BTC | Hanoi, August 24, 2022 |
CIRCULAR
Amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Ministry of Finance’s Circular No. 238/2016/TT-BTC dated November 11, 2016 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
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Pursuant to the 2008 Law on Road Traffic;
Pursuant to the 2012 Law on Prices;
Pursuant to the 2015 Law on Charges and Fees;
Pursuant to the Government's Decree No. 177/2013/ND-CP dated November 14, 2013 detailing and guiding a number of articles of the Law on Prices and the Government's Decree No. 149/2016/ND-CP dated November 11, 2016, 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. 87/2017/ND-CP dated July 26, 2017, defining the functions, powers and organizational structure of the Ministry of Finance;
At the proposal of the Director of Price Management Department;
The Minister of Finance promulgates the Circular amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Ministry of Finance’s Circular No. 238/2016/TT-BTC dated November 11, 2016 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. Amending and supplementing Clause 1 Article 3 of the Ministry of Finance’s Circular No. 238/2016/TT-BTC dated November 11, 2016 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 3. Inspection service prices
1. The prices specified in this Circular are inclusive of value-added tax (value-added tax rate of 10%) and expenses for issuance of technical safety and environmental protection inspection certificate for motor vehicles and special-use vehicles according to regulations of the Ministry of Finance and but exclude 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 Ministry of Finance’s current regulations on working trip allowances for state agencies and public non-business units.”
Article 2. Table of 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
Table of service prices issued together with the Ministry of Finance’s Circular No. 238/2016/TT-BTC dated November 11, 2016 is replaced with the Table of service prices to this Circular.
Article 3. Organization of implementation
1. This Circular takes effect on October 08, 2022.
2. In case a competent agency amends the value-added tax rate, the Ministry of Transport (the Vietnam Register) shall, based on competent agencies’ guidances, guide the registration organizations to adjust correspondingly the prices specified in the Table of prices to this Circular.
3. In the course of implementation, if any problems arise, please report them promptly to the Ministry of Transport (the Vietnam Register) for synthesis and coordination with the Ministry of Finance for consideration and settlement.
| FOR THE MINISTER DEPUTY MINISTER Ta Anh Tuan |
TABLE OF 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
(Issued together with the Minister of Finance’s Circular No. 55/2022/TT-BTC dated August 24, 2022)
I. Prices for technical safety and environmental protection inspection services of currently circulating motor vehicles
1. Table 1:
Unit: VND 1,000/vehicle
No. | Type of motor vehicle | Price |
1 | Trucks with the payload of over 20 tons, tractor trucks with the towing capacity of over 20 tons or special-use vehicles
| 570 |
2 | Trucks with the payload of from over 7 tons to 20 tons, tractor trucks with the towing volume of up to 20 tons, and other types of tractors
| 360 |
3 | Trucks with the payload of from over 2 tons to 7 tons | 330 |
4 | Trucks with the payload of up to 2 tons | 290 |
5 | Tractors, four-wheel motor vehicles for cargo and passenger transportation and similar vehicles | 190 |
6 | Trailers or semi-trailers | 190 |
7 | Passenger cars of over 40 seats (including drivers), buses | 360 |
8 | Passenger cars of from 25 to 40 seats (including drivers) | 330 |
9 | Passenger cars of from 10 to 24 seats (including drivers) | 290 |
10 | Passenger cars of under 10 seats, ambulance cars | 250 |
11 | Three-wheel vehicles and similar vehicles | 110 |
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 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. 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 for currently circulating special-use equipment and vehicles
1. Table 2
Unit: VND 1,000/vehicle
No. | Type | Price |
For first inspection | For periodic inspection |
I | Earth-moving machinery |
1 | Bulldozers with the power of up to 100 Horsepower (HP) | 350 | 280 |
2 | Bulldozers with the power of from 101 to 200 HP | 430 | 350 |
3 | Bulldozers with the power of over 200 HP | 510 | 410 |
4 | Graders with the power of up to 130 HP | 460 | 375 |
5 | Graders with the power of over 130 HP | 540 | 430 |
6 | Scrapers with the capacity of up to 24m3 | 510 | 420 |
7 | Scrapers with the capacity of over 24m3 | 610 | 490 |
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 (*) | 570 | 460 |
9 | Loaders, excavators, backhoe-loaders with bucket volume of up to 1m3 (*) | 680 | 540 |
II | Vehicles, machinery and equipment reinforcing foundations and road surfaces |
1 | Drilling machines | 510 | 420 |
2 | Bored pile machines | 570 | 460 |
3 | Pile drivers; machines for driving and removing pile guardrails | 570 | 460 |
4 | Stone spreaders | 400 | 320 |
5 | Hydraulic pile drivers | 290 | 240 |
6 | Wick drain pile drivers | 540 | 430 |
7 | Steel-wheel road rollers of up to 5 tons | 350 | 280 |
8 | Steel-wheel road rollers of over 5 tons | 400 | 320 |
9 | Pneumatic tire rollers | 400 | 320 |
10 | Sheepsfoot rollers; combination rollers; vibratory rollers; vibration-triggering vehicles | 350 | 280 |
11 | Asphalt pavers with the power of up to 90 HP (67kW) | 460 | 370 |
12 | Asphalt pavers with the power of over 90 HP (67kW) | 540 | 430 |
13 | Road planers; Road planning and cold recycling machines; road surface reinforcement machines | 400 | 320 |
III | Vehicles, machinery and equipment for the production of concrete and materials for concrete |
1 | Concrete pumps; concrete pumping and spraying trucks | 350 | 280 |
2 | Jaw crushers and conveyors; jaw crushing and screening machines with capacity of up to 25m3/h; stone cutting machines | 430 | 350 |
3 | Jaw crushers and conveyors; jaw crushing and screening machines with capacity of over 25m3/h | 570 | 460 |
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, topdressers in golf courses, amusement parks. | 290 | 190 |
V | Other special-use vehicles |
1 | Floor scrubbers and sweepers; carriers used in factories | 290 | 190 |
2 | Line painting trucks, factory and street sweepers; special-use trucks for mixing trash, logging, transporting materials of all kinds | 570 | 460 |
3 | Pneumatic tire or crawler dumpers | 570 | 460 |
4 | Tractors, agricultural and forestry tractors traveling on roads | 400 | 320 |
VI. | Types of lifting equipment: Cranes, forklifts, lifting cranes (**) |
1 | Under 1 tons | 710 | 710 |
2 | From 1 tons to 3 tons | 850 | 850 |
3 | Above 3 tons to 5 tons | 1,130 | 1,130 |
4 | Above 5 tons to 7.5 tons | 1,410 | 1,410 |
5 | Above 7.5 tons to 10 tons | 2,110 | 2,110 |
6 | Above 10 tons to 15 tons | 2,390 | 2,390 |
7 | Above 15 tons to 20 tons | 2,810 | 2,810 |
8 | Above 20 tons to 30 tons | 3,510 | 3,510 |
9 | Above 30 tons to 50 tons | 3,790 | 3,790 |
10 | Above 50 tons to 75 tons | 4,210 | 4,210 |
11 | Above 75 tons to 100 tons | 4,910 | 4,910 |
12 | Above 100 tons | 5,610 | 5,610 |
VII | Types of CNG, LPG tanks, fuel tanks (***) |
1 | Up to 0.3 m3 | 540 | 140 |
2 | Above 0.3 m3 to 1.0 m3 | 550 | 170 |
3 | Above 1.0 m3 to 2.5 m3 | 580 | 220 |
4 | Above 2.5 m3 to 5.0 m3 | 600 | 270 |
5 | Above 5.0 m3 to 10 m3 | 630 | 330 |
6 | Above 10m3 | 710 | 420 |
(*) The bucket volume is considered as the volume of the largest bucket;
(**) For lifting equipment, if only its moving part is inspected, the prices shall be equal to 40% of the price rates specified in Table 2; if only its lifting part is inspected, the prices shall be equal to 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.
Notes: 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 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 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 for motor vehicles and special-use vehicles used for renovation
1. Table 3a:
Unit: VND 1,000/vehicle
No. | Design appraisal content | Price |
1 | Design appraisal of motor vehicles and special-use vehicles used for renovation | 300 |
2 | Examination of dossiers of request for the next renovation for motor vehicles and special-use vehicles | 150 |
2. Table 3b:
Unit: VND 1,000/vehicle
No. | Content of acceptance test of renovation | Price |
1 | Change in use purposes of motor vehicles and special-use vehicles | 910 |
2 | Changes in systems or parts of motor vehicles and special-use vehicles | 560 |
IV. Prices for assessment and calibration of equipment inspecting motor vehicles
1. Table 4
Unit: VND 1,000/equipment
No. | Content | Price |
1 | Assessment and calibration of equipment inspecting motor vehicles | 450 |
2. For equipment failing to satisfy the producer’s standards to be repaired, re-assessed and re-calibrated; equipment suddenly breaking down to be repaired, re-assessed and re-calibrated before the term, the re-assessment and -calibration prices shall comply with Table 4./.