What will happen if a motor vehicle does not pay its annual pass?

The issue of the legality of annual passes has become a hot topic again. Xinkuaibao reporter asked the Guangzhou Municipal Transportation Commission and the Vehicle Management Department for verification——

A recent article “CCTV exposed that all compulsory annual passes are Videos of "illegal acts" frequently hit the screens in WeChat Moments, which made many car owners who were still purchasing annual passes uneasy. What are the consequences of not buying an annual pass, and how to buy it more cost-effectively?

As a car owner, a reporter from Xinkuaibao yesterday consulted various relevant government affairs windows in Guangzhou and found that if you don’t buy an annual pass, you will have to pay the fee when passing the toll station, and it will be overdue. In addition to high late fees and constant reminder text messages, failure to pay will have no impact on annual review, ownership transfer, license plate index, or vehicle scrapping. However, as more and more car owners refuse to buy annual passes, the amount of annual pass loan repayments continues to increase, and there is no end in sight.

■Xinkuaibao reporter Zhang Liang

Verification: There is no compulsory purchase of annual passes

To verify what will happen to car owners or vehicles if they do not buy annual passes in Guangzhou Due to the impact, a New Express reporter accompanied a vehicle that did not purchase an annual pass for inspection last year and found that although no receipt related to the annual pass was issued, it could still pass.

The New Express reporter then consulted the vehicle management service hotline of the Traffic Police Detachment of the Guangzhou Public Security Bureau as the car owner. The operator made it clear that not only does the annual vehicle inspection in Guangzhou do not require the issuance of an annual pass, but whether or not to purchase an annual pass will not affect all related business of the vehicle management office, including vehicle transfer and scrapping.

As for whether the license plate indicator, which many car owners do not understand, is linked to the annual pass, the New Express reporter asked the Municipal Transportation Commission hotline 96900. The operator said that although the Municipal Transportation Commission is in charge of both annual passes and license plate indicators, there is currently no connection between the two. "There are currently no compulsory measures for annual passes. If you don't buy them, you will just continue to receive reminder text messages, and will incur a daily late payment fee of 2‰ (with a maximum cap of 980 yuan). However, it has no direct connection with annual review, ownership transfer, license plate indicators, and vehicle scrapping. Related. ”

For the license indicator, there is currently no relationship with the annual pass. Regardless of whether you have purchased an annual pass, as long as the vehicle is not to be destroyed after the transfer of ownership, the index can be updated within 15 working days, and no lottery is required.

According to the hotline of the Municipal Transportation Commission, the Guangzhou annual pass toll road section currently includes the Inner Ring Road and its radial lines, Hedong Bridge, Jiangwan Bridge, Guangzhou Bridge, Pazhou Bridge, Jiefang Bridge, Haiyin Bridge, Pearl River Tunnel, Guangyuan Expressway Western Section, Daguan Road and Southeast West Ring Road. However, many of them no longer have toll stations, and not buying an annual pass will have little impact on traffic.

Impact: More than half of car owners refuse to buy annual passes

In fact, this video in WeChat Moments was made by CCTV at the end of 2013 to expose that Dongguan still bundled annual passes with annual inspections. According to the survey, the car owners were not calm after being "fried" like this. Many people commented that they would "never buy annual passes again."

According to the latest 2011 city-level "vehicle toll" (i.e. annual pass) revenue and expenditure budget and implementation status announced by the Guangzhou Municipal Finance Bureau, the total toll collection in 2011 was 1.15 billion yuan, which is converted into payment The number of vehicles should be 1.1734 million. In that year, the actual number of motor vehicles in Guangzhou reached 2.436 million, and more than half did not buy annual passes.

At that time, the number of motor vehicles even increased by 300,000, resulting in a decrease in annual ticket income of more than 56 million yuan. This shows that the number of car owners buying annual passes is decreasing, especially for new cars.

It is understood that after CCTV’s report on the bundling of Dongguan annual passes came out, according to data released by the Dongguan Municipal Transportation Department last month, as of October 14 last year, Dongguan City’s total road and bridge annual pass fee revenue was 483 million yuan, and the collection rate is only 31.72, which means that currently about 70% of car owners have not paid the annual pass fee. In 2013, when the annual review and annual passes were bundled, Dongguan's annual pass collection rate was as high as 68.17. Last year's collection rate was almost "halved" compared to the previous year.

According to Mr. Li, an industry insider: “Nowadays, there are often new car owners who do not buy annual passes and have never registered vehicle information at the municipal facility toll office. The municipal facility toll office cannot even send reminder text messages; Some old car owners invalidate the registered vehicle information by transferring ownership, selling the old one and buying a new one, and take advantage of the situation by not buying annual passes. Neither of these two methods currently affects the annual review and transfer of the vehicle, so in the past two years. There are obviously fewer car owners buying annual passes.

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It is understood that at present, only car owners like "Guangfo Migratory Birds" who often take toll roads and pass through toll checkpoints can "get the numbers" by buying annual passes. For example, if you live in Foshan and go to Guangzhou Car owners who go to work and drive three or four times a week pay 20 yuan for a round trip per day (10 yuan for a secondary ticket), so 980 yuan can only buy a 49-day round trip ticket. Naturally, it is more cost-effective to buy a 9-city mutually recognized annual pass. .

Car owners

“It’s too unfair to spend an extra 980 yuan a year”

There are two main reasons why car owners refuse to buy annual passes: First, they think most people The toll road itself is rarely used, preferring to charge on a pay-per-use basis; secondly, it is believed that the fuel surtax already includes road maintenance fees and tolls, and it is most fair to use more fuel and pay more. Now that the fuel surcharge has been raised three times in a row, the government should not do so. Repeated charges are collected through annual passes.

On the other hand, according to relevant reports, the current annual pass revenue and expenditure are still in a serious inversion state: until 2012, the loan repayment base of Guangzhou's roads and bridges included in the annual pass system was 200. More than 100 million yuan, the annual interest alone is as high as nearly 2 billion yuan, and the government subsidizes about 900 million yuan every year.

On the one hand, the income and expenditure of annual passes are seriously inverted, and on the other hand, there are people who refuse to buy annual passes. There are more and more car owners, so won't the annual pass charges that have been "tried" for more than ten years never end?

Ms. Xiong, who is still buying annual passes, feels that so many people are now paying for them. Buying an annual pass is very unfair to car owners who buy annual passes. “After the parking fee is increased, cars will drive twice a week and rarely use the toll station. It’s too unfair to buy an extra 980 yuan annual pass every year!” She suggested: “Since Shenzhen City can directly buy out the annual pass through the finance department to repay the loan, exempting the annual pass, Guangzhou can also learn from it. If it is difficult for Guangzhou's finance to buy out the debt completely at one time, it can also consider buying out the debt at a certain ratio, such as a 20-80 split between the car owners and the government. 20% of this amount will be shared equally by car owners across the city (including Panyu, Zengcheng, etc.), and they will be required to pay compulsorily to repay the loan within 3 to 5 years. Among them, car owners who have purchased annual passes can deduct the paid part, while new car owners need to pay the same annual pass fee as a fund for new road construction. This is more fair and reasonable. ”