Road tax in Malaysia

Let's take a look at the top 5 most expensive road taxes (privately owned) in Peninsular Malaysia:

1. Bugatti Chiron 8.0 L-24,630
2. Rolls-Royce Phantom/Bentley Mulsanne 6.75 L-RM 19,005
3. Rolls-Royce Ghost 6.6-L-18330
4. Lamborghini Aventador/ Ferrari 812 6.5L-RM 17880
5. Bentley Continental GT 6.0-RM 15,630

The above figure is not accurate because engine capacity has never been rounded, for example, 6,000 cc, so there may be a slight difference. But even so, the real Numbers are still large.

In Malaysia, the private owner of a Bugatti Chiron actually buys a manual Perodua Axia every year to update his road tax.

So how exactly did Chiron come up with this number? We will give a brief introduction to Malaysia's road tax structure, especially private registration.

In Malaysia, Road Tax charges are mainly defined by several factors. In addition to the exhaust volume, different vehicle types, private registration or company registration, and even Cima or Dongma can affect the final price of Road Tax for your favorite car. First of all, we are from the types of vehicles, road tax structure in our country, the model there are two main kinds, respectively is a Saloon and Non - Saloon, which are classified as the Saloon cars (Sedan), Hatchback (Hatchback), station Wagon, Wagon, Coupe (Coupe) and drive a van (Convertible), as for Non - under the Saloon car has MPV and SUV and pickup.

To make it easier for you to understand, let's take Toyota Camry 2.5V as an example: its correct displacement is 2,494 cc, which belongs to the displacement class of 2,001 to 2,500 cc, and its basic road tax price is RM 380. After 2,000 cc, the gap of each CC will be increased by RM 1, so it is RM 380 + RM 494, and the total is RM 874. The above list belongs to the road tax structure of private registration, while the road tax charges for Saloon vehicles registered in the name of a company vary. From this data, the interest rate will accumulate, and for each cc increase, there will be a fixed amount of increase over the base rate. For example, the base rate for 2000ml is RM380, the progressive rate is RM1 per ml, and the annual road tax for engines at RM2,500 will cost RM880.

The progressive rate peaked at 3,000 cc and above, at 4.50 RM per cc, while the base rate was 3,000 cc (2,130 RM). To answer the previous question, the Chiron engine is 8000 cc(7993 to be exact, but rounded to 8000 for ease of calculation), multiply 5000 by 4.5 to get 22,500, add base 2130 and we get RM 24,630.

There are different base rates and progressive rates for non-passenger cars. The progressive rate also peaked at 3000 ml, but only 1.60 RM per ml, with a base rate of 1640 RM.

Interestingly, a Rolls-Royce Cullinan with 6.75L costs "only" 7640 rubles per year to update the road tax, while the Phantom costs 19005 Rubles. What a bargain.

Malaysia government is plan to renew road tax, let’s see it again at that time.