BANGKOK, Feb 8 (TNA) – The Royal Thai Police joins hand with the Land Transport Department to link information on police-issued traffic tickets in order to suspend vehicle tax renewal of violators who fail to pay fine from traffic tickets.

 

The new measure will start from April 1.

 

National police chief Pol.Gen. Damrongsak Kittiprapas and director-general of the Land Transport Department Jirut Wisanjit signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU ) to link electronic information to enforce the traffic law and to reduce traffic violation and road accidents.

 

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Very appropriate start date.

Has this not been the law for many years?

Try to renew your road tax, and the Computer says NO if unpaid fines are shown.

25 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

Has this not been the law for many years?

Try to renew your road tax, and the Computer says NO if unpaid fines are shown.

Had no problems to renew road tax last year, even though I got tickets in the mail which were left unpaid.

Edited February 8, 20233 yr by FriendlyFarang

Does anyone really think that the offenders will care? If they can't obey the law or pay an official fine, they are unlikely to worry about renewing road tax. Too easy to pay off cops and that's even if ever caught. I got stopped driving with expired Thai licence some years ago. 500 Baht "fine" and let on my way.

 

Fail to see how this will "reduce road accidents". 

Strange that they didn't manage to do that 10 or more years ago like other countries.

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

National police chief Pol.Gen. Damrongsak Kittiprapas and director-general of the Land Transport Department Jirut Wisanjit signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU ) to link electronic information to enforce the traffic law and to reduce traffic violation and road accidents.

A Memorandum of Understanding lol. I'm sure that'll teach 'em!

11 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

to link electronic information to enforce the traffic law and to reduce traffic violation and road accidents.

So people with outstanding fines will just ignore paying road tax, I fail to see how this will achieve anything?

If the police force have evidence of unpaid fines just go after the people?

It is a fact of life that RTP don't work unless there's money to be made.  Surely this is a nice little earner; confiscate vehicle; store for three months; sell or destroy unless all fines/storage charges are met?

I remember this issue being initiated 2 or 3 years ago. The DLT would not accept vehicle tax payments if the owner did not pay their fines....it only lasted a few weeks and fizzled out....probably the DLT didn't get enough tax revenue:)

Likely fail again.....

So how about when the driver that violated the law is not the owner of the car??

8 minutes ago, jumbo said:

So how about when the driver that violated the law is not the owner of the car??

Simple, the Owner pays

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

So people with outstanding fines will just ignore paying road tax, I fail to see how this will achieve anything?

If the police force have evidence of unpaid fines just go after the people?

I don't pay fines, they go in the bin.

I like my road tax to be valid as it is a requirement for my vehicle insurance.

I will pay fines if this becomes a thing.

10 minutes ago, jumbo said:

So how about when the driver that violated the law is not the owner of the car??

registered owner pays or nominates the driver...............like what other countries do.

Maybe now the actually sign the agreement they might ????

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The Royal Thai Police joins hand with the Land Transport Department to link information on police-issued traffic tickets

Can you link two computers running on windows 95 together. 

 

Edited February 9, 20233 yr by Orinoco

If I get issued a Ticket though the post, how will I know ? KOH CHANG post office has failed to find my house since covid started. 

I suspect this is going to result in even more untaxed and more

worryingly ,uninsured vehicles on the roads. 

 

regards worgeordie

 

1 hour ago, worgeordie said:

I suspect this is going to result in even more untaxed and more

worryingly ,uninsured vehicles on the roads. 

 

regards worgeordie

 

You Bet it is......I Know a Guy whose Road Tax Disc on his car EXPIRED In 2562 7 Obviously doesn't have ANY Insurance..... And He's a Farang .Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! 

3 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

I don't pay fines, they go in the bin.

I like my road tax to be valid as it is a requirement for my vehicle insurance.

I will pay fines if this becomes a thing.

yes, i'm exactly the same, if it's enforced to settle the fines to get tax i'll pay them.

 

 

17 minutes ago, PJ71 said:

yes, i'm exactly the same, if it's enforced to settle the fines to get tax i'll pay them.

 

 

The time will come that you have to pay!

The government is just figuring out how to get all this money

from outstanding fines,and they will find a way to do it.

It has been a very big earner for most countries in the world and Thailand will not stay behind.

 

7 minutes ago, jvs said:

The time will come that you have to pay!

If i have to pay no problem, until that time comes they'll go in the bin.

If you get a penalty notice through the post, how do they know your address?  I bought my car 8 years ago and have moved addresses 5 times since then, including a move to a new province.  There doesn't seem to be any requirement to update the address in the blue book when renewing the tax.  Is this something I should have done?

It will just add to the hundreds of thousands that have no Tax already.   Last week i walked along a row of Motorbikes with at least 50% of them untaxed or showing Discs that were two/three years out of date.  Cops could do the same but not interested as no money in it for them !

Edited February 9, 20233 yr by trainman34014
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25 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

If you get a penalty notice through the post, how do they know your address?  I bought my car 8 years ago and have moved addresses 5 times since then, including a move to a new province.  There doesn't seem to be any requirement to update the address in the blue book when renewing the tax.  Is this something I should have done?

If you are Farang and you haven't notified your address changes you have broken the Law but if they had 'connected' Government Computers System Immigration records would have shown your address changes and therefore the Vehicle Licencing Authority should have contacted you.   However; knowing that Computer Systems here seem to be archaic at best they wouldn't know if you were in Bangkok or Timbucktoo !

56 minutes ago, trainman34014 said:

If you are Farang and you haven't notified your address changes you have broken the Law but if they had 'connected' Government Computers System Immigration records would have shown your address changes and therefore the Vehicle Licencing Authority should have contacted you.   However; knowing that Computer Systems here seem to be archaic at best they wouldn't know if you were in Bangkok or Timbucktoo !

I've notified all my address changes to Immigration via TM30 and 90-day reporting, just not for my car's blue book.  Do I still need to do this and, if so, where? At the Land/Transport office?

6 hours ago, Orinoco said:

Can you link two computers running on windows 95 together. 

 

Corrected! Two illegally copied Windows 95 together?

20 hours ago, FriendlyFarang said:

Had no problems to renew road tax last year, even though I got tickets in the mail which were left unpaid.

All depends on the LTO's setup, we had a tax renewal refusal for a fine we didn't know we had...

Wait until insurance companies start refusing to pay out. Brown stuff will hit the fan then. Start awarding drivers "no claims" instead of the vehicle which just  encourages drivers not to care as accident = replace car.