Motorists pay Rp 188b in taxes

TANGERANG: The Tangerang Motor Vehicle Taxation Office collected Rp 188 billion from vehicle owners this year, an official at the office said on Monday.

The office manager, Gunawan Hermawan Syah, told The Jakarta Post on Monday that the amount had far exceeded the target.

"The regency administration had only targeted bringing in Rp 140 billion in revenue from vehicle taxes this year," he said.

He said that the revenue would be spent on repairing roads, widening roads, providing roadside facilities as well as repairing schools and places of worship.

Meanwhile, the chief of the vehicle documents department, First Insp. Sutimin, said there were 2,030,000 vehicles registered at the Tangerang branch while another 150,000 vehicles operating in the regency were registered in several other cities.

He said that the revenue from vehicle taxes also exceeded the administration's target last year.--JP