Cleaning up vehicles

As of September 18 the Transport Bureau (DSAT) has received 6,456 requests for cancelling vehicle licence plates, with 90 per cent of the requests being for vehicles damaged by the passage of Typhoon Hato, the department revealed yesterday.
Of the total requests 3,173 were for light vehicles and 3,283 were for motorbikes, DSAT informed.
‘DSAT is speeding up the removal of canceled vehicles and sending the order information, once confirmed to the DSF for further follow-up,’ the release stated.
In order to simplify the procedures for owners of damaged vehicles to cancel licence plates, DSAT dispatched employees to parking lots affected by flooding to assist with proceedings and increased working hours of its service centre in Estrada de D. Maria II.
The department announced previously that owners of light vehicles, motorbikes or tourism buses damaged by Typhoon Hato should cancel their vehicles’ licence plates before September 18 in order to obtain a subsidy on vehicle taxes, the Transport Bureau (DSAT) announced yesterday.
After the cancellation of the damaged vehicle’s licence plate, owners will be able to apply for a full repayment of their vehicle tax from the MSAR Government if they chose to purchase a new vehicle powered by sustainable energy sources, or an 80 per cent repayment in the case of purchasing a vehicle powered by non-renewable energy sources.
However the tax refund decreases according to the age of the damaged vehicle, with the refund reaching less than MOP5,000 (US$622) in case the vehicle is over nine years old.