Drivers have been sticking their road tax on car windscreens for generations.
WITH the launch of digital road tax, many drivers have forsaken the physical sticker in preference of using the Road Transport Department's (JPJ) app instead.
As popular as it once was, some have said that the physical road tax has gone the way of the dodo with some people saying signs have been put up at JPJ offices that the sticker has been discontinued.
Is it true that JPJ has stopped issuing physical road taxes?
Verdict:
FALSE
Several JPJ branches have been directed to take down a notice which says JPJ is no longer issuing physical road tax for private vehicles, says Transport Minister Anthony Loke.
Loke said the directive was issued by JPJ director-general Rospiagos Taha to the branches which said physical road tax would not be given with effect from Aug 1 and that customers should renew their road tax online using the MyJPJ application.
The MyJPJ app not only allows users to digitally access JPJ's services, but also acts as the repository for your vehicle's road tax particulars.
"The (road tax) sticker is still being issued. Several branches ran out of stock and put up a notice on the non-availability of physical road tax, but it is not a policy decision.
"We took quick action on finding out that branches have run out of stock and will continue to order new stocks," Bernama quoted him as telling a press conference on Wednesday (Aug 2).
Loke said the ministry had yet to set a date for the full transition to digital road tax and vehicle owners have a choice to continue using the physical sticker.
"But there will come a time when we will transform to fully digital. No decision has been made yet; it would take six months to one year before going fully digital," he said, adding that so far only 30% of vehicle owners have opted for the digital road tax.
