JPJ says claims made in a viral post stating a physical road tax is still mandatory untrue, police report lodged

The roadworthy transport section (JPJ) has filed a constabulary study implicit a station made connected Facebook by a idiosyncratic claiming that a carnal roadworthy taxation (lesen kenderaan motor, oregon LKM) is inactive mandatory.

In the post, the idiosyncratic stated that the assertion of a carnal LKM nary longer being indispensable was a lie, and that a carnal transcript was needed. The station went viral, prompting the section to instrumentality action.

In a statement, the section clarified that the connection made successful the station was untrue and was misleading the public. It said that a constabulary study was made successful Putrajaya truthful that an probe tin beryllium carried retired against the proprietor of the Facebook relationship involved. It added this was being done to forestall the sharing of incorrect and misleading statements successful the future.

On February 10, transport curate Anthony Loke announced the switch to integer for the roadworthy tax arsenic good arsenic the driving licence, and arsenic such, it was nary longer mandatory to show the roadworthy taxation sticker connected a vehicle, arsenic each related JPJ-issued documents were present successful the system.

Loke said the power to integer licences would save JPJ RM96 cardinal a year successful printing costs, and the determination would besides trim postulation successful JPJ offices by astir 80%, allowing for different transactions to beryllium carried retired successful quicker fashion.

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