How to pay transport tax: 3 clear ways

13.01.2021

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Transport tax in Belarus is the unofficial name of “State duties for issuing a permit to admit a vehicle to participate in road traffic.”

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Transport tax can also be called a “road tax”, and sometimes – a “technical inspection fee”, although the latter is incorrect; a technical inspection is a control procedure that is paid separately.

Payment of transport tax is regulated by law and is mandatory for most car owners. This is an important point - it is the vehicle owners who pay the tax (formerly state duty).

The House of Representatives on December 18, 2021 adopted amendments to the Tax Code of the Republic of Belarus dated December 19, 2002. According to the resolution, from January 1, 2021, the fee for issuing a permit to admit a vehicle to participate in road traffic is canceled. Instead of state duty, a transport tax will apply. As previously planned, the transport tax (road toll) will be decoupled from technical inspection. The amount of transport tax will be lower than the state duty, but all vehicle owners are required to pay it. Thus, it will not be possible to evade paying transport tax.

Instructions for paying transport tax online in 2021

The tax service sends out receipts with tax calculations in advance, so that by the deadline established by law, the payer can decide on the payment method and plan the required amount. You can pay the transport tax in any convenient way: online if you have access to the Internet from any device or during a personal visit.

Through Sberbank online

Sberbank cardholders are given the opportunity to make various payments through a mobile application or online on a computer. To pay transport tax, the payer must:

• Log in to the Sberbank website in the “Sberbank.Online” section or go to the application installed on your mobile device;
• in the Payments section, go to Taxes, fines, traffic police and search for taxes in the Federal Tax Service using the document details, TIN or scan the QR code;
• It is necessary to confirm the transaction for the payment to be made.

Public services

This payment method is available only to registered users of the ESIA (Government Services Portal) with an account in the “Confirmed” status. The algorithm of actions when making a tax payment is as follows:

• log into the portal with your personal login and password;
• in the top menu bar go to the “Payment” section;
• a debt on all your taxes, including the car, should automatically appear;

• if there is no amount, then instead of “Proceed to payment”, “Check” will appear. Click on it.
• enter a 20-25 digit code in the UIN field (it is located on the receipt from the tax authority at the top of the document in the “Document Index” column;
• After entering, click on “Pay”.

Then the system will prompt you to select a payment method: bank card, electronic money (Webmoney or Yandex) or mobile phone account.

Below in the video, you can also learn more about payment on the State Services portal.

Yandex money

If you have a Yandex wallet, the car owner can pay the transport tax directly through the Yandex payment system:

• go to Payment for services;
• go to the Taxes section;
• indicate your personal tax identification number or receipt index;
• when you click on the “Check” button, a search is carried out in the State Information System according to the specified parameters;
• then pay the tax amount.

Taxpayer's account on the Federal Tax Service website

The official website of the Federal Tax Service allows the payer to use the resource not only as an information interaction, but also to pay taxes online.

To do this you need:

• log in to the site using your Unified Identification of Significance (USIA) account or go to the tax authority to get your registration card (login will be done through the payer’s INN and password specified on the card);
• the “My Taxes” section displays all information about accruals;
• Online debiting occurs after clicking on the Payment button opposite the transport tax.

It is also proposed to download and install an application from the Federal Tax Service on your mobile device, the functionality of which is similar to the full version of the site.

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What does the tax rate depend on?

The amount payable can fluctuate within a fairly wide range. It is influenced by:

• maximum permissible vehicle weight;
• age of the vehicle (vehicle);
• number of seats (if we are talking about buses);
• other important parameters.

The size of the payment also depends on the fixed base rate, which is set by the state.

You can learn more about taxes in Belarus from the video below.

This type of taxation was introduced on January 1, 2014. Since then, the base rate of the Republic of Belarus has repeatedly changed upward.

Payment of transport tax on a car upon personal visit

For citizens who, for various reasons, do not have access to online methods or do not want to use them, there remains the opportunity to pay the tax in cash. Then the citizen needs to personally appear with a receipt at a banking institution, tax office or Russian Post office.

Payment at the bank with the teller

The payment amount in cash or by bank card can be accepted by a bank employee. He must check the payer’s details with his passport and receipt from the tax authority. Some commercial banks have introduced a commission for this operation.

Payment via ATM

The preferred method for many is to pay taxes through an ATM. The terminals accept both banknotes and non-cash payments by card. If a citizen has difficulty entering data from a receipt, he can ask a bank employee for help or use a scanner that reads a barcode or QR code. Such a code must be printed on the receipt sent by the Federal Tax Service.

Russian Post Office

Tax payments are also accepted by post offices. You can contact any nearest one and make a payment. Please note that there is a commission fee.

Federal Tax Service Inspectorate

Tax officials do not have the right to refuse a transport tax payer to accept payment from him if he appears in person and provides a civil passport, tax identification number, and documents for the car.

TRANSPORT SAFETY

Identification of the operation in the ERIP is carried out by checking the series and number of the registration certificate (technical passport) entered into the AIS "Raschet" with the series and number of the registration certificate (technical passport) of the vehicle presented when applying for a permit to admit the vehicle to participation in road traffic for coincidence. Any discrepancy in letters, numbers, or their sequence is grounds for refusal to confirm payment.

instead of the registration plate of the vehicle on the payment page, only the series and number of the registration certificate (technical passport) of the vehicle and the amount of state duty determined in accordance with tax legislation should be entered;

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How to pay tax if I haven’t received a receipt?

The receipt contains not only the payer’s details, the amount of calculated tax, but also the details where it should be transferred. If the citizen has not received it by mail, then there are only two ways to receive it:

1. Print from your personal account on the official website of the Federal Tax Service or pay online here, but this requires:

• registration on State Services with identification confirmation;
• or registration with the Federal Tax Service, but to receive the password you will need to be present in person at the tax office.

1. Contact any tax office in person with your passport and TIN.

Only if there are complete details where the tax should be transferred, a citizen will be able to correctly direct the amount to a specific code. It is better not to make mistakes here.

Payments upon passing technical inspection

Veterans and disabled people of groups 1 and 2 remain among the preferential categories - they will retain a 50% discount, and WWII veterans and pensioners will have the same discount. Also, for disabled people of group 3, the tax rate is proposed to be reduced by 25%.

In addition, since the transport tax is paid in the same way as all other taxes, citizens can contact local authorities with a request to reduce the tax or exempt those who are in difficult life situations from paying it.

You will need to pay transport tax once a year. All vehicle owners will be sent notifications from the tax office. For example, as in the case of real estate taxes, notices will be sent by November 15, and payments to the treasury will have to be made by December 15.

However, next year will be a transition year. Therefore, notifications will be sent no later than November 1, 2021, the tax will need to be paid no later than December 15, 2021. At the same time, everyone will pay the same amount - 1 basic amount (from next year it will be 29 rubles), and in 2022 it will be necessary to pay additional tax.

By the way, those who deregister their car before July 1, 2021 will not have to pay tax.

Those who have already paid the “road toll” at existing rates are exempt from payment for the entire period of validity of the permit to participate in road traffic. For example, if you paid the tax when passing the technical inspection and your permit to participate in road traffic is valid until April 1, 2021, then the tax will not be calculated for these months. That is, in 2021 you will pay not for a year, but for nine months.

Previously it was said that toll payments would be monitored using cameras, and non-payers would be sent “chain letters”, similar to fines for violating the speed limit.

But since now we are talking about tax, the tax authorities will control the payment. The scheme here is simple: if you have a car, a tax will be calculated; if you fail to pay, a penalty will be charged. Enforcement proceedings will be initiated against persistent defaulters: the car may be seized.

They promise yes. Proceeds must be credited to the road fund. About 50% of the collected funds will be transferred to local budgets with targeted use for current and major repairs of local roads.

Who is exempt from paying transport tax?

Republican government bodies, courts, prosecutors, local executive and administrative bodies will not pay transport tax. As well as carrier organizations included in the lists of road carriers obliged to carry out road transportation by public transport. Troops and military formations are exempt from payment.

Owners of electric vehicles are also exempt from paying the tax. This benefit will be valid until December 31, 2025.

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One of the most popular ways to pay car tax online is the State Services portal. In order to use this service, you should follow simple instructions consisting of eight short steps:

1. Register on the official website of the State body (during registration, the system will require the user’s initials, a copy of the passport and an extract from SNILS);
2. After authorization, go to the main interface of the portal, select “All services” from the proposed widgets;
3. On the page that opens, three directions for contact will be highlighted, from which you need to click on the column “Authorities”;
4. A complete list of federal divisions will appear and among this list you will need to find the line “Tax Service” (or Federal Tax Service);
5. Once on the main page of the tax office, the user will see several options on the screen from which to select the “Debt” widget;
6. Next, to clarify the amount of transport tax accruals, the driver will need to fill out an electronic form, indicating his first name, last name, patronymic and region of registration;
7. After 5-7 working days from the date of sending the application, State Services employees will contact you at the specified telephone number and notify you of the response;
8. Go back to your personal account, open the letter from the Federal Tax Service, which indicates: the amount of tax that needs to be paid, a possible fine for late payment and benefits (provided for pensioners and war veterans).

Now you know how to pay car tax through State Services.

Advice! It is worth adding that when paying using this portal, the user receives a 30% discount on the fixed rate.

Payment deadline

For transport tax, the legislation sets the deadline for payment - December 1 of the year following the year of ownership of the property. Distribution of receipts begins in advance, approximately 3 months before the due date. If the document has not been received by October 1, you should worry about receiving it and go to the tax authority.

It is not prohibited to divide the tax amount into parts and make payments on different dates. But here it should be taken into account that the last payment must be made before December 1, otherwise penalties will be charged on the balance.

Is it possible to pay transport tax in installments?

It is not prohibited to divide the tax amount into parts and make payments on different dates and in different amounts. However, it should be borne in mind that the last payment must be made before December 1, otherwise penalties will be charged on the balance.

Recycling collection

Since thousands of vehicles from abroad are imported into the Republic of Belarus every year, it is worth remembering that there is also a recycling fee in Belarus.

It does not matter which country the vehicle is imported from, those who import it must pay a scrap fee, which will go to the state treasury. In the future, it is used to recycle machines that are no longer in use.

A recycling fee was introduced in 2014. They do not pay it upon import:

• cars that are more than 30 years old and all their main spare parts are original;
• The vehicle is made in Belarus.

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Who doesn't pay the recycling fee?

This type of taxation is mandatory for all individuals and legal entities. An exception is made for:

• citizens with refugee status;
• Consulate employees;
• employees of diplomatic organizations;
• some foreign citizens.

Learn more about recycling fees in the video below.

You pay for disposal once at customs upon entering the country. The fee must be paid together with other customs fees. Payment is confirmed by a receipt issued by the customs officer.

When importing a car, individuals must pay:

• 00 rubles if the car is not older than 3 years;
• 50 rubles if the vehicle is more than 3 years old.

If vehicles are imported as humanitarian or international technical goods. assistance, no fee is paid for them.

If vehicles with electric motors are imported, the cost will be higher: from 851.40 to 5,247.00 rubles. The last digit for vehicles older than 3 years. If the engine capacity exceeds 1 thousand cm 3, the price will also increase:

Please note that the fee increases annually. The calculation can be done using a calculator on the Internet. To decide how much you need to pay, it is enough to know the age of the car and its engine size.

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