Paying a fee to exempt rego?

[98tls]

Mate has his bike on exemption,gets the renewal form in the mail to find that from 1st october there going to charge you a fee for doing so:laugh:May well be old news but 1st weve heard of it,cant believe it, a fee to put your rego on hold.

[bogan]

How much is the fee?

[MVnut]

:shit::facepalm::angry::no::2guns::violin::shutup: :sick:

[Paul in NZ]

OK - that really sucks.....

[Murray]

By exemption do you mean "on hold". I thought there was a difference

[neels]

Took a bit of finding, but I was interested, as I have a number of vehicles which are temporarily not being used on public roads ;)

6 Regulation 20 amended (Temporary exemption from continuous licensing requirement)
(1) After regulation 20(3), insert:

“(3A) The application must be accompanied by the prescribed fee.”

“Administration fee for application for exemption
Administration fee for application under regulation 20 for exemption—
(a) if application made over the counter to agent of Registrar authorised to take applications from the public generally or to motor vehicle industry agent of Registrar $4.78
(b) if application made to Registrar $9.04

So not gonna break the bank, I guess they have to pay for the paper and postage for the reminder they send.

[98tls]

Sure its not going to break any bank,never would have and never will so why has it appeared?Have since posting thread discovered that doing it online theres no fee but will make a point of doing in person so i can listen to the bullshit when i ask why.

[98tls]

By exemption do you mean "on hold". I thought there was a difference

No idea but yea meant exempt.

[pete376403]

NZ Post or whoever will be charging a fee to cover their expenses of performing the transaction.
Fuck knows how they worked it out to cost $4.78.

[davereid]

Its typical NZTA crap.

No one actually wants an exemption from licencing.

But if you don't want fees backdated they make you do it. Now they have decided that lots of people have to do it, maybe 4 times a year if they are not sure when they want the vehicle back on the road. So its an easy $45 a year for them from hundreds of thousands of users who have no choice.

Having to pay an admin fee for services is typical NZTA theft.

You pay the rego. Plus admin fee.

You pay the Toll. Plus admin fee.

Imagine going to the supermarket, buying your groceries, and having to pay an extra $10 "checkout fee".

Or in this case, having to pay a $10 admin fee to tell them you don't want their services for 3 months.

[oneofsix]

When your vehicle is genuinely off the road and there is still a few months of the current rego you can't use this just rubs salt in the wound. Yeah i know the money is for different things and that might make an accountant feel better but to the rest of us we have paid for a service we can't use, we can't get credit for it when we declare we can't use it and now they want payment to tell them we can't use it.