Central Bangka Regency Government Removes KIR Test Fees In 2024

Head of Disperkimhub Central Bangka Fani Saputra (ANTARA/Ahmadi)

BABEL - Central Bangka Regency Government, Bangka Belitung Islands Province, will remove the cost of vehicle fit tests (KIR) in 2024. "In 2024 there will be no more collection of KIR test fees because it has been included in one of the service policies to the community," said Head of Transportation for the Department of Settlement and Transportation Housing (Disperkimhub) Central Bangka Fernando in Koba, quoted from Antara, Wednesday, July 26. The abolition of the KIR test costs is in accordance with Law Number 1 of 2022 concerning Inter-Government Financial Relations (HKPD) which requires local governments to abolish the cost of KIR testing. "Based on the law, the KIR test will no longer be charged," he said. Fernando said that so far the cost of KIR tests in Central Bangka was able to contribute to PAD worth Rp. 300 million per year. "If it has been deleted, of course we will lose Rp. 300 million to PAD," he said. In 2022, it was recorded that the vehicles that tested KIR reached 1,213 vehicles and until June 2023 they had reached 519 vehicles. "This means that we can get Rp. 300 million each year from the cost of the vehicle's feasibility test," he said.

Fernando also said that the validity period for the KIR test was up to six months with one test being charged a fee of Rp. 150,000 according to the regional regulation in effect in Central Bangka. "So one vehicle can be tested twice for KIR and next year it will be abolished, after the central government removes or eliminates the cost of the KIR test levy," he said.