In six years, from September 2016 to September 2022, Cambodia’s Ministry of Public Works and Transport managed to sell 225,171 special and personalized car registration number plates earning $82,418,125.
While disclosing this recently, Koy Sodany, Secretary of State of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Commission for the Management of Sales of Vehicle Registration Numbers, said the ministry has been promoting the sale of special registration numbers more effectively for the last several years in a bid to collect additional revenue.
The initiatives taken from 2020-2023 helped to disseminate the information more widely to companies, enterprises as well as the general public, the Secretary of State said.
The special number are divided into two categories – capital-provincial special numbers and personal special numbers with the letter “Cambodia”.
Customized licence plates are designed for family cars with the letter ‘Cambodia’ at the top and a combination of Latin numbers or 1 to 8 digits in the middle and a QR Code on the right.
This special licence plate can be kept even if the car is sold and transferred to another party. In 2021, the ministry earned over $17 million through the sale of such number plates.
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