…vehicle numbers to be published

THE Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is working along with the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to get persons who have motor vehicle licences but have not renewed them for years, to take appropriate action to ensure compliance with the provisions of the Motor Vehicle and Road Traffic Act, Chapter 51:02.

Commissioner-General Godfrey Statia told reporters Tuesday that there are about “40,000 vehicles that have not taken out their licences.”

“The truth is, some of them have not taken out their licences since 2012,” he said, noting that the authority has placed advertisements in the newspapers calling on persons to contact GRA’s Licence Revenue Office.

“What we have done, we have put a notice in the newspaper and we are going to see how the persons are going to respond. We have given those numbers to the police and then we are going to publish those numbers. We aren’t going to publish names,” Statia said.
In an advertisement placed in the Guyana Chronicle, the revenue authority said that it has observed that there are a number of motor vehicles for which licences have not been renewed for years.

“Motor vehicle owners are therefore given an opportunity to present their motor vehicle registration along with their Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) to the Motor Vehicle section of the Licence and Revenue Division to have their motor vehicle licence information updated and any outstanding payment settled.”

The authority has also advised that if the motor vehicle has been destroyed or rendered permanently unserviceable, owners must inform the GRA and submit the original registration certificate for cancellation.

“We are working along with the police to get those persons to come in and regularise themselves and that failing, we know what the police should be doing,” the GRA head assured.