Light Vehicle Tax

更新日：2024年10月28日

Individuals who own a light motor vehicle, such as a scooter, motorcycle, or compact car (with yellow number plates) will be subject to the light vehicle tax if they own the vehicle on/before April 1 of that year. Even if you get rid of a light motor vehicle in the middle of a fiscal year, you have to pay one year’s worth of the tax and you will not be refunded. However, if you get a light motor vehicle in the middle of a fiscal year, you will not be taxed for it that fiscal year.

Register your light motor vehicle

  • Motorized bicycle (125 cc or less) and small-sized motor vehicles for specific uses (e.g. tractor, etc.)
Registration details
  Reasons for registration Requirements
Registration
  • Purchase of a new vehicle
  • Transfer of ownership from someone
  • Recent move to the city, etc.
  1. Document showing car ID number (Certificate of car type conformance or certificate of car registration cancellation or paper rubbing taken from the license plate）
  2. ID of the person submitting the registration
Registration Cancellation
  • Scrapping a vehicle
  • Transferring ownership to someone
  • Moving out of the city
  • Having your vehicle stolen, etc.
  1. Number plates
  2. Certificate of car registration
  3. ID of the person submitting the cancelation request

Where to register: Counter No. 21 at the Residence Tax Division (Shiminzei-ka) on the 2F of City Hall

  • Light vehicle (Kei-Jidosha)

Where to register:Tokushima Light Motor Vehicle Association (Tokushima-ken Kei-Jidosha Kyoukai)
TEL: 088-641-2010

  • 2-wheeled vehicle with an engine sized more than 250cc

Where to register:Tokushima Transport Branch Office (Tokushima Unyu-shikyoku),Shikoku District Transport Bureau (Shikoku Unyu-kyoku)
TEL: 050-5540-2074

Light vehicle tax

Motorcycle and other 2-wheeled motor vehicles, etc.
Classification Yearly tax amount
Motorcycle Total displacement or rated output

Under 50c c/0.6 kw

 ￥2,000
Over 50 cc/0.6 kw but 90 cc/0.8 kw or less ￥2,000
Over 90 cc/0.8 kw but 125 cc/1.0 kw or less ￥2,400
Specific small sized motorcycle Electricity: 0.6 kw or less
Size: 1.9 m or less (total length), 0.6 m or less (total width)
Max. speed: 20km/h or less
 ￥2,000

Minicar
(Over 3 wheeled)

 Over 20cc/0.25kw but less than 50cc/0.6kw ￥3,700
2-wheeled light vehicle: over 125 cc but less than 250 cc (including vehicles with a sidecar) ￥3,600
2-wheeled small sized motor vehicle: Over 250 cc ￥6,000
Small-sized motor vehicles for specific uses Agricultural use

￥2,400
Other uses (forklift, etc.) ￥5,900
3-wheeled and 4 or more-wheeled light vehicles
Classification Yearly tax amount
Old tax rate Current tax rate Heavy tax rate
Car received first inspection on or before March 31st., 2015 New car received first inspection on or after April 1st., 2015 Car over 13 years after the first inspection
Light vehicle 3-wheeled (660 cc or less) ￥3,700 ￥3,900 ￥4,600

4-wheeled
(660 cc or less)

 Passenger use Commercial use ￥6,600

￥6,900

 ￥8,200
Personal use ￥8,600 ￥10,800 ￥12,900
Freight use Commercial use ￥3,600 ￥3,800 ￥4,500
Personal use ￥4,800 ￥5,000 ￥6,000
  • A “first inspection” will be conducted on a light vehicle that has never been assigned car registration number when the vehicle will begin to be used by the owner. The date of the inspection is written on the vehicle inspection certificate (shaken-sho).
  • For details, please visit the Tokushima City website.

Special green tax system (smaller tax burden) for fuel efficient vehicles

The special green tax system is a smaller tax burden policy that is applied to new 3-wheeled and 4 or more-wheeled light vehicles with low emissions, fuel efficiency, and decreased environmental impact. These vehicles must also have received their first inspection during the period from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023. This special measure is applied to the light vehicle tax for fiscal year 2023.

3-wheeled and 4 or more-wheeled light vehicles (smaller tax burden)
Classification Yearly tax amount
Standard tax rate Tax reduction rate

(A)75%
reduction

(B)50%
reduction

(C)25%
reduction
Light vehicle 3-wheeled (660 cc or less) ￥3,900 ￥1,000 ￥2,000

￥3,000

4-wheeled
(660 cc or less)

 Passenger use Commercial use ￥6,900 ￥1,800 ￥3,500 ￥5,200
Personal use ￥10,800 ￥2,700 ￥5,400 ￥8,100
Freight use Commercial use ￥3,800 ￥1,000 ￥1,900 ￥2,900

Personal use

 ￥5,000 ￥1,300 ￥2,500 ￥3,800

(A)75% reduction: electric vehicles/natural gas vehicles (10% or more deduction from 2009 emission standard or 2018 emission standard)
(B)50% reduction: vehicles for passenger use with 75% lower emission than 2005 emission standard (★★★★) or 50% lower emission than 2018 emission standard and 2020 fuel efficiency standard + 30%
(B)50% reduction: vehicles for freight use with 75% lower emission than 2005 emission standard (★★★★) or 50% lower emission than 2018 emission standard and 2015 fuel efficiency standard + 35%
(C)25% reduction: vehicles for passenger use with 75% lower emission than 2005 standard (★★★★) or 50% lower emission than 2018 emission standard and 2020 fuel efficiency standard + 10%
(C)25% reduction: vehicles for freight use with 75% lower emission than 2005 standard (★★★★) or 50% lower emission than 2018 emission standard and 2015 fuel efficiency standard + 15%

  • (B), (C) are only applied to the light vehicles using gasoline as fuel for internal-combustion.
  • The status of fuel efficiency standards is indicated in the remarks of the vehicle inspection certificate.

For Inquiries

Residence Tax Division (Shiminzei-ka) TEL: 088-621-5067 FAX: 088-621-5456

総務課

〒770-8571　徳島県徳島市幸町2丁目5番地（本館6階）
電話：088-621-5021
ファクス：088-654-2116