Taxi drivers in Vietnam will likely be required to give passengers receipts printed out from machines installed in their cars on July 1, 2016 if a decree on the transport business currently under debate is ratified by the National Assembly, a Ministry of Transport official said at a meeting last month.

Khuat Viet Hung, a department head of the transport ministry, announced at the meeting to discuss revisions to the draft of that decree in Hanoi on March 21 that cabbies will have to have receipt printers connected to meters in their cars on the above date once the assembly has passed the proposed legislation.

Journey monitoring systems will also have to be installed in their vehicles on the same date, Hung said, adding that taxi drivers will have to print out receipts for their passengers whenever they charge them then.

Now cabbies often write down receipts that only contain such information as drivers’ first names and the fare.

Receipt printers will include cabbies’ names, plate numbers, journey time, and numbers of kilometers in the receipts, according to transport firms.

Most taxi passengers usually pay cash and do not get receipts so arguments tend to break out between them and their cabbies when taxi fare fraud occurs.

Sometimes passengers find it hard to get back the belongings they leave inside a cab since they are unable to remember the cab’s plate number.

So the newly announced measures are seen as an effort by authorities to prevent and control rampant taxi scams that have plagued big cities like Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

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