GRA commences vehicle registration in “YY” series

One year after “XX”

In just over one year, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has managed to register 9999 vehicles in the “XX” series and has moved to the next alphabetically due letter, “Y”.
In a notice published in Guyana Times on Tuesday, the tax agency explained that registration of vehicles in the “YY” series commenced on August 8, 2019, following the end of the “XX” series on the said date.
GRA informed that the “X” series began on June 11, 2018.
The issuance of this new series means the revenue authority is now one step closer towards moving to its “customisable plates”.
Back in March, a reliable source at GRA told this publication that at the conclusion of the “ZZ” series, vehicle owners will be given the opportunity to design their own registration plates.
It was explained that persons will be given letters to choose from, while the option of having a name, accompanied by a number, on the registration plates will be accessible “at a small cost”.
“It will have specific numbers and letters that you can put … everything is not quite clear as yet because it’s still going through the process through management,” the source revealed.
In the case of the vehicle being transferred and the registration plates bear the original owner’s name, the new owner will also have the option of changing the name on the plates, according to the source.
In the meantime, the officials are working on how privately-owned vehicles can be differentiated from vehicles up for hire.
Registration plates in the United States have already been upgraded to the system GRA is seeking to implement here.
Many states there distinguish their licence plates through distinctive colour schemes and logos, which persist over time.