Expensive amusement is the special identifier: the individual license plate number (3 letters and 3 numbers still free combination) costs 112,450 forints, the unique (4 or 5 letters plus 2 or 1 numbers) for 435 thousand forints. By multiplying the above figures by the prices, it turns out that in 2018, the state received 260.679.100 forints from this state.
It seems like a gift of money, the amount of which I could easily increase with some flexibility. In a specific case, it turned out to us that once released, but - for up to 5-10 years ago - was withdrawn for some reason, or that license plates could not be re-applied. A car driver would have paid 112 thousand forints for that, he couldn't get it. He also wrote to the Ministry of the Interior and received the following answer.
'… The registration number is the identification of the vehicle used to identify the vehicle, even after revocation of the registration plate and its physical destruction. The vehicle register is primarily based on the license plate, which is the basic identification of the registered vehicle. The vehicle register also contains the characters on the license plate if the vehicle no longer has a license plate displaying the identification data because the vehicle has been withdrawn from circulation, the license plate has been withdrawn and destroyed. So the license plate number does not come out of the register as an identification. ”
“Since then I've been fooled. On the one hand, I could get it because it is free, no one uses it, and on the other hand it is a clean waste for the state, ”he commented all the time.