Publish Date: 11 Jan 2022 Finance Today
A while back President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi launched the Automotive Replacement & Renewal Initiative. After which the Ministry of Finance stated that the first phase of the initiative will take 3 years to complete during which they will replace and renew 350,000 vehicles (taxis, privately owned, and microbuses) while the initiative as a whole will take 10 years to complete.
One of the advantages of the presidential initiative is that it offers the car’s price as a loan to the citizen with only a 3% interest rate. The interest payment may even be divided over the installments for ease of payment and is determined according to the car’s brand and model as well as each applicant’s individual financial ability.
The initiative also offers a “Green Incentive” to the applicant which is a 10% deduction on the price of the replacement car (to be paid directly by the government to the car seller) with a maximum ceiling of 22,000 EGP in case of private cars, a 20% deduction with a ceiling of 45,000 EGP for taxis, and a 25% deduction with a maximum ceiling of 65,000 EGP for microbuses. The initiative also offers discounts on car prices, unlike the regular market.
Insurance companies will provide the following benefits:
To register in the initiative to replace obsolete cars that run on natural gas click here.
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