Malaysians with Singapore driving licences will soon be able to apply for the Budi Madani RON 95 (Budi95) programme in order to have access to subsidised RON 95 petrol. According to the road transport department (JPJ), applications are to be submitted to a special website (www.BUDI95lesenSG.jpj.gov.my) that will go live on October 16, 2025.
The department pointed out in its release that approval of applications is under the jurisdiction of the ministry of finance. Approvals will be based on a few criteria, including verifying that the applicant is a Malaysian citizen and that the Singapore driving licence held is still valid, as well as the work permit status in Singapore.
Applicants can check on whether they qualify for Budi95 14 days after they’ve submitted through the official Budi95 website: www.budi95.gov.my.
For Malaysians with a Singapore driving licence but no longer work in Singapore, or are no longer subject to certain Singaporean laws requiring a local driving licence there, they can reapply for a Malaysian driving licence after cancelling their Singaporean one.
Under existing laws, you can only hold either a Malaysian or Singaporean driving licence, not both. As it has been for a while now, subsidised RON 95 petrol is only for Malaysian-registered vehicles.
The department says this initiative is based on feedback from Malaysians working in Singapore, particularly those involved in the service industry such as bus drivers, support services and operations.
In order to work in Singapore, some of these individuals are required to give up their Malaysian driving licence and obtain a Singaporean one. However, they remain Malaysian citizens and could still stay in Malaysia and own a Malaysian-registered car, so they can apply for Budi95.
malaysians earning SGD can get subsidy meh?
why not ? arent they malaysians also? arent reason to deny basic rights to malaysians who earn foreign currency?
T20 not Malaysian? Who pay the tax to subsidized the petrol? SG workers no pay tax here
Because they don’t pay any taxes here!
Why not. Those Malaysians working abroad, like banglas in Malaysia, are big contributors to Malaysia economy. They changed foreign money for ringgit to send it home to Malaysia thus boosting Malaysian economy. When Malaysians with Malaysian IC works abroad, they don’t work abroad for RM2k below. Their salary often is between RM15k to 200k.
the point is that high earning malaysian dont need subsidy. subsidy should generally be reserved for low earners.
Thats T20 level income. Then why T20 here pay so much taxes yet kena restrictions on subsidy?
Not sure if stupid or naive, they don’t pay Malaysian income tax so how are they qualified for subsidies based on principle?
If you say they repatriate their money and spend “locally”, then should we subsidize tourists as they also take their foreign income and spend here?
talk about stupid or naive, foreign expat workers pay income tax to LHDN and also hold driving license from jpj, so should they be entitled to subsidies using your logic?
Since they have given up Malaysia driving license, they should not entitle the subsidiary. They pay their income tax to Singapore, not Malaysia!
as long as they still hold malaysian NRIC and able to recite rukunegara and got A in SPM bahasa paper and can sing negarakuku – should still be entitled.
so according to your logic, hundreds of thousands of expats residing in malaysia and paying tax to lhdn, and who took driving test here and hold valid JPJ driving license, should also be entitled ?
no la stupiak. Subsidy is FOR MALAYSIAN. rule of thumb is kau bukan rakyat Malaysia, pergi lah bayar full price.
deii bobo can you make up your mind, either
1. if subisdy is for malaysian only , then malaysian who work in singapore and have singkie driving license will be entitled
or
2. if subsidy is for LHDN taxpayer, then expat foreign workers in malaysia will be entitled.
but but expats work in malaysia pay tax to lhdn so its not fair to deny expats subsidy. on the hand malaysians work in SG pay tax to singapore hold singkie driving license already half-abandon malaysia , so why do they still deserve subsidy?
No need la. You’re wasting my tax money creating systems to cater to this group. Stop wasting my money on this, SG license holders no need subsidies
see i already told long ago that this is a repeating topic that will keep coming up because it impacts a lot of people, its not isolated case.
some or most of us graduate or work in other countries for some time and we got the license there but now we already moved back, work here and paying tax. So we should be entitle. the rest of the ppl just shut up and enjoy ur subsidy. if we dont bring the money back u think ur b40 tax can continue pay the subsidy?
buy SG Car, got SG license, dont pay Malaysian tax – whats the justification of granting them with the subsidy? why SG got the privilage and not Malaysian at Thailand and Brunei?
so according to your logic, foreign expat work in malaysia ,pay tax to lhdn, buy local car, take jpj driving license. so should they be entitled to subsidy?
sinkies wannabe should never be entitled to any benefits us tax payers are enjoying, especially healthcare benefits