Civil servants have to pay out of their own pockets for using private cars for public use. The Executive Yuan responded.

Civil servants at the grassroots level perform various types of surveys, visits, inspections, or patrol in mountainous areas, or go to remote areas for official duties, but they must provide their own transportation to supplement the costs. The Accounting and Accounting Office of the Executive Yuan said that it has started to study and revise the "Key Points for Reimbursement of Domestic Travel Expenses" to coordinate with the rolling review of factors such as increases in public transportation rates, recent fuel prices, and vehicle fuel consumption. As for tolls and parking fees, it is also planned to be reimbursed and reimbursed in real terms.

The National Association of Civil Servants stated that those who need to take public transportation, including airplanes, high-speed rails, trains, etc., during their business trips must verify and reimburse, and the same applies to taxi fares. However, those who drive self-used cars and motorcycles, self-rented or shared cars and motorcycles can only verify and reimburse at 3 yuan per kilometer and 2 yuan per kilometer for motorcycles based on the necessary mileage, and are not allowed to separately reimburse for fuel, tolls, parking and other expenses.

The Civil Servants Association emphasized that outside urban areas with relatively convenient transportation networks, grassroots colleagues who perform various types of surveys, visits, inspections, inspections in mountainous areas or go to remote areas for official duties often face the situation of scarce public transportation and insufficient official vehicles. In order to achieve timeliness and smooth execution of tasks, "private vehicles for public use" are actually a last resort due to business needs.

However, the Civil Service Association said that the current calculation basis is only equivalent to the basic fuel consumption expenditure, and does not cover necessary costs such as vehicle wear and tear, tolls and parking fees. Moreover, the cost of parking for grassroots civil servants on a business trip for a day can easily reach hundreds of yuan, creating an unreasonable phenomenon of "civil servants providing their own transportation to perform official duties, but having to supplement the costs themselves", which undermines the willingness and morale of colleagues to perform official duties.

The Civil Service Association pointed out that according to the "Domestic Driving Cost Survey and Analysis" published by the Transportation Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport in 2011, the non-fuel cost of passenger cars (only including ancillary fuel, tire wear, regular maintenance and vehicle depreciation, etc.) per vehicle per kilometer It reaches 3.8 yuan, and 1.5 yuan for motorcycles; and the survey is based on the price level from 108 to 109, taking into account the cumulative increase in the people's price index in recent years, the actual non-fuel costs of passenger cars and motorcycles have actually exceeded 4.4 yuan and 1.8 yuan per kilometer.

In this regard, the General Accounting Office of the Executive Yuan stated that in order to implement energy conservation and carbon reduction and based on safety considerations, it is a principle to take public transportation or use official vehicles for business trips. The introduction of self-driving is based on the convenience of business travelers, but it is inconsistent with energy conservation and carbon reduction and safety issues. Moreover, using private vehicles for official business, the risk responsibilities are not easy to clarify, and the principle is not encouraged. As for self-driving transportation expenses for business trips, they should be balanced with the rates of public transportation. Subsequently, they will be reviewed on a rolling basis based on factors such as increases in public transportation rates, recent fuel prices, and vehicle fuel consumption.