About MultaGuide
This site exists because the Philippine traffic fine schedule is widely quoted and almost never sourced. Every number here traces to a named instrument, and where that instrument could not be read the page says which page of which scan defeated us.
The method
Where every figure on this site came from
Two kinds of place, and each row on the site says which of the two it was.
Read from a machine-readable text of the Republic Act named beside it. Those texts came from a private consolidator, because every government origin this project tried returns a security challenge that could not be cleared in any channel — live or archived.
Transcribed by eye from a page image of the 2014 joint order, at the page number cited. The machine text of those scans is wrong on the amount column and blind on at least one page, so it was never used — a human eye is the only instrument between that page and this figure.
No primary text was obtainable. A non-primary source is named, and no figure is printed from it. One page on this site is secondary-sourced throughout and carries this chip in its own lead.
What has not happened
Nobody has signed any of this off
That is stated on every page of this site, and it is worth stating precisely here.
Precisely
What 'research status' means and does not mean
It means a human read a source and transcribed a figure from it, and recorded which source and which page. It does not mean a second person has checked that transcription, and it does not mean anyone has confirmed the instrument is still the operative one.
It also does not mean the figures are estimates or samples. They are transcriptions of named instruments, and the citation beside each one is there so you can repeat the reading rather than trust it.
What this market does not have
The findings this site exists to publish
These are the things readers are told exist and this market does not have — or has in a form nobody outside it could obtain.
No speeding fine that scales with how fast you were going
Nothing in the Philippine instruments this site could obtain prices speeding by how far over the limit you were. The Land Transportation and Traffic Code sets a single flat ceiling, written in 1964 and never adjusted, which applies to a speed-limit violation alongside four other sections in the same sentence — and it scales with nothing at all. No per-kilometre or per-band construction appears anywhere in that Act. The excess ladder that prices speeding in Germany, the Netherlands or Britain simply does not exist here at national level.
The order's own closed list of 51 violations does not include speeding
The 2014 national schedule ends its licensing section with a flat catch-all and then enumerates what that catch-all covers — a closed list of fifty-one traffic violations, drafted broadly enough to reach “increasing speed when being overtaken” and “disregarding traffic signs”. Overspeeding is not among them, and no other limb of the schedule prices it. A closed list that omits an item is evidence about that item, not silence about it, which is why this appears here as a finding rather than as a gap.
The national schedule states no amount at all for drink or drug driving
The national schedule's drink and drug driving item opens with the words “In addition to the fines and penalties prescribed by law:” and then lists licence consequences only. It states no peso amount whatsoever. The money is entirely in the Act the item cites, and that Act gives a court a floor and a ceiling rather than a fixed figure. This site shows the Act's ranges and shows no amount for the schedule, because the schedule has none — a zero in that place would tell you drink driving is free.
Smoke belching's fourth and succeeding offences carry no fine figure
The smoke-belching ladder prices a first, second and third offence, and then its fourth line reads only “Succeeding Offense — suspension of MV Registration for one (1) year”. No amount is stated for that rung anywhere. It is genuinely absent rather than unreadable, which makes it different from the helmet ladder's fourth rung, and it means the third rung's figure must never be carried forward as though it continued.
Franchise fraud is revocation only — no monetary fine
One row in the franchise section behaves unlike every other row in it. Presenting a fake or spurious franchise, receipt, registration, plate, sticker or tag states only revocation or cancellation of the franchise, after due notice and hearing — no monetary fine appears in that row at all, where every neighbouring row is a fine plus a consequence.
No surcharge for paying late — the consequence is a suspension
Failing to settle inside the stated window has exactly one consequence in this instrument: an automatic licence suspension, counted from the day of apprehension. There is no larger fine, no surcharge and no escalating fee anywhere in that clause. Several other countries ladder the amount upward on delay. This one does not, and this site will not add one.
No demerit-point system anywhere in this corpus
A demerit-point system is widely reported to exist under the implementing rules of a 2019 licensing law. This site read that Act in full: it carries no point or demerit mechanics of any kind, and is instead a statute about how long a licence lasts and about fraud in applying for one. The implementing rules themselves could not be obtained, and the secondary sources that describe the point system disagree with each other about its thresholds. No point value appears anywhere on this site.
No Metro Manila peso figure — unmeasured, not absent
The capital's own authority holds a charter power to fix, impose and collect traffic fines for the cities and municipalities inside Metro Manila, and seventeen local governments legislate for themselves besides. Not one primary peso figure from the authority's own resolution or from any of those ordinances was obtainable in this pass. That makes the Metro Manila figures unmeasured, which is a different thing from absent — the law states amounts; this site does not hold them, and prints none.
The overloading fine cannot produce a peso figure
Overloading is priced as a percentage of a vehicle charge that is set outside this schedule. The percentage is stated plainly; the charge itself is a rate this site could not obtain, so there is no base to apply the percentage to. The schedule then adds “to be computed based on formula”, and the formula is not written anywhere in the schedule either. This site therefore shows the percentage, names the missing input, and shows no peso figure.
The helmet ladder's fourth rung is illegible in the order's own copy
The line stating the helmet fine for a fourth and succeeding offence cannot be read in the only obtainable copy of the schedule: a certification stamp and a records-section stamp are printed physically over the figure. This is not a scanning or software failure — the ink is on top of the number. The figure this site shows for that rung comes instead from the statute the schedule's own heading names, whose first three rungs reproduce the schedule exactly, and the row says which instrument it came from.
On the points question specifically, what this site holds is: a demerit-point system is reported to exist under the Implementing Rules and Regulations of RA 10930 (2019) — the IRR, never the Act — and that report could not be checked against the rules it names.
Stamps
What the date at the bottom of every page means
The figures on this site were last read against their sources on 7 August 2026. That is a reading date, not a review and not an approval. If an instrument changed after it, nothing here would know.