Taxi Licence

To carry out the job of a taxi driver, the driver needs to be granted a taxi driver’s licence and a taxi driver’s card. It is not possible to work as a taxi driver without this licence.

The taxi driver’s card is valid for 5 years and is conditioned by a minimum age of 21 years. 

A carrier needs to be granted a licence (concession) for the operation of road motor transport. They must then apply for the registration of a vehicle in the register of taxi vehicles and for the issue of an excerpt from the taxi vehicles’ register including a registration sticker.

What has to be documented

Granting of a taxi driver’s licence

• Completed application form for a taxi driver’s licence
• Valid ID card
• Proof of payment of the administrative fee

Registration of a vehicle in the register of taxi vehicles

• Completed application form for registration of a taxi vehicle
• Vehicle’s Technical Certificate, Part II
• Power of attorney in case of a legal person’s representative
• Taximeter log book
• Proof of payment of the administrative fee

Foreign nationals must attach the following to their application for a taxi driver’s licence:

• An excerpt from their criminal record issued by the competent judicial or administrative authority of the State of their nationality and the State of their last residence, or an excerpt from the Criminal Records Register, in the annex to which this information is contained; no older than 3 months.
• A permit proving their right to reside in the Czech Republic.
• A permit proving their right to work in the Czech Republic (an employee card is not accepted in this case).

Taxi driver’s licences are issued and vehicles are registered in the register of taxi vehicles by the Taxi Unit of the Transportation Department, Kounicova 67a, based on a written application.

Further information

The official language is Czech.

A breach of the obligation to hold a taxi driver’s licence, a taxi driver’s card, and a taxi vehicle’s registration sticker is an offence, which may result in an imposition of an administration penalty.

Address

Odbor dopravy – Referát taxi (Transportation Department – Taxi Unit)
Kounicova 67