Car for non-resident
Oct 23rd 2014, 9:09 pm
#31
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Re: Car for non-resident
Hah hah!
That new word of yours could catch on - I was just watching the Sewing Bee on BBC2 and for me it could describe the male judge!
That new word of yours could catch on - I was just watching the Sewing Bee on BBC2 and for me it could describe the male judge!
Oct 24th 2014, 9:47 am
#32
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Re: Car for non-resident
But registering a car in the country where it is used is mostly about taxation, contributing towards the cost of maintaining that country's roads. Each country has its own fiscal policy for taxing motorists - some collect more tolls, some put more tax on fuel, so I can't see there ever being a central European pot for that. So even if there was a centralised database, I don't think that governments would regard retaining their system of levying tax as 'a nonsense'. And a number plate, issued along with your vehicle registration document, is basically evidence that you're the legal owner, you've paid your registration taxes in that country and you're entitled to keep your car there. If you get rid of national registration certificates and registration plates, how would countries protect their patch? You'd require a massively sophisticated system with police computers and numberplate recognition cameras in every EU country all linked in to one humungous EU-wide registration database to identify cars that were spending all their time in a country other than the one where they'd paid their dues. I think that's some way off yet.
Ownership - well in the UK there is no such thing as an ownership document for a car, which is a bit odd. I dont know what the legal position is elsewhere.
I agree about car tax and registration etc, but I suspect Free Movement will trump that.
Oct 24th 2014, 9:50 am
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Oct 24th 2014, 11:01 am
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Re: Car for non-resident
Free movement is a lovely idea but how can you move seamlessly from one set of fiscality to another. It would only work if every EU country had the same tax laws and the same administrative systems, and that would be appalling, because then the differences between countries and their different cultures would be eroded even faster.
Oct 24th 2014, 1:26 pm
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Re: Car for non-resident
Hi, yes you can I have just done this, took 6 months but thankfully the french insurance company were very understanding about waiting for french plates and carte grise.
