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[GG]

as a minimum you will need:-

6 months proof of residency in EU
6 Months proof of ownership of the vehicle such as insurance
6 months proof of working in EU (or 6 months EU bank statements)
EU type approval certificate or number for the vehicle

What classifies as proof of residency?

And as for working in EU, what if you are retired?

My father is retired and would like to take his car over to Cyprus, he has a place there but is a UK taxpayer and wants to come and go as he pleases. Can he take his car tax free?

[mountainman]

P.S. don't forget your family tree and DNA profile

[stuballstu]

GG and G-man

This is a link to the EU website which deals which such things. My understanding is that if the car is more than 6 months old or more than 6000km then it may be brought from one member state to another with no taxes due

Have a look at this site if you have a spare couple of hours.

http://europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l31038.htm

[blondophile]

GG and G-man

This is a link to the EU website which deals which such things. My understanding is that if the car is more than 6 months old or more than 6000km then it may be brought from one member state to another with no taxes due

Have a look at this site if you have a spare couple of hours.

http://europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l31038.htm

Hello

I know very well this !! I m french, i bought a BMW in Munich (Germany) last march, more than 6000km, 6 month. I ve registred this car in France.

And since september this car is in cyprus !!

The 6 month/ 6000km work very well for the tax in Europe.

But the problem is its not a Tax its a duty !!!!! that have nothing to do with Europe !! just with cyprus !

If you come from a european country as Gman explained before, no problem just look the price of the register and the road tax.

Insurance is very cheap !!! if you are not less than 25 and the car is not left hand drive ...

[blondophile]

I made the mistake of bringing my kit car...

10 months later I am still awaiting approval for a registration number...

I paid the duty, thankfully only £600 as its a 1200 cc (kawasaki zx12r motorcycle enine with 200bhp )

They said you will need an MOT and SVA test, which I did, and now they bitch over the copy Type Approval cert from the uk...

I have a valid registration doc from UK and they just make things as hard as they can possibly be...

Damn pencil pushing idiots...

At least I still have it on UK plates, duty paid, UK road taxed and insured at the border for £90 per year...

So its them that are losing out on a registration fee and road tax

In Larnaca, on Timaya i saw a kit car on sale in a garage

[Bill]

Everytime I pass I think of going in and asking how much it is but I know that if I do I'll be more than tempted .

It's yellow -- beautiful -- and I'd love to buy it .

Don't think my partner would agree though as we are in the process of buying a house

Bill

[G.Man]

I paid the duty on mine as it ONLY has a 1197cc Kawsaki ZX12r engine

still 200bhp and 500kg's tho

However, you can get around the duty, if you can prove all of the above to the Excise office..

They want documents, originals AND copies for them to keep, they wont even use their photocopier

Good Luck

[nhowarth]

This week, the ‘Cyprus Weekly’ printed an article about proposed changes to the tax regime concerning cars. I’ve included it below for your information.

Tax Changes Could Mean Cheaper Cars

Lower taxes on car purchases may be introduced soon, with press reports stating a new law on the matter could be taken to the House of Representatives as early as next week.

While officials at the Finance Ministry have remained tight- lipped about the matter, Cyprus must reduce taxes on new cars as part of its EU obligations.

According to press reports in Phileleftheros newspaper this week, which the government has not confirmed or denied, the taxes could be lowed by as much as 20- 30%.

The new law will, according to the same reports, reduce the number of categories from the current six to three, benefiting small, medium-sized and large cars.

Fall

For example, the first category will cover cars up to 1600cc instead of the previous 1400cc. As things stand today, cars up to 1400cc are taxed 50 cents per cc and cars up to 1,600cc by 85 cents per cc. By merging the two categories, 1600cc cars will become approximately £600 cheaper. In the same way, taxes on a 2700cc car could potentially fall from £21,600 to £12,500.

On used cars, a 10% per year reduction is expected but there will be safeguards in place to discourage the importation of very old cars. Taxation will also be connected to the amount of pollution a car emits.

Finance Ministry officials were expected to discuss a proposal for the new law yesterday with a view of taking it to the Council of Ministers and House of Representatives in the coming week.

Lower

The government is reported to be confident that any losses resulting from the lower taxes will be made up by new purchases.

In September Finance Minister Michalis Sarris announced that a new law on car taxation would be presented to the House this month.

Without going into detail during his statements to the press, Sarris said that the new law would include lower taxation in relation to a car's age “without encouraging the use of old cars or causing distortion in relation to new cars.”

Speaking after a Cabinet meeting Sarris said that the state had “already begun to adopt practices to bring Cypriot law in line with what the EU says.”

He continued: “It’s a somewhat complicated matter so we are taking a spherical approach to maintain the right relations, encourage petrol conservation and protecting the environment.”

In April, the European Commission announced that it had decided to send Cyprus a formal request for information concerning the taxation rules applied on the registration of used cars brought into Cyprus from other EU Member States. The rules are applied in a way that may breach the EC Treaty provisions on equal treatment of domestic products and those of other Member States.

Formal

According to the Commission, the request was made in the form of a “letter of formal notice;” the first stage of the infringement procedure laid down in the EC Treaty. Cyprus is requested to reply within two months. If the Commission does not receive satisfactory response, it may proceed with the second stage of the said procedure and ultimately bring the case before the Court of Justice.

The ECJ has consistently held that a member state is not prohibited from levying a vehicle tax such as one on the first registration of a vehicle in that member state but provided that the tax is in conformity with Article 90 of the EC Treaty. This means that a member state must not impose any internal tax, directly or indirectly, on the products of other member states of a kind in excess of that imposed directly or indirectly on similar domestic products.

The ECJ has declared that Article 90 requires a member state to take an imported second-hand vehicle's actual depreciation into account when calculating registration tax.

Otherwise, the tax imposed would exceed the residual tax incorporated in the value of similar used vehicles already registered in the national territory.

Under Cypriot law, a tax is due on the first registration of a vehicle in Cyprus. In practice, it concerns all new vehicles and used vehicles, the latter almost exclusively coming from outside Cyprus. The registration tax has not to be paid for second-hand cars already registered in Cyprus. The amount of the tax varies according to the CO2 emissions and the age of vehicles.

Regards,

[tuggy]

i am takin my car over for a time of 5 months will i have the same problems or is it a bit more straight forward, it is a bmw 316 sallon, and is only a 1992 on a L plate .

[GG]

This week, the ‘Cyprus Weekly’ printed an article about proposed changes to the tax regime concerning cars. I’ve included it below for your information.

Tax Changes Could Mean Cheaper Cars

Where can I find out more about this and updates?