NOT SO Duty Free Trueno

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(10-29-2018 03:48 AM)Hama86 Wrote:  This is the import cost only (10%). For classics, you don't pay VAT (19%). Though when I told my importer about this after paying the customs, he said he would gladly give a document with a much lower value for the car. That would have lowered the import fees.

I don't know if it would be possible to send the car again via RORO to NL. The costs may have been similar in the end?

The cost for importing at the docks for me was basically: RORO handling fee (I wasn't allowed to pick it up myself), 6% VAT (over the purchase price + shipping + insurance), customs and harbor fee. The grand total was around 600 euros, where VAT took the majority, and I wasn't able to get the car before paying this. The 6% VAT will be raised to 9% as of the first of January.

Then we have an additional tax once you make the car pass inspection: it's called BPM and is basically "luxury tax" that nowadays is also used to make polluting cars more expensive. If a car is older than 20 years you don't have to pay this tax as the government assumes your car no longer can be considered luxurious.

I assumed that the process in Germany would be similar to ours, and given your explanation it actually is.