take a car bought in the UK back to finland

ninkku · Post by **ninkku** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 3:51 pm

Hi there,
this is my first attempt at this site..
I am moving back to Finland in February -06 after a total of 14 years abroad in various places...
I live in Edinburgh now. Can I buy a car here and drive it/send it to Finland without having to pay finnish taxes?? I have worked in the uk for 8 years and obviously paid taxes here.

Cheers!

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sinikala · Post by **sinikala** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:03 pm

ninkku wrote:Hi there,
this is my first attempt at this site..
I am moving back to Finland in February -06 after a total of 14 years abroad in various places...
I live in Edinburgh now. Can I buy a car here and drive it/send it to Finland without having to pay finnish taxes?? I have worked in the uk for 8 years and obviously paid taxes here.

Cheers!

In short... No.

If you are moving back at the start of February 2006, for using the car as a removals vehicle, you should have bought the car before the start of August 2005.

You have to have used the car for six months before you import it to Finland, and have been living outside of finland for the 12 months before you import it.

And I think there may be some rule about the car being a minimum of 8 months old.

I had problems with importing my car, I replaced my previous car only three months before I moved here. Initially Tulli wanted 65k FIM on a car which had only cost me £6k. (At that time 65000 FIM was about £7k).

I told them to whistle, and shipped it back to the UK. Seven grand my arse. Eventually I ended up paying €3.5k several years later.

Hank W. · Post by **Hank W.** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:23 am

Apart from which the re-sale value of a car with the steering wheel in the passenger-side is zilch, so you'd need to find an euro-steerer in the UK...

no tax = no happen

sinikala · Post by **sinikala** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:44 am

Hank W. wrote:Apart from which the re-sale value of a car with the steering wheel in the passenger-side is zilch, so you'd need to find an euro-steerer in the UK...

When I finally get rid of mine, I hope to get rid of it to a Pizza delivery guy... it would save them lots of time

Cod · Post by **Cod** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:10 pm

btw..

just for the record...we're still running on Finnish export plates on a new Finnish car here in UK and havn't had any problems....UK Customs took our tax money - no questions asked...and we hit the '6 months out of Finland' mark in Feb..

...the parking was an issue, Hackney Council want a bribe to let us have a parking permit for longer than 6 months...(how else did the Latvian next door get his for a year on Latvian plates!)..

Cod · Post by **Cod** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:13 pm

.but watch out parking tickets..

..London's policy is to do a £220 tow away job on foreign plated cars rather than issue a ticket...they'll swim the Thames if they reckon they'll get to your car first...

Hank W. · Post by **Hank W.** » Sun Jan 08, 2006 5:06 pm

clamping £75, towing £220... ok, you can *have* my car...

travelling without a ticket -£50, misuse of emergency chain, £200 ... misuse of emergency door open £500 ?! (running off a train avoiding ticket inspectors, eh)

Just back from parts thereof...

Cod · Post by **Cod** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 2:46 pm

..and £500 for not poop scooping your doggy doo...

..I'm lost on this one, its not a classified toxin, its just smelly and sticky but at least its at foot level....yet there is still not fine for not wearing deodorant while holding on to overhead supports on the tube...

peteh · Post by **peteh** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:52 pm

When I finally get rid of mine, I hope to get rid of it to a Pizza delivery guy... it would save them lots of time

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If you drive around in the countryside you can see the post and delivery guys using right handers. It sure does save a lot of time.

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