importing car to finland from germany

speedy · Post by **speedy** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:15 pm

i need help i want to import a second hand BMW 318 (1999) from germany but i dont know how much the tax and paper work cost me i tried myself finnish web sites but i couldnt get much of it .. car price in germany is 4000 E any idea s

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Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:32 pm

you can go to http://www.tulli.fi and get the statistics... just have a thumb rule for money for a few grand in tax and other fees you might survive... they give only estimates so you don't know definitely

speedy · Post by **speedy** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:34 pm

thanks iam trying

sinikala · Post by **sinikala** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:26 pm

speedy wrote:thanks iam trying

You aren't as trying as Henrik! Here is the page of what other people have paid.

http://www.tulli.fi/fi/03_Yksityishenki ... /index.jsp

Pick a recent month and try to find a car of similar age and km driven... to get an idea.

Ultimately the tax you pay will depends upon the valuation given by 1 tax official at the harbour who will inspect your car when you bring it into FInland.

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:17 pm

and its the stetson method they use... they pull the price from the hat...

Cod · Post by **Cod** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:45 pm

..that's 322 euro for a 1998 twingo (finland's second least popular stead after the lada but a fine car all the same)

speedy · Post by **speedy** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:55 am

(Ultimately the tax you pay will depends upon the valuation given by 1 tax official at the harbour who will inspect your car when you bring it into FInland)
i know it sounds unfair or cheating but if they valu my car so is it better to remove some parts of car and get it later by post and bring the car to finland as a crashed car which devalue the car ..

sinikala · Post by **sinikala** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:20 am

speedy wrote:(Ultimately the tax you pay will depends upon the valuation given by 1 tax official at the harbour who will inspect your car when you bring it into FInland)
i know it sounds unfair or cheating but if they valu my car so is it better to remove some parts of car and get it later by post and bring the car to finland as a crashed car which devalue the car ..

Silly boy.

Cod · Post by **Cod** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 2:33 pm

sinikala wrote:Silly boy.

lose lips sink ships..

sinikala · Post by **sinikala** » Fri Jan 16, 2009 3:29 pm

cow-heada wrote:
sinikala wrote:Silly boy.
lose lips sink ships..

Indeed

Though I was more thinking about the savings in import tax of whipping out the radio (no radio maybe means €50 less tax) vs the cost of posting the radio from Germany = €20 postage.

All that titting around just to save a maximum of a few 10s of €

... what a knobjockey.

Cloudberry · Post by **Cloudberry** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:41 am

This is crazy, I thought my idea of living in Sweden with my newly purchased cheap car for 6mths to avoid the tax was ridiculous

Laura_in_DE · Post by **Laura_in_DE** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 1:38 pm

I'm in the same situation (moving from Germany to Finland in January 2010) and I'm also apparently an idiot because I'm not sure I understand the homepage correctly.

We have two cars, a 1999 Audi TT and a 2007 VW Golf.

What I understood was:

-- No VAT as both cars are older
-- Car Tax must be paid on both and it will be the value of the car if it were sold in FINLAND (not Germany) minus a maximum of € 13,450. So in my eyes, it'll be a few thousand euro for each car.

Can I assume this is correct?

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Wed Jul 08, 2009 4:22 pm

Well if the two cars are owned by two separate people, then they're removals, which isn't importing. Importing is if you live in Finland and go buy a car in Germany.

speedy · Post by **speedy** » Wed Aug 12, 2009 11:03 pm

you must own the car for 1 and haif year then you can import it for free and you cant sell them until 2 years in finland but each car should be owned by one person ..

sinikala · Post by **sinikala** » Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:11 am

speedy wrote:you must own the car for 1 and haif year then you can import it for free and you cant sell them until 2 years in finland but each car should be owned by one person ..

Two things wrong there. The rules are available here...

http://www.tulli.fi/en/finnish_customs/ ... 008_en.pdf

The car should have been owned for 6 months (section5.3.1)
Cars imported as removals goods can´t be sold for 3 years (section 5.3.5)

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