MaryPhillips
19 Oct 2008
Law / How to register a foreign Non-EU car in Poland? [25]
Don't ask!!!
I tried last week.
1) You cannot buy car insurance in Poland if your car is registered in a different EU country. (I was told that you CAN buy insurance there if your car is registerred outside the EU!!!)
2) You can only register a foreign car in Poland if you first pay import duty at the Urzad Celny. If the car has an engine over 2L this is 3% of the value of the car.
3) Foreigners are not permitted in law to pay the import duty!
4) The solution - I am told - is to give your car to a Pole and let him pay the import duty. Then he can register the car to himself without any difficulty. Then he can give it back to you, and you can then register it to yourself. This of course means paying the registration fees twice and waiting for all the documents to go through the Warsaw system twice.
5) Additionally you will have to pay the "Recycling" fee so that when your car expires it will not cost the Polish tax payer any money to get rid of it. Of course if you take it out of the country again before your car expires, you won't get the money back.
6) Then you have to go to the Urzad Skarbowy and pay the local sales tax. the amount depends on whether you bought the car in Poland or abroad.
7) In order to actually register the car you have to go to the Urzad Komunikacjne and pay them as well. They send all the documentation to Warsaw and about 4 weeks later you will receive your registration plates and documents.
8) You cannot register your car until it has been given a Przeglad at the local Stacja Kontroli Pojazdow. This equates to the UK MOT, but can be issued after a 5 minute glance at the car even if it has faulty headlights. They are not interested in any technical aspects of the car if it looks fairly new, but it MUST be left hand drive. In my case I was driving a UK registered LHD land Rover. I was told that they would not give me a Przeglad because they could not certify to say that the car had been safely converted from RHD. My protestations that as mechanics they should be able to see for themselves that the car had always been LHD and was not a convertion fell on stoney ground. They are only willing to listen if you have a document. I finally got a Przeglad when I was able to prove that the car had been built LHD by providing them with an officially translated copy of the purchase document showing the order for an LHD car.
9) You will also need to have the registration document and the purchase document translated into Polish by an authorised translator. Each translation costs approximately 80Zl.
Do you still want to do it?????
Mary
How do I register a car in Poland?
Don't ask!!!
I tried last week.
1) You cannot buy car insurance in Poland if your car is registered in a different EU country. (I was told that you CAN buy insurance there if your car is registerred outside the EU!!!)
2) You can only register a foreign car in Poland if you first pay import duty at the Urzad Celny. If the car has an engine over 2L this is 3% of the value of the car.
3) Foreigners are not permitted in law to pay the import duty!
4) The solution - I am told - is to give your car to a Pole and let him pay the import duty. Then he can register the car to himself without any difficulty. Then he can give it back to you, and you can then register it to yourself. This of course means paying the registration fees twice and waiting for all the documents to go through the Warsaw system twice.
5) Additionally you will have to pay the "Recycling" fee so that when your car expires it will not cost the Polish tax payer any money to get rid of it. Of course if you take it out of the country again before your car expires, you won't get the money back.
6) Then you have to go to the Urzad Skarbowy and pay the local sales tax. the amount depends on whether you bought the car in Poland or abroad.
7) In order to actually register the car you have to go to the Urzad Komunikacjne and pay them as well. They send all the documentation to Warsaw and about 4 weeks later you will receive your registration plates and documents.
8) You cannot register your car until it has been given a Przeglad at the local Stacja Kontroli Pojazdow. This equates to the UK MOT, but can be issued after a 5 minute glance at the car even if it has faulty headlights. They are not interested in any technical aspects of the car if it looks fairly new, but it MUST be left hand drive. In my case I was driving a UK registered LHD land Rover. I was told that they would not give me a Przeglad because they could not certify to say that the car had been safely converted from RHD. My protestations that as mechanics they should be able to see for themselves that the car had always been LHD and was not a convertion fell on stoney ground. They are only willing to listen if you have a document. I finally got a Przeglad when I was able to prove that the car had been built LHD by providing them with an officially translated copy of the purchase document showing the order for an LHD car.
9) You will also need to have the registration document and the purchase document translated into Polish by an authorised translator. Each translation costs approximately 80Zl.
Do you still want to do it?????
Mary