Buying and registering a car from Germany in Poland

My wife has german passport and we bought a car in germany what will it take to bring it to Poland and registered and insured it ?

Drive across the border?

You should register and insure it in Poland once your German insurance runs out. I don't know how expensive insurance is in Germany, but it will probably be cheaper in Poland.

Actually, you should check if your insurance is valid outside of Germany or if you have to pay extra or tell your insurer that you're taking your car abroad. You don't want to have an accident in Poland and find out that your insure won't cover you. Tell your German insurer, and register and insure the car in Poland if you need to.

Alan1, I assume you and your spouse are going to settle in Poland, in this case you want to naturalize your car(s) too.

It is relatively easy within EU, and if all is done right, you don't have to pay any taxes, but you do have to pay some fees.

Tax you save is 3.5% of car value for <2L engine and 18.x% for >2L engine.
However you cannot sell the car for 1 year (?) when here.
There may be some limitations, e.g. car cannot be brand new.

There are companies who can help you here in Poland, my weekly commute to gf's parents' passes one, so they gotta be rather common.

If you are going to do all the paperwork yourself, it's 3 offices (customs, tax, communications) and possibly some document translation.

In an ideal case the documents you need to drive and sell the car in Germany should be all you need to register your car in Poland, thanks EU.

I believe there is certain time limit within which you have to start the procedure, 1 mo? 3 mo? or something like that.

I'll post more if I find the right links.

Thanks for the answers guys you r great

Merged: Buying a car in Germany and registering it in Poland

Hi everyone!

I'm new here in the website and I'm searching for info of how to register in Poland a car bought in Germany.
I intend to go there soon and buy a 10 year and 1.6 engine car.
Can anyone help by telling me what would be the costs of registration here and what I would need to do put the car here in perfect order.

Also, I heard that there company's that make this kind of business and take of everything but I havent found any...Does anyone know such a company?

Thanks to all in advance and sorry if somone has already ask such a question...But I have been searching and havent found the answer that I need :)

André

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

sorry it's because of all the Jimmy Savile jokes that have been flying around......

Regarding buying the car you will have German plates and you have to go to the correct registration office in Poland Urzad Celny, pay money, 7% or so of the value of the car. Therefore is for example you pay 1000 Euro and pay 7% off that to the Urzad Celny. Now if for example the seller were to write a receipt for X whilst the true cost was higher at Y you would pay less registration fee. Obviously this is illegal, as obvious it would me exchanging money off the books and writing a false receipt, which means criminal collusion as it would benefit both parties for tax and import reasons, so very naughty. ;)