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If you keep your normal residence in your Member State, but you stay in another EU country for less than 6 months, you do not have to register your car or have to pay registration taxes - it will remain registered in your country of residence You can, however, be asked to pay other taxes related to the use of your car in that country road taxes.
If you stay in another EU country for less than 6 months and haven t registered your car there, you can not legally lend or rent your car to a resident of that country, which can only drive your car if you are in the car with him it.
However, you can lend your car to visit friends or family - provided they do not reside in your new country.
If you intend to stay in another country for more than 6 months, you would normally change your residence in this country and you have to register your car without delay.
If you move to another EU country you're planning to stay more than 6 months ahead and take your car with you, you must register and pay fees and taxes in the new country.
You must register your car as soon as possible and in any case no later than 6 months after your arrival You should also check what documents and formalities are required as evidence to register your car.
In some countries, you may qualify for a tax exemption on the registration of your car when you move to another EU country if you meet the requirements and the relevant deadlines Before moving to your new country check the national rules applicable there.
Cristina of Spain has found a job in Portugal and moved it Unaware of the period of one month 6вЂ, she went to register her car after 8 months in Portugal.
She was then informed that if she had registered the car earlier, she wouldn t have had to pay registration fees also in Portugal, the period of one month 6†is counted from the moment you leave your country original, and not from the moment you arrive.
Exceptions to the mandatory registration after 6 months.
If you stay in another country and your only reason to stay there is to study, you can drive your car without having to register or pay taxes there - as long as you are enrolled in an institution of education in this country, but if as a student, you start working during your stay there, you must register your car there.
Before leaving your home country, you should check the rules applicable in the country where you intend to study if you need to fill out all the paperwork, for example, in some countries, you must obtain a certificate registration of the academic school so you must have with you when you drive or meet specific conditions to avoid problems during police checks.
Special rules apply in Denmark, where as an EU student, you must register your car unless you live there at least 365 days over a period of 2 years In this case, you can request permission to the Danish authorities drive your car that is registered in another EU country.
Mathieu is French and living in Belgium, where he did a postgraduate year during 2†car Mathieu was damaged, so he went to the police to get a report for his insurance when police discovered that Mathieu had lived in Belgium since plus one year without registering it his car, they told him that his situation was irregular and would be fined.
Mathieu could prove he was registered at the University of Antwerp, and therefore, as a student in another EU country, it didn t pay car tax or road in Belgium.
You are an employee or self-employed frontier worker if you work on one side of a national border, but live on the other, and back home at least once a week.
If you use your own car to travel regularly in the country you live in the country where you are working, you must register and pay the taxes applicable in the country where you live - but not in the country where you work.
If you drive a company car registered in the country where you work, you can also use it in the country you live without it register Check the various conditions applicable to the use of company cars in the EU .
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