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Post by fidobsa on Oct 14, 2016 19:00:07 GMT 1
I know there is already a thread about importing a car from Croatia to another country but my question concerns doing the opposite, bringing a vehicle from another country and registering it in Croatia. Have any of the expats here done this, eg bring a car from UK and register it in Croatia? Do you need to first have residency status? I have an LDV Convoy 3.5 tonne van which I want to use to move my furniture etc from Hungary to Croatia. The UK MoT expired a few years ago so there is no cost effective way to get it road legal as a UK vehicle so it needs to be re-registered. I have been trying to get it registered on Hungarian plates as I am officially a resident of Hungary. I've been getting nowhere fast with that process, mainly due to the language barrier so I wondered if it would be an option to register it in Croatia?
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Post by Ribaric on Oct 14, 2016 21:21:26 GMT 1
I imported my Dutch Xtrail about 3 years ago. You have to have a national ID number (OIB) which means you are registered resident (temp or permanent) before you can register yourself as car owner. The import duty is now known by another name (SOP to the EU) is payable at the valuation made by the customs office. There's a type approval test, tech inspection, loads of paper..... Forget it.
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Post by fidobsa on Oct 15, 2016 6:28:38 GMT 1
Thanks, I do have an OIB. In Hungary the tax equivalent to import duty does not apply to commercial vehicles, could it be the same in Croatia? The rest sounds much the same. In Hungary the total cost works out at about £200 + any interpreter fees. In Croatia I would probably have the added cost of a towtruck to bring it into the country, as I don't suppose there is any way to get temporary insurance for the given set of circumstances.
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Post by totalcroatia on Oct 17, 2016 17:13:56 GMT 1
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Post by Ribaric on Oct 17, 2016 20:53:06 GMT 1
Excellent. My experience was the same albeit it took me 2 days. |
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Post by fidobsa on Oct 23, 2016 17:06:55 GMT 1
That is a huge amount of money and if it is going to cost that much to register my van I will have to revert to plan A and register it in Hungary.
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Post by fidobsa on Oct 27, 2016 17:22:45 GMT 1
Officially I still live in Hungary and the house in Croatia is a holiday home.
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