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11. Is the registration tax for 2nd hand cars going to be replaced later this year with a higher road tax ?
No idea, but some members of the forum have heard rumours that will happen in June
http://www.britishexpat.com/expatforum/malta/viewtopic.php?p=52582

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12. How much is road tax ?
http://www.transport.gov.mt/mediacenter/PDFs/1_Annual%20Circulation%20Tax.pdf

apologies if this is dealt with already and I have missed it but...we plan to bring our own car to Malta so as we are hoping to move in Summer '12 we thought we would buy a new/nearly new car NOW and that way we will have it for longer before we have to replace etc. Our current one would be 6 by the time we move and having to keep it for another 3, well it probably would blend in fine but we just thought better to buy a less than 1 yr old one and get as long as we can out of it, I have had a look to see what the registration tax would be if we didn't have it for two years, just playing about with dates etc so I can have an idea. I guess we could live with the damage but I would obviously rather not have to pay it.

1. is it 2 years from when you bought it until the day your present it at ADT or 2 years from the day it came into Malta ie was imported? I read the above and I would say it reads like the day you try and register it there BUT if it was me running the place I would want to see proof of when it entered the country and use that date. Our local dealer has told us if we ordered a new car now we would have to wait until November to get it but another dealer is advertising order now for Sep so I am confused on that one. But the local dealer also wants to charge us more for a nearly new car than we can buy a brand new one down in the other place - same car. Curious. I am just concerned that I would want to come over around July and get settled ready for September new school year and the car won't have been ours for 2 years at that time, but if it was only a few weeks then we could bring it over later OR if we could stick it in the garage if it was the date presented rather than date entered country. Plus somewhere I am sure I read the owners have to enter country BEFORE the car. I am sure this was in relation to PR but is this true of OR? Or is it just balderdash and piffle?
2. can I take it that no further news has come out about changing the registration tax situation? June has been and gone so I am assuming Brussels are still scratching their heads.
It would just be our luck to go and buy a new car and keep it 2 years to avoid the big bill and then realise they changed it and we have to pay as our CO2 emissions are too high or similar. Just watch - that is the way my life is going right now

we have heard recently whilst in Malta that the EU are to clamp down on Malta taxing people when they bring cars in and it could be scrapped in January 2011 has anyone else heard of these rumblings????
it looks like the EU are getting increasingly annoyed with the way Malta likes to take money from people for everything whilst also taking the large amounts of membership money from the central fund !!!
if you want to be in their gang you have to play by their RULES

Hi Chris, and welcome to the forum

The possibility of this was discussed on the forum in the following thread
http://www.britishexpat.com/expatforum/malta/viewtopic.php?t=10137

A tax on a resident importing a car in itself isn't illegal - many EU countries impose a tax under the same conditions - so will be interesting to see what the EU demands of change, and if so, how Malta will make up the tax revenue.....

Hi Everybody, I'm new on this forum and we just moved to Gozo 5 days ago. It is supposed to be an adventure as we've never been here before and we basically just bought a car (in Ireland about 3 month ago) and packed our things and made our way to Gozo. Now because we want to make it our permanent residence we just learned that we have to register our car here which seems to be extremely difficult.

We have a commercial vehicle (big Ford Transit) and I'm hoping that somebody could advise me on the process of registering an imported 7 year old commercial vehicle?

Any advise would be great...

Thanks in advance
Carsten

Hi Carsten - welcome to the forum, and to Gozo

Sorry, don't know the answer to your query, but hopefully someone else will.

Are you coming to the car boot sale on Sunday morning in Victoria (near the bus station) ? If so, please come along to the Gozo SPCA stall and say hi.

Import duties on commercial vehicles seem to be cheaper, but I haven't looked at it in detail.

You can find out more info here with a bit of searching;
http://www.dca.gov.mt/Page.aspx?pageid=572&lid=1

As you have just arrived I would suggest waiting until the New Year to see if (or how) the rules change in January.

out of interest, have you or anyone else heard any more to the January rumour? Is it still rife?

It has only been a rumour for the last six months or so, news usually breaks around new years eve if any relevant changes are made.

Haven't heard anything more definite, but then again I haven't been chatting to anyone 'in-the-know' recently.

The only advice I can give is that if anyone is not in a hurry to re-register their car in Malta and can afford to wait, then wait.
(I.E. Make the most of the 6/7 month limit)

It would be very annoying to pay a big fee now and find out it is abolished/reduced in a month or so.

it will certainly be interesting to see what Jan brings, and how long it takes the ADT website to reflect any change.

dave dee wrote:May i question point 2 regarding i.d. cards, i am as you know living in Malta and have myself posted a year ago that an i.d. card to a.d.t. meant you are a resident, however i now know three British people who have registered their cars tax free despite having held Malta i.d. cards for more than two years and using them as part of their application, the onus is of course on the applicant to prove they resided out of the country for the previous two years.

can anyone confirm this? i think i might have made a big mistake applying for my nation ID before i imported a car. a toyota celica i want to buy in uk that costs 3000 euro is 10k euro here!!

thanks

Edsmith, there is nothing stopping you from buying a car in U/K and bringing it to Malta, if you haven't owned it for two years you will have to pay the reg. tax to A.D.T. that is applicable to the car.

i have a motorbike in Dubai that was registered in Uk i still have documents and have owned for over 3 years

if i was to register and sell it here would i have to pay tax?

thanks