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    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:34pm
Originally posted by jeremyrh

Tom - isn't it a similar question to tax domicile? i.e., you have to have one "base" country? How that gets figured out is beyond my comprehension ... :-(

I have no idea, but that would make the most sense.  Keep the car with the tax domicile.  It would still be interesting to hear Told & Skat's viewpoint on that.
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You may have and drive your foreign car for 3 months. Then you either have registrer the car in Denmark (expensive) or take it out of the country. Please note that SKAT is very much aware of foreign registrered cars in the country. Mainly because a lot of danes has bought and registrered a car in Sweden eventhough they are residing in DK. The cars usually get confiscated and are not released until the car is registrered in Denmark and taxes are paid.
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 7:54pm
Originally posted by Nebbiolo

You mentioned an 'environmental problem' from throwing vehicles away as one reason why it wasn't a good thing. I have simply pointed out that there is also an environmental problem when these cars are left in operation.


not really.

i was referring to the general and wide issue of production of more things.
so if everyone in the world had kept more things for many years and not replaced them, then that would have been the biggest environmental benefit of all.
in fact, im open to the whole concept of halting production.
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  Quote DanishRaised Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 7:59pm
Originally posted by TomN

Danish-Raised, I think I know the answer to this one, but I will ask anyway.  If I have a house in Italy and a house in Denmark, and live 6 months in each country, does DK insist that my car be registered in DK?  What if Italy requires the same?
Well, SKAT says:
Når du har bopæl i Danmark, må du ikke anvende et køretøj, der er registreret i udlandet. Du har også bopæl i Danmark, hvis du fx opholder dig her i landet i et år eller mere, eller hvis du har opholdt dig her i 365 dage inden for de sidste 24 måneder.
(When you are resident in Denmark, you are not allowed to use a vehicle registered abroad. You also have residence in Denmark if you for instance stay in this country for a year or more, or if you have resided here in 365 days in the last 24 months.) Når du tager et køretøj på udenlandske nummerplader med til Danmark

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En person, der kommer til Danmark i en tidsbegrænset periode i op til et år, kan søge om tilladelse til at føre et udenlandsk registreret køretøj under opholdet i Danmark.
Overstiger opholdet 1 år eller 365 dage inden for en periode på 24 måneder, skal køretøjet registreres her i landet eller føres ud af landet igen
(A person coming to Denmark for a temporary period of up to one year may apply for a license to drive a foreign registered vehicle during his stay in Denmark.
Exceeds the stay one year or 365 days within a period of 24 months, must the vehicle be registered in this country or be driven out again.) Ansøgning om tilladelse til kørsel i Danmark med udenlandsk registreret køretøj

so I guess they will

it is 185 days per year:

Every individual must register his vehicle in the Member State in which he is normally resident. Article 7 of Directive 83/182/EEC and Article 6 of Directive 83/183/EEC set out precise rules for determining normal residence in situations where the persons concerned are respectively temporarily or permanently living and driving in a Member State other than their own. However, the case law of the Court of Justice holds that the quantitative criterion to which this article refers (having to live more than 185 days per year in a given place) cannot be taken as the main criterion if there are other factors which alter the situation.

So I am not sure EU would agree with SKAT!

(Article 7 respective article 6 says:
General rules for determining residence
1. For the purposes of this Directive, "normal residence" means the place where a person usually lives, that is for at least 185 days in each calendar year, because of personal and occupational ties, or, in the case of a person with no occupational ties because of personal ties which show close links between that person and the place where he is living.
However, the normal residence of a person whose occupational ties are in a different place from his personal ties and who consequently lives in turn in different places situated in two or more Member States shall be regarded as being the place of his personal ties, provided that such person returns there regularly. This last condition need not be met where the person is living in a Member State in order to carry out a task of a definite duration. Attendance at a university or school shall not imply transfer of normal residence.
2. Individuals shall give proof of their place of normal residence by any appropriate means, such as their identity card or any other valid document.
3. Where the competent authorities of the Member State of importation have doubts as to the validity of a statement as to normal residence made in accordance with paragraph 2, or for the purpose of certain specific controls, they may request any additional information or evidence.)


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  Quote damestjernelys Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23 Aug 2010 at 5:59am
This is one of those areas where it's best to lawyer up and contact Told and Skat immediately through a lawyer specialising in such areas.

Told and Skat don't always give you the right answer, or even the same answer when you call more than once.

The laws here regarding this are difficult to navigate...
"One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death." (Glen Duncan)
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