"KatzManDu" (KatzManDu)
09/16/2014 at 12:56 • Filed to: None
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"KatzManDu" (KatzManDu)
09/16/2014 at 12:56 • Filed to: None | 1
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I've been in Belgium just over two months and now with my residency papers sorted (mostly) I can legally purchase and register a vehicle. I live close enough to work where I can take the bus, and that suits the needs of myself and my family.
I'm on a budget (at least until my house sells back home) so I'm looking for a typical €500 beater. A 1990s-era Audi diesel, for instance. Like this one:
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After asking around I found the tax tables for the current year, where you determine the initial purchase/registration tax for the car (not the VAT/sales tax.) This is a tax based upon the power of your engine and the CO2 emissions from the car.
http://www.wallonie.be/sites/wallonie…
Using the matrix on the first PDF, my initial registration tax would be the base tax of 61 Euros. Finding CO2 data for that car is difficult. But, it would be around 500 Euro for the initial registration.
Then there is the annual renewal tax, just like renewing license plates in the USA.
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The annual tax would be 310 Euros. So it would be almost 2x the cost of the car to register and tax it the first year of ownership, and the annual taxes would be almost as much as the car is worth by the time I hit the 24 month mark.
JEM
> KatzManDu
09/16/2014 at 14:09 |
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Wow. This makes registering a car in Taxachusetts seem cheap.
And that's something I never thought I'd say.
Klaus Schmoll
> KatzManDu
09/16/2014 at 14:10 |
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Don't get an old diesel like that one. Most countries have found ways to penalize owners of these heavy smokers. Tax is one thing, but in Germany, for example, they are banned from entering cities (hence the low sale price). Try to find a petrol version.
desertdog5051
> Klaus Schmoll
09/16/2014 at 14:17 |
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Why, if diesels are so popular in Europe, would people buy them with such taxes? Is it because of older car emissions?
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Klaus Schmoll
> desertdog5051
09/16/2014 at 14:55 |
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These old diesels really are heavy smokers compared to newer diesels and pretty much all petrols with catalytic converters. Hence the tax penalty on old diesels. A petrol car of that vintage would have no penalty.
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KatzManDu
> Klaus Schmoll
09/16/2014 at 15:04 |
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In a perfect world I'd get this....
http://www.kapaza.be/fr/citroen/cit…
Honestly, this would work well, too. 61€ to register, but then 671€ per year for plates...
http://www.kapaza.be/fr/mercedes-be…
Of course, I could register it as an "old-timer" but that has specific restrictions.
Rory
> KatzManDu
09/16/2014 at 20:51 |
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I pay 480 euro for road tax every year for my Civic and its 1800 for our Mustang GT.
To tax a new Opel Insignia OPC it is over 2,100
Combine that with Testing your car and horrific insurance rates and you find owning a car in Ireland is pretty grim
Now like Belgium and most other countries our road tax based upon the power of your engine and the CO2 emissions from the car. Yet if you drive an Electric car you still pay road tax .. why .. because fuck you thats why.