Hi all

I am Dutch and I've lived in the UK for over a year and bought my nice family car there.
It is a English registered car. We moved to the Netherlands for a unknown period.
We brought our car with us and wanted to register it here. Everybody, who is familiar with Holland, knows how much rules there are in this country.
I found out that I can drive my English registered car here as long as I pay tax.
This seems to be much easier than going through all the paper work of registration.

Now I try to figure out how to get the car covered. Do you people know some good insurance companies who offer a car insurance (even thought I live abroad)?

Kind regards,
Jurgen

 

Dear Cyrilexpat

Thx for your reply.
The thing is that we do not live in the UK any longer and I do not have the English nationality.
We've lived in the UK for a bit more than a year, but we are Dutch.
The company, which insured us in the UK, was Sainbury's. The do offer a 90 days holiday but only if you have a permanently address in the UK.

Kind regards,
Jurgen

 

Okay, thanks for the reply.
We've found out that it is not really affordable to keep the car in Holland.
It is possible to drive it here and insure it with an international insurance. In that case we will need to have a address in England (an address from friends/family will do).

BUT, besides the English 'road tax' (209 Euro per year) we will have to pay the Dutch road tax as well. For our car (Touran 1.9 TDI) you have to pay about 1700 Euro's per year On top of that the Dutch government does not allow you to drive the car longer than two weeks. After that one has to pay a sort of import tax (bpm) which will be another 1400 Euro's for my car. And finally we have to pay VAT over the purchase sum I've paid in the UK for this car (I think this is 20% of 3985 Euro = 797 Euro).

Do I need to say more

We've decided to sell the car