Most expensive country to register/purchase a new car
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I've just posted the reply below on another thread, made me wonder, what do other countries charge to register and own a car? I'm thinking "permission to own a car" certificates, horrific import duties, huge initial car tax bills... is the UK a motoring utopia on this subject?
Purchase price for a SINGAPORE RESIDENT to purchase Panamera Turbo S in luxury Beige Metallic
Total Price* 851,138 SGD
Add import duty at 31% - £134,647
Add Additional Registration Fee (ARF) at 140% - £796,589
Making a total of £1,365,581 for a beige Panamera
However, how much more is a Singapore Certificate of Entitlement (permission to own this vehicle)?
How much more is Singapore Road tax?
Purchase price for a SINGAPORE RESIDENT to purchase Panamera Turbo S in luxury Beige Metallic
Total Price* 851,138 SGD
- including GST, 12-month road tax, 12-month radio license, registration fee, ARF.
Add import duty at 31% - £134,647
Add Additional Registration Fee (ARF) at 140% - £796,589
Making a total of £1,365,581 for a beige Panamera
However, how much more is a Singapore Certificate of Entitlement (permission to own this vehicle)?
How much more is Singapore Road tax?
Edited by C8H18Head on Friday 13th July 08:25
Your breakdown is correct but i suspect on the Pana the price was actually correct (before COE, another 50k )
here is a Feb 2010 Pana S for GBP250k
http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/info.php?ID=243...
Or alternatively an 09 430 Scud for GBP350k?
http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/info.php?ID=272...
Slightly more daft, a "Bargain Car" '87 Honda Prelude for a snip under GBP15k?
http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/info.php?ID=270...
here is a Feb 2010 Pana S for GBP250k
http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/info.php?ID=243...
Or alternatively an 09 430 Scud for GBP350k?
http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/info.php?ID=272...
Slightly more daft, a "Bargain Car" '87 Honda Prelude for a snip under GBP15k?
http://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/info.php?ID=270...
xRIEx said:
C8H18Head said:
Total Price* 851,138 SGD
Add Additional Registration Fee (ARF) at 140% - £796,589
Wasn't the ARF already included? Or is it supposed to be added on twice, making the second one an AARF?- including GST, 12-month road tax, 12-month radio license, registration fee, ARF.
Add Additional Registration Fee (ARF) at 140% - £796,589
Hmm South Africa is reasonably high (not as bad as Singapore)
This is USED so i wonder what it cost new...
http://capetown-westerncape.gumtree.co.za/c-Cars-V...
Car import duties for Rwanda and Bangladesh are pretty damn high. I wonder if anyone knows them?
This is USED so i wonder what it cost new...
http://capetown-westerncape.gumtree.co.za/c-Cars-V...
Car import duties for Rwanda and Bangladesh are pretty damn high. I wonder if anyone knows them?
VR6 Turbo said:
I thought Thailand was nearly 300% tax on privet car's?
VR
varies depending on the car, where it was made and how prestigious it is deemed. VR
Most car's in Thailand are quite cheap because it is actually now one of the largest car manufacturing nations out there! (not a bad strategy, you can sell your cars with low tax if you assemble them here... ) so lots of Toyota's, Honda's, Nissan's even BMW's and Merc's are made in Thailand now!
I was told once that Vietnamese sales tax on cars was 100% on home produced cars (they didn't make any at the time anyway...), 200% on imported cars, 300% on "luxury" cars (those with fancy bits like sunvisors etc). Hence why most vietnamese travel round on Honda Dreams. Can't vouch for how true this is - was from an Aussie tour leader in a pub in Saigon.
XJSJohn said:
VR6 Turbo said:
I thought Thailand was nearly 300% tax on privet car's?
VR
varies depending on the car, where it was made and how prestigious it is deemed. VR
Most car's in Thailand are quite cheap because it is actually now one of the largest car manufacturing nations out there! (not a bad strategy, you can sell your cars with low tax if you assemble them here... ) so lots of Toyota's, Honda's, Nissan's even BMW's and Merc's are made in Thailand now!
VR
z4chris99 said:
Thailand is very high, but you can keep them on import plates , and just bribe police when the stop you. you'll see a lot of supercars still on import plates.
Singapore is a joke. it's something like 75k for a 10yr lisence
a-men to that the thai police are easy to bribe Singapore is a joke. it's something like 75k for a 10yr lisence
VR
ive just got back from singapore and its something like $40,000 for 10 years permition to own a car, but the roads there are immaculate and its not like they cant afford it, there are very very few old cars, after 10 years they face a stricter mot, i think the oldest car i saw was a 2003 swift
okie592 said:
ive just got back from singapore and its something like $40,000 for 10 years permition to own a car, but the roads there are immaculate and its not like they cant afford it, there are very very few old cars, after 10 years they face a stricter mot, i think the oldest car i saw was a 2003 swift
MOT is the same, it's the road tax that goes up by 50% at 10 years Los and that a new COE needs to be bought. Still plenty of old W128 E200's about but as you say, in general an incredibly new car population.Sings is also the second biggest exporter of used cars, because if you "scrap" (export) your car before 5 years old you get a something like a 75% tax rebate on the origional purchase price, to invest in your next car.
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