Moving to NL...
Discussion
RizzoTheRat said:
Try driving car that was never sold in NL. I've had random strangers stop me in car parks and petrol stations to talk about my car or tell me it's nice, my wife's had a colleague's husband excited to have finally found out who owned it after seeing it several times in the car park, and I've found photos of it online (try googling your number plate, it can be... interesting)
I don’t think my car gets out enough to get photographed. The again, it’s only done less than 5000km.The only photo I find when I google the number plate is one I posted on PH!
parabolica said:
Almost 2 years in the north east (Groningen for living, Emmen for work) and really enjoying it. My company has been growing quite the international contingent over here.
Groningen - fantastic city ! Miss the long evenings sitting on the Groote Markt in the summer and Bar De Witz if still there , my mate met his wife who was a student working behind the bar there.Emmen - Used to have a fantastic Zoo.
Lived in Assen for 9 years , 88-97. other half at that time was at Groningen Uni when i met here all those years ago.
Bought a house close to the TT Track in Assen - always had a lot of visitors over the last week of June for TT Week
Hello, I don't post much (I just popped in to update a 6 year-old engine conversion thread of mine...), but I may be doing so in the near future, because I have been 1/2 living in Leiden for the past 2 years and recently agreed to buy a house (with a large garage aka "ground floor") there. My wife already works in the Hague, which is just down the road from Leiden...
I have yet to make an "official" move to NL, so none of my vehicles (2 cars, 10 motorbikes) have yet made the jump, but for various reasons I've got to do it fairly soon.
In my experience, driving a RHD car in NL is no big deal, the biggest "problem" being parking barriers and toll booths. If I'm driving alone, depending on the circumstance I will either slide across the seats and reach out the passenger window to grab the ticket or I will just get out and walk around the front of the car. Driving a RHD car in an LHD world is something I'm used to, however, having lived and driven all over Europe in RHD cars for over 25 years (after moving to the UK from California in the late 1990s). I intend to take one RHD car and keep/sell the other one in the UK--but it's not because it is too impractical to drive it; it's because I have no good place to keep it in NL.
By the way, I've learned that there are some major pitfalls for people wishing to move to NL from outside the EU--and wishing to bring their vehicles with them. It needs to be done correctly or in addition to import duty and VAT you will be liable to pay the one-off Dutch CO2-based emissions tax (BPM, I think it's called), which can be an eye-wateringly large figure for an older or a performance vehicle. I had planned to bring my bikes over in my van one-by-one, but I've learned that there is no practical way for an individual to do this and still qualify for the relocation tax concession for household goods: everything will have to be shipped by a commercial carrier and customs cleared by a customs broker.
Ciao,
JZH
I have yet to make an "official" move to NL, so none of my vehicles (2 cars, 10 motorbikes) have yet made the jump, but for various reasons I've got to do it fairly soon.
In my experience, driving a RHD car in NL is no big deal, the biggest "problem" being parking barriers and toll booths. If I'm driving alone, depending on the circumstance I will either slide across the seats and reach out the passenger window to grab the ticket or I will just get out and walk around the front of the car. Driving a RHD car in an LHD world is something I'm used to, however, having lived and driven all over Europe in RHD cars for over 25 years (after moving to the UK from California in the late 1990s). I intend to take one RHD car and keep/sell the other one in the UK--but it's not because it is too impractical to drive it; it's because I have no good place to keep it in NL.
By the way, I've learned that there are some major pitfalls for people wishing to move to NL from outside the EU--and wishing to bring their vehicles with them. It needs to be done correctly or in addition to import duty and VAT you will be liable to pay the one-off Dutch CO2-based emissions tax (BPM, I think it's called), which can be an eye-wateringly large figure for an older or a performance vehicle. I had planned to bring my bikes over in my van one-by-one, but I've learned that there is no practical way for an individual to do this and still qualify for the relocation tax concession for household goods: everything will have to be shipped by a commercial carrier and customs cleared by a customs broker.
Ciao,
JZH
JZH said:
It needs to be done correctly or in addition to import duty and VAT you will be liable to pay the one-off Dutch CO2-based emissions tax (BPM, I think it's called), which can be an eye-wateringly large figure for an older or a performance vehicle.
It all depends. The system is geared towards making it unattractive to bring in inefficient and high emissions vehicles. The amount you pay in BPM depends heavily on emissions (CO2, particulates and NOx), energy label, but depreciation is taken into account. It's all pretty complicated, but doable.I used an agency to assess the car anf therefore reduce the bpm tax liability.
http://www.bbpartners.nl/
http://www.bbpartners.nl/
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