Hey all,
A question for those who have shipped cars. I understand that the import tax is based on vehicle value, and that's a value that they assign to it. Unfortunately, the site everyone sends you to where you can plug in your car's info and/or VIN# returns nothing for either of our cars, so I have no idea what the import tax would be for them. I do know that HERE the values for one (97 Mercedes E430) is about $5000 and the other (2008 Volvo XC90) is probably around $7000. The Mercedes particularly is in fantastic condition and we just plain like it. So our plan was to likely sell the Volvo and ship the Mercedes, just so we at least have one vehicle upon arrival. But I'm hearing figures like $1100 for a $3500 vehicle and things like that. Not asking for any exact number for my cars of course, but does anyone have some close guesses for the values I mentioned? If it's much over $1000 in tax, on top of $1200 to ship, we'll probably just have to part with both vehicles. Gracias!