Importing EU registered car

@gareth24

As I mentioned before you are allowed to drive a foreign registered car here in Malta for up to seven months. An evidence would have been the ferry ticket. However, this is not possible for foreigners who have permanent residence in Malta. As soon as you have permanent residence in Malta you have to register your car over here. Transport Malta will surely give you more information about this topic.

    @gareth24
As I mentioned before you are allowed to drive a foreign registered car here in Malta for up to seven months. An evidence would have been the ferry ticket. However, this is not possible for foreigners who have permanent residence in Malta. As soon as you have permanent residence in Malta you have to register your car over here. Transport Malta will surely give you more information about this topic.
   

    -@hanselmar5

To clarify, it's not "permanent residence" but any residence, any form that gets you a ID card starts daily 30 euro fines.

The sicily round trip trick doesnt really work anymore TM is always there noting ins and outs and they catch you out.

Registering the car is the only option. And yes people do pay these fees sadly.

@gareth24

The cheapest option is probably to park the car in your garage in Malta and wait until the  years are over. In the meantime you can use Transport Malta public transport.

I drove here from the uk before Brexit,  looking at the import  website said I wouldhave to pay €1800 , unless I could prove I had owned the car in the UK for minimum  of 2years.  I took relevant documents  to the VAT offices in Malta, and  did not have to pay  the import  tax.

But, I've  since been  told that if I sell my car or part exchange  it ,then I am liable  for this tax. Unless I scrap it.

Hi there,

Can someone explain to me the registration tax and the Minimum Tax, please?

We are planning to drive our UK-registered car to Malta and unfortunately looks like we will need to pay around 1600e for the registration tax as we haven't had our car for 14 months prior. Not great but I can live with that.

But I am confused about the minimum tax, for an 11-year-old car are we looking at around 11k?!? Is that right?

Such an old car would carry a high tax due to emissions etc. I am surprised the registration tax is only 1600, did you get that ammount from http://www.valuation.vehicleregistratio … hicle.aspx

Unless its a priced vintage car or something I'd just sell it there.