Has anyone bought a car in Germany and imported it in Denmark? What are the fees?

I have found an official calculator from Skat in [https://skat.dk/skat.aspx?oid=2234530](https://skat.dk/skat.aspx?oid=2234530). I am buying a hypotetical Skoda Octavia from 2014 benzin with 100,000 km that costs 70,000 dkk in Germany. I fill the details in the calculator using the data from the car and handlepris as 70000 dkk and Nypris as 300000 dkk as that is the new price in Demark more or less (should it be the new price in Germany?).

From these calculations the website says “Registreringsafgift” is 37,896 dkk.

If I add the numbers together that is roughly 108,000 dkk for the car. This car costs perhaps 150,000 dkk or more here if you look in Bilbasen.

When things are too good normally you do something wrong. So I come here to ask:

* Am I doing something wrong?
* Am I missing something?
* The car for 70,000 dkk includes a 18% VAT, can I get that money back from Germany once I move the car out of their country (I would imagine)? If so then total price would be roughly 100,000 dkk.

2 comments

  1. >This car costs perhaps 150,000 dkk or more here if you look in Bilbasen.

    Then that’s the price that you should expect in total – maybe slightly less due to the potential VAT savings and in case the German market is a bit less messed up than the Danish one right now.

    There are some money to be saved sometimes, but not 50% of the value of the car as your calculation suggests.

    Edit: On the same website where you calculated the taxes, you can search for other earlier calculations. Also, the “Handelspris” should be the Danish value (what you find in Bilbasen) as it says in the comment to the field:

    >Handelspris angives inkl. moms og registreringsafgift og uden leveringsomkostninger.

    So using a handelspris of 110.000 which you can find some Octavia 1.2 TSI at, you should get a registration tax of ~48k dkk

  2. You’re not going to save that much, otherwise everyone would be doing it and you can be sure SKAT would be on that.

    The rule of thumb is that the total price is going to be roughly the same but you may be able to get a better trim variant or an unusual car since the German market is so much larger.

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