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Another Dane here. > Cars are MUCH more expensive to buy and own (sales tax used to be 180%, but I’m expat). The 180% tax rate is the highest bracket. So you
by runeks 4y ago
Another Dane here.
> Cars are MUCH more expensive to buy and own (sales tax used to be 180%, but I’m expat).
The 180% tax rate is the highest bracket. So you don’t pay that rate on the first $x of the car’s price.
So really expensive cars are almost three times as expensive, but cheap cars are about as expensive as in all other countries. Which is why you see a lot of cheap/small cars in Denmark.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoDoes it make sense to buy bigger cars in Germany, then?
- runeks 4y agoIf you pay taxes in Denmark then, once you import the car into Denmark, you will pay the tax regardless of where you buy the car. And if you keep German plates on it and drive it around you will get charged with tax fraud and a huge fine.
- markvdb 4y agoIf living in Denmark and driving a car there, you need a Danish license plate for your car. If not, everyone and their mother would be driving around using Romania or Bulgaria registered cars...
- mytailorisrich 4y agoOK, plates are a bit different, though. From the previous comment I thought the extra tax was a sales tax (which is in general not the same as registration fees). But I imagine governments always find ways to prevent competition that is not to their advantage (I.e. it seems that free flow of cars is actually restricted as per other reply to my previous comment)