Here in Thailand it cost more than 200%. Which mean that I have to double the normal price to get a brand new car. The all time popular cars are Mercedez Benz and BMW. These brands still expensive even when you try to get a used one.
Volvo in this country is very expensive also when it comes in brand new, but buying a volvo used car is really cheap because it's not so popular here in Thailand (3-4 times cheaper when buying the used one).
I'm having a BMW E36 model, but going to buy a Volvo S80. S80 is very expensive but here I can get it 3 times cheaper as a used car. (and hell who knows I'm buying the used one 
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How about your countries? Does auto tax cause you any trouble like it does to me?
How much auto tax cost for a brand new car in your countries?(in percentage)
Don't forget to tell where you are living.
Last edited by nappa on Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:07 pm; edited 1 time in total Well most places in the US they use the tax rate from where you live. In my area the taxes on a new car is 8% but then there is also a registration which is basically another tax on your car every year. It goes down every year. and not all places in the US has them.
Taxes here in NC are 3% of the trading difference. NC also requires that drivers hold Liability Insurance. NC also imposes tag, registration and title fees, which vary from county to county, but should be within $50. Overall, there are a few mor things to pay for, but if you are involved in an accident with another NC resident and it is their fault, you can be guaranteed almost to 95% certainty they'll have insurance to compensate you. I drive a '92 Jeep Cherokee 4x4 and my liability insurace costs around $74.00 a month. The major difference is that I own my vehicle, so I don't have to hold collision insurance on it. The cost of owning and driving a car is expensive anywhere, and we must begin to rely on municipal transportation as well as mass transit more if we are to cope with rising gas prices. b.t.w., gas at the nearest service station is going for $2.89 a gallon, and the sickening part is that 5-6 years ago, I can remember when I got it for 0.93 cents a gallon at Walmart with a gas card.
We need to rally everyone that drives a car and rise up to thwart major oil companies like BP, who according to Fox News earned $60 billion in profits, clear, and only invested $1 billion back into their infrastructure.
Hey, Americans, better check your numbers again. Specifically gas taxes.
| nappa wrote: |
| Here in Thailand it cost more than 200%. Which mean that I have to double the normal price to get a brand new car. The all time popular cars are Mercedez Benz and BMW. These brands still expensive even when you try to get a used one. |
When you said "more than 200%", I thought "Wow, that's worse than us". Then I realized what you really meant was that the taxes were more than 100% - the car ending up costing (more than) 200%.
Check this out... Denmark...
The registration tax on a new car is 105% on the first (approx.) $10.000 of the original price. That means, slightly more than double those money. 180% on the rest. Which means, almost triple the rest. Before calculating that, however, you have to add sales tax, which is 25% of the original price. For motorcycles, it's more complicated, but ends up being largely the same result.
To take an example, my Ducati S4R, which has a "suggested price" without any taxes (sales tax or otherwise) of about $14000 ends up costing $42300! That's more than 3 times the original price, the taxes ending up adding about 203%.
And then we add a yet another "green" tax paid each year, based solely on fuel consumption (the higher km/l (miles/gallon), the lower tax, obviously).
In spite of this, I have two bikes But I also got them somewhat cheaper by way of importing and registrating myself, rather than letting a salesman do it - and by way of some luck in terms of the tax office getting the original price a bit wrong.
As for gas, taxes are about $0.60 per litre (unleaded) = $2.27 per US gallon. That's the "green" tax alone. Also add sales tax etc. The final price is, at the moment, slightly over $1.71 per litre = $6.47 per gallon.Wow, I am glad that there are countries like Thailand racing in taxes with Turkey, at least we are not alone..
In Turkey, it almost doubles the price.
| Kaneda wrote: |
| To take an example, my Ducati S4R, which has a "suggested price" without any taxes (sales tax or otherwise) of about $14000 ends up costing $42300! That's more than 3 times the original price, the taxes ending up adding about 203%. |
Wow that's some price ! | bstevens wrote: |
The cost of owning and driving a car is expensive anywhere, and we must begin to rely on municipal transportation as well as mass transit more if we are to cope with rising gas prices. b.t.w., gas at the nearest service station is going for $2.89 a gallon, and the sickening part is that 5-6 years ago, I can remember when I got it for 0.93 cents a gallon at Walmart with a gas card.
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Here in Thailand,we've been changing to use alternative gas like NGV,CNG and LPG. These gas are a lot cheaper than the price of normal gas, and basically help us save our money about 50-70% comparing to the price of the normal gas. Especially NGV, we can produce it in our country and our government fixing its price.
However the bad thing is these gas get your engine more damage than normal gas does ! So have to be careful on checking the engine frequently.In romania the taxes are not so much. A heve payed 75Ron+100Ron=aprox. 50$
no tax in Dubai, you just haveta pay for registeration of your number plate & thats it.. walla all you need is MONEY here.. 
Singapore has an unique way to tax car owners.
First, you bid for a piece of paper to own a new car.
This has a minimum sum of S$ 5,000. It is about S$11,000 currently.
It can get up to S$40,000 (about 4 years ago).
Then comes the import tax of your car, registration cost is 150% of the import price.
Oh, all these are only good for 10 years. After which, you have to pay again to continue using the car for another 5 or 10 years.
I remember a friend who visited me in Singapore, and saw that I was driving a small Fiat UNO. After checking with me, he said, you could have driven a Merc in Germany (he is from Germany).
in Turkey it is %70 of the car value...
And i know in lithuania its more then %100
here in honduras is 6% of the car value
So, I guess Singapore is the most expensive autotax. Then Thailand go for the second place.
It depends on the exhaust class.
My car would cost about 150$/year with the old engine.
I replaced it with a 2,3 litre turbo engine with no catalysator. Now the tax is ~300$/year, and the insurance is ~1000$/year.
Quite a lot for a 22 year old car if you ask me 
Our 92' 12 seater landrover Defender is about £150 a year. It all depends. If its made before 1/1/73 its free and classed as "Historic Car Tax"
| Pyro Man wrote: |
| Our 92' 12 seater landrover Defender is about £150 a year. It all depends. If its made before 1/1/73 its free and classed as "Historic Car Tax" |
I think it works pretty much the same in sweden. When a car is older than 25 years the tax is removed. (yay, just 3 years left on my tax monster)A new is a little cheaper than in western europe, but older cars are much more expensive because importing a used car is very expensive. The result is that cars don't lose value so quickly and buying a car is a better investment than in Holland or Germany
| arkebuzer wrote: |
It depends on the exhaust class.
My car would cost about 150$/year with the old engine.
I replaced it with a 2,3 litre turbo engine with no catalysator. Now the tax is ~300$/year, and the insurance is ~1000$/year.
Quite a lot for a 22 year old car if you ask me |
What about the tax adding to the origin price of the car? I just want to know how much you have to add your money to the origin price to get a car.
For example, if the origin car price of a Lexus is $30,000 then in Thailand you have to pay around $60,000. That's double the price because Thai policy try to preventing people to buy more cars.
So how much does it cause in your country to buy a brand new car? | jeanoradean wrote: |
| A new is a little cheaper than in western europe, but older cars are much more expensive because importing a used car is very expensive. The result is that cars don't lose value so quickly and buying a car is a better investment than in Holland or Germany |
In Thailand cars lose their value very fast. For example a brand serie 5 BMW cost $110,000 (This is the price in our country). After a while let say two years goes by, this model would cost $71,052 for the used car.had no idea some countries cost so much.
i pay 1200 us dollars a year for insurance, paid like 6% sales tax when I bought it. Registration runs about 25 bucks a year on my 1996 jeep grand limited.
something like 5 pesos for 3 milles! is expensive
| nappa wrote: |
| arkebuzer wrote: | It depends on the exhaust class.
My car would cost about 150$/year with the old engine.
I replaced it with a 2,3 litre turbo engine with no catalysator. Now the tax is ~300$/year, and the insurance is ~1000$/year.
Quite a lot for a 22 year old car if you ask me |
What about the tax adding to the origin price of the car? I just want to know how much you have to add your money to the origin price to get a car.
For example, if the origin car price of a Lexus is $30,000 then in Thailand you have to pay around $60,000. That's double the price because Thai policy try to preventing people to buy more cars.
So how much does it cause in your country to buy a brand new car? |
I´m not sure since I have never bought a new car. But a guess is about ~40% tax. So it might be quite close to thailand.
In sweden it´s allready added in the price though, and generally all prices are like that. There´s a base tax of 25% and then they add on to that.
