Does anyone know if there is such a thing here as a blue book value of cars? I'm looking to purchase my fathers vehicle from Canada and we're not intending to actually exchange any funds for it. I'm on a fence whether it would be better to have it gifted to me (I presume they would look up the value) or just create some bill of sale with a number we pick out of the air. If I make it 1chf, they would likely just ignore that and look at some database to get the value. Ideally, I'd like to make the bill of sale a believable number.
If I remember correctly you ́ll have to pay taxes anyway if you haven ́t owned the car for 6 months prior to importing it. A sales contract might be simpler, if they look and compare the value, no idea.
Yup, thats no problem. I'm just wondering really where some index of value there is. I can see in the local autos count market its like 5k perhaps. Thats hardly considered official though.
What is ones Kelley Blue Book is the others Eurotax .
It was used in the past by Swiss Customs. You might not find the exact Canadian model. This fact might lead to an other issue: Registration. As you are not relocating and your father is still alive, you can not claim the exceptions for moving goods and inheritances. Means the car must be according Swiss and European specifications.
An other option is to use the Canadian Kelley Blue Book evaluation plus shipping cost.
Well the value won't do much for customs duties. Switzerland charges normal import duties on vehicles based on a specific duty on quantity not value. Thus if its not a personal effect, you'd pay something like x chf per 100 kg gross. The 'x' is probably something like 12-14 chf but it varies depending on the type of vehicle, engine or electric, and size. If you are talking about VAT, that is something else and probably 7.7% of the value.
So after an email exchange with the customs office, they said I should estimate the value by looking at autoscount24. Not much like this is offered, so I checked the European wide one, also slim pickings.. But I see a number which I can show which would not make them upset. Probably it's better I do a bill of sale rather then having it gifted to me. I can control the narrative a bit better and less ambiguity I think.
It's a long time ago but I remember considering importing a BMW from a friend who lived in Germany. Yes there's a tax on the weight but I gave up when I was told that the value of the car would also be 'assessed' by the customs office for additional import tax costs..and they could basically assign whatever value they thought appropriate.
Ok, well thankfully this is 20 years old and any examples of current prices are hard to come by... And as they suggested, I will present them several examples I found...
What about an older car (1969) that doesn't run, needs lots of work and is currently not titled and never was titled in my name -although I do hold the original and only title to the vehicle?
Switzerland doesn't know car titles in the same sense the US does. Thus the name is irrelevant from Swiss point of view.
The person named in Swiss car registration paper is the holder. The holder has a lot of obligations and not many rights. The only right the holder truly has, is to forbid others to use the car when it is not road worthy. And even this right is actually due to an obligation.