My car is a hyundai i30, bought new in June 2024. The car is (family) company owned, i am legally part of the company as i do work there too. I got a temporary job offer in Switzerland lasting around 5 months for the upcoming winter. Since we are a couple plus a dog, logistics wise coming with a car from Greece is a good solution. I messaged the Swiss customs and i got a reply saying literally stating : Your case is tricky, please come at the customs office at the border at working hours.
Has anyone ever brought a company owned car to work in Switzerland for 5-6 months?
I do not like the option of doing this journey and being told to park the car in Italy while taking our baggage from there up to the place my work will be. In that case i do prefer to use the airplane option.
The papers i do and can acquire :
1)My Greek drivers license 3+years
2)Valid car insurance with green card
3) vehicle registration
4) I can get a letter authorization from the company stating that i am permitted to fully drive the car both in Greece and outside Greece.
5) Car with services up to date and winter tires
I would be glad if anyone could offer a opinion. I have read somewhere about form 15.30?
The short version:
once you are a Swiss resident, to drive a EU registered car that you own - you need to import it. This means paying taxes to import it. There have been cases where people were fined tens of thousands of francs for borrowing their father’s van and drove over the border.
There are exceptions - if you don’t own the car, and the car’s owner is in the vehicle (i.e. you are just helping them drive), then you can drive it.
The fact that the car is owned by a company complicates things, as they would need to import it (not you); and then also declare your having the car’s use (also for personal driving) as a taxable benefit.
I also believe that if you are employed by 2x companies, you need to declare this, as there is something about not exceeding the overtime/ubertime allowances over the two employers - but here I have very little information.
I don’t know how it works for a car not owned by yourself, but by a company - but for a car I owned, 8ish years ago, I started the import process. It’s 25chf to start it. You then have 12 months to do the Swiss MFK (safety test), pay taxes, etc… after 10 months, I returned the car to UK and cancelled the import… Not sure if this loophole still exists.
Might be easier to rent a car in Switzerland for the few months otherwise.