I will just warn the owner of this DAF project. He is apparently a recent fellow villager. And you have to help people like that integrate. What's going on? On private property, but on the public road, there is a fixer-upper,…
The popularity and number of vintage cars in the Netherlands continues to rise. In the Netherlands, classic cars are officially cars aged 40 years and older that are exempt from road tax. But the RDW and CBS also take into account…
The chicken tax The chicken tax is a 25% tariff on potato starch, dextrin, brandy and light trucks that was imposed by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1963 in response to the French and…
Statistically speaking, you could also just be someone who is left with the after-pain of 'the product' extortionate policies. The compensation schemes that are offered are not all straightforward
The court in Utrecht has postponed the ruling in the appeal of the KNAC versus the municipality of Utrecht on the legality of the environmental zone. That ruling was scheduled for today (October 29). According to the KNAC, the court has announced…
Decline in old cars and tightening tax rules
The total number of old cars overall decreased for the second year in a row. At the start of 2015, there were fewer 22.429 cars in the category with an age of 25 or older compared to a year earlier. Up to the beginning of 2013, the number of cars in that age category also increased, although a significant leveling-off of the growth of the now taxed vintage car quota was already visible at that time.
Getting money does not exist. Being scammed does. And not just by the government
Many classic enthusiasts have received a letter from the Tax Authorities. Whether they just wanted to pay. In the communication between Tax & RDW something has gone 'a little': We looked at the date of first admission instead of the year of construction.
Allegedly the VAT on the import of classics has been reduced to 6% So good news for the old-timer enthusiast, who saw it being transported to the high VAT rate in 2011. One and
Just like in the Netherlands, the government-sponsored scrapping scheme is also history in Germany and Italy. At our Eastern neighbors it was about five billion (!) Euros