Hi
Have just bought our first motor home, which a a left hand drive with uk plates. It has uk tax at the moment obviously. We are off to Italy and France for six months each in February and I have no idea what to do about the tax. Do we continue uk tax or get the vehicle registered in Italy and France and pay their tax? Do we have to register the vehicle there as we are going to be there for a little while? Any advice would be appreciated.
Also if anyone has any advice about good insurance that has unlimited European cover, that would be appreciated too.
Thanks
Have just bought our first motor home, which a a left hand drive with uk plates. It has uk tax at the moment obviously. We are off to Italy and France for six months each in February and I have no idea what to do about the tax. Do we continue uk tax or get the vehicle registered in Italy and France and pay their tax? Do we have to register the vehicle there as we are going to be there for a little while? Any advice would be appreciated.
Also if anyone has any advice about good insurance that has unlimited European cover, that would be appreciated too.
Thanks
Hi Denhams and :welcome3:
I'm assuming that you are UK residents and are just planning to be touring in France and Italy?
If so then you don't need to consider re-registering so long as you don't stay for more than 183 days in each - this is a rolling 183 day period in any 12 months. In practice many motorhomers spend this period and more in other countries without worry. If you don't have a residential address in those countries I think you'd struggle to re-register even if you wanted to.
As regards road tax, your vehicle needs to remain legal in its country of registration for the period of travel so the tax disc has to be current as does your MOT certificate. Road tax can be renewed online to your residential address and forwarded to you by a friend/relative by post (that's what we do).
As regards insurance, there are companies that offer 365 day European cover one of which being Comfort who we use.
Hope this helps :thumbs: .
I'm assuming that you are UK residents and are just planning to be touring in France and Italy?
If so then you don't need to consider re-registering so long as you don't stay for more than 183 days in each - this is a rolling 183 day period in any 12 months. In practice many motorhomers spend this period and more in other countries without worry. If you don't have a residential address in those countries I think you'd struggle to re-register even if you wanted to.
As regards road tax, your vehicle needs to remain legal in its country of registration for the period of travel so the tax disc has to be current as does your MOT certificate. Road tax can be renewed online to your residential address and forwarded to you by a friend/relative by post (that's what we do).
As regards insurance, there are companies that offer 365 day European cover one of which being Comfort who we use.
Hope this helps :thumbs: .
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