How much tax will you pay on a car?

Duty, VAT and the registration tax of the country you register it in — at official rates, with the law behind every line.

Pick where the car is now and where it will be registered, name the car, and every line of the bill appears with the law behind it: duty, excise, VAT, the registration tax of that country, and the fixed costs of putting it on the road. 43 countries to buy in, 31 to register in, 6 languages, no accounts and no charge.

The same car in 31 countries

Volkswagen Golf 8 2024 list price €30,000, inside the EU — no duty, no VAT, so what is left is the tax each country charges to put it on the road.

Denmark€21,578
Ukraine€11,367
Greece€10,560
United Kingdom€6,448
Ireland€5,025
Switzerland€4,036
Netherlands€3,771
Finland€3,120
Poland€2,680
Austria€1,750
Portugal€1,619
France€151

From Sweden — nothing to Denmark — €21,578. The 12 dearest are drawn. This car has a figure in 28 of the 31 countries we cover — the rest need something it does not carry, and the calculator below takes your own.

Ukraine is shown at the full 10% duty, because these pages do not know where each car was built — and the relief turns on that, not on where it is bought. A car built in the EU and sold with an EUR.1 pays no duty at all.

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