Queensland rego

private or dealer, not sure yet, but cant seem to find what Im looking for over here. I'll ring them tomorrow maybe. What are the big papers in Bris, Syd and Mel for car selling, do you know?

We have just bought a caravan privately in Brisbane and are driving over to pick it up - as much for the trip as to save on transport costs. However we are hoping to do the same as far as the rego goes.

The people we are buying from have said they are happy to have their address shown as ours. So am I correct in saying that all we need to do is transfer it to our names at their address, put our Perth address as postal address and then we'll receive the renewal notices. Then when we are back home (we intend the return trip to take 4 - 6 weeks) transfer the plates to WA plates.

Does this negate the transfer fees? I sure hope this is correct as it really gets in my craw paying over $2000.00 for a change of ownership on a piece of paper!

Can someone please make this crystal clear as we leave at the end of this month.

Dian

Bill,

There is NO duty on caravans or trailers (including camper trailers) as they are exempt. check out the vehicle registration transfer application form from Qld Transport.

Relax in your caravan on the way home :-)

Andrew

sorry.......only if a Qlder. Check your state legislation and your find out that is very similar. I would guess that trailers/caravans would be exempt in most states (though i don't know)

Andrew

Dian, it cost me $17.50 transfer fee in Qld, no stamp duty on caravans over there. Yes, it sort of paid the cost of the trip on that alone. When we got back, I had to have it inspected at our licensing centre, fee inspection $53.40. I can't remember what we then paid - maybe only a new plate fee - definitely no stamp duty as the transfer had taken place in Qld.

We had a couple of dramas;

I was told i could hand the Qld plates in to my local authority (in this case it is our Shire office), or post them to Qld. I chose the former, and our local shire shredded the plates. They were told by Transport in Perth that putting the change of plates on the national database was sufficient to cancel the Q rego. They couldn't give me a rcpt as the system was down. Qld Transport got mean and nasty demanding return of plates, or the receipt as proof they were handed. The two Transport Depts would not talk to each other at all, so i have a wad of nasty letters from Qld, and sent a lot of screaming letters back. They gave up in the end. Send them the plates when you change over - it's not worth the time and energy.

They thought they could not pass it as the a frame was not stamped as rated - until they discovered it didn't have to be rated on a trailer of this size or something. They argued about whether the safety chains need to be high tensile not just the galvanised - before our local inspector finally got common sense to prevail and the licence went through. The galvanised safety chains worked when we needed them this year.

It seems you have everything organised, as with more and more people buying their caravans interstate, tales like mine will be unusual.

You can certainly save a heap buying vehicles in other states - check out the varying stamp duty on state transport dept web sites. Vehicles (like everything else) are usually cheaper in the east too. Crazy when we live in the same country.

Don't forget you will pass a number of fruit and vege quarantine stations - so be careful with your groceries.

Andrew, Fish and Bill and Dian are buying in Qld, so there is no stamp duty so long as they get the transfer of ownership done in Qld, so your first post is correct.

thanks MH :-)

just to clarify, there is stamp duty to be paid (on cars at least) but in Queensland it is 2% and WA 6.5% on "luxury" cars (over $40K) so a $50K car has a difference of around $2250 in Duty.
I'll let you all know how it goes anyway, in a couple of weeks time.

Saturdays Courier Mail or Trading Post for Brisbane.

By the way, will transport costs to get it home negate the stamp duty saving? Where are you taking the car to? Make sure the car comes with a safety certificate.

regarding Qland Transport, I want to make sure I give them the right answers first!
Stamp Duty 2% Qland 6.5% WA, but there is stuffal available here at the moment anyway. Wouldnt do it just for the saving though. Transport $1200.
cheers Old mate

The site to check how much it costs to transfer a vehicle in WA is here. I'm still not sure if this is payable

Site Link

The way I look at it is that if I buy a car for $50K in WA it costs me $3258.50 - if it costs me that much (or even a bit more) to drive to QLD and only pay a small amount in stamp duty, then I would rather do that.

That way I have the fun of seeing our country, spread spending the money in small country towns for the fuel, meals and accomodation etc than give it to the government burueacats in WA where the stamp duty was supposed to be abolished with GST.

Bill everything that is advertised in the major newspapers goes on DRIVE.COM and CARSGUIDE.com nowadays. Queensland transfer is 2% WA6.5%. Truck to Perth 1215 from Qland. Will update next week on outcome.