Buying an interstate vehicle and re registering

you have several options:

1. You can get a residential address in NSW .. PO Box is not enough
It is only legal if you live there .. it gotta look official ..
Then you register the car in NSW and drive it up to 3 months in WA
Then you reregister in WA (no stamp duty - you paid it in NSW).

2. You can drive the car accross on a cover note of your insurance..
You have a grace period of one week (could be different in some states )
or so to register after the seller has notified the authorities about the sale ..
Register and pay sduty in WA ...

3. You can take a residential address in QLD (3% sduty) and register it there
and do as in 1 ...

it's not as difficult as you make it sound .. I have done that the other way around
with a car from WA registered in QLD ... and I am just about to do it again but this time with a truck registered in QLD and then brought to WA ..

The important thing is to make it look as legal as possible ...
Get a friends address .. change the drivers license to that address and state (thats just a precaution) and then register the vehicle .. even if you drive it longer on your other plates than legal in WA you still have your NSW drivers license ...

many ways to skin a cat ..

good luck
gmd

Just drive it around for a few months then go to licsencing and get it changed over to WA. It is a fairly simple excersize.

Hi Damon,
I went through this with a trailer that I bought in Sydney. I could not licence it my name in Sydney cos I didn't live there. I ended up getting a permit to bring it back to WA (cost about $25 and valid for a week). When here I had to take it over the pits, swap the plates to WA and pay the fees. Can't do much about stamp duty unless you cheat.
Sounds like from all the pus and pain to do otherwise it is not worth it.
Steve

If you put in your name in NSW you will have to pay NSW stamp duty and when you later transfer to your name in WA you will have to pay WA stamp duty - why pay twice. Transfer in WA only.

Garry

Our Governments are truely amazing.

Not only do you have to save up your wages to buy a 4wd, having already paid tax on thos wages, you have to pay GST on the 4wd you bought.
Then you have to pay a large amount of tax to tell the government that you own that 4wd.
The you have to pay GST on every part and assosory you buy for the 4wd. As well as GST, excist and state tax on the fuel you put into the 4wd.
The you have to pay more tax to be allowed to drive it on the road. Then you have to pay GST on the compulsory insurance, and even more GST on extra insurance you need to protect your 4wd from the unknown. Then the governemnt forces you to pay all sorts of fees and charges for stuff that you really dont know what they mean. All this after you have paid a fortune to have some bloke take a quick look at your 4wd to say that your new car is safe. (of course you also have paid GST on all of this).

And after you have paid all this money to the government and are FINALY allowed to legaly drive your new 4wd. (After, of cousre you have paid the tax to get a small peice of plastic that says you know how to drive) You go for your first drive and get a lovely photo taken for doing 103km/Hr in a 100 Zone.

No wonder I can't afford to go away on trips:(

How are you getting it sent over? Surely you would need to get licence transferred to you before it leaves to prove ownership.

Can't speak for NSW, but surely not that much different. Stamp duty only payable when it is transferred to you, and you do need to transfer the licence before you drive it home.

With our caravan bought in Qld, we had to transfer it to our name to legally drive it home. Quite a few rather different stories from Transport Department personnel of how to do it (including "just drive it home unlicenced and get re-licenced when you get back to WA - you won't have any third party insurance though") until the vendor got to someone near the top. Just had to give a Qld residential address (people who we bought it from) and our home WA postal address. Then had to re-licence it when we got back to WA. No stamp duty payable here - it was already in our name. I don't know about any rebate on unexpired licence - ours had just expired by the time i got organised to take it to the licensing centre, but i think it would be hard to get. My only trouble was, I handed plates in at our licensing authority who shredded them (I had the option of posting to Qld or handing to local licensing authority). Took me many months arguing with Qld as to why i couldn't return them, before they gave up threatening me. The two Departments were not willing to talk to each other at all.

Qld again - when my daughter came back from living in Qld, she had to take her car over the pits to re-lic in WA after a certain number of months when she could no longer say she was a Qlder just visiting.

All the rigmarole is crazy when we live in the same country.

Good luck with your purchase; i hope you get a good vehicle.

Buy the vehicle un-registered, it doesnt matter where you live if you transfer the ownership of an un-registered vehicle into your name, then re-register it in WA.

Damon,

I bought my vehicle in NSW and brought it to QLD. It had about 6 months worth of rego left on it. When I registered it in qld I I got a a rebate on the six months worth of CTP minus a $20 admin charge. The actual rego I had to forfeit.

R.