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Originally Posted by Naambezet
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Originally Posted by RickP
I want to buy my next car in the Netherlands :-)
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Have fun paying the 21% tax + additional stupid taxes, that can be as high as 130.000 on a G63 AMG. |
Well, we do have the 21% taxes here in Belgium, but other than that the buying is not the problem.
It's driving it: 80% of BMW's ( and other luxury brands like MB, AUDI, RR, PORSCHE,et ...) in BE are leased company cars, which until 2 years ago was a great advantage for an employee to avoid paying crazy taxes on any salary increase.
But now our dear government has invented a new rule for paying taxes: it's called "benefit in kind" and where in the past you would pay a fair amount of taxes on the company car, you are now faced with paying taxes on up to 18% of the total car value...per year ! ( depending on CO2 )
So a company BMW X5 3.0d will cost you around 4000 euro a year in taxes. Ouch...
But my understanding was that in the Netherlands it was worse ?