Transfering a car from NSW To WA

mongoloid · 22-01-2008, 04:28 PM

I am about to purchase a 4WD registered in NSW to drive back to WA. I rang the local Licensing services place up and the guy suggested that if i bring the car over un-licensed i wont pay any stamp duty as it is an unregistered vehicle transfer.

However this creates an issue of driving it here. So what i would like to know is the best way to go about it. Id like to avoid driving across the country with no plates on permits and getting pulled over by every cop that sees us. Which means somehow keeping the plates until we get home and then sending them back or delcaring them lost.

Any ideas? constructive helpful comments only please.

Thanks

Casablanca · 22-01-2008, 05:00 PM

this has been said before in another thread you can get a particular permit that will allow you to drive it back

wodahs · 23-01-2008, 01:59 AM

ring lic head ofice 131156
and they will give you an idea
and i think the person that told you that is incorrect even un licenced they will ask how much is worth ( they dont like not gettin their tax ) went throu this and i had owned the car just let the rego go for the few years i was working on it and they wanted to get the tax again , told them they got it of me once and i was the previous owner and its just a relicence

badefghia · 23-01-2008, 02:11 AM

just get a one way unregisted vehicle permit alows you to drive from one state to another..But you must go the quickest route to the state you plan on going and i think its about 7 or 8 days max on permit that will alow you to drive from state to state with no plates..

waggaclint · 23-01-2008, 12:02 PM

my wife works for DPI in W.A and she reakons there is no way of getting out of stamp duty...the only way you can is if you pay it in another state when you buy the vehicle ( but youl need a postall address in that state to to that) and also youl have to put the car over the pits too.....

1970galaxie · 23-01-2008, 08:46 PM

I brought my Galaxie over here licensed, and drove it around until the license expired.

Then took it in as an unlicensed car.

RSgerry · 23-01-2008, 10:37 PM

when i registered the RS i had to state the cars value and the stamp duty was based on the value.

mongoloid · 24-01-2008, 01:34 AM

I bought my TE50 from Canberra, drove it back to WA and then took it over the pits. I took the inspection form to the licensing place along with the disposal form, receipt etc to the DPI and the person there told me it was already in my name? Now im not sure how the transfer laws work in the ACT but its seems him filling in a disposal form was enough for the car to be put in my name. I paid no stamp duty in either state. Now im not sure whether this was just a freak occurance or whether it is repeatable, but it seems there is some way to get around it.

And furthermore why is this cracker at the DPI telling me furfies?