Recall that on March 5, the State Customs Service published a letter proposing to limit the stay of cars with foreign license plates to twenty days on the territory of Ukraine. We wrote that this requirement contradicts the Istanbul Convention signed by Ukraine.
Nevertheless, the traffic police began to stop cars with foreign registration and, summoning customs officers to the scene, arrest them. But it turned out that owners of such cars face other troubles as well.
The scheme of importing cars with foreign plates involved registering the car to a company registered abroad. Most of these "enterprises" were in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Lithuania. The actual owner of the car became a pseudo-employee of such a company and gained the right to drive in Ukraine for a year on a car with plates from another country.
But in EU countries, taxes and payroll contributions for employees must be paid. Naturally, most of these "little firms" immediately closed, having managed to register dozens, and sometimes hundreds, of cars with pseudo-employees. In total, thousands of cars were imported under this scheme.
Now it turns out that the car cannot be used in Ukraine, but selling it for parts is also problematic – it would have to cross the border in the opposite direction. Finding the company on which the car was registered is now also impossible; it has long ceased to exist. The question arises – what should the owner do with his purchase?
So far, one option is emerging – to obtain a fake certificate from the traffic police stating that the car burned down, sank, etc., that is, it no longer exists (or was stolen). This is at least some document for the customs service instead of the imported car.
