To date (since October 2013) gone missing the need to deregister your car in case of sale or transfer to another person. At the moment, even when selling a car, deregister it not necessary. Now, when selling a car, its owner is not obliged to contact the traffic police to deregister it.
The purchase and sale processes have been greatly simplified:
- the parties enter into an agreement;
- transfer funds and exchange keys;
- after 10 days, the new owner is obliged to register the car in his own name.
Today, it is necessary to deregister a car for the following reasons:
- Car removal outside the Russian Federation;
- Complete (partial) recycling of the vehicle.
According to the new regulations, in addition to deregistration, another step is provided - termination of vehicle registration. The difference between them is that if the car has already been deregistered, it will be impossible to restore it.
This means that it is possible to resort to this procedure if its owner has decided to transfer the car to an organization that deals with the disposal of unusable cars.
In other cases, you can simply stop registering the vehicle. For example, if a person has a faulty car and he wants to hand it over for recycling, he must simply deregister it with the traffic police. This is done primarily to stop constant letters about unpaid taxes and subsequently the imposition of penalties.
If the owner wants to keep some part or spare part, he can remove it and return the car without it. Transport tax will not be charged in both cases. To do this, in the application for car recycling, you must indicate a complete list of those spare parts that were required by the former owner. The registration numbers of these units should also be indicated.
To sell a vehicle for scrap, you must revoke its registration.
To do this, you need to prepare the following package of documents:
- An application filled out according to a specific template;
- Owner's passport;
- PTS;
- STS;
- State registration plates;
- Paid receipt of state duty for state. sign.
The application must indicate that a certificate for spare parts removed from the vehicle is not required.
To deregister a car for disposal, documents must be submitted to any department of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate , to any department of the MREO (regardless of whether it is for public or private purposes). This can be done regardless of where the car is registered, no matter where the owner is registered.
Table of contents
- When to deregister a car
- What is the price
- What to do before the procedure
- What documents to collect
- Step by step order
- What if you don’t deregister?
- What if I deregistered the car, but received a fine?
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Normative base
The procedure for deregistering a car without inspection in 2020 is regulated by a whole list of legal acts. The main ones are:
- Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation No. 139 of March 20, 2020;
- Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation No. 399 of June 26, 2020;
- Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation No. 605 of August 8, 2013.
Regulatory legal acts reflect the specifics of the registration procedure with authorized bodies, as well as the nuances of linking a car to a specific person.
When to deregister a car with the traffic police
According to the law on state registration of vehicles, the traffic police can temporarily stop registering a car or permanently deregister it, that is, transfer the records to the archive.
Vehicle registration is temporarily stopped at the owner’s request due to:
- sales. The new owner has 10 days to change the credentials. If he does not do this, the previous owner deregisters the car.
- losses, for example, if the car was lost many years ago;
- hijacking
Less often, accounting is stopped due to the death of the owner, the end of registration of the car, or the liquidation of the legal entity that had the company car on its balance sheet.
The car is finally deregistered when:
- export abroad,
- recycling.
For brevity, we will not further distinguish between termination of accounting and withdrawal.
Documents and rules for submitting them to the tax office
The next problem that needs to be solved is how to remove a stolen car from tax registration. As paragraph 2 of Article 358 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation states:
The following are not subject to taxation: ... vehicles that are on the wanted list, provided that the fact of their theft (theft) is confirmed by a document issued by an authorized body ...
The service must inform the tax office that the car is no longer registered with the traffic police. This is required by paragraph 4 of Article 85 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation:
Bodies... carrying out registration of vehicles are required to report information about real estate located on the territory under their jurisdiction, about vehicles registered with these authorities (rights and transactions registered with these authorities), and about their owners to the tax authorities at their location within 10 days from the date of corresponding registration, as well as annually before February 15, provide the specified information as of January 1 of the current year.
But a lot of time may pass until this moment (depending on when the car was stolen). And therefore, it is better for the owner of a stolen vehicle to go to the Federal Tax Service at the place of his own registration. The service should provide:
- your passport;
- TIN;
- a certificate from the traffic police about the deregistration of the vehicle;
- a statement about the absence of ownership of a taxable object, that is, a car.
Moreover, the law allows stolen vehicles to be deregistered with the Federal Tax Service even without terminating its registration with the traffic police. After all, he is already wanted, since a criminal case has been opened. Consequently, subparagraph 7 of paragraph 2 of Article 385 applies here. A stolen car ceases to be subject to taxation if its owner provides the Federal Tax Service with a certificate of theft from the police.
How much does it cost to deregister a car?
The traffic police deregisters the car free of charge. New documents and license plates are not issued, so there is no need to pay a state fee.
The only exception is when the owner of the car deregisters it to take it abroad. In this case, the owner receives a registration certificate (CTC), if there is none, and transit numbers. The state duty for STS is 500 rubles, for a number - 1600 rubles.
| Cause | Price | |
| Stop accounting | sale, loss, theft | for free |
| Deregister | export abroad | if there was no STS - 500 rubles, for transit numbers - 1600 rubles |
| disposal | for free |
Documents in case of car disposal
All equipment has a service life, and a car is no exception.
If your vehicle is beyond repair, has been stolen, or you simply don't need the vehicle, you can recycle it. But this doesn’t mean just taking the car to a landfill. Everything is done documented, only if the necessary documents are available and within the framework of the law. The new program is of interest to citizens of the Russian Federation, as it helps not only to get rid of unnecessary iron, but also to make money by selling “scrap metal”. Sometimes it happens that it is more profitable to scrap a car than to sell or restore it. Most often, very old cars, over 20-30 years old, after an accident, when there is no point in investing money in repairs, fall under this program.
To send a car for recycling, you must complete the following steps:
- A corresponding application is submitted to the traffic police.
- Pay existing fines and taxes.
- Notify the tax service of your desire to dispose of the car so that no tax is charged on it.
- Separately from the car body, you can remove the license plate units (keeping them for yourself for future use)
- Conduct an examination and obtain a conclusion on the compliance of the numbers.
- Pay a certain amount for individual parts of the car that remain with the owner.
- Provide a certificate to the inspector in exchange for permission to keep individual numbered spare parts.
- Payment of state duty for disposal. Don't worry, it's quite inexpensive, 200 rubles.
What to do before the procedure
Check registration. By law, the new owner of the car has 10 days to change the credentials. On the 11th, you can check the registration data on the traffic police website, if the car is registered in the capital or the Moscow region - in the Autocode service. To do this, enter the body, chassis or VIN number.
If you sell the car, and on the 11th day you are still listed as the owner, you should deregister the car.
Fill out an application. This can be done at the registration office of the traffic police, but it’s easier - in advance, on the State Services website. Log in to the portal and select a situation:
- sale,
- loss,
- hijacking,
- export abroad,
- disposal.
Complete the application and print it before going to the registration office.
Make an appointment at the traffic police department. After completing the application, you will be asked to select a registration department. To deregister a car, the owner's registration does not matter. Contact the traffic police where you are now.
It happens that the branch closest to you is not available on the list - then the State Services recommend signing up for another: you will have to travel further, but you will save time in queues.
If you take your car abroad, pay the state duty. In other cases, deregistration of the car is free.
Remote deregistration of a car
Today, many citizens of the Russian Federation are accustomed to carrying out all official procedures related to government bodies via the Internet. The fact is that government structures have united in a single electronic Internet space, creating a service of public services of the Russian Federation.
The procedure we are interested in can be carried out remotely
A citizen can access it from absolutely any computer connected to the World Wide Web. On the platform you are looking for, you can find out everything that interests the car owner:
- the number of fines available;
- whether his vehicle is registered, that is, whether it is registered;
- other very important nuances.
The site can be used not only by motorists, but also by people who cannot drive, since in addition to the State Automobile Inspectorate, all government bodies that provide any services to citizens are located on the Internet site.
Through “gosuslugi.ru” you can not only find out any details about your own car, but also deregister the car, and you won’t even need to get up from the table, let alone leave the walls of your apartment.
You can do this as follows.
- In the category, you must select the “deregistration” item.
- Among the reasons for deregistration of a car indicated on the page, you must select the one that suits you and click on the link.
- You will be taken to a page containing specific columns specifically created for entering information from specific documents, such as:
- main document of a citizen of the Russian Federation;
- vehicle passport;
- insurance certificate;
- other papers.
When all the information is entered into specially existing columns for them, the system will begin to process the request and send it directly to the traffic police. You will learn that the service specialists have received your official “message” from the electronic notification that appears in your personal account on the portal. If all parts of the questionnaire are filled out with information that corresponds to reality, most likely you will immediately receive a positive result. Soon, government officials will contact you personally, no longer via the World Wide Web, but via telephone, home or mobile, depending on which one you indicated in the electronic application form.
If you are refused to deregister your vehicle, you will also receive an oral and/or written notification from employees of the State Motor Transport Inspectorate; the reasons for the refusal will also be explained to you in detail.
Why is it beneficial to use the remote method of transmitting information? Everything is very simple:
- you save time by not standing in a queue directly at the traffic police, but are at home at the computer, or even at work, while at the same time doing your own business remotely;
- through a computer the procedure can be completed in less than an hour, but in real life sometimes a full working day is not enough, this greatly affects the psyche and keeps it calm;
- through the government services website you can get a substantial discount of 30%;
- If you can’t be in your city on the day you need, don’t worry, interacting with all the necessary authorities is now as easy as shelling pears, and this is done remotely.
What documents to collect
The main list consists of four documents:
- application , it can be filled out on the State Services website or independently according to the sample,
- civil passport of the car owner or the passport of his representative and power of attorney,
- vehicle registration certificate,
- vehicle passport.
When selling or exporting abroad, you additionally need a purchase and sale agreement for the car.
When recycling, the car owner brings license plates and a recycling certificate. Such a document is issued at a recycling point when a motorist hands over an old car and provides a passport, PTS and STS.
If lost or stolen, license plates are required, if available.
The owner of the car brings the original documents to the registration department of the traffic police
Documents you can’t do without when deregistering a car
These documents are:
- Statement of the established form indicating the reason for termination of registration
- PTS (if available). This is the Sami's main document. It contains the main characteristics of the car, data about the current and previous owners.
- Passport
- Vehicle registration certificate
- Receipt confirming payment of the state fee in the specified amount
- If the procedure is not carried out by the owner, then a notarized power of attorney from the owner of the car is required.
- Document confirming the sale of the vehicle
- State registration plates (if available)
Step-by-step procedure for deregistering a car with the traffic police
Fill out an application. This can be done at the registration department, or filled out in advance using a sample or on the State Services website. When selling a car, you can submit an application online - an employee will check the documents and terminate registration. In other cases, the driver prints a statement and brings it to the traffic police.
Make an appointment. State Services will offer to do this immediately after you fill out the application.
Come to the registration department of the traffic police. If you sign up in advance, do not join the general queue. Find out how citizens with an electronic queue number are accepted.
Check after removal. When the traffic police informs you that the car has been deregistered, you can check it again on the inspection website.
Theft procedure
In a situation where a car is stolen, confirmation that the car is not being used by the owner is the initiation of a criminal case. If the stolen vehicle is found, the status of the car owner can be returned. When the case is suspended or closed, but the car is not returned to the owner, you should contact the traffic police to deregister it.
The statement states the reason for deregistration with reference to the number of the case initiated regarding the theft of the car. The set of documents is supplemented by a notification from the police.
Owning a vehicle involves regular expenses for its maintenance, including transport tax. In order not to pay for a car that, for various reasons, cannot be used, you can deregister it by providing a minimum package of documents and not always showing the car itself.
What if you don’t deregister your car?
If the owner of the car has changed, but the previous one remains in the credentials in the traffic police database, there may be consequences for him.
Transport tax. The previous owner will continue to receive notifications about the transport tax and will have to pay it. Typically, after the sale, the car owner pays tax only for a few months - from the beginning of the year until the day of sale. If the tax office demands payment for the entire year, then the car is still listed as the seller’s.
Fines. When the new owner of the car violates traffic rules, the previous owner will receive fines. He must pay the fine within 60 days, otherwise the debt will be transferred to the bailiffs, who will collect the money from the bank account.
What if I deregistered the car, but received a fine?
The traffic police updates information about the owner of the car in the database after deregistration of the car. Sometimes this does not happen immediately, so the previous owner of the car may receive a fine for violations by the new owner.
A decision containing an erroneous fine can be appealed within 10 days from receipt.
Find someone to write to. The resolution usually indicates the telephone number of the police department whose officer issued the fine. Call this number and find out the exact name and position of the department head.
Make a statement. In the application, write that the car has been sold and attach a copy of the sales contract.
Submit an application. You can complain about a fine for illegal parking in Moscow through Autocode. The numbers of such resolutions begin with 035, 780 and 782. Fines in other cities can only be appealed in writing - to do this, send the application by mail or bring it in person to the traffic police department.
Remember
- Vehicle registration is suspended temporarily if it is sold, lost or stolen. The car is permanently deregistered when exported abroad or disposed of.
- The traffic police deregisters a car free of charge, with the exception of when the car is taken abroad.
- Before the procedure, check who the car is registered to. If it's on you, deregister.
- To do this, fill out an application at State Services, make an appointment with the traffic police and collect documents. Visit the department at the appointed time.
- If you do not deregister the car, you will have to pay taxes and fines for the new owner.
- If the fine was received by mistake, complain to the traffic police and attach the car purchase and sale agreement to the application.
How to deregister a car for recycling in 2020
Sooner or later, any machine becomes unusable, as a result of which its further operation becomes impossible. However, just the actual cessation of using a car does not relieve you of the need to pay transport tax every year. To get rid of this obligation, you should ask how to deregister a car for recycling in 2020.
Termination of vehicle registration in the traffic police
The need to deregister a car arises not only for the purpose of its disposal due to wear and tear or severe damage. This procedure is provided in the following cases:
- removal of a vehicle from Russia for permanent stay;
- the new owner did not re-register the car in his name;
- vehicle theft;
- participation in the state recycling program, when the owner receives compensation for an old car, which can be used to purchase a new car.
Vehicle recycling
Termination of vehicle registration due to disposal is carried out in the case when its further operation is excluded. This can happen as a result of severe wear and tear of the vehicle, the inability to restore it after an accident, or damage received due to natural phenomena (falling tree, landslide, hurricane, etc.).
There are currently two disposal options:
- Complete - the car is completely sold for scrap, without retaining individual parts.
- Partial - some units and components remain with the owner for the purpose of reinstallation on another vehicle or for sale.
Required documents
Before contacting the traffic police MREO, you should find out what documents are needed to deregister a car in connection with disposal. So, in 2020 this will require:
- passport of the owner or his authorized representative;
- certificate of actual scrapping, issued at the recycling point;
- PTS and vehicle registration certificate;
- a notarized power of attorney, if the application is submitted through an authorized representative of the owner;
- registration plates.
Is payment of state duty required?
There is no state duty for deregistration of a car during disposal as a type of payment for the provision of a legally significant service. In case of termination of registration, there is no need to issue a vehicle registration certificate and license plates.
Existing STS, PTS and signs are surrendered and subsequently destroyed. Until July 10, 2017, it was necessary to pay only for making an entry in the PTS - 350 rubles, since its copy with such a mark was required to accept the vehicle at the recycling point.
But since July 2020, the order has changed, the need for such a record has disappeared.
Additional costs will arise only if you leave the numbered components and assemblies for reinstallation on another car. You must be given a separate certificate for each of them. Accordingly, for each released unit you will have to pay 200 rubles in state duty.
Procedure for deregistration of a vehicle for recycling purposes
The procedure for deregistering a vehicle for recycling depends on the intentions of its owner - he must decide to hand over the entire vehicle or to retain some components for further operation or sale. In the second case, you need to contact the traffic police MREO and provide the car for inspection. If the vehicle being scrapped is not drivable, the services of a tow truck will be required to deliver it to the traffic police site.
During your visit to the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate, the following documents will be required:
- passport of the owner or his authorized representative;
- PTS and vehicle registration certificate;
- a notarized power of attorney, if the application is submitted through an authorized representative of the owner;
- registration plates in their purest form.
With preservation of number units
The scrapped vehicle may contain parts and components suitable for further use.
If you want to keep such numbered units as the engine, body or frame from your old car, you must indicate this point in your application before deregistering the vehicle with the MREO.
The form can be obtained from the inspection during your visit or downloaded in advance in the “Car Owners” section on the official website of the traffic police. The application can be filled out using a fountain pen or using a computer, but in the second case you will need a printer.
At the top of the application, indicate the name of the inspection you are applying to, as well as your full last name, first name and patronymic.
Next, go down to the column “Deregister due to” and in the “further disposal” section add the phrase “and issue a certificate for the released engine.” In addition to the engine, you can also specify the body, frame or other numbered unit.
After submitting the application and other documents, the inspector must inspect the car and devices that you wish to keep. There is no need to remove them from the car in advance. After completing the inspection, you will be issued a certificate for each released unit.
Without saving aggregates
If you decide to sell your car completely for scrap, you need to choose a point that can issue documents on its actual disposal (certificate, acceptance certificate), since from July 10, 2017, it will not be possible to deregister a car without confirming its actual scrapping. To do this, your vehicle must be delivered under its own power, by tow or tow truck to the delivery site.
Some companies can pick up your vehicle for free and issue you with a recycling package of documents. After this, you should visit the MREO and deregister the car.
If the collection point cannot provide such a certificate, it will not suit you, since you will not be able to stop registering the vehicle and it will continue to be yours, which is associated with the need to pay transport tax.
In the application, it is enough to emphasize the point “further disposal” without any additional entries.
After submitting the documents and numbers, the inspector will issue a certificate of deregistration of the vehicle.
Be sure to save this certificate - it will be needed if the Federal Tax Service of Russia mistakenly continues to charge transport tax after termination of registration.
Do I need to provide a vehicle?
Since from July 10, 2017, in order to be deregistered with the traffic police MREO, it is required to provide a document confirming that the car has been disposed of, from that moment on there is no longer any need to present it for inspection, and, in principle, no possibility, since by this moment it should already be disposed of. So there is simply nothing to present.
With participation in the state recycling program
To support domestic automakers, on the initiative of the Government of the Russian Federation, a state car recycling program was launched back in 2010, and continued in 2014.
According to its terms, anyone has the right to scrap their old car, and instead of compensation, receive a discount on the purchase of a new car made in Russia.
The program had a positive impact on the growth of sales of domestic automakers, so it was decided to extend it in 2020.
A discount on the purchase of a new vehicle in the amount of up to 350,000 rubles depends on the category and model. The vehicle being handed over must be running and fully equipped: it must have all its components and components intact.
When participating in the program, from July 10, 2017, the vehicle also first needs to be handed over to a licensed recycling point, and only then deregistered with the traffic police. You can hand it over yourself or by delivering the car to a dealer’s showroom and issuing a power of attorney to its employees to hand it over and deregister it.
Is it possible to register a scrapped car?
Until July 2020, when a car was not used for a long time due to the need for major repairs, some owners preferred to stop registering it in order to avoid paying transport tax. Often, referring to the 13th paragraph of Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs No. 1001 of November 24, 2008, traffic police officers refused to restore the registration of such cars.
The situation changed after the intervention of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, which, by its decision, overturned the ban of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Now vehicles that were previously deregistered for disposal, but were not actually destroyed, have received the right to a second life.
However, you should remember that you must first bring the written-off car into good condition, undergo technical inspection, issue compulsory motor insurance, and only then begin the registration procedure.
If you can submit your car to the traffic police for inspection, inspectors do not have the right to refuse to renew registration.
Conclusion
When a car becomes unusable and there is no way to sell it, discarding it and deregistrating it is the only way out of this situation. It is not practical to store scrap metal in a garage and at the same time pay TN for it. Therefore, it is better to get rid of the junk, deregister it with the traffic police and not pay transport tax for it.
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