Thursday, 3rd July 2008 - 09:58CET
ADT directed to update rules on admission of foreign registered vehicles
Transport Minister Austin Gatt has directed the Transport Authority to amend its policies and practices with regard to the temporary admission of foreign registered vehicles .
He said in a letter to the chairman after an audit of current processes by PricewaterhouseCoopers that the legal notice regulating this area should be amended so that:
A resident in Malta would not be given a temporary permit to import a foreign registered vehicle. Instead, any resident should be obliged to register the vehicle and pay the relative registration tax, within seven days of importation. Dr Gatt said he saw no reason for any exceptions to this rule, including second hand car importers.
He said a person should be considered as being a resident of Malta if he holds a Malta ID card or, according to law, should have applied for one.
Persons considered as being non-resident should have the right to import a foreign registered vehicle and keep it for six months, after which he/she would be obliged to register the vehicle and pay registration tax. However when this person produces a contract of employment showing that he/she is employed in Malta for a further period of six months at most, the ADT can extend the period of non-registration of the vehicle for a further six months which cannot be renewed.
Dr Gatt said vehicles exempt from registration should be issued with plates bearing distinctive letters or a security windscreen sticker showing that the car has been exempt and including the month of expiry of that permission.
The authority was also asked to establish the relevant fees and fines.
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I am not going to resort to answering his comments though, as he just does not get the jist of my original argument...which was not even directed at him (since his note was not yet published when I wrote mine). But if he want's to cry on my dog's other paw... So be it.
@The rest: To get back to my original arguement...if you all stoped spewing lava at PN voters and joined forces (one for all and all for one) maybe we could make a common front against what Mr. Gatt is proposing to do. Merely moaning gets you now where. (Take the armier residents as an example!)
I say bring back George Bonello De Puis. He taxed less and collected more. Maybe AG can learn a trick or two from him
what irked me is your insolence and I agree with J. Abela's comments and add that when the conservatives get tongue tied they resort to name calling which is the norm for them.
All along you choose to ignore the points made in previous posts where your own words are referred to practically verbatim and in return you persist in digging your heels deeper making more presumptive statements - about my own political creed if you please (and which you appear to be obsessed with) - and by comparing this to other expatriates.
You are not interested in fair comments made by others and instead prefer the belligerent approach. Drag yourself to those depths alone. I am not interested in joining you.
Again you get everything topsy turvy. I do not call political opponents weirdos. I called weirdos those people who write here (presumably labour) calling PN supports all sorts of names for having taken the best decision available at the time. The fact that you live abroad does not mean you are not a laburist. It simply means you don't vote. Go check the most of the Maltese Australians about this statement...I know, I lived there...they will tell you...jien laburist.
May I suggest you refrain from stumbling upon your vivid logic.
@Michael Catania. Hence the leaders who chose to that at the time are weird as well. I have no problem with that. Unlike you I dont indulge in sickaphantisim thus as I already mentioned, I will not sell my soul for any party. The fact that what I said (was FACT) and irked you it shows that unlike me, you are not capable for auto-criticism of your defunct leader.
God bless
Regarding your disgraceful comments about the ex-MLP Leader Dr.Alfred Sant about his comments on the EU referendum may I point out that in a not too long distance past your party campaigned against Integration with the UK. The majority vote was for Integration but your weirdo leaders came out with the comments that "the majority did not want Integration". as they bundled the non voters with the NO VOTE.As usual with the conservatives and their lackeys moved the goalpost to suit themselves, I suppose you call that democracy.
I find you mildly entertaining but entering into an interminable diatribe with you based on name calling does not interest me in the least. My reply to you was based on your own words to which I applied first order logic.
About myself being a blind laburist? I said earlier that I live abroad, and for your information I don't vote. Do you need another logic lesson here?
You presume too much in that (again: your words)
(1) your political opponents are weirdos,
(2) all your political opponents vote even if abroad and
(3) they are also blind.
My original post blames all those who wave flags, honk car horns etc was directed to anyone irrespective of political creed. Try and find any trace therein that was directed to a PN/ MLP stereotype to the exclusion of the other. I actually said the Government has a mandate to carry on.
If you find that trace: write back.
Finally manners maketh man (or woman). I recommend that you stop calling people asses, childish, idiots or weirdos (again your words). This is the Times, not a cheap rag. Do not abuse your freedom of speech.
Like others have said am I not allowed to visit my EU member home country with an EU member registered vehicle for more than 7 days.
I hold a Maltese ID, work abroad, would like to restore a vintage vehicle in Malta and take back out of Malta ( spending revenue on the island ) and all this according to ADT can be done within 7 days.
This does not make sense, someone here has not understood or better still is resisting change untill maybe Brussels start infringement proceeding same as in the case on departure tax. Till the time imfringment proceedings start or are implemented whatever can be creamed off the citizen is possible.
Same as with departure tax we now have the goverment boasting about the removal of it, we , the frequent travelling sector together with all those who have paid this tax for many years would be please to see a refund.
That is what I call putting "money where your mouth is"
While I can disagree with the government's plans to certain things, I can say, hand on heart, that over-all, this government has got what it takes to manage this country. The alternative which I presume you voted for, of course, blindly, simply because you probably call yourself Laburist, ws not alternative at all. Well for a circus clown, maybe. The fact that I vote for PN, does not on the other hand mean, that I sell my soul and have to agree with each and every policy the government comes up with. Now rather than asses saying.."thats what you get for voting PN" and other idiotic comments; a united front against policies could make the difference.
Well Mr. Abela - If you don't get this simplified childish version, then I'm afraid I got better things to do.
The Maltese people should learn the say Shame on you if you fool me once !Shame on US if you fool me twice and more!!
1. those who criticise the government = weirdos
2. the government = weird policies
Where does this leave those who voted PN?
They must be the weirdest... as they continuously support a party with weird policies (Azzopardi's words not mine).
A textbook example of where x is a case and a = x, therefore a is the case.
I blame those of you who honk their horns in carcades, attend mass meetings, wave party flags and above all vote for these so called politicians.
What is the government supposed to do if it is voted into Castille repetitevely? Obviously continue with its agenda. It has a mandate to do so.
In other words, you vote for a party with a track record and you get that party and more of that track record. Change happens once every 5 years. So stop moaning and remember: every country gets the government it deserves.
However I thought Malta was trying to move towards newer 'greener' vehicles, yet with prices of everything soaring up (10% fuel, 95% surcharge, 66% wheat products to name just a few) and with wages a miserable 1.5% increase. People are even less likely to be able to afford new cars at Malta's prices + extortionate registration + incorrectly calculated VAT on top. So the older vehicles will most likely continue to pollute Malta for years to come.
The foreign vehicle importation if structured well & costs are made reasonable, could provide an opportunity to have more greener cars (eg. from new to 5yrs old) in Malta. As sales of new & nearly-new cars in Italy / Spain / Holland & even UK (to name a few) are hugely less expensive. These should be more reachable now we are supposidley in the EU / EC / 'one Europe' and with the freedom of movement agreement.
Has this been agreed with Brussels.or do I have to 'Ask Simon"?
Belgian rules that require residents' motor vehicles to be registered in Belgium are contrary to the principle of freedom of movement for workers
Mr Van Lent, who is a Belgian national residing in Belgium, usually drives a motor vehicle with a Luxembourg registration plate.
He works in Luxembourg during the week and his employer has provided him with a vehicle leased from a company established in Luxembourg.
Mr Van Lent also used the vehicle for private purposes to go home and at the weekend.
Following a traffic check in Belgium in 1999, the Belgian authorities commenced criminal proceedings against Mr Van Lent for infringing the Belgian rules.
However, Mr Van Lent could not register the vehicle in Belgium because the owner was the leasing company.
The Belgian court referred a question to the Court of Justice of the European Communities on the compatibility of the Belgian rules with the principle of freedom of movement for workers under the EC Treaty.
The Court holds that such a measure cannot be justified on grounds of road safety or of combating erosion of the tax base
1. Minister receives audit report from PwC
2. Minister sees bill from PwC
3. Minister scrabbles for cash to pay PwC
4. Minister notices cash-grabbing scheme buried inside PwC report
5. Trebles all round, and stuff the general public.
Well, at least we can all express our democratic opinion about this particular matter in 5 years time. So that's OK.
U vera pajjiz tal-mickey mouse ta!!
I wish we are at the door step of the next general election!!!!