A Polish BMW owner has just won against the Danish Tax and Motor Agency, which thought he should cough up 500,000 kroner in registration tax. Now the state owes him 73,000 kroner.
The authorities are not always right. And now the Danish Motor Vehicle Authority owes a Polish BMW owner a whopping 73,000 kroner after he was stopped at the Danish-German border back in 2020.
The authority believed that he had to pay registration tax on his car, a BMW M550i, because he stayed in Denmark for more than 180 days.
But the authority cannot prove this. Therefore, the Danish Motor Agency must now drop a claim of a whopping 544,575 kroner in registration tax.
This is stated by the Danish Motor Vehicle Authority in a published district court decision on its website .
The Danish authorities cannot refute the Pole's documentation that he is not in Denmark for more than 180 days a year.
Incidentally, it is not only the district court that says that the Danish Tax and Motoring Authority is wrong, the National Tax Court does the same. And they actually did so already in 2023.
But it is now – five years after the man was stopped in the BMW – that the district court has reached a decision.
This is the second time in a very short time that the Danish Tax Agency has lost a case regarding the pursuit of money among owners of motor vehicles on Danish asphalt.
Boosted recently reported that the same authority must give up chasing motorcyclists who place their license plates in a slightly alternative way.Read more about it here .
