Hi all.

This is the case that I guess is not responded in any of the threads:
-Living in Switzerland for 1,5 years (12 months surpassed)
-I have my bike (CBR600F) in my home town in the EU. Purchased almost 10 years ago.
-The bike has not been declared (in advance) as part of my household.

I read that for household stuff there is a limit of 2 years to import personal stuff.

The case is that as far as I successfully adapted to the country, I would like to take that beauty to Switzerland.

I guess that I have the import process clear in my mind, but I don't know if I should pay import taxes for that bike that has been mine from long ago.

Can you give me some advise on this?

Best regards.

juisjuis

what did you do at the end? I am in the same situation.

Hi.

I just read de 18.44 official document in english form the swiss customs.
http://www.ezv.admin.ch/zollinfo_pri...x.html?lang=en

Seems to be like if you want to implement the process in the city where you live they issue the 15.25 document in the at the border and then you have 2 additional working days to implement the paperwork in your city of living.

Seems to be like we have 2 year to import household stuff.

I went to the customs office in Zürich and they were quite good explaining how to implement this import process, so I recommend you to go to you Kanton's customs office to get information.

In Zurich we spoke in English with no probs.

Regards.

juisjuis.

Hi all.

My motorbikes are already in Switzerland and following the procedure...

That was the procedure so far:
1.-I arrived to the Swiss border with those bikes in a trailer (on Sunday), so they issued the 15.25 document, which is a temporary document to follow the official procedure somewhere else later on (valid for two working days), in our case in the the Zurich customs office.
2.-We went to the Zurich customs office and they issued the 13.20A document after paying 20CHF. No other money spent there, because I owned those bikes for loooong ago.

Remember that we have surpassed the 12 months limit, so there is no 12 month limit to import your household, that is in reality a 24 months to get your stuff (household) into Switzerland (including vehicles).

Now the next step is going to the strassenverkehrsamt to implement the paperwork there and next for them to do an MFK on my bikes.

I'll keep you posted on how the thing goes in the strassenverkehrsamt

juisjuis