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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.

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.

In what cases is deregistration possible?

Let's move on to the second operation - deregistering the car.

Let's consider Article 19 of the Federal Law “On State Registration of Vehicles”:

1. The following vehicles are subject to removal from state registration:

1) exported outside the territory of the Russian Federation for alienation in connection with the transfer of ownership of this vehicle to a foreign individual or legal entity;

2) at the request of the owner of the vehicle or an organization authorized in the manner established by the Government of the Russian Federation, after disposal of the vehicle;

3) whose state registration was terminated on the grounds specified in paragraph 7 of part 1 of Article 18 of this Federal Law, and was not renewed after one year.

There are only 3 reasons for deregistering a car:

• export outside the Russian Federation by a foreigner or a foreign legal entity;
• after recycling the car;
• if within a year after the termination of the temporary registration the car owner has not renewed it (happens automatically).

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.

The procedure for deregistering a car

The procedure for deregistering a vehicle is standard for all of the above cases, with the only difference being that when scrapping, it is necessary to completely hand over license plates, PTS and STS, and when it is stolen, inspection of the car is excluded, since it is missing.

The rest of the procedure is as follows:

1. You must contact the MREO at the traffic police with an application to deregister the car. The application must indicate the reason (in connection with the removal of the vehicle outside the Russian Federation, in connection with disposal, in connection with theft).
2. Along with the application, you must submit a package of documents to the inspectors (the owner’s civil passport, PTS and STS, a notarized power of attorney and additional documents related to the reason for deregistration).
3. After checking the documents and history of the car, you need to undergo an inspection of the car by a forensic specialist at a special site (all identification numbers on the car must be cleared and clearly legible) and receive his stamp on the application.
4. Then the state duty is paid at the bank branch and attached to the package of documents.
5. State license plates are removed and returned.

At the end, you will be given your documents (except STS) with a note in the PTS about deregistration. The procedure has some features that are related to the reason for your application to the MREO.

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

The procedure for deregistering a car upon application

Removal of a car from registration without the owner of the car in 2021 due to loss or theft is carried out on the basis of an application from the owner. In this case, license plates and vehicle documents missing upon application will be put on the wanted list.

In case of termination of registration at the request of the previous owner due to a transfer of ownership, you will need to prove the change of owner by presenting supporting documents - a purchase and sale agreement, donation, etc.

Deregistration of a vehicle in the absence of the owner is also possible using a power of attorney issued by the owner to his authorized representative. In this case, it must be presented when submitting the application.

The application and attached documents should be submitted to any traffic police department that carries out registration activities (MREO) within a constituent entity of the Russian Federation.

To reduce the time required to submit documents to the State Traffic Inspectorate unit, you can pre-register for a specific date and time on a single portal of state and municipal authorities. The registration procedure through the website will require mandatory citizen authorization.

When applying for registration actions and paying state fees using the specified State Services portal in the period from January 1, 2021, the amount of required payments is reduced by 30% (clause 4 of Article 333.35 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation).

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.

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.

When stolen

The application should indicate: “in connection with the theft of a vehicle” and attach a civil passport, PTS and a certificate of initiation of a criminal case for theft of a car (must be obtained in advance). Deregistration of a stolen car is a free service.

Thus, deregistration of a car is a registration procedure, which is no less important than registering the vehicle. Without it, you will not be able to take the car abroad to register it at a new place of registration; you risk paying fines for the new owner to whom you sold the car, and taxes for a car that you do not use (theft or disposal).

The deregistration procedure is simple and does not take much time or money. If you follow the correct procedure, collect a complete package of correctly executed documents and clearly formulate the purpose of deregistering the car, you can solve the problem in a day.

Remember

1. Vehicle registration is suspended temporarily if it is sold, lost or stolen. The car is permanently deregistered when exported abroad or disposed of.
2. The traffic police deregisters a car free of charge, with the exception of when the car is taken abroad.
3. Before the procedure, check who the car is registered to. If it's on you, deregister.
4. 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.
5. If you do not deregister the car, you will have to pay taxes and fines for the new owner.
6. If the fine was received by mistake, complain to the traffic police and attach the car purchase and sale agreement to the application.

All articles by the author: Ilya Novikov

Upon sale and no re-registration

If the new owner of the car has not re-registered the car in his name within the established 10-day period, you can deregister it in order to avoid paying taxes and fines (state license plates and STS will also be cancelled). In the application you must indicate “in connection with the sale of a car” and attach your civil passport and purchase/sale agreement. A receipt for payment of the state fee is not needed, since the new owner of the vehicle must pay for the re-registration service. The traffic police should issue you a certificate for the NFS indicating the date from which the car no longer belongs to you.