I need your help please "non technical"

[C-556]

The situation is a little complicated so let me try to answer:

Inside the same country:

First of all, when a company sells a car to a private person, the private person needs to be charged MWST as this is the tax to be charged to the final "consumer".

So, he sells to you and needs to debit you.

Now let us think abt the sale across borders:

In former times a car that was sold to a foreigner was not subject to Mehrwertsteuer.

The former owner had to prove that the car was exported and the story was over this is still the case for sales outside the EU.

Now we face the sale in the EU.

Normally inside the EU the sales tax (MWST) is charged to the foreign buyer and the buyer can take the car to his EU member state without being asked questions and without having to pay any import duties and sales tax at home.

To my opinion your seller has a problem, he forgot to charge the MWST to you and so the government will ask him to pay.
Most likely they will take it that the sales price that he charged to you was a price including tax and so he will have to pay the 16 percent out of this sale price. That is his problem now!

You, however, have a valid purchase contract with a valid price in it and it is not your problem or your fault.
If you seller wants to have the Abmeldebescheinigung, send it to him and get out of the case.

Thanks
rgds
Cord