Importing in Denmark

The import process

Anyhow. Searching and reading and searching for the papers for the actual procedure to get the bikes registered so we can pay tax on them is quite an ordeal in Denmark, mostly because most people and information about importing is about cars and cars from the 21'st century that are newer than 2004 aka "new" cars not motorcycles.

The quest started on the Danish Motor Styrelsen which has the official documentation for the process and they state different things depending on what to do and how to do it depending on what page with lots of information in between "to help you" ... which for us was not really helpful.

We are members of FDM in denmark ("Forenede Danske Motorejere" "United Danish Motor owners") to hear if they could help with the paper work - they couldn't and told us to contact Motor Styrelsen...

We started calling the Motor Styrelse, got the ring-around and "they went home already" and "Log on to skat.dk (the Danish Tax department) to send an inquery etc. etc.

We started calling Danish inspection places that do registration and toll inspections for import and finally got 2 things going.

One of the inspecation places said that since the bike is from the 1990'es then we only need the original regitration papers. The other as a call-back from Motor Styrelsen where I had a nice talk and was told that the XRV 750 is a very popular bike and is imported often and the only thing to bring to the registrationsyn and toldsyn was the original registration papers to the inpsection place. The inspection place will then go over the bike and make sure it is legal according to Danish laws and enter the information into Motor Styrelsens IT system.

Once that is done then we can go to skat.dk and ask for evaluation of the bike to pay "Registreringsafgift" (tax) on the bike.

According to the online calculator then the price should be around DKR 9800 and DKR 11500 for the bikes respectively.

Quick note: The XRV 750's bikes are from before June 1st 2004 where the EU introduced the CoC and CO2 requirements etc. etc. but do they tell you that ... noooo.

The first bike: October 2025

We got a date for the first bike for "registreringssyn" and "toldsyn" at a local inspection site and got temporary plates to drive the bike on the road to/from the inspection place.

Not a single issue with the bike.

As of now begining of Oct 2025 we are waiting for Skat to evaluate the bike and send us a the tax bill to pay so we can get the bike registered in Denmark and get plates on it.

Registration tax fee for fist bike is in

It took almost 2 and a half weeks for Skat to get the registration fee/price determined for the first bike.

Skat used 3 other bikes on the marked right now to set the current marked price for the bike which ended up being kr 42000. From that they calculated kr 18141 as the fee. It is a bit higher than expected, but then they apparently have "the new price" from back in the '90-ies which they set to kr 150000 which adds 2000 to the fee vs kr 100000 so when you use the calculator "["Beregn afgift"] then use a higher new price than you think.

That makes the first bikes total cost:

• Purchase price in France €3400 (kr 25.398)
• Registreringsafgift kr 18141

Total: kr 43.539 (+ the trip France to pick it up)

The second bike

The second bike has just been Told- and Registreringssynet today (Oct 29th 2025).

If the tax for this bike is the same as the first then the total cost for this will be slightly higher as its purchase price was €3900:

• Purchase price in Germany €3900 (kr 29.445)
• Registreringsafgift kr 18141

Total: kr 47.274 (+ the trip Germany to pick it up)

(more to come)