In Russia, the re-registration procedure has long been simplified Vehicle when buying / selling and donating transactions: this can be done without removing the car from the register. The new owner must appear at the traffic police within 10 days from the date of sale and make changes to the car documents.

However, there are situations when the car still needs to be deregistered, and this procedure is somewhat different from the re-registration procedure according to the package of mandatory documents and the procedure. We will talk in more detail in this article about how to remove a car from the register with the traffic police (MREO).

When do you need to deregister a car?

Deregistration is required in four cases:

• When selling, if new owner did not re-register the vehicle for himself within the prescribed period. This is necessary for the former owner of the car to avoid paying transport tax and fines that may be imposed on the car between the sale and re-registration.
• When selling with export outside the Russian Federation or traveling abroad for a long time. In this situation, the owner will need to register the car at the new place of registration, and for this it is necessary to remove it from the old register.
• Vehicle recycling or trade-in. When it is necessary to dispose of a car unsuitable for further operation or its individual components with unique own numbers, you will have to deregister the car (an issued tax certificate will save you from further payment of transport tax).
• Vehicle theft. This is a temporary deregistration until the car is found. In this case, the car itself is missing (according to the documents), and you will not need to pay taxes for it.

To go through the procedure for deregistration of a car with the traffic police, you must contact any MREO. The permanent registration of the owner of the car and the place of the previous / subsequent operation of the car does not matter.

Car deregistration process

The procedure for deregistration of a vehicle is standard for all of the above cases, with the only difference being that during disposal it is necessary to completely surrender license plates, TCP and STS, and when stolen, inspection of the car is excluded, since it is missing.

The rest of the procedure is as follows:

1. It is necessary to contact the MREO at the traffic police with an application to deregister the car. The application should indicate the reason (in connection with the export of the vehicle outside the Russian Federation, in connection with disposal, in connection with theft).
2. Together with the application, a package of documents must be handed over 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 the history of the car, it is necessary to pass an inspection of the car by a forensic specialist at a special site (all identification numbers on the car must be cleared and well read) and get 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 surrendered.

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

For 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 not to pay taxes and fines (state numbers and STS are also canceled). In the application, you must indicate “in connection with the sale of the car”, and attach your civil passport and a purchase / sale agreement. A receipt for payment of the state duty 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 NSF indicating the date from which the car no longer belongs to you.

When leaving the vehicle abroad

When traveling abroad in your own car for a long time or exporting a purchased car, you will need to indicate in the application: “in connection with the export of the vehicle outside the Russian Federation”, attach a package of documents: a civil passport, a document on the ownership of the car (purchase / sale agreement), PTS and STS. It is also necessary to pay the state duty: 350 rubles (changes in the STS) + 1600/2100 rubles (production of transit paper / metal numbers). PTS is cancelled.

When disposing

The application must indicate: “connections with full / partial disposal” and attach a civil passport, PTS and STS, license plates for submission to the traffic police. A certificate is issued on the basis of a package of documents. It is also necessary to pass an inspection of the car during full disposal (you can do it without a car or call an expert at home), or verify unit numbers for partial disposal. State duty: 350 rubles (changes in the TCP) + 350 rubles (certificate for numbered units). With full disposal, the state duty is not paid and the TCP is canceled.

When stolen

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

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

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

The change of ownership when selling a car requires the new car owner to carry out the procedure for registering a car in the traffic police database within a 10-day period, however, for certain reasons, not all buyers are in a hurry to register the car for themselves. In order to avoid the accrual of fines, taxes, and also to absolve himself of responsibility before the law for all actions performed by the new owner of the car, the seller can deregister the car on his own.

Since the new owner has already taken the car keys and documents for the vehicle, the former owner cannot present the car for verification of state registration numbers, as well as the main components and assemblies. However, due to the new registration rules, the issue can be resolved without a car.

Reasons for not registering a car on time

There may be several reasons for not rushing to re-register a car according to the traffic police database:

• the new owner is physically unable to carry out the procedure due to illness or forced long absence;
• unwillingness to pay fines for offenses during the period of ownership after the sale and purchase transaction;
• lack of need for further operation of the car in the near future and the desire to save on the transport tax charged to the car owner;
• other unforeseen reasons, as well as simple irresponsibility of the buyer.

At the same time, the former owner is not interested in the fact that the cars were listed on it according to the traffic police, because all fines, taxes, claims regarding the operation of transport will continue to come in his name.

Simplified process of registering a car after a sale and purchase transaction and automatic deregistration from former owner allows you to perform two actions at the same time. However, the improvement of the rules has led to an increase in the number of problems for the old owners. The problem is resolved quite quickly if you know the features of the new procedure and your rights.

Where to go

Thanks to the commissioning of a unified information base operating in all departments of the traffic police across the territory of the Russian Federation, registration actions are no longer required in the same department where the car was registered. The simplified registration and deregistration process allows you to do this in the nearest, most convenient branch.

If the new owner did not re-register the car within the period allotted by law, for the sake of his own safety former owner steps must be taken to deregister the vehicle.

Even if the seller is located in another city, another region of Russia, deregistration can be performed without any territorial reference, upon application. However, the procedure has its own subtleties that must be observed in order for the procedure to be successful.

Description of deregistration steps

Upon learning that the car is still listed as his, the former owner begins to worry, because officially the vehicle is still considered his property.

Before proceeding with active actions in the traffic police, it is necessary to carry out preliminary preparation:

1. Negotiations with the person who bought the car. When concluding a sale and purchase transaction, the new and old owners exchange telephone numbers for prompt communication in case of any problems. On the eve of contacting the traffic police, you must contact the buyer and find out his plans for the car and the reasons for the failure to complete the procedure within the prescribed 10-day period. Perhaps the car is already being registered or the owner has made an appointment with the department in the coming days, and the procedure for deregistration of the car will greatly complicate the process of registering it for a new owner. If it was not possible to contact the buyer or there were no clear answers, it is necessary to urgently proceed to the following actions.
2. Making an appointment at the nearest branch of the State traffic inspectorate through the website of the State Service, by phone hotline, with a personal visit to the department.

The former owner can try to resolve the issue of registration in court, presenting the concluded agreement on the sale of the vehicle as a justification. However, if the contract is also missing (damaged, lost), deregistration of the car, the documents for which are no longer available, is possible only in case of its further disposal.

The next steps are similar to those for full disposal, which does not require the car to be inspected and the numbers checked. With the only condition - a mandatory indication in the application that the documents for the car are lost. Such an application is accepted for consideration already without the requirement to provide registration papers for the vehicle.

The steps for processing the disposal in this case are as follows:

1. The application is submitted to the employee considering the appeals of citizens.
2. The inspector makes changes in the database and issues a certificate on the transfer of the machine for recycling.
3. This certificate is presented to the tax office to stop the accrual of transport tax.
4. The former owner disclaims any legal responsibility for the car sold, but not registered on time. And the new owner, if he tries to use the car for transportation, will face big troubles - the transfer of the vehicle to the impound lot and big troubles if he intends to still re-register the car for himself.

This procedure is rather an exception to the rule, because in the future, false disposal will still pop up in the proceedings. In addition, such an event will greatly complicate the life of the new owner. Therefore, you can apply this scheme of actions solely for your own safety and after all attempts to get in touch with the buyer have been unsuccessful.

Both drivers would have had much less trouble if they had registration actions together. In this case, neither the previous owner nor the new one will have any fears of any undesirable consequences in the future.

On the video about the re-registration of the car

Security measures when making purchase and sale transactions

Despite the fact that the former owner is now exempt from the need to deregister the car, his personal interest remains in conducting the registration procedure together with the buyer.

Deregistration of a car is a process, although important, but not as time consuming as most other registration procedures. In the article you will learn how to deregister a car, how to do it without a car, whether it is possible to deregister a car in another region, how to write an application, where to go and other nuances of this procedure.

Deregistration of a car can be done for several reasons, although the most common of these is the sale of the car. Also, the car is deregistered for disposal, in case of loss, theft, and also in those rare cases when it is required to take the car abroad. This is done in order to stop receiving fines for the old owner (seller - in the event of a car sale), as well as accrue transport tax.

Please note that it has become even easier to deregister a vehicle from the traffic police database in a year - the fact is that the legislation, and specifically, the Rules for the re-registration of vehicles, were updated in 2017, therefore, even if you previously had experience of deregistration in the State traffic inspectorate , now new - somewhat modified rules have been introduced for this.

Where can I deregister a car

Any vehicle is deregistered in only one state institution - the registration department of the traffic police. You can find a list of registration offices in your region or city on the official website of the traffic police in the contacts section. Here are the registration offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg and in all large and small cities, as well as regions of our country.

Deregistration of a car upon sale

Many drivers think that when selling a car, it is not necessary to remove it from the registration. After all, the new owner registers it for himself, then the car is automatically deregistered in the traffic police and put on the new owner. But it's not. The main catch here is if the new owner does not register it. Then fines will come to you as a seller, and transport tax will also be charged. In addition, there is a risk of falling under the article of the Administrative Code for transferring control to a person in a state of intoxication if the buyer is caught in such a state, although this is rare and mainly in cases where you lose the contract of sale and cannot confirm the transfer of ownership.

You can remove the car from the register in the year on the 11th day after the sale specified in the contract, because the seller has 10 more days by law to register the car for himself.

To remove the car from the register, you will need to write an application, pay a state duty and take two documents with you. Although, in the traffic police you will have to appear with 3 documents as a result:

• completed application for deregistration of the car,
• passport,
• purchase and sale agreement.

If you decide to contact the State Traffic Inspectorate not through the State Services, but directly, then you can fill out an application directly at the traffic police department, there is also a sample to fill out. If you decide to fill it out right away at home, so as not to waste time in the traffic police, then do not worry, the application form is not of the established form and is filled out in a free form. All you need to do is provide all the necessary information about the car and yours. Such data can be viewed in a special form of the regulations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the provision of vehicle registration, in its appendix No. 1.

How to deregister a car through the State Services

And here there are two ways to remove the car from the register: by contacting the registration department of the traffic police directly or through the website of the State Service. In the first case, instructions are not required, in the second it is also simple:

1. You go to the website of the State Services and log in,
2. Fill out the application online by entering the details of your passport, vehicle passport, registration certificate, as well as the sale and purchase agreement, submit an application,
3. Make an appointment with the traffic police at the selected time,
4. At the selected time, you arrive at the traffic police with the documents listed in the previous list.

How to remove the car from the register if you have lost the contract of sale

If you have managed to lose the DKP, then you should not despair - you can still apply for deregistration of the car in the traffic police, although this will have to be done for other reasons. Therefore, if you parted with a new buyer on good terms, then the easiest way is to fill out a new copy of the sales contract with his signature (and, most importantly, the previous date of sale). And already with this agreement, contact the traffic police department, having learned the lesson not to lose important documents.

If, for one reason or another, you are unable to make a new copy of the lost DCT - for example, the new owner of the car does not get in touch, has claims against you regarding the purchased car and, thus, does not meet halfway in this matter, then you will have to remove the car on the basis lose her. In this case, you will not need a sales contract. You just have to point out that the TCP, which is required to terminate registration on this basis, is also lost (for example, it was in the glove compartment of a car). But it is worth warning the new owner of the car that he may have problems, since at the same time a note is made in the database of the traffic police vehicle that the car is lost, and problems may await the new owner if the traffic police officers stop him on the road. So registration by the new owner and / or facilitating deregistration by the seller in the interests of the new owner of the car.

What to do with fines that came before deregistration of a car

The fines that the new owner of the car caught before you registered and deregistered the car by you must be appealed. It is quite simple to do this: you need to send a complaint about fines, attaching a copy of the sales contract to the letter. Thus, the State traffic inspectorate will see confirmation that the car left your property on a certain date, and fines were caught after this date. Thus, this is irrefutable proof that these fines are not yours, and they will be canceled and transferred to the new owner of the car.

How to deregister a car without a car

If you want to rent a car from registration records without the vehicle itself for one reason or another - for example, if the cars are not on the move, then this can be done for all reasons, except for one - exporting the car abroad (clause of the Administrative Regulations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on providing registration of vehicles).

In this only case, you will have to bring the car for a mandatory inspection at the site of the traffic police. Even if the car is not running, then in order to deregister it for subsequent sale abroad, you will need to pay for a tow truck to bring it for inspection.

Removing a car from the register for recycling

The process of removing the vehicle from the register in order to dispose of it is also simple. And this can also be done on the State Services website by selecting the appropriate service. Unlike a simple deregistration due to disposal of a car, 3 more additional documents will be required for disposal:

• registration certificate (technical passport),
• certificate of disposal (according to the changed rules for deregistration of the year).

Separately, it is worth noting the document on recycling. Prior to the changed accounting rules in 2017, this was not required. Now it is necessary to officially confirm the very fact of disposal. Innovations were made due to attempts to deregister cars when selling and losing a sales contract.

That is, now to remove the car from the register in connection with the scrap, the very fact of the scrap will be required. You can purchase such a document at the place of disposal - in other words, in the iron receiving department, which has a license to issue certificates.

How much does it cost to deregister a car and is there a state duty for it

Deregistration of a car using one of the above grounds is not subject to state duty and is absolutely free. All your expenses will be minimal at the same time: the cost of an Internet connection when submitting an application through the State Services, as well as transportation costs and payment for a tow truck, if you remove the vehicle from the register in connection with sending it abroad, and your car is not running, because as, as we mentioned above, for this you will need to bring the car for inspection to the traffic police.

Is it possible to deregister a car in another region?

The legislation of the year does not provide for any restrictions on the suspension of registration of a car at the place of registration of the owner (former owner when you sell the car). This means that you can terminate the registration of a vehicle at any traffic police department throughout Russia.

If the inspector in the window of the registration department says otherwise, then he should remember that he is the executive part of the law, and demand to refer to the regulatory legal act that prohibits deregistration of a car at the place of residence and obliges it to be done at the place of registration (registration) of the applicant. The traffic police officer will not find such grounds, because they are not in any Russian law.

How to check if a car is deregistered

Checking the vehicle registration history is also carried out on the official website of the traffic police by the VIN code of the car, its body or chassis number.

Go to the vehicle check page on the traffic police website and enter one of the listed numbers. Next, go through protection from robots and click "request verification". As a result, the site will show you the entire registration history of your car, including the current state of its registration.

Just remember that the traffic police database on the site is somewhat late with updates - in our experience, by several days, so please be a little patient.