Registration of Foreign Cars in NL

With 350,000 overseas workers in the Netherlands, only 31 percent have registered their vehicles under their names. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"25779","attributes":{"class":"media-image size-medium wp-image-4171 ","typeof":"foaf:Image","style":"","width":"300","height":"225","alt":"Cars"}}]] Cars in the Netherlands
Photo by Petra de Boevere/Wikimedia Commons As a result, the government has called for all foreign residents in the Netherlands to register their cars and pay the required taxes. Under the law, cars registered abroad are allowed on the Dutch road for two weeks utmost prior to registration. "I suspect it is a large group of cars. That’s a lot of tax the government is not receiving," Christian Democrat MP Pieter Omtzigt said. Omtzigt already asked the Junior Finance Minister to start a scheme to oblige residents with foreign registered vehicles to pay Dutch road tax before fall. Source: Volkskrant