Selling a car involves getting rid of the previous owner of the necessary expenses for maintaining the car that is registered. But the new owner must definitely put the car on a new account, the previous owner will stop calculating taxes on the sold car. Failure to re-register the car with a new owner entails additional costs for the seller.

How does this threaten the car seller?

After the sale, it is important to check whether the new owner of the car has re-registered or forgot to carry out this procedure. In situations of a forgetful customer, a reminder will solve the problem. There are buyers who deliberately forget to register the car, they hope that the seller will forget to check who the car is registered on. It is imperative to check whether the new owner has registered the car in order to avoid legal problems.

The procedure for re-registering a vehicle for a new owner is carried out by the authorized police authorities, observing a certain secrecy, so anyone interested, even an inspector, cannot find out about the re-registration status. Official verification by the previous owner of the registration data is not possible. Within ten days that have passed since the date of the purchase and sale agreement, it will be pointless to check whether the new owner reissued the car after the sale. The necessary changes will not be updated and check the status early, you will have to find out later the necessary data.

Checking the name of the real owner registered in the official databases allows you to prevent many problems related to:

• taxation. The unregistered car will be registered with the previous owner, the seller will have to pay the accrued taxes. Tax services cannot find out about the transaction;
• free punishment. Fines issued on the fact of speeding, parking and other violations will go to the old owner;
• if the car is used for criminal purposes, then the problems will have to be solved by the old owner, since the accounting will show his name.

To prove non-involvement in the car, if fines and taxes come to the previous owner, possibly by providing the necessary purchase and sale agreement, official structures are always guided by official data, the transfer of the car to the new owner will have to be proven through the courts. If there is a criminal case, then it is enough to show the resale agreement and the questions disappear. When it comes to accounting for taxes and fines, words and agreement are not enough.

Some former owners do it easier: they rent a car for scrap, having reported false information about the car and documents. The new owner will not be able to use the car for its intended purpose, he can sue, win the case, simultaneously punishing the old owner with compensation for moral and material damage. Due to the lack of re-registration, the fact that he did not re-register the car and the lack of registration, the court will not take into account. In the event of fines, the former owner of the vehicle will definitely have to sue, the accounting shows the registration data to the inspectors.

Verification methods

You can find out the procedure for re-registering a car after the sale in the authorities or on the official website of the traffic police, so it is logical to assume that you can check whether the car is registered to the new owner there. This method is unofficial, responsible employees can get into the position of the seller and inform him about the re-registration. It is impossible to find out the renewal data by writing an application.

There are official methods of verification, for this it is used:

• the official portal of the State Services, on the provided service it is possible to check the tax accounting, to request the Rosreestr website for a new property accounting registered to the interested person. A request to the authorities gives grounds to find out about this property, you can check whether the car has been reissued;
• autocode service that works over the Internet. The STS number makes it possible to find out about the renewal of the car. The service will show information about the renewal in the form of dates when the car was put on a new account.

The provided dates allow you to find out about the renewal and compare the time of the vehicle sale. It is impossible to find out in other ways about the registration of the car and the renewal of registration data.

What if the new owner did not register the car?

It is impossible to initiate legal proceedings by forcing the new owner to re-register the car belonging to him. You can provide for a penalty in the contract if the buyer is in no hurry to register the car after the sale. If the reissuance has not occurred, you must submit a claim for payment. The buyer may be unpleasantly surprised to learn about the amount of the penalty.

The problem here is that if the previous owner removed the car from the traffic police register, and you, as a buyer, did not manage to register it for yourself, then you may face serious problems with traffic police inspectors on the road. How to check if the previous owner has removed the car from the register? There is an actual answer!

What is the problem?

The fact that the buyer is given 10 days to re-register the car. During this time, the new owner is obliged to issue an OSAGO policy, bring the car into proper technical condition (if it is not in ideal form for this) for a successful inspection at the MREO site and only after that register it in his own name with the traffic police.

The main subtlety here is in two nuances:

1. you will not always be able to purchase a CTP policy quickly, including electronic insurance,
2. when trying to register with the traffic police for registration, they can often be invited in more than 10 days, and during this time the previous owner can already remove the car from the traffic police register.

At the same time, it is prohibited to drive an unregistered car.

Not only will you face a fine for untimely registration of a car, it is much worse if the previous owner removes it from registration for himself on the basis of a sale and purchase agreement.

For driving a car that has been removed from the register, license plates and STS will be seized, and then you will have to move only on a tow truck. And if you bought a car with beautiful numbers, then you will lose them - upon re-registration, in case of their withdrawal, new ones are issued, and the old ones are disposed of.

We have already written about the fines that can be imposed if you do not have time to register the car within the allotted 10 days. Now is the time to figure out how to check if the old owner has taken it off the register.

How to check if the previous owner has deregistered?

Today there is only one actual way to check this - the official website of the traffic police. If you find other methods in other sources, then this is outdated data. So, State services now officially do not provide an opportunity to find out whether the previous owner took the car off the register or not.

As you can see, among the list of public services there is no vehicle accounting check

Other information systems and resources draw information on the registration of vehicles from the official database of the traffic police, and this happens, according to our personal practice, not always in a timely manner.

However, the traffic police website is about 50% late with the data on the registration of the car by about a few days.

Instructions for checking on the traffic police website

It will take: Vehicle VIN or body or chassis number.

1. So, first of all, you need to go to the traffic police website. Next, in the top menu, select "Services" "Car check". The traffic police website still does not have an adaptive or mobile version of the site, so it will look the same both on computers and laptops, and on mobile devices.

2. In the window that opens, enter the VIN-code of the car, the number of its body or chassis.

Calculate the cost of the CTP policy

3. Now it remains to find the very first block of checks called " Checking the history of registration in the traffic police"and click at the end of the" Request verification "block

4. As a result, you will be shown protection against robots in a pop-up window - you will need to enter the characters from the picture in the field below it, after entering the last character, the window will automatically close, and you will see the result of the check.

You need to pay special attention to the last 2 lines of the check result. This is where the current owner of the car appears. If this is the old owner, then this means that he has not taken it off the register yet.

But if, as a result of the registration check, you were given that information about the vehicle registration was not found, as in the image below, then the previous owner took the car off the traffic police register.

Other methods of checking deregistration

As we mentioned above, data on the results of checks in other services and on other sites are not always provided in a timely manner. But the official website of the traffic police also often simply does not work and does not provide the necessary information.

Therefore, here is a list of two other ways to check the deregistration of a car by the previous owner.

• Autocode portal (only for Moscow residents),
• Contacting directly with a written statement of the traffic police (this is a very long time).

What will be the ride on a deregistered car?

As we briefly indicated, for this, your license plates and registration certificate will be withdrawn right on the road. This is done on the basis of paragraph 50 of Order No. 399, which says the following:

Registration documents, vehicle passportsother than those found to be fake, as well as state registration marksnot handed over by the owner of the vehicle to the registration department of the State Traffic Inspectorate, are entered by the registration department of the State Traffic Inspectorate into the relevant search records lost special products of the State Traffic Inspectorate.

As you can see, if the previous owner removed the car from the traffic police register (stopped registering for himself), and you were caught on an unregistered car, then, in addition to the standard fines for untimely registration of the car, the license plate of your car and STS are subject to seizure with subsequent disposal. This means 2 important consequences:

1. it is forbidden to continue driving this car - only on a tow truck,
2. you will lose numbers, as they are disposed of; and this is true for those who bought a car with beautiful meanings of numbers and / or letters on the license plate.

To restore your registration, you need to contact any MREO of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate (not necessarily at the place of your registration) and submit an application, or do it through State Services. As a result, you will receive a new STS and new license plates.

In the course of a vehicle sale and purchase transaction, re-registration is required. If it is absent, the car will be registered with the previous owner.

Buyers refuse to re-register the purchased car (register it) in order to save money on the payment of fines and state duties.

You can check whether the new owner reissued the car after the purchase both in person at the traffic police, and remotely - on the official website of the State Services, or on the Autocode portal. Remote check of registration is considered to be a simpler and faster method, since there is no need to visit a physical branch of the traffic police.

When to check the deregistration information

There are several situations when a car is deregistered on a mandatory basis.

For example:

• When hijacked. If the car was stolen and not found, it must be removed from the register.
• In case of moving. When you change your place of residence, the car gets new numbers - that is, it is completely reissued.
• When sending the vehicle for recycling. Often car services offer a discount for trade-in. But to confirm that the car is not registered is necessary for a successful transaction.

If you sold your vehicle, a re-registration check is simply necessary, since in the absence of it, fines for traffic violations and receipts for paying taxes for the car will come to the previous owner (the one for whom the vehicle is registered).

The new owner, who has not re-registered the car for himself within ten days, will have to pay a fine from 1,500 to 10,000 rubles (its amount depends on whether the person is an individual or a legal entity). The average fine for individuals will be 2,000 rubles. That is why immediately after the sale of the vehicle, it is necessary to go through the re-registration process.

Checking vehicle registration after offline sale

You can check the registration of the car in person at the traffic police. To do this, take all available documents for the vehicle, the sales contract and your passport. Go to any department of the traffic police (not necessarily to the initial point of registration of the vehicle, the place of filing the application does not matter) and draw up an application. In it, express your desire to find out if your car has been removed from the register. The document is drawn up in any form, no forms are provided.

The maximum period for making a decision is 30 days. During this period, the traffic police (GAI) are required to notify you of the results of the check in writing. If the car is still registered to you, immediately visit the MREO of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate and leave a request to remove the vehicle from registration.

Until the moment of re-registration, the new owner of the car will not be able to travel on it on public roads, and you will be completely exempted from paying duties and fines.

Online check

To save time on drawing up an application and the road to the traffic police, you can use online resources on the Internet. There are three sites where you can check if a car is registered. These are already well-known State Services, Avtokod and the official portal of the traffic police.

Public services

The procedure for checking registration through the public services portal is free. To use the Public Services, you must pass preliminary authorization. To do this, contact the physical branch of the institution (you will need to verify your identity and increase your account level).

The main advantage is that you don't need a VIN. It is enough to enter the number of the car itself in the format "x000xx".

Open the link (www.gosuslugi.ru) and enter your personal account. Then go to the "Authorities" section. On the page that opens, find the "Ministry of Internal Affairs" tab. Going to the section of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, find the item "Registration of vehicles".

After entering all the required information, wait until the data processing is complete. The service will give you basic information about the vehicle: to whom and when it was registered.

Autocode

Unfortunately, this option is relevant only for Moscow and Moscow Region. Therefore, a registration is needed. In the near future, the developers plan to expand the number of regions.

Before you find out who the vehicle is registered for, register on the website. You can do this by following the link (avtocod.ru/).

After confirming registration, we proceed to direct verification:

• Open the Autocode website.
• Find the tab "Vehicle check" Click on it.
• A small menu will appear at the bottom of the monitor. Select the "Check registration status" section.
• A small field will appear in front of you. The vehicle number and VIN are entered into it. It remains to click on "check".

The system will automatically generate a complete report. It contains all registration indicators of the vehicle.

Also, the results of the audit will indicate car tax debts, fines for road accidents.

Traffic police

The official website of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Russian Federation (GIBDD) allows citizens to obtain accurate information about the condition of vehicles. Including, quickly find out the status of the car (registration, presence of fines) by its VIN number.

A detailed questionnaire will open in front of you, in which the car engine number is entered. VIN-code consists only of numbers and is assigned directly during the assembly of the vehicle at the factory. To find out the vehicle's engine number, open the vehicle title.

Check the correctness of the entered data and confirm the submission of the form. The information will be checked against what is already in the database. Detailed information will appear on the screen of your device: including the name of the citizen on whom the vehicle is issued, the date of registration. You will be able to find out if the car has been removed from the register.

To find out which cars are registered to an individual, it is enough to contact the IFTS. This can be done online (www.nalog.ru/rn77). To enter, use the number written in the user card, as well as the login. If the authorization information is lost, you will have to visit the physical branch of the tax office. Possible authorization through ESIA (State Services).

It is enough to fill out the form with data about an individual to receive information about how many vehicles are registered specifically for you. The results will also indicate the amount of money that you will have to pay to the tax service for transport tax.

Accordingly, after the sale, it is advisable to check the information on the IFTS website to make sure that the new owner has re-registered the car to himself.

Examples from judicial practice

If the buyer fails to fulfill his obligations, the car can be removed from the register through the court.

Citizen Ivanova I. filed a lawsuit demanding the termination of the registration of the Toyota Camry car, state number X000XX.

The vehicle was sold in 2015 by proxy. The buyer received a complete set of documents for the car and expressed his desire to reissue the documents, but the obligations were not fulfilled. In 2017 Ivanova I. receives a receipt for payment of transport tax on the sold vehicle. It is impossible to find the buyer, as his data has not been preserved.

The court decision was made in accordance with Articles 454, 458 and 235 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the claims of citizen I. Ivanova were satisfied in full.

There are several options for how to find out if a car is removed from the register. The main ones include:

• personal visit to the traffic police department;
• checking the car on the official website of the traffic police;
• through the portal "Gosuslugi";
• using the Autocode service, etc.

How to check?

The most common option is to check the vehicle for. This can be done in one of the following ways.

Through the Internet base of the State Traffic Inspectorate

To do this, take the following actions:

1. Open the page with checks: https: //gibd.drf/check/auto
2. In an empty line you need to enter the VIN number of the car. If the car was sold, then this information can be found in the sales contract.
3. After entering the data, click on the "Request a check" button in the "Check the history of registration in the traffic police" window.

Based on the results of the check, the main characteristics of the car (brand, model, year of manufacture, etc.) will be displayed on the screen, and just below the information about the periods of ownership of the vehicle.

Important!It should be noted that this method of verification does not allow you to find out the full name of the person who owned the car at one time or another. However, according to the dates of registration and deregistration, you can determine who the car is currently registered with.

Electronic appeal to the traffic police

This option involves requesting information about the car through a special form on the department's website. You can send an electronic appeal as follows:

1. First of all, you should go to the traffic police website, click on the "Services" tab and select the "Send an appeal" button.
2. Next, you need to familiarize yourself with the information on the procedure for considering applications (it will be reflected on the page that opens), tick the box “I have read the information” and click on the button “Submit an appeal”.
3. Then you will need to fill out a special form, which must be entered:
   • information about the addressee (name of the body and location);
   • applicant's data (legal status, full name);
   • e-mail address where the reply will be sent, as well as telephone;
   • the text of the request itself.
4. After filling out the questionnaire, you should enter the captcha and click the "Send request" button.

Responses to inquiries are prepared within 30 days from the date of their registration. Such a period is established in clause 91 of section 7 of the Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation of 12.09.13, No. 707.

Personal appeal to the traffic police

This is a classic option, but it is not very popular, as it requires additional time. This requires:

1. Collect documents: passport and sales contract (if the car was sold).
2. Report to the traffic police department where the vehicle was registered.
3. After providing the necessary information, an employee of the department will announce the results of the check.

It should be borne in mind that you must appear at the traffic police 10 days after the sale of the vehicle,since this is exactly the time given to the new owner to carry out all these procedures.

Other online monitoring services

Who needs this information about the car and why?

As a rule, the need to check a vehicle for deregistration in the traffic police arises in the following cases:

• When referring a vehicle, it is important to make sure that it is deregistered. Otherwise, the former owner will have to continue paying transport tax.
• If the car was stolen or got into a serious accident, after which it can no longer be restored (read about when a car can be removed from the register without a vehicle and what to do if the car was stolen or seized by the bank).
• When a car is sold - if it is not removed from the register, then the former owner will have to pay tax for it, as well as pay the fines that the new driver earned.

Thus, checking a car for deregistration is primarily in the interests of the person who owned it before the commission of certain legally significant actions (sale, disposal, etc.). Moreover, the existing variety of methods makes this procedure as simple and fast as possible.