If you are resident then that fact will be discovered at a roasdside check and you are potentially going to get the car confiscated on the spot and a large fine as well. You could, however, get a non-resident friend to drive you and the car over the border, at which point you take over and bring it back to the UK! For a non-resident the issue is whether the car has been in the country for more than 60 days. This is not at all easy to prove either way, especially on the spot, so it is difficult to imagine that anything nasty could happen to you on a first stop check.
You have to change everything except the steering wheel. For example, the speedometer (km), the rear light panels (so the parking light is on the correct side), the headlight units, etc. Ugh!
To be registered as resident in Italy you have to apply to your Comune. If you haven't done that then you are not a resident. Becoming resident enables you to buy a car in Italy and will mean that you pay less IMU and may apply to pay less for electricity if you assert that your dwelling is your primary home (prima casa).
The problem is residence, not nationality. The law is the same in the UK as it is in Italy. If you are resident you may not drive a foreign registered car. Thus a UK resident may not enter the UK in an Italian-registered car. And someone who is registered as resident in the UK and also in Italy cannot travel back and forth by private car! Apparently none of this applies to leased cars.
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If you are resident then that fact will be discovered at a roasdside check and you are potentially going to get the car confiscated on the spot and a large fine as well. You could, however, get a non-resident friend to drive you and the car over the border, at which point you take over and bring it back to the UK! For a non-resident the issue is whether the car has been in the country for more than 60 days. This is not at all easy to prove either way, especially on the spot, so it is difficult to imagine that anything nasty could happen to you on a first stop check.
You have to change everything except the steering wheel. For example, the speedometer (km), the rear light panels (so the parking light is on the correct side), the headlight units, etc. Ugh!
To be registered as resident in Italy you have to apply to your Comune. If you haven't done that then you are not a resident. Becoming resident enables you to buy a car in Italy and will mean that you pay less IMU and may apply to pay less for electricity if you assert that your dwelling is your primary home (prima casa).
The problem is residence, not nationality. The law is the same in the UK as it is in Italy. If you are resident you may not drive a foreign registered car. Thus a UK resident may not enter the UK in an Italian-registered car. And someone who is registered as resident in the UK and also in Italy cannot travel back and forth by private car! Apparently none of this applies to leased cars.
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