Deposit down on new car.

[steve_earwig]

Bugger

[FarmerPug]

sorry to hear the bad news, sounds a bit like bureaucracy then.

[DiscoPol]

Its all to do with me not being registered as a foreigner or having applied for my residence, funny that i thought we were all europeans
its amazing how they let me open a company, pay my taxes, my insurance, my local tax to the town i live in, rent me a flat take 23% of everything i spend in VAT followed by another 32% of my income but wont allow me to lease a car unless i apply for polish residency, take a language exam and either buy a house (how when they wont even sell me a car) and register it as my permanent address or register at my mother in-laws which would then invalidate my company registration as that is registered to the flat i rent thus requiring me to close down the company and restart it again from her address............................


well you the idea, im well and truly p1$$ed off with it all, i cant even buy a car for cash as i wont be able to register it to myself as i lack the all important PESEL and residency so then wouldnt be able to claim any of the costs back against tax........... its feeling all a bit catch 22, i feel another jaunt to blighty coming on and screw the legality of it.

[Welly]

Bloody hell, they've got you tied up in bloody knots with all that sh*t it goes to prove they really do do things the mega-f*cking-long way round

Chin up though chappy, you'll find a way, I just wish I could advise with some more use

Can't you do something through her indoors? maybe make her a director? lease a car in her name or something and you drive it as an employee?

[DiscoPol]

Cheers Welly,

they have really got me truly frustrated with it all, having spoke to some natives, this is just the way it is and its a case of "like it or lump it"

as for making the wifely one a director, not possible without changing company type and all that that will lead to, it looks like a cheapy cash car for now 10-15k zloty and start the residency procedure and registration as a dirty foreigner, europeans my arse!

I will get there it will just take longer than expected, apparently im being too English about it all and expecting too much from the system

so one way or another i will have something else within a week or so, Polish plated, what ever it is the wife can have it in the summer when hopefully i will be able to get it all sorted and have a new one.

[steve_earwig]

Too English? Too sane surely

Well I'm not surprised, living over there, marrying one of the natives and setting up a business is obviously just a ploy to steal a Citroen C5 and live the rest of your life in idle luxury. To the Gulag with you!

[highlander]

they have really got me truly frustrated with it all

Well, you started it!

No I didn't!

Yes you did, you invaded Poland!


(apologies to Mr. John Cleese)

Hope the car situation is resolved speedily and without too much red tape

[DiscoPol]

Too English? Too sane surely

Well I'm not surprised, living over there, marrying one of the natives and setting up a business is obviously just a ploy to steal a Citroen C5 and live the rest of your life in idle luxury. To the Gulag with you!

[DiscoPol]

you invaded Poland!

they are used to it

[DiscoPol]

Well i bought a dirty little Arsetra estate for now, it will do for the coming 2-3 months it will take to sort out my residency and then its back on track and i will be picking up a new C5, at least this time i will be able to order a brand new one and wait the delivery time without having to worry about my not so legal RHD disco and the local plod.

When i get the new one the wife can have this thing , its 'orrible but its taxed and tested and comes with 6 months of insurance and the steering wheel on the wrong, sorry left hand side

its a 2000 model with about 160k km on the clock and signs of a replaced head at some point, petrol 1.6.

it will do for now

[Doggy]

Sounds like a good plan to get you through the red tape inspired delays.

Other than that stick to the tried / tested formula for a gentleman abroad:

1. Chin up, old chap.
2. Don't let Johnny Foreigner get the better of you.
3. Are you definetly shouting at them loudly enough?

[plod]

[steve_earwig]

Why don't you plant a big Onion Jack and claim the country as your own?

[plod]

Onion Jack

Vegetable based flags now eh?

No prizes for Sweden then

[steve_earwig]

Alternatively



It's better than the Pee'n'urine Onion