Europe Tour with a Class B. Buy or Rent?
My wife and I are talking about taking off 6 to 12 months to travel around Europe. We are serious campers here in the US and thought it would be great to tour Europe in a Class B. Here are some opti...
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Totally forgot. Google Schengen Visa.
The RV is the easy part.
- Pay 20% VAT and it can stay indefinitely. But as non-EU resident, you can get 18 months Temporary Import Relief and that can be reset by leaving the European Customs Area for a day. Morocco, Switzerland, Norway, Baltics, Turkey. You can also extend the Temporary Import by putting the RV in bond (basically an official seals it and until they unseal, you get more time added to the clock.
Visas are a bigger issue. For a typical USA resident, you get an automatic schengen visa good for any 90 days out of the last 180. So 6 months continuous is problematic. UK, Ireland, Morocco, Some of the Balkan states or into the old former Russian states but there is no 1 day out and the clock resets.
If you google Schengen visa and cruising, you will find a lot of discussion regarding this in relation to boats but it works pretty much the same way for RVs.
PS: If you do buy in Europe, require written receipt of VAT paid status. If you can't prove the VAT was paid, you may be on the hook for 20%+ of the RV value. Most RVs should already be VAT paid (it's a one time tax not at every sale) but they may have lost it or it may have come from outside the customs zone.
The RV is the easy part.
- Pay 20% VAT and it can stay indefinitely. But as non-EU resident, you can get 18 months Temporary Import Relief and that can be reset by leaving the European Customs Area for a day. Morocco, Switzerland, Norway, Baltics, Turkey. You can also extend the Temporary Import by putting the RV in bond (basically an official seals it and until they unseal, you get more time added to the clock.
Visas are a bigger issue. For a typical USA resident, you get an automatic schengen visa good for any 90 days out of the last 180. So 6 months continuous is problematic. UK, Ireland, Morocco, Some of the Balkan states or into the old former Russian states but there is no 1 day out and the clock resets.
If you google Schengen visa and cruising, you will find a lot of discussion regarding this in relation to boats but it works pretty much the same way for RVs.
PS: If you do buy in Europe, require written receipt of VAT paid status. If you can't prove the VAT was paid, you may be on the hook for 20%+ of the RV value. Most RVs should already be VAT paid (it's a one time tax not at every sale) but they may have lost it or it may have come from outside the customs zone.
