Guides
Buying a car in Montenegro rarely stops at the price in the advert. Behind it stand customs duty and VAT if the vehicle comes from abroad, homologation, the roadworthiness test, transfer tax, the annual vehicle-use tax and insurance. These guides explain each of those steps the way it actually happens — and say plainly where a figure depends on a rule that keeps changing, instead of offering you a number that will no longer hold in six months.
Importing a car into Montenegro
Importing a car into Montenegro: when duty is zero, how VAT is calculated, what EUR.1 is, how customs values a vehicle and why homologation precedes registration.
Vehicle registration in Montenegro
What you need to register a vehicle in Montenegro, how often the roadworthiness test is due, how the vehicle-use tax works and why there is no sticker.
Buying a used car
How to check the chassis number, the mileage and any charges on a vehicle, how to pay safely and what the law requires when ownership is transferred.
Selling a car
How to set a realistic price, write an advert that sells, prepare the documents and hand a vehicle over safely in Montenegro.
This text is a general explanation of the procedure, not legal or tax advice. Regulations and the amounts of fees and taxes in Montenegro change — in the last two years alone both the homologation act and the act on the tax on the transfer of used vehicles have been amended. Before you make a decision that costs you money, check the conditions in force with the Uprava prihoda i carina (Revenue and Customs Administration), the Ministarstvo saobraćaja i pomorstva (Ministry of Transport and Maritime Affairs) and the competent police directorate. We deliberately do not quote amounts we cannot support with an official source.