Friday, December 21, 2007
Car-azy bureaucra-zy
As we start the Christmas holidays, I'm sorely in need of a break, with my energies sapped by good old German bureaucracy, or should I say bureaucrazy?
It should have been a pretty simple thing for my firm to lease a company car - we're a GmbH and therefore have EUR25k deposited against potential bankruptcy. But oh no, that was not enough for the leasing company - they wanted a bank guarantee for around the value of a year's leasing. And that's taken the bureaucrats and form-fillers four weeks already.
Everything else is done - and nothing else will do of course. It's going to be interesting to see if
the leasing company tries to backdate the start of the leasing as I'm not going to pay until I get the car: I'm not causing the delays. No doubt this one will run and run.
In the end I went for a new BMW 320 diesel - the right-priced solution that should not lead to too much damage in terms of tax. It was tempting to pick up something two years old and more exotic, but tax on the original list price and running costs were the two factors that decided it.
It should have been a pretty simple thing for my firm to lease a company car - we're a GmbH and therefore have EUR25k deposited against potential bankruptcy. But oh no, that was not enough for the leasing company - they wanted a bank guarantee for around the value of a year's leasing. And that's taken the bureaucrats and form-fillers four weeks already.
Everything else is done - and nothing else will do of course. It's going to be interesting to see if
the leasing company tries to backdate the start of the leasing as I'm not going to pay until I get the car: I'm not causing the delays. No doubt this one will run and run.
In the end I went for a new BMW 320 diesel - the right-priced solution that should not lead to too much damage in terms of tax. It was tempting to pick up something two years old and more exotic, but tax on the original list price and running costs were the two factors that decided it.
Labels: petrolhead, rant
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