Customs clearance of the vehicle in Georgia

This article is about customs clearance of a car in Georgia. Permanent registration of the car in Georgia.

How to clear a car in Georgia?

In short: you need to have documents for the car and your own, money for customs clearance with service fees, a Georgian TIN and a few hours to go through all the procedures.

If the moment has come to clear a car in Georgia and you need to know how in detail, then this article will be useful to you.

The cost of customs clearance of a car in Georgia

First you need to find out what the price of customs clearance of your car in Georgia is. This can be done via the link on the website of the tax service using the vehicle customs clearance calculator in Georgia https://www.rs.ge/CarClearance-en (the interface is available in English as well)

The cost of customs clearance will depend on three variables: type of vehicle, year of manufacture, engine size. You will also need to pay the following service fees:

1. Registration services of the declared car - 150 GEL
2. Filling out a customs declaration - 50 GEL
3. Examination act - 30 GEL

What documents are needed

   1. Passport
   2. Documents for the car, for example.

• Title and bill of lading if the vehicle is imported
• Documents for the car and technical passport

What exactly needs to be done:

We are going to Rustavi, more precisely, to the Rustavi car market during working hours and preferably before lunch. You are here - the Rustavi Police Department. Coordinates: 41.564623, 44.954434

Having left the highway, you go to the car market for an examination or a customs clearance zone. This is in the direction of large red canopies. Get in line, wait, show your documents. The inspector checks the VIN, asks a few questions after he gives the documents. It does not issue any paperwork, all the data has already been entered into the database.

For customs clearance of a car in Tbilisi and Georgia, you need to have a Georgian TIN. It can be issued at the Rustavi auto market, in a neighboring building. Revenue Service Rustavi. To get it you need to have a Georgian mobile number and address (required for fines). You can take a local with you to provide you with an address. The IP TIN is quite suitable. If there is an LLC, then you can use this address.

In general, it is better to take care of the TIN in advance in Tbilisi, this can be done here. If you are already in Rustavi, then you can do it here.

Then you go to the building 50 meters away, marked with the Latin letter “B”, and take your registration numbers from the car. Enter the building and go to the "Information Desk". There you have to say that you need to clear the car and that it has already been inspected. You will be directed to the next section “Expert Inspection Acts” where you will be asked for documents, number, if any, TIN and will be directed to payments.

Then you will be sent back to the “Information Desk” From there they will already be sent to pay.

By the way, there is an opportunity to choose a “beautiful” number. For example: GE 111 GE or A or BATMAN, Apolo or whatever, which have not been taken yet. This can be done in the terminal. Prices 100 ₾ depends on the number of characters and so on.

After all payments, you will need to return to the “Registration Area” and provide all the collected documents and papers from the previous windows, including payment receipts. It will be necessary to indicate the address, provide a mobile phone number, registration number (if chosen)

Fines will be sent to the phone number, you can also check on the site, and then they will come to the physical address.

Next steps in short:

• Hand over documents and further
• Pick up ready-made numbers
• Get technical ticket -> It's all here
• Then find a man with a screwdriver in the parking who will fasten the numbers for 5-10 GEL

All this can take from two hours, usually taking + / -four hours.

Not completely sure that I reproduced the entire sequence with 100% accuracy, but at each stage the service staff will tell you where to go and what to do next. Feel free to ask.

Customs clearance of a vehicle in Batumi

ALl the procedure is the same as described above in Tbilisi. In Batumi you can clear the car at 7a Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani St, Batumi. On the map

Customs clearance of a motorcycle in Georgia follows the same scenario as described above.

A few more relevant questions:

Can a non-resident in Georgia clear a car through customs?

- Yes, you can. Foreign citizens can permanently register a car in Georgia.

Is it possible for a non-resident to travel abroad by car with Georgian license plates?

- No. To travel outside the territory of Georgia, a non-resident must have a residence permit of Georgia.

+995 32 2800 111 - hotline of the customs department. Here you can get answers to your questions.