BPM stands for Tax on Passenger Cars and Motorcycles. You pay this when you buy a new passenger car, motorcycle, or van in the Netherlands. You often also pay residual BPM when importing a car, motorcycle, or van from abroad into the Netherlands. Please always carefully check the text on the lot page to see if residual BPM applies to your lot.
On the Troostwijk Auctions platform, every buyer pays residual BPM, including foreign buyers who export the vehicle to a country outside the Netherlands.
In some cases, it is possible to reclaim the residual BPM, but this can only be requested from the selling party. However, this only applies if it is stated on the lot page.
Residual BPM can never be reclaimed when exporting outside the European Union (EU). If the lot is not exported (remains within the Netherlands), it is also not possible to reclaim residual BPM. At bankruptcy auctions, residual BPM can never be reclaimed because there is no seller, but a trustee on whose behalf Troostwijk organized the auction.