I’ve got this friend, right? He moved to France recently, filled in a detailed inventory of his and Madame’s property and the property cleared customs and everything is hunky-dory.
Except he didn’t put the car on the inventory (I didn’t realise I needed to, and the people who did the removal didn’t tell me).
Madame is going to ring Duane tomorrow but I wondered if anyone else had done this and if there is anything particular my friend should mention.
Merci bien.
I think all you can do is beg forgiveness as you normally only get one bite at the cherry with your inventory. Good luck.
All the more reason to send Madame into the fray then!! Thanks
Movers are usually quite reluctant to add stuff to the inventory that they’re not carrying so they might have handily ‘forgotten’ to mention.
How recent is recent?
I arrived 7 November.
I’d say there a good chance of explaining the oversight away. There’s a tolerance and forgiveness for errors in income tax and the opportunity to correct them without penalty. Obviously moving home is a stressful time and one could easily overlook something. Hopefully you’ve owned the car for some tme, so it’s clearly not an attempt to pull a fast one, but to just move your household.
I’d be reasonably confident in your shoes.
This is the link to the income tax error website.
https://www.impots.gouv.fr/particulier/je-minforme-sur-le-droit-lerreur
Which is fair enough if they are not actually moving it 
I’d try and treat the car as a side issue, though part of the overall move.
It’s not fair enough as you can only submit one form for everything you’re moving over.
I’m a great believer in telling the truth…
Asking forgiveness… and looking sad/worried while doing this… has brought out the best in folk… gendarmes and all sorts of officials. 
So, yes, send Madame … this was an innocent mistake and she can tell them that… 
I think the most important thing regarding your car is to get ir registered in France, get your “Carte Gris” and French number plates.
We used a company SOSanglo who handled it efficiently and very reasonably priced.
When we moved, (2018) albeit to a fully furnsished property, we did three or four trips mainly bringing books, cd’s, clothes, stereo, computers, ornaments, tumbledryer, a couple of small bookcases and a desk in the back of our Berlingo. No inventory.
Things were different then.
Even differenter back in '99. No more stressful than crossing the frontier between Notts and Derbys. 
Ah so! 23 June 2016 … 