Sell your car in Valais – between Goms and Lake Geneva

With a provisional deposit at a post office in Valais, you pay CHF 30 and can take the plates back within two years, which is handy if you want to keep the number. With a definitive deposit at the DSUS, they are destroyed immediately. In both cases, the tax liability is interrupted, and your insurer is notified automatically. If you’d like to keep the number, tell us in good time.

The tax for the whole calendar year is due by January 31. Once the plates are back, you owe nothing more from the next day. You can claim back a credit from the DSUS accounts department. If you buy a new car at the same time, the tax for the old one ends when the new one is put on the road. So if you sell in the spring, you get most of it back.

If it belongs to the car, yes. In Valais, with its side valleys and pass roads, good winter wheels are a selling point for many prospective buyers, and we include them in the valuation. So mention the second set in your request, show it in a photo and state the age and condition of the tires. At the handover, it’s then simply part of the deal, just like the keys and vehicle registration document.

Yes. Until the end of the contract, your car legally belongs to the leasing company, so we need its settlement quote. Request it before you enter your car, and state the amount in the form. You can read what happens next and what to look out for with the settlement on our page Sell a leased car. In this case too, we deposit the VS plates at the DSUS.

Not if you sell to us. If you sell privately, however, an inspection report is a good argument, because together with the vehicle registration document it allows registration in any canton. But allow time, because the appointment is usually set for the third week after the application is received. The periodic inspections are carried out by cantonal experts; since 2008, the TCS Valais section has also been inspecting vehicles that have been called in, in Gamsen and Sion.

The motor vehicle tax based on engine displacement is paid by whoever has the car registered in Valais, so by you until the plates are returned and after that, if applicable, by the next registered keeper in Valais. Our offer, on the other hand, depends on age, mileage, condition, features and nationwide demand, and we buy cars with large engines just as we buy those with small ones. You can get an initial estimate with our free valuation.