How to suspend the registration of a vehicle through State Services - Step-by-step instructions

Services of the State Services portal for motorists

The site has a catalog of services, where in the “Department” section you can select the Ministry of Internal Affairs or in the “Category” section - “Transport driving” and view the entire list of offers related to motorists. Common and popular portal services are:

submit an application and make an appointment through State Services to register your car;
check fines, accrued transport tax and other auto debts, pay them quickly and without commission;
register your car with the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate through State Services;
resolve issues regarding the driver's license (receive, replace, extend, restore);
pay the state fee with a 30% discount.

In addition, the most frequent requests are displayed on the main page so that the user can find the service he is interested in in a matter of minutes.

Deregistration of a vehicle is not currently the most popular option of State Services. If previously this had to be done before or during the sale, now the buyer, when re-registering the car in his name (registration), automatically terminates the previous registration in the traffic police database.

Make sure the car is registered

Before deregistering a car through State Services, make sure that it is actually still registered in your name. And if we are not talking about a sale, but about terminating the registration of a vehicle at personal request, you need to make sure that there are no prohibitions from bailiffs.

Checks for registration and restrictions are carried out on the traffic police website. You just need to enter the VIN, and the system will display the information:

The information will look like this. Below, after the vehicle data, the dates of the last ownership of the vehicle are indicated. From them we can conclude whether the new owner has registered the car in his name:

Below on the same page you can “punch” the car through the bailiff database, that is, check it for prohibitions on registration actions:

Grounds for deregistration

First of all, it should be noted that deregistration can be:

temporary (suspension of registration when a car is exported abroad or stolen, or when, for example, the car is not planned to be used for a long time and during this period there is no desire to renew car insurance annually) or permanent (in case of theft, if there is no hope of finding it, during sale, disposal) ;
executed by both the owner (former or current) and the trustee.

The most common reasons why a person is ready and able to deregister a car are the following:

Hijacking

When the former owner does not know where his car is and is therefore not ready to bear responsibility (including administrative and criminal) for offenses committed on it, he relieves himself of these obligations. In this case, the application indicates the reason “theft, theft”, and attaches a certificate stating that the application for the theft of the vehicle was accepted.

Disposal

When a car can no longer be used for technical reasons, it is scrapped and registration is terminated. In this case, it is not necessary to provide the vehicle to the inspector for inspection and verification of mileage, numbers of components and assemblies. Most often in such cases we are talking about really old cars, inherited, which have not been running for a long time and the documents from them have been lost, or there is no re-registration of the owner

You can recycle part of the car, what can no longer be repaired and is of no value, and put the rest on sale.

Sale

Until 2013, the actual owner had to deregister the car before selling it for his own safety and peace of mind. He could do this in advance, or on the day of the transaction.

Now the new owner, within ten days after signing the purchase and sale agreement, goes to the MREO and registers the car in his name (upon his request, the car is automatically deregistered). If the new owner turned out to be unscrupulous and after the purchase did not visit the traffic police to re-register the car, the previous owner can himself apply for deregistration, choosing the sale as the reason.

Changing of the living place

The certificate that the owner receives when registering the car indicates his registration address. If in the future he moves and receives a new registration, he is obliged to contact the MREO to replace the STS. In this case, you will have to pay a state fee, fill out an application, and make an appointment. The traffic police will issue a new plastic card with a valid registration there.

How much does it cost to deregister a car with the traffic police?

The amount for terminating registration with the State Traffic Inspectorate will depend on the reasons for the need to complete this process. In general, the regulations do not provide for a state duty as such. However, in order for the new owner’s data to be entered into the PTS, you will have to pay three hundred and fifty rubles.

If a vehicle has been scrapped, then the owner must also deregister it in order not to be charged tax on the vehicle. This operation will cost seven hundred rubles - three hundred and fifty for recording changes in the registration certificate and the remaining amount for a certificate of released registration units.

When transporting a car abroad, the state duty will be from 1600 to 2100 rubles . The amount depends on the material from which the transit numbers are made - paper or metal.

Deregistration procedure

The essence of deregistration of a vehicle is that the car, both according to documents and in reality, ceases to be the property of a certain citizen. He does not pay taxes or fines for it, does not take out insurance, the car no longer has anything to do with him.

The procedure itself is not done online; you just submit an application through the website, pay the state fee, find out the details and make an appointment.

Drivers are often perplexed by the problem of living in another city, when the vehicle is registered in one city, for example, in Arkhangelsk or Nakhodka, and the owner is in Novokuznetsk or Omsk. The traffic police explain that since 2013, both registration and deregistration can be done at any nearest MREO, without paying attention to registration.

Documentation

When visiting MREO you must have with you:

an application filled out in the prescribed form; if the procedure is completed through State Services, then the application (application for a service) is written on the portal and automatically transmitted to the required authority;
identification;
power of attorney, if the owner himself, for some reason, cannot be present and asks to replace him;
PTS - a registration certificate for a car, which contains the vehicle data and previous owners;
STS – plastic with a pink form, a certificate of ownership, which is issued when registering a car;
GRZ - they should be unscrewed, cleaned of dirt and handed over.

In some cases, additional documents may be needed, for example, a copy of the application and a certificate stating that the car was stolen.

Procedure step by step

To deregister a car through State Services, the owner must:

register on the portal in advance in order to receive a special confirmation of your status: log into the application or gosuslugi.ru website using your SNILS number, mail or mobile phone number;
select vehicle registration services by category or department;
click on “Deregistration”;
write a statement, indicate the reason, choose a convenient time for visiting and a branch of the MREO;
send an application and wait for a response on acceptance and consideration;
come to the MREO at the chosen and approved time, bring original documents and stand in line from those who were registered through the portal.

Perhaps, to a person far from a computer, the procedure will seem long and complicated, but these are only initial impressions.

Firstly, if you correctly and carefully fill out your profile on the State Services, enter all the data about the car, then the process of receiving the service (writing an application) will go quickly, a lot of information (especially of a technical nature) will appear in the necessary boxes.

Secondly, when working with the portal, you don’t need detailed instructions, everything comes with hints, intuitively, step by step, often the owner must simply select his option from several items, rather than enter his thoughts.

So, at some stages it will be necessary to note the type of vehicle (trailer or car), indicate the address, add whether it coincides with the place of temporary registration (for example, registration in Penza, Simferopol or Ryazan, but lives in Sarov, Ulyanovsk or Perm - on State Services you need to enter both options). Thirdly, after confirmation of your appointment arrives, you do not need to print out a ticket at the MREO or take a place in the general queue. For those who signed up for State Services, there is a separate list where all visitors are included.

But if there are concerns that working with the portal is difficult, you can ask the MFC operator to do the same.

Under what circumstances should a car be deregistered?

The main circumstances requiring deregistration of a car:

theft of a vehicle - in this situation, the car owner must contact the State Traffic Inspectorate department with a statement confirming this fact in order to deregister the car;
disposal – the vehicle is no longer suitable for use for any reason;
export of a vehicle beyond the borders of the state - when selling a car to another country, it must be deregistered and receive transit numbers;
lack of re-registration by the new owner - if re-registration has not been completed within ten days, the previous owner has the right to independently contact the State Traffic Inspectorate with a corresponding application in order to get rid of responsibility for further actions of a vehicle that does not belong to him.

State duty: size and how to pay

When deregistering a car, you will have to pay a state fee - the standard approach of the state for any registration actions.

In 2021, the amount of the duty is 1050 rubles, its validity and amount are determined by the Tax Inspectorate.

You can pay in any convenient way, starting from the website of the State Services and the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate and ending with mobile applications of banks, cash desks and terminals.

There are three main points you need to know:

payment of state duty through State Services comes with a 30% discount and is not 1050 rubles, but only 735 rubles;
when disposing of a car, no state duty is paid;
The amount of duty in the Russian Federation is equal, but the details vary by region.

The last fact is especially worth noting. Thus, a resident of Omsk will indicate completely different details than a resident of Tyumen - different subjects of the Russian Federation, in Lobnya, Moscow region - different from the capital. That is why it is convenient to pay the fee through State Services - all receipt data will be generated automatically at the place of registration.

Possible difficulties

Citizens who have already used this service note minimal difficulties not related to the data entry process.

All the difficulties were only due to the site being overloaded or the Internet connection being unstable. When using a mobile application, you should also pay attention to its version and, if necessary, update it in a timely manner.

Using State Services services greatly simplifies the process of contacting government agencies. The queues at the traffic police have always been practically the largest of all government agencies. With the annual increase in the number of motorists, it is simply impossible to count on the fact that during a personal visit it will be possible to resolve the issue of deregistering a vehicle in the shortest possible time. Therefore, the State Services portal will become an indispensable assistant.

How much time is needed

One of the priority areas in the work of the State Services portal is the ability to quickly receive a service, regardless of where the request comes from: the district center of Bezhetsk, where the MREO can be reached in 5 minutes from anywhere, or Rostov, a city famous for its long traffic jams.

In order to deregister a car, it will take at least two days:

go to State Services, select the desired service, address, date and time of visiting the registration office, submit an application and wait for a response (usually a positive response comes within an hour) - it will take from 15 minutes to one hour;
come to the MREO at the appointed time, submit documents to the window, show the car for inspection, complete the matter - from 40 minutes to several hours.

Total, just a few hours: from two to five, directly for the process itself.

Of course, the place of registration of the vehicle plays a big role.

For example, there is a high probability that in the small towns of Abakan, Belovo, Oskol, Lukoyanov, Armavir, Rybinsk, Safonovo, Prokopyevsk, Uzhur, deregistration of the car will take place very quickly, because there is not a large flow of visitors, most likely, the observation deck is close and the inspector will be able to return to the main building in a few minutes.

In large cities, the Russian metropolises of Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnodar, Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, St. Petersburg, the registration will be even faster - they have a clearly established electronic queue (everyone will go through their ticket at the appointed time without failures), there are many employees , but most of the time will be taken by the road to the MREO.

The situation is difficult in cities with the status of a regional capital and a population of 300 to 700 thousand inhabitants: Barnaul, Belgorod, Voronezh, Gelendzhik, Ivanovo, Kazan, Kemerovo, Kirov, Kursk, Tver, Tomsk, Khabarovsk, Cheboksary, Yaroslavl, Vladivostok and the like. There are quite a large number of motorists here who, for one reason or another, need to deregister their vehicle, but the mechanism is poorly developed, there are not enough inspectors, and the electronic queue is faulty. As a result, people spend several hours of tedious waiting at the traffic police station.

However, using the State Services portal significantly reduces the time for deregistration of a car:

no need to come in advance to get a ticket or try your luck in the live queue;
MREO is already ready to accept your application and can plan actions rationally;
It is customary to leave a review on the portal about the service received (a reminder is sent), each negative experience is processed and checked.

So, to deregister a car through State Services, you need to:

be registered on the portal;
select the desired service from the list;
enter information correctly (personal and car related);
fill out an application (apply for a service);
make an appointment online;
pay the state fee on the portal with a discount and without commission.

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Using the State Services website makes it possible to facilitate the process of deregistering a car with the traffic police. You can submit your application online from your home computer. A person will not have to stand in lines or fill out paper document forms.

Submitting an application through State Services does not eliminate the need for a personal visit to the traffic police. The person will have to submit the entire package of necessary documents. However, there is a separate window for people who submitted an appeal through the portal. The applicant arrives at the selected time.

Personal visit to the State Traffic Inspectorate

To visit the traffic police, you need to print out an application and an electronic ticket, which indicates the queue number. Take with you a package of documents necessary to deregister the car. It includes:

applicant's passport;
notarized power of attorney, if the applicant is an authorized person;
PTS;
STS;
certificate (act) of vehicle disposal;
registration numbers.

After checking the data, the employee will deregister the car. Car documents and registration plates are handed over to the traffic police for destruction.

How to deregister an organization's car?

Deregistration of a car owned by a legal entity deserves special attention. In this case, the procedure will not differ from the standard procedure:

Preparation of a package of documents.
Contact the MREO.
Termination of registration.

The only difference will be minor changes in the package of documents:

Application with a request to deregister the vehicle.
An order from the organization, which states that this vehicle is subject to deregistration.
PTS and STS.
Receipts that confirm payment of state duties in the appropriate amounts.
A notarized power of attorney issued in the name of a company employee. The power of attorney must be certified by the signature of the chief accountant and the head of the organization. It is this employee who will represent the interests of the company in the traffic police department.
Documents confirming the identity of the employee (Russian passport).
Charter of the organization, certified by seal.
Minutes of the constituent meeting confirming the decision to sell the vehicle.

After the package of documents has been prepared, the employee contacts the nearest traffic police department and then the procedure for deregistration of the car proceeds in the same way as for individuals.

Legislative changes

On July 10, 2021, changes to the rules for registering cars with the State Traffic Inspectorate came into force (Order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation No. 139 of March 20, 2017). One of the adjustments concerns the deregistration of a car due to disposal. The new edition of the Rules stated that the basis for writing off a motor vehicle as scrap should be a certificate (act) of disposal confirming the fact of destruction of the vehicle (clause 8.4).

Disposal of a car through State Services is allowed only due to the liquidation of the vehicle by a specialized company. Previously, the destruction of vehicles was not mandatory, and motorists could stop registering a vehicle for other reasons:

writing off an unused car to save on transport tax;
the car gets into an accident, after which the car is unfit for use;
lack of re-registration of the car by the buyer after the sale;
dismantling the vehicle for spare parts.

In addition, it was possible to re-register a car that had been written off as scrap. From 07/10/17 this cannot be done. This procedure for car disposal has been preserved in the new Registration Rules, which came into force on 10/06/2018.

Reference. Until the end of 2021, there was a state program under which owners of “junk cars” could dispose of old vehicles and receive a certificate in the amount of 50 thousand to 350 thousand rubles. When purchasing a new Russian-assembled car, this amount was taken into account as a discount. The state program has been suspended since 2021.

Writing off a car as scrap does not require presenting the vehicle to the traffic police. The owner or his authorized person with a notarized power of attorney to carry out this procedure can deregister a car.