insurance
Dutch law dictates that every driver must be insured against legal liability. You are then insured against damage you may cause to someone else with your vehicle. However, liability insurance will not cover damage done to your vehicle. Therefore, you must take out an additional car insurance.
Dutch car insurance companies will not insure a car registered in a foreign country, so make sure your car is insured in the country it’s registered in. You can find more about car insurance in the Netherlands here.
taxes
If you’re living in Maastricht and have registered your Dutch address at the municipality, you may have to pay taxes on your car. However, if you are in the Netherlands solely for study purposes, you are exempt from registering your car or paying car taxes to the Netherlands and the following information does not apply to you. Read more about this here.
If you work, you must pay taxes to the Dutch tax service (belastingdienst) whenever you drive a privately owned, rented, or leased car in the Netherlands. It does not matter if the car is registered in your home country or in the Netherlands.
If you are planning to drive your car that is registered in another country in the Netherlands for longer than two weeks, you need to declare your car at the Dutch road transport directorate.
