His Car Turned Out to Be a Household Appliance: He Learned the Truth From E-Government.
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Selim Calap, upon checking the status of his 2006 Mercedes, which he purchased in 2018, via the e-Government system, discovered that the vehicle was subject to a restriction order. An investigation revealed that the car had been imported into Turkey years earlier as "white goods" to lower customs duties.
A citizen who logged into e-Government to check if his car had any traffic fines was shocked by the record he found. Selim Calap, who learned that his Mercedes, which he bought in 2018 and for which he had paid taxes and had its inspections done for years, had a restriction on its registration, encountered an even more unusual situation when he investigated further.
Selim Calap, who logged into the e-Government portal to check if his Mercedes had any traffic fines or outstanding debts, experienced the shock of his life when he learned that his vehicle had been imported into Türkiye as a "household appliance."
Selim Calap, who purchased a Mercedes in 2018, logged into the e-Government system to check traffic fines and discovered that the luxury vehicle, for which all taxes had been paid and inspections completed, had been imported into Türkiye as "white goods."
Selim Calap, who logged into the e-Government portal to check for traffic fines on his Mercedes, experienced the shock of his life when he saw that his vehicle had been subject to a deletion order. Further investigation revealed that the vehicle, for which taxes had been paid and inspections carried out for years, had been imported into Türkiye as "white goods" to lower customs duties.
It was revealed that a Mercedes-Benz car, for which taxes, inspections, and insurance had been regularly paid for years, was imported into Turkey as "white goods" to lower customs taxes. Selim Calap, unable to sell his car, accidentally learned through the e-Government system that there was an ongoing lawsuit against him since 2010.
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