You note a car by its registration number, not by a text message

A car of the deceased is a separate estate-inventory item. You note the registration number, the make and the type as on the registration certificate or in the RDW register, and in whose name the car stood on the date of death. A family message in which someone writes that they will keep the car is not a transfer. Changing the registered name follows the route the RDW has for that, not a group chat. In the list you put the registered name as a fact, with the date you looked it up, and a task if the transfer of registration still has to be done. The task is not a judgment on ownership and not a value.

You put the value on the date of death down as a guide price, not as sale proceeds. Use a guide or a specification you can keep, and write which source it was and which date the price is from. Mark the field as a guide price. A guide price is a source you can point to, not a dealer's offer and not a valuation. Value now can be the real sale, if there is a purchase contract or a credit on the account. Until then the guide price remains for the date of death. You do not replace the value on the date of death with what the car fetched months later.

The item also holds the facts that affect the settlement: where the keys are, where the car is, and whether there is finance or a lease on it. Finance is a debt, on a line of its own, with the company as the source. You do not deduct that debt from the guide price in advance. A lease is not the same as ownership. If the car is registered in the name of a leasing company, it is not an asset of the estate inventory until a document says otherwise. Note the lease as a contract question, status requested, and leave the value empty. Ask the company in writing what happens to the contract after the death. You do not invent the settlement amount.

A second car, a motorcycle or a trailer gets a line of its own with its own registration number. You do not bundle them into one vehicles line with an estimate. Only if you find neither a registration number nor a value for a wreck may there be one line with a description and a task. Keep an overview from the RDW register, or the part of the registration certificate that shows the registered name, as the source. Without that document you mark the line as not yet verified. Value now and the value on the date of death remain two fields, even if both provisionally show the same guide price. Put the same source on both, so nobody thinks a new price has been fixed.

The registration number and the guide price are not a valuation and not tax advice. Ervazo carries out no transfer of registration and sets no trade value. The source of the registered name is the RDW register or the registration certificate. The source of a sale amount is the buyer or the credit at the bank, not a message in a family group. The source of finance is the company. What the Belastingdienst does with a car in the return does not follow from this guide price. Until there is a sale document, the guide price remains a guide price.