Can you register an Ontario car in a company name?
A family member who lives in China and has his own business will soon begin travelling to Ontario a lot. He doesn't want to waste too much money on allways renting cars while he is here as he used to do when he came here to just visit. He did some calculations and figures its more economical for him to just buy a decent used car here in Ontario and keep it here. He wants to store the car at my familys house when he's not in Ontario which is OK with my dad.
He wants to register the car and insure it under his company's name, which is in China (as an company asset I suppose).
This seems to be common practice in British Columbia with Chinese business nationals, or at least many people do this there, so I've heard.
He asked my dad, who asked me, to find out how to do this but I cannot find any information on the internet, and then I found this neat place of yours and Im asking here because I cannot find the forum boards for the MTO
The questions are these, and please keep in mind that he does not want the car in his name, he wants it in his business name. Does he register the car in China and use Chinese license plates or does he register the car in Ontario and use Ontario license plates? Can he even do either of these if he is not Canadian? I know there are many drivers in Ontario here who drive around with USA license plates or plates from other provinces or even other countries and the cars are all marked up with company logos and names but they are here all the time, one company that everyone knows of is U-Haul which is a USA company. How is this done? What kind of documents does he need if he gets pulled over? He will be using Chinese driving license or international license (he's not sure yet which one) so he cannot get insurance because he will not have Ontario drivers license so his company will insure the car. Last question is can my dad also drive this car sometimes?
Please and Thank You in foreward for your replies.
He wants to register the car and insure it under his company's name, which is in China (as an company asset I suppose).
This seems to be common practice in British Columbia with Chinese business nationals, or at least many people do this there, so I've heard.
He asked my dad, who asked me, to find out how to do this but I cannot find any information on the internet, and then I found this neat place of yours and Im asking here because I cannot find the forum boards for the MTO
The questions are these, and please keep in mind that he does not want the car in his name, he wants it in his business name. Does he register the car in China and use Chinese license plates or does he register the car in Ontario and use Ontario license plates? Can he even do either of these if he is not Canadian? I know there are many drivers in Ontario here who drive around with USA license plates or plates from other provinces or even other countries and the cars are all marked up with company logos and names but they are here all the time, one company that everyone knows of is U-Haul which is a USA company. How is this done? What kind of documents does he need if he gets pulled over? He will be using Chinese driving license or international license (he's not sure yet which one) so he cannot get insurance because he will not have Ontario drivers license so his company will insure the car. Last question is can my dad also drive this car sometimes?
Please and Thank You in foreward for your replies.