Importing vehicles to the UK

[Higgins]

Does anyone have any post-Brexit experience of importing and registering a
vehicle in the UK?

Now that we’ve decided we’re staying in France, I think I’d rather have LHD
so want to bring the Skoda back to the UK and sell it so any insight
welcome.

[siwilson]

How old is it? I have had success getting past the NOVA hurdle, which I
think is easier on older vehicles than newer ones. The rest is easy.

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/Simon

[Higgins]

2020. I imagined it would be easy since it was bought in the UK, is it not?

[siwilson]

Hmm. Try talking to them. I've found them quite helpful. You need the
NOVA stuff sorted before you can send the dvla forms.

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs/contact/personal-transport-unit-enquiries

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/Simon

[Theo]

https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/telling-hmrc

If you previously owned the vehicle in the UK

You may be able to pay less import duty and VAT if you’re importing a
vehicle you previously owned in the UK. You must have paid VAT on it when
you first bought it.

To apply, send the following with your import declaration:

a completed form C179B
evidence that you previously owned the vehicle in the UK
a copy of the current registration document from the country of export

[Higgins]

Theo <theom...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Higgins <the.best.na...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> siwilson <siwi...@nodamnspamn.hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 04/03/2023 19:24, Higgins wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any post-Brexit experience of importing and registering a
>>>> vehicle in the UK?
>>>>
>>>> Now that we’ve decided we’re staying in France, I think I’d rather have LHD
>>>> so want to bring the Skoda back to the UK and sell it so any insight
>>>> welcome.
>>>>
>>>
>>> How old is it? I have had success getting past the NOVA hurdle, which I
>>> think is easier on older vehicles than newer ones. The rest is easy.
>>>
>>
>> 2020. I imagined it would be easy since it was bought in the UK, is it not?
>
> https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/telling-hmrc
>
> If you previously owned the vehicle in the UK
>
> You may be able to pay less import duty and VAT if you’re importing a
> vehicle you previously owned in the UK.


You must have paid VAT on it when you first bought it.
>

I didn’t and it would have been fine if it wasn’t for fucking Brexit.

[geoffC]

Take it to Ireland and flog it there?


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Geoff
NTV 650

[wessie]

geoffC <m...@home.nl> wrote in news:tufvc1$235hk$1...@dont-email.me:

Cab has relatives in Ireland & Malta ...

[Turby]

On 3/4/2023 12:38 PM, siwilson wrote:
>>> On 04/03/2023 19:24, Higgins wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any post-Brexit experience of importing and
>>>> registering a vehicle in the UK?
>

> Hmm.

Wondering if the Beemer was any issue.


--
The erstwhile Thomas
FJR1300, R1200GS & ST1100 (in memoriam)

[siwilson]

On 10/03/2023 19:51, Turby wrote:
> On 3/4/2023 12:38 PM, siwilson wrote:
>>>> On 04/03/2023 19:24, Higgins wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have any post-Brexit experience of importing and
>>>>> registering a vehicle in the UK?
>>
>> Hmm.
>
> Wondering if the Beemer was any issue.
>
>

Nope. But they care less about older machinery.

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/Simon

[Theo]

Ireland has fairly hefty taxes on cars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_tax_(Ireland)

although I think if it's more than 6 months old / 6000km you don't pay VAT.
If you're competing in a market where everyone else has paid VAT+VRT
too, the resale will be higher so that will compensate to some degree.

Theo

[Higgins]

I did think Northern Ireland, as it has free movement of goods with the EU
, but I don’t think I know anyone there.

[wessie]

Higgins <the.best.na...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:tul5k0$36483$1...@dont-email.me:

ping Hog in the UKRM group on Fb. He lived in NI & Dublin, and still has
family there, so might know someone. There used to be a healthy movement of
UK vehicles into Ireland due to scarcity of used cars. They might jump at
the chance of an EU registered RHD car.

[Hog]

On Sunday, 12 March 2023 at 18:35:34 UTC, wessie wrote:
> Higgins <the.best.na...@gmail.com> wrote in

> > I did think Northern Ireland, as it has free movement of goods with
> > the EU , but I don’t think I know anyone there.
> >
> >
> ping Hog in the UKRM group on Fb. He lived in NI & Dublin, and still has
> family there, so might know someone. There used to be a healthy movement of
> UK vehicles into Ireland due to scarcity of used cars. They might jump at
> the chance of an EU registered RHD car.

If you move to an address in Eire from the UK and have owned a car for >6months and driven over 6000km there is no tax to pay.
If you are bringing a car from France the conditions are the same.

Otherwise this stands: "VAT is payable even where you have paid VAT in the other country" (23%)
Even if that is another EU country. It's only about revenue and stiffing you for tax.
These are now different rules for NI imports but *only for vehicles registered there when new*.

It's been challenged in Irish and EU courts, but of course it's only a single market when it suits.

[Cab]

Higgins wibbled:

> > Ireland has fairly hefty taxes on cars:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_tax_(Ireland)
> >
> > although I think if it's more than 6 months old / 6000km you don't
> > pay VAT. If you're competing in a market where everyone else has
> > paid VAT+VRT too, the resale will be higher so that will compensate
> > to some degree.
> >
>
> I did think Northern Ireland, as it has free movement of goods with
> the EU , but I don’t think I know anyone there.

Would you pay taxes in Ireland? When I brought the CB over here,
pre-Brexit, all I had to do, was declare it with the local tax office.

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Cab
Z1000 and CB1300 and VeloSolex 3800

[Cab]

wessie wibbled:

Thank you Sir. I'm no Arthur Daley.