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IBC japan

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  • 26-07-2006 4:39pm
    #1
    MunkyHed
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭


    Anyone here used IBC for importing Jap cars? was looking at the auctions. Some good deals to be had.


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    Kimbot
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    Some deals to be had but remember that you have to pay VAT and then VRT on all of that aswell!!!


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    SouperComputer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    haven't dealt with them myself, but anyone who I have talked to have said nothing but good things.

    TBH you will get a more genuine deal from IBC than some dealers here!


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    [V3]
    Closed Accounts Posts: 57 ✭✭[V3]


    Whats IBC?


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    MunkyHed
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭MunkyHed


    Its really addictive, i've been looking at the auctions non stop all week. I heard a story about a car that arrived at port in England and got stripped of all its alloys, radio and CD changer. Don't know if that was IBC though, may have been a different import company...

    @jonny24ie I knew about the VRT payment alright, that can be very saucy but i honestly didn't know about the VAT payment as well, this feckin country is such a rip off. Was lookin at a '03 golf Rs32 for about 15K Euro.. imagine what that would cost from a dealer here.

    @[V3]
    IBC Japan - Jap import auction site.. google it, sign up (free) and check out the auctions.


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    blobert
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    Are you sure you have to pay VAT as well as VRT on Japanese imports, the VRT website says you "might" have to?

    And another question, when your car arives in Dublin port how do you get it home. I expect you cant go out there and drive/tow it home in person?


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    MunkyHed
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭MunkyHed


    blobert wrote:
    Are you sure you have to pay VAT as well as VRT on Japanese imports, the VRT website says you "might" have to?

    And another question, when your car arives in Dublin port how do you get it home. I expect you cant go out there and drive/tow it home in person?

    It looks like you'd have to pay the VAT alright but there's no answer set in stone. Anyone in the know here??

    Why wouldn't you be able to drive it home? Just get it registered straight away and off ya go!


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    Kimbot
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    You don't pay Tax in Japan so when it lands here customs ring you and you pay VAT on it then your VRT!! Vrt is a tax for registering the car and not the VAT for the car if you get what I mean??

    YOu can drive it in person as long as you are insured to drive it, go straight to the VRT office and register it and you are grand!!!


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    zuutroy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    blobert wrote:
    Are you sure you have to pay VAT as well as VRT on Japanese imports, the VRT website says you "might" have to?

    And another question, when your car arives in Dublin port how do you get it home. I expect you cant go out there and drive/tow it home in person?

    You have pay 12% duty on the total invoice price, then you have to pay VAT on the grand total. No you can't drive it away. Needs to be trailered or on a garage plate


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    zuutroy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    jonny24ie wrote:
    YOu can drive it in person as long as you are insured to drive it, go straight to the VRT office and register it and you are grand!!!

    Bum steer there. The car has to be registered to be driven on public roads


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    Kimbot
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    zuutroy wrote:
    Bum steer there. The car has to be registered to be driven on public roads


    I have mates that have imported and rang the gardai about the situation and they were able to drive it straight to the VRT office as long as theri insurance covered them on it!!

    If you bought and english reg car but was still on english plates then its the same thing!!


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    zuutroy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    Fair enough, but by the letter of the law it's illegal, though far easier to get away with for a car on English plates.


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    Slinky>
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    I seen 3 japanese cars 'fresh off the boat' on the road between Dublin and Galway last Friday none of which had number plates, THe last time I did it we drove straight to the VRT office from the docks and VRT'd them but seems like some people arent bothering!

    Be warned the car may need tyres, brakes and battery before driving it anywhere , they could be laid up for months/years in Japan before coming here so make sure you know what your doing before driving it on public roads


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    zuutroy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    I know of people who have gotten a lecture at the VRO for driving the car straight there, and have been threatened with Gardai being called!


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    MunkyHed
    Registered Users Posts: 337 ✭✭MunkyHed


    zuutroy wrote:
    You have pay 12% duty on the total invoice price, then you have to pay VAT on the grand total. No you can't drive it away. Needs to be trailered or on a garage plate


    Whaaaaattttt!!
    You have to pay 12% duty
    Then 21 % VAT
    THEN VRT

    Thats a load of boll%£$, three different taxes on one car?


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    kluivert
    Registered Users Posts: 2,399 ✭✭✭kluivert


    MunkyHed wrote:
    Whaaaaattttt!!
    You have to pay 12% duty
    Then 21 % VAT
    THEN VRT

    Thats a load of boll%£$, three different taxes on one car?

    News update.

    You pay duty and vat on all goods from outside the EU.

    Those shoes you are wearing was charged Duty and Vat, its the VRT thats illegal.


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