jap import query

jon1981

hey if a car in japan is 9 810.9893 and the vrt €4904 , is there VAT on top of it too?

smash

there's vat and a few other small charges on top of what you pay for the car. Then you pay VRT

jon1981

what you pay the VRT on the VAT as well??? the BASTARDS!!!!!

Esel

Pretty sure you also pay VAT on the shipping/insurance costs as well (after duty is applied to these).

jon1981

so how do people manage to make a saving importing a car from japan? or is not about the saving but the quality?

tuxy

jon1981 wrote:

so how do people manage to make a saving importing a car from japan? or is not about the saving but the quality?

There is a bit of a saving if you get it cheap in a jap auction.
Mostly people import from Japan because the cars come with things as standard that we would consider extras or because the car is not avilable in European market.

colm_mcm

here's a brilliant calculator to get a total cost based on original japanese price, includes all taxes and charges

http://www.fto-ireland.com/downloads/importcalc.zip

any chane of putting this up as a sticky?

smash

you buy the car for say 3000, then shipping is about 500

you pay vat on the 3500. the there's bill of laiden... about 150 maybe and then vrt

colm_mcm

import duty 10% also.