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VAT on imports into the UK?

  • 19-10-2012 7:37pm
    #1
    trevorbrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 551 ✭✭✭


    I've had an enquiry from a UK buyer on a car that I have for sale. He was concerned that he would have to pay 20% VAT on the purchase of the car upon entry to the UK. I didn't think that would be the case on a used car from within the EU but I'd like to hear from someone who knows for sure.

    Anyone?


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  • #2
    Kenny Logins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,060 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    No VAT.


  • #3
    trevorbrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 551 ✭✭✭trevorbrady


    thanks Kenny ;)


  • #4
    bbsrs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 943 ✭✭✭bbsrs


    trevorbrady wrote: »
    I've had an enquiry from a UK buyer on a car that I have for sale. He was concerned that he would have to pay 20% VAT on the purchase of the car upon entry to the UK. I didn't think that would be the case on a used car from within the EU but I'd like to hear from someone who knows for sure.

    Anyone?

    VAT can only be charged once on a car in the EU either when bought new or at time of import for a used vehicle like from Japan and they charge VAT on the purchase price of the car in Japan plus shipping cost But bring a car into Ireland and change the A in vat to an R and revenue fleece you . Isn't being in the EU great.


  • #5
    trevorbrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 551 ✭✭✭trevorbrady


    bbsrs wrote: »
    VAT can only be charged once on a car in the EU either when bought new or at time of import for a used vehicle

    So you concur with Kenny Logins above? If the car sells to the UK, the buyer won't be liable for VAT since it was paid when the car was bought new in Ireland.

    Thanks :)


  • #6
    bbsrs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 943 ✭✭✭bbsrs


    trevorbrady wrote: »

    So you concur with Kenny Logins above? If the car sells to the UK, the buyer won't be liable for VAT since it was paid when the car was bought new in Ireland.

    Thanks :)

    That is correct.


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  • #7
    macplaxton
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 2,957 Mod ✭✭✭✭macplaxton


    The enquirer doesn't have a clue. The UK Gov website probably confuses some people as it starts off with new stuff, rather than second-hand.

    Anyway, what you say is correct, if the enquirer still has doubts, refer them politely to contact HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).
    You don’t have to pay VAT if:
    • you’re importing a second-hand vehicle and the VAT was paid in another EU country
    http://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/vat-duty-and-tax-vehicles-from-within-the-eu


    (From your point of view, if selling the car for export. Give the buyer the complete original Vehicle Registration Certificate. Send a photocopy of it and a covering letter saying that you sold it for export on x date, to (new owner), of (address of new owner), and have given the original document to the buyer in order for them to register it in their own country.)


  • #8
    trevorbrady
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 551 ✭✭✭trevorbrady


    macplaxton wrote: »
    Send a photocopy of it and a covering letter saying that you sold it for export on x date, to (new owner), of (address of new owner), and have given the original document to the buyer in order for them to register it in their own country.)

    send to who? Shannon? Local motor tax office?

    thanks for the info. I've sent a link to this thread to the enquirer for his information. :)


  • #9
    macplaxton
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 2,957 Mod ✭✭✭✭macplaxton


    I'd send a covering letter to Shannon if it's a current style Vehicle Registration Certificate (different procedures may apply to older paperwork and that's possibly a motor tax office job)

    I'm just thinking it's the reversal of the process. Both here and the UK, if it's a domestic sale, the seller does the paperwork to make sure they don't get any subsequent tickets landing on the matt. However if it's a sale for export from the UK to anywhere, they tell you to just write them a letter and give the doc to new owner. When the foreign owner registers it in their home country, their home country should notify the previous country's vehicle registration body.

    This post and thread might be handy to look at too:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=69628809&postcount=14

    From that, it doesn't look like you're obliged to inform Shannon, but I'd do it anyway and keep records of everything as an arse-covering exercise.


  • #10
    PaulK_CCI
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 827 ✭✭✭PaulK_CCI


    There's only one "But" here: all the above is true if the car has indeed an Irish (or other European) registration.

    But if it is a car that was imported from, let's say South Africa, and never legally imported here, the buyer will have to pay all the duties involved when he present the car to be registered in the UK.


  • #11
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,809 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    trevorbrady wrote: »
    I've had an enquiry from a UK buyer on a car that I have for sale. He was concerned that he would have to pay 20% VAT on the purchase of the car upon entry to the UK. I didn't think that would be the case on a used car from within the EU but I'd like to hear from someone who knows for sure.

    Anyone?

    I sold 2 used cars to UK this year, and I can confirm there is no VAT for the buyer.

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  • #12
    MidlandsM
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,737 ✭✭✭MidlandsM


    galwaytt wrote: »
    I sold 2 used cars to UK this year, and I can confirm there is no VAT for the buyer.

    yep, same here, i ship a lot of cars to the uk, and there's no vat.

    Re; informing shannon about the export, yeah, just drop them a line, but by law you don't have to, shure there's not even an export slip on our irish reg doc...


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