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Buying UK car when VAT registered in Ireland

fade out · 2016-08-04 16:56:39

Does anyone have experience with buying a UK car with a VAT number and being VAT registered here? Can you get the dealer there to charge you zero VAT? What happens when you bring it back to Ireland? Is VAT then liable here? I know you have to VRT it. It wouldn't be a brand new car it would be a used car 5/6 years old.

04-08-2016 5:56pm

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Does anyone have experience with buying a UK car with a VAT number and being VAT registered here? Can you get the dealer there to charge you zero VAT? What happens when you bring it back to Ireland? Is VAT then liable here? I know you have to VRT it. It wouldn't be a brand new car it would be a used car 5/6 years old.

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#2 04-08-2016 8:37pm

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no. you can't do anything on car on a car that age. you just pay it in the UK.

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#3 04-08-2016 8:43pm

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Why would there be vat on a used car in uk to begin with .

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#4 04-08-2016 9:04pm

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BorneTobyWilde wrote: »

Why would there be vat on a used car in uk to begin with .

If the OP buys the car from a VAT registered dealer in Northern Ireland the dealer is obliged to to charge UK VAT of 20%. The VAT will of course be included in the sale price and unless the OP is himself a car dealer and is buying the car as part of his trade he will not be entitled to recover the VAT paid.

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