Importing from the UK - definitive guide (Q and A)

Thanks

Car was registered in uk 2008 so I am hoping that will be on the reg doc

Downloaded a revenue aporoved uk document stating the co2 emmissions

Fecks sake - all this because I got bored one night and started browsing donedeal

Are the majority of them passing that saving on to the customer though? Used car prices have rocketed recently and imports still being sold by dealers here don't seem to be any different.

I have heard from a dealer here in Dublin, who deals in high end cars, that the vast majority of qualifying cars in the north are being snapped up by dealers here.

They’re now making nice money due to the lack of supply to the general public.

Not sure you get what I mean either, they'll be making money from whatever they charge me for "handling it", they're not buying the car and giving it to me for less than what they paid for it, just the vat is taken out of it so i'm not paying 23% vat on top of the rrp, duty and VRT.

If the car am buying from NI / Mainland UK is brand new (less than 6000km & not 6 months old) am I still liable for 10% customs duty + 23% Irish vat + vrt? Kindly advice please

Folks

Looking for benefit of experience of members, looking at second hand car at NI at a dealer. Car on a UK plate however has been in NI most of it's life and the V5 states the current owner ( With NI address ) and date acquried which is pre Brexit ( Jan 1 2021 )

My understanding is that I only pay VRT as before and no further charges are payable, is that the consensus here ?

Also is that sufficient to make a VRT appointment or do the VRT people need some revenue sign off before I can VRT the car, they will see full V5 doc with details above

Thanks in advance P

I have been looking through as much of this as I can and probably missed it but what are you paying the vat on? The price of car now or the price of when it was new? I am looking at buying an e92 m3 but none down south and I am trying to find out if there's any loop holes with purchasing one from NI instead of the uk?

NI residents don't need to change the reg from GB to NI to register the car in NI. They can register the car in NI alright and keep the GB reg if they want. Just do proper background checks and make sure the car is actually registered in NI and don't just accept the seller's word because once you hand over the money and take the key's then VAT and import duty become your problem when you go to register it down south.

Car prices are just out of control right now here.

Nuts.

Just to add to that.

Dealers can claim back the 20% UK VAT on qualifying cars, but they don't seem to be passing on them savings

Still, there is still plenty of imports coming in, but it's a dealer market now.

Since when did anyone bother what happens to motorists, all the fanfare about a Brexit deal or no deal, not a bit of difference to the motorists, still hit with 10% customs duty.

Also paying VAT twice on a car seems to be a method to gouge more money out of us, I cant see how that is legal in the first place,

Prices here are up way more than 10 percent of the UK price.

They are charging what they can get away with and that is basically just less than it would cost private person to bring it in.

There has to be a business in importing to order at the minute with slim margins. An admin facility really to avoid double vat.