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Is VAT definitely due on importing a used car?
Is VAT in fact due on second-hand vehicles purchased by private individuals - from a foreign motor dealer or from a private person in another country (say Japan)? S.10.1 of Revenue's Tax and Duty Manual (May 2024), VAT and VRT on transactions involving Motor Vehicles' reads "There is no VAT liability in Ireland" in those instances.
Brian M (Bray)
Jul 2024 Filed under: importing
I just won a Mitsubishi Shogun!
Hi
I just won a prize of a Mitsubishi Shogun 3.2. I worked out the VRT at just over €400 is this about right? I want to take out the back seats and use it as a commercial SUV as I have a car already and I just want to use it to tow stuff. It was first registered in March 2010 and has 150,000 miles on the clock. What are the steps I have to take? The car was delivered to me today.
Anita Jackson (Schull)
Jul 2024 Filed under: importing
Is a car exempt from VAT after 60 days in the North?
Hi, can you please let me know is VAT liable on a car registered in Northern Ireland for at least 60 days before importing to the Republic of Ireland?
Deirdre Grouden (Castledaly)
Jul 2024 Filed under: importing
Import costs on a 2013 camper from the North?
Hi,
I am looking at a camper in Antrim, a 2013 Globecar. The price being asked is £18k. Being 2013 would I be liable for VRT and/or any other charges?
Thanks
David Buckley (Limerick)
Jul 2024 Filed under: importing
Is this Hyundai VAT-free to import from Northern Ireland?
Hi.
Looking to import from NI a 2021 Hyundai Ioniq EV. Car has one local previous owner. Car dealer said no VAT liability upon import. When I checked your Q&A, it says car arrived before Jan 1, 2021 will not be liable. I didn't ask when the car arrived from I suppose England. But it's obvious the car is registered on 2021, bought new by the first NI owner and now sold to a dealer. Tell me is is this VAT free or not? Thanks.
C. Ford (Drogheda)
Jul 2024 Filed under: importing
Is it worth importing a Velar from the North?
Can you please advise on the various types of costs that are required to import a car from Northern Ireland to the Republic?
I am currently looking at two different cars with different backgrounds:
Car 1: 2021 Range Rover Velar, first registered in UK April 2021 now on sale in Northern Ireland with UK registration plates. Dealer has said he can get it registered in NI and sell with NI registration plates.
Car 2: 2021 Range Rover Velar, car built in UK and first registered in NI Feb. 2021 i.e. is currently on NI registration plates.
I have read as much documentation as I can find on the 'potential costs' but have come away more confused than informed. It was verbally mentioned to me whilst researching this, that if a car has been registered in NI for a period of more than 60 or 90 days (I cannot remember which) then the car is exempt from VAT and only subject to NOx and VRT.
Can you please let me know if this is correct?
I would appreciate any help you can afford me on this as calling the National VRT helpline has not been helpful and I was advised to take the car to my nearest NCT centre, however by doing this, I would have bought a vehicle and would be completely unaware of its taxes.
Before buying a vehicle, I need to know the cost of taxes to establish if its expenditure is worthwhile.
Deirdre Grouden (Castledaly)
Jul 2024 Filed under: importing
How to bring a car back from Scotland?
Hello!
I purchased a car in North Ireland and I brought it over to Scotland for college for six months. I have since moved back to the ROI. I have queued in the tax office and was told to send forms to the VRT centre (the only one is in County Cork).
Can you advise the best way to go about this?
Thank you in advance!
Niamh ODonoghue (Virginia)
Jul 2024 Filed under: importing
Do I need to register my car in Northern Ireland?
Have recently moved to NI from GB. Couldn't MOT my car (long wait and couldn't do the online queue thing as it was not recognised as a NI car, having not been MOT'd there before). So - took it back to GB, MOT'd it and now want to bring it back to NI. Should I get an import form or something, so it is recognised as an NI car now? Confusingly, we are sailing into Dublin and then driving it North for complicated reasons... will that matter? Had the car a year. Can you help - I am so confused!
Alix Wood (Enniskillen)
May 2024 Filed under: importing
I want to sell my English camper...
I am based in Northern Ireland and want to sell my Vauxhall Vivaro campervan. It was professionally converted in England and still has English plates. I bought it in October 2023 from England and brought it over myself by ferry. What would a buyer from the South have to do if they purchased it? Would it make a difference if it was registered as a campervan on the UK logbook? It is currently registered as a light goods van. Would it make a difference if I got a motor vehicle engineer (SQI) to do a Declaration of Conversion?
RACHEL PEDDER (Belfast)
Jun 2024 Filed under: importing
Will this Northern Ireland import be VAT and duty-free?
Hi.
I'm looking at importing a car from Northern Ireland - first reg June 2020 in Northern Ireland. Am I correct in reading the very complicated rules as needing to pay VRT, plates and motor tax, but not having to pay customs and VAT?
Is the V5C sufficient, or will I need the dealer to provide import/shipping info too?
Many thanks
David
David Forde (Kilkenny)
Apr 2024 Filed under: importing
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