Buying a car in the UK and avoiding VRT

terencemc

Hey all,
Just wondering is it still possible to buy a car in the uk when living there and bring it back 6 months later.
My brother is doing a masters in newcastle and I was thinking of getting him to get a car for our mother. Keep it in his name when he comes back and get her insured on it?

Anyone see any flaws?

Mr Benevolent

terencemc wrote: »

Hey all,
Just wondering is it still possible to buy a car in the uk when living there and bring it back 6 months later.
My brother is doing a masters in newcastle and I was thinking of getting him to get a car for our mother. Keep it in his name when he comes back and get her insured on it?

Anyone see any flaws?

Yep, the VRT rebate doesn't apply to students. If everyone obeyed the law this would be a much better country.

Mike...

No need to say he is a student, I done it a few years ago and plan to do it again soon

mickdw

Well if you cannot produce tax records for uk, it wont work.

opinion guy

Confab wrote: »

Yep, the VRT rebate doesn't apply to students. If everyone obeyed the law this would be a much better country.

What are you jabbering on about ?

a) Its a retarded law - why should students not be allowed the same right to import as someone working over there ?
b) The handful of people doing this each year as students will not make a blind bit of difference to the state of this country.

Hogzy

In before the VRT debate

Grimreaper666

terencemc wrote: »

Anyone see any flaws?

The only flaw I see it that we're being ripped off with VRT in the first place.

-Chris-

If students don't qualify, then unfortunately it's a non-runner I'm afraid.


And just a quick reminder for all - as per the Charter, advocating or encouraging tax evasion isn't on.
Neither is debating whether VRT is legal or morally correct (outside the VRT megathread).

Owen

There was a thread a day or two ago about a student who was in the uk 3 years, and couldn't use the VRT amnesty as he had no proof of work, etc. He was considering returning the car to the uk. Thread was called 'VRT 400 euro on citroen' or something like that.

Grimreaper666

-Chris- wrote: »

If students don't qualify, then unfortunately it's a non-runner I'm afraid.


And just a quick reminder for all - as per the Charter, advocating or encouraging tax evasion isn't on.
Neither is debating whether VRT is legal or morally correct (outside the VRT megathread).

That's if it was a fair tax.

Shane732

-Chris- wrote: »

If students don't qualify, then unfortunately it's a non-runner I'm afraid.


And just a quick reminder for all - as per the Charter, advocating or encouraging tax evasion isn't on.
Neither is debating whether VRT is legal or morally correct (outside the VRT megathread).

It's tax avoidance as opposed to tax evasion two very different things in the eyes of the law!!!

-Chris-

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

That's if it was a fair tax.

FFS, morally correct = fair :rolleyes:

Shane732 wrote: »

It's tax avoidance as opposed to tax evasion two very different things in the eyes of the law!!!

Finding out that students aren't covered by the exemption and then deciding to pretend that you're not a student is evasion.

bazz26

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

That's if it was a fair tax.

There are many things in life that are not fair. Tax is one of them.

Shane732

-Chris- wrote: »

Finding out that students aren't covered by the exemption and then deciding to pretend that you're not a student is evasion.

Of course it is - I was going by the name of the thread!

mickdw

I guess the lesson here is if anyone plans to go to uk and avail of the exemption as a student, they should see if having a part time job would get them around this before arriving back with a uk reg car.

Bogger77

part time job, minimum wage for 6 months would create the UK tax records?

Cookie_Monster

Grimreaper666 wrote: »

That's if it was a fair tax.

no taxes are fair

as stated already if he had a part time job it would be a valid way around it I'm sure. plus it would mean he's not freeloading on your parents the whole time he's in college

gofaster_s13

Afaik even if he gets away with the VRT exemption your mother still won't be able to drive it nor will he be able to sell it until he has owned it in Ireland for a year.

Bogger77

gofaster_s13 wrote: »

Afaik even if he gets away with the VRT exemption your mother still won't be able to drive it nor will he be able to sell it until he has owned it in Ireland for a year.

if it's exempt, it's only the selling of it, that's stopped.

He can insure his mother as a named main driver on it, then sell it to her, and she can insure it then.
(she can't insure a car she isn't the legal owner of)

gofaster_s13

Bogger77 wrote: »

if it's exempt, it's only the selling of it, that's stopped.

He can insure his mother as a named main driver on it, then sell it to her, and she can insure it then.
(she can't insure a car she isn't the legal owner of)

I thought it was only the owner and their husband/wife who could drive the car for the first year in the country.

gofaster_s13

gofaster_s13 wrote: »

I thought it was only the owner and their husband/wife who could drive the car for the first year in the country.

I'm almost 100% sure its just selling it. I had to hold my car for a year after bringing it in and nowhere on any documentation did it mention anything other than not being allowed to sell it.

Mr.David

Tara Defeated Mosquito wrote: »

I'm almost 100% sure its just selling it. I had to hold my car for a year after bringing it in and nowhere on any documentation did it mention anything other than not being allowed to sell it.

Can anyone confirm this either way 100%?

Regardless though, am I not right in thinking that the main driver (i.e. not named) must in reality be the main driver?

frank gooding

How many of us were Ahem named drivers on our first cars.

Hands up I was.

If you can't let Mammy drive your car after all she has done for ye what is this countrry coming to.