Paying VAT & VRT on new car

Rumbler1

Hi, we purchased a pre-registered car 162 on 1st Feb 2017. The car was registered on 30th Sept 2016 so it won't be 6 months until.30th March 2017. I haven't booked the VRT appt as we are waiting on the registration documentation that should arrive next week.
I have only just found out that we have to pay the VAT if the car is less than 6 mths old. We have already paid the VAT to the garage but we can claim 20% back but we have to pay it our first to the VRT office which is quite a sum of money.
My question is if I wait until the first week in April ( it will probably be that date now because of waiting time for appt.) Will they take the date of the appt. as being 1st day of Registration or the date of the Invoice? I am wondering does it matter if I wait or not. I need the car will just be over 6 mths old and therefore not liable to VAT. Would I need to get the Purchase Invoice date changed and if so, what date?
I welcome any advice.
Thankd

extra-ordinary_

They'll take the date of the invoice usually unless you can produce ferry tickets or some other documentation to show you brought the vehicle into the country at another time.

Rumbler1

What if I got the garage to change the date if the Invoice...would this suffice?

extra-ordinary_ wrote: »

They'll take the date of the invoice usually unless you can produce ferry tickets or some other documentation to show you brought the vehicle into the country at another time.

Esel

Also, be aware that if the car is less than 6 months old OR has done less than 6000 km, VAT is due here.

Soarer

extra-ordinary_ wrote: »

They'll take the date of the invoice usually unless you can produce ferry tickets or some other documentation to show you brought the vehicle into the country at another time.

No they don't.

They take the date of when you pay the VRT. That's the day you register.
The rate of VRT applicable is also on the day you pay. If that day is more than 30 days since the car entered the state, a % of the VRT is applied for every day over as a penalty.

So the date on the invoice is irrelevant. It's the date of your ferry crossing is the date it entered the state.

If you were to amend anything, amend your ferry booking. You can always say you bought the car, but left it with the garage for a few weeks while they fixed it up, or until it was more than 6 months old, or whatever.

extra-ordinary_

Soarer wrote: »

No they don't.

They take the date of when you pay the VRT. That's the day you register.

So you're saying if you bring in a vehicke 24 weeks old and then three weeks later bring it for VRT you won't be liable for any VAT?

Soarer

Yup.

Well, technically you're always liable for VAT as it should be paid in some member country. so if you haven't paid in the UK, you're supposed to pay over here.

But the day you show up at the VRT office is the day everything is calculated.