VRT, VAT and Duty on sub £2,000 UK car

Magown3 · 11-05-2024 1:38pm #1

Anyone bring one in recently?

Saw a petrol car online in the UK that I fancy but realistically, is the price likely to double after vrt etc. or even worse.

Car is £1800. VRT of the exact model couldn't be found so I found the closest one.

Check out my rough sums, do they look correct?

Car Purchase	€2,100.00
VRT	€820.00
NOx	€600.00
Ferry	€120.00
Total cost ex. Duty and VAT	€3,640.00

Duty @10%	€364.00
VAT @23%	€837.20
TOTAL	€4,841.20

So for a car that was purchased for 1800 sterling, it's likely to cost close to 5k euro all in!

P.S. I know you can massage the car purchase price but it's not likely to bring the total price down a lot to make it worth it.

Also, there are no cars of this spec/engine in Ireland for sale.

hoodie6029 · 11-05-2024 3:09pm

Yep, that looks about right. Brutal situation.

ahnowbrowncow · 11-05-2024 3:20pm

You won't be paying vat on the vrt cost so take €188 off the total cost so it only costs €4,650.

Bargain.

DoctorEdgeWild · 11-05-2024 3:36pm

What an absolute crime. Unbelievable amount of costs and hassle on to you for no reason. When I moved the other way, I think it cost 50 quid to get mine onto UK plates, if I remember correctly.

colm_mcm · 11-05-2024 6:00pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122124224#Comment_122124224

you would even get a VRT refund in most cases.

DoctorEdgeWild · 11-05-2024 6:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122124826#Comment_122124826

With my cars, some kind of rust refund would actually be very handy.

mulbot · 11-05-2024 7:23pm

Yea absolutely outrageous, had a 172 clio 20 years ago, want to get one from the UK, lovely purchase price but this blatant theft from the government is stopping me.