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

I suppose in short. Check v5 and if you see the owners details as being from NI and them having owned it prior to brexit, you are OK.

Unless you are importing a personal car and claiming a change of residence exemption, importing yourself wouldnt add up as you will have to pay vat here and vat inclusive price in uk.

Dealers can claim back uk vat.

I think an agent is required to handle customs. Traders seem to use them so must be pretty tricky without.

Just wondering does anyone know if there is any garage in ROI that will bring in a car from England and pass on the UK Vat rebate? I am looking out for a car in BCA or in a garage but am looking for certain extras , ie panoramic roof certain colour etc. if possible but obviously don’t want to pay the UK Vat. Is there any garages that will do this and just charge a fee for their service out there?

Ukcarimports.ie buy auction cars and hand them over all ready for the road here.

Don't know anything about them but look them up.

That’s great thank you. I will check them out

Will do thanks Mick

Ya cars after brexit that were registered new in NI are OK too but they cannot have been ex uk demo or anything like that or vat or duty would.be payable.

If the registration doc shows no previous owners before the NI owner, the age of the car is not important.

The pre brexit requirements relate to uk mainland imports.

Of course it’s right. NI remains in the single European market for goods. No VAT or customs duty on transfer provided it has been properly imported into the single market in the first place. The only problem is with vehicles which were initially registered in GB and subsequently transferred after GB left the single market but without undergoing VAT and customs clearance which they will not so as NI is also part of U.K. single market - think of NI as the connected part of a Venn diagram. Items can go into it and out of it in both directions but things cannot pass from GB to IE via NI.

I have found an secondhand agricultural tractor in a main dealer in NI wtith an English registered tractor..

I think for tractor direct from uk there is special procedure and its 0% duty and a special cleaning of soil approval, but an English tractor for NI .

Very often farmers down here never road register but i do want to and am not sure how this will be handled...

My understating is that you pay no VAT or import duty but 7% VRT

EDIT: Sorry I see now they seem to be saying you can get a €5k relief on the 7% VRT, cant answer you if that applies to used cars also!

https://www.revenue.ie/en/vrt/calculating-vrt/electric-hybrid-vehicles.aspx

I'm looking at an electric car up north and would appreciate some advice.

Car is on NI reg, and last v5c issue matches when the car was bought, so seems good on the vat and vrt front

I'd hope to travel up and to view and, all going well, drive it home that day .

Regarding paying for the car, how do people typically do it?

I've seen some people mention revolut, so I'd assume that's a bank transfer as revolut seem to have a card limit of 5k per day. EDIT: not sure where I read this, but I just confirmed there is no limit with support.

Ive read that UK bank transfer happen a lot quicker than here, so would a bank transfer from revolut work out to do it same day?

Revolut have a currency transfer fee of 1% over 1000, but it's free with revolut premium, so it actually works out cheaper to pay for premium (even for the year, €108). Is there any cheaper way of doing it?

Paying by BOI card is another option I saw mentioned, that's another possibility if the dealer is ok with it, but I'd probably have to do some looking into it to see how much it would cost.

Any other alternatives worth considering?

Thanks!

Did you get any answer to this question. Interested myself. I have found 2 export companies that will buy a vat qualifying car from any dealer (for me) for a fee. Then sell it to me with the vat excluded. The only thing they said is they have to organise the export shipping which is around £900.

There is still savings compared to paying the UK vat, but if individuals can claim the vat back themselves once they prove it was exported then that's the better route.

Has anybody actually done this recently and how? Or is it even possible.

Hi Guys,

just looking to clarify things here. Am I correct in saying that if purchasing a car from Northern Ireland (mileage over 6,000km) that has always been registered there will be exempt from VRT and VAT in the Republic? If incorrect what is payable in both the North via HMRC and South via Revenue on a car with over 6,000km on the clock. If you could provide examples on electric, hybrid and diesel/petrol. Just confused reading the posts above.