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Experience importing from EU no papers...

Postby MFaulks » Sat Feb 08, 2014 10:53 am

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Hello peeps, any of you good folk had experience of importing cars from EU (our stuff, so >10 years old)?

I've looked through the Gov.uk pages, and I think the approach is as follows:

Bring it in...
follow the Reconstructed classic vehicles route..

Inspection report
V627/1

and I guess a Certificate of Mutual Recognition filled out??

Have I got that right, or is there a better way than not bother... ?? Help much appreciated!

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Re: Experience importing from EU no papers...

Postby Stunned Monkey » Sat Feb 08, 2014 1:16 pm

Prove it's yours with a simple receipt from the seller stating the country of sale, and get an MOT. If no paperwork exists for the car, get a signed declaration from the owners club that it's a genuine vehicle. As it's from the EU you don't need to submit a C&E386 (import tax). At the point of registration, the DVLA will probably request an inspection (though not necessarily) but it's nothing more than a bloke in a car park satisfying himself that it's a genuine car, not something odd with a vin plate screwed to it. Takes 5 minutes.

I've bought two DeLoreans from the EU, neither of which had ever had european plates and registered both this way with no problems.
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Re: Experience importing from EU no papers...

Postby MFaulks » Sat Feb 08, 2014 6:36 pm

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Martin,

Thanks, that's brilliant :) So that gets you an age related plate or a Q plate?

I fancy a bannana split :)

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Re: Experience importing from EU no papers...

Postby Stunned Monkey » Sun Feb 09, 2014 5:49 pm

Age related if it has a standard VIN plate (it confirms to an international code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_identification_number), though the DVLA usually give you the previous year. DeLoreans have the month and year of manufacture in plain english on the vin plate - but they still insist on going a year earlier.
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Re: Experience importing from EU no papers...

Postby MFaulks » Mon Mar 03, 2014 10:55 pm

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Thanks Martin

I guess it depends on what resale value you want potentially at a much later date ie a A310 brought over with no Euro papers, then being sold back into Europe with UK docs only many moons later? Do you think that would affect it?

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Re: Experience importing from EU no papers...

Postby BIG_MVS » Tue Mar 04, 2014 7:58 am

Have you heard about NOVA Faulksie? No not a Vauxhall...

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/nova/

Word on the street is that they are clamping down on imports and want all the duty paid and on a UK plate (paying more duty) asap as some peeps have been taking the preverbial spoiling it for the majority as per.
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Re: Experience importing from EU no papers...

Postby MFaulks » Thu Mar 06, 2014 10:56 pm

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Doesn't apply as it's not a new vehicle, and relevant duties were paid when it was sold originally in the country of origin..
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Re: Experience importing from EU no papers...

Postby BIG_MVS » Thu Mar 06, 2014 11:18 pm

Maybe not on the VAT front but you have to notify them via NOVA new or second hand.

When a motor vehicle is brought permanently into the UK from abroad, you must notify HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) using the Notification of Vehicle Arrivals (NOVA) system


Vehicles brought permanently into the UK must be notified to HMRC within 14 days and any VAT due paid or accounted for. This means that you will not be able to register and license your vehicle(s) with DVLA or DVA until you have received confirmation from HMRC that your notification has been processed.


That's what I have been told anyway.

So come on what's the motor then?
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Re: Experience importing from EU no papers...

Postby Stunned Monkey » Sat Mar 08, 2014 5:14 pm

Nova is new to me and appears to apply to trade only of you dig through the various links - it's all about ensuring tax is paid. (If you bring one in from outside the EU, which I have done many times, the agent handles all of that - note reference to C&E 386 above). A personal import from within the EU should be subject to the free trade laws within the EU.
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