Free at last from clutches of HMRC

[stek]

They're no problem if you are paying VRT.

But claiming it back on export.....

It's an illegal tax, supposed to be no import/export taxes/duties within EU.

[washed up contractor]

Nope, coming back for a day or so will be a problem because it restarts the clock for being ordinarily resident in the UK.

[stek]

Nope, coming back for a day or so will be a problem because it restarts the clock for being ordinarily resident in the UK.

Eh? Explain...

[northernladyuk]

But claiming it back on export.....

It's an illegal tax, supposed to be no import/export taxes/duties within EU.

Not at all. It is definitely nothing about import, just registration.

[stek]

Not at all. It is definitely nothing about import, just registration.

Aye but it's disguised as a registration tax, and has VAT added. This Cork guy I met was looking at cars in NI was buying this Merc AMG 6.3 litre jobbie, 2010 model year, he reckoned the 'registration' cost to export to South was €10000, plus VAT, and he was prepared to pay it. 36% of OMSP (and VAT). Trouble is no-one knows what the revenue deem the OMSP to be on oddball cars.

€10k isn't a registration fee, it's a sham and everyone knows it.

[northernladyuk]

Aye but it's disguised as a registration tax, and has VAT added. This Cork guy I met was looking at cars in NI was buying this Merc AMG 6.3 litre jobbie, 2010 model year, he reckoned the 'registration' cost to export to South was €10000, plus VAT, and he was prepared to pay it. 36% of OMSP (and VAT). Trouble is no-one knows what the revenue deem the OMSP to be on oddball cars.

€10k isn't a registration fee, it's a sham and everyone knows it.

[jamesbrown]

HMRC, Head of Anglo-Irish Enforcement.

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[Mordac]

It was having them both on my back that was bothering me. To be fair, the Revenue Commissioners had my tax refund in my bank account three days after my tax return was filed.

Especially as you couldn't offer a cash discount to either of them...