Buying a car from the Rep

Citywalk

What is the process of buying a car from Ireland? And costs?

ballyblack

New or secondhand?

Citywalk

secondhand

ballyblack

Why? The cars are more expensive in the South unless your after something rare

Citywalk

Yeah its an import, also I have found a lot of cheaper cars in the south and more choice. Depends what you are after. For example any large engine car is cheap because they have to pay over 1k a year to tax it!

ballyblack

If you can buy a big car cheap enough it might be ok?
I think you can claim a percentage of the VRT tax back from the Eire Gov once the car has been registered in the uk.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vrt/export-repayment-scheme/index.html.



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Citywalk

Just wondered what I need to do really.

ballyblack

No vat on secondhand but reg fee of £55?

https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/vat-and-tax-vehicles-from-within-the-eu

Parisien

NI forum, am just about to do this, apparently the last registered owner car reclaim a proportion of VRT back when registered in another EU country when permanently exported.

Apart from £55 registration fee up North, any other fees?

Its a 1996 car, big engine so annual road tax is €1809 in RoI !!!!

Parisien

I think nearly all my answers are on this website, might need an up-date though as dated 2010, thanks to speedyreg.co.uk

http://www.speedyreg.co.uk/blogs/2010/06/importing-a-southern-irish-vehicle-into-northern-ireland/

And yes the seller/owner can reclaim VRT based on vehicle's current value, with the euro at €1.35 currently, there is the odd deal to be had!

ballyblack

a 1996 car will have a very low value either side of the border unless its something classic so VRT claim back will be negligible