How Much Tax am I paying ?

How Much Tax am I paying ?

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mike42

Original Poster:

108 posts

138 months

Tuesday 29th April
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Spent 10 minutes looking around the web for something that would list the import duty prices of cars based on which country they are made. And found nothing !

Just starting the task was pretty depressing though. A common figure is 10% on top of which 20% vat is added. No wonder new cars cost so much.

Are our Japanese cars costing 10% more than Germans ones? What about S Korea and dare I even mention the C word (I'm thinking of you BYD).

samoht

6,562 posts

159 months

Tuesday 29th April
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We have a trade deal with Japan, so their cars are at 5% import tax.
https://andrewsjapanesecars.com/japanese-car-impor...

There's a similar deal with S Korea, unsure if it's also 5% though.

China should be 10% like most places without a specific deal.


VAT applies to everything regardless of where it's made.