Importation duties

[Ireland]

phrich said:

You might consider taking it to Andorra (between France and Spain) and registering it as a tourist, pay 2% tax then drive it to Greece, or
buy a 6 month old ss sedan from the middle east for half price and drive it to Greece

Rather than hi-jack the other thread I have started another.

The above bit interests me big-time.

I tried to bring in a Crewman SSZ last year to Ireland and it went from AUS$47,000.00 to slightly under €80,000.00 (approx £54,000.00) by the time all the various Irish duties were added to it.

Their big thing was it was coming from outside the EU and they were screwing me on that.

I reckoned it wasn't worth that.

I still want one, probably the newer spec one, but as I've bought a Cerb and am planning a property purchase it'll probably be a '08 import.


But this Andorra option - tell me more, please.

J.J.

[ringram]

Probably more of a UK thing. You are allowed to drive a foreign car on UK roads as long as it has a valid tax and mot in its source country.
Insurance you also need to sort out. The key is "for up to one year" I think, maybe its 6 months. However if you cross the channel frequently enough that "up to one year" may never come.....

[Ireland]

Yeah, we're allowed 48 hours here (theoretically).

I had the Cerb on UK plates for about 4 monts and a law-enforcement friend of mine "advised" me it would be best to pay up my duty and put Irish plates on it.

So, basically, the Andorra option is like me having a UK registered one and going overseas a lot.

[phrich]

I picked most of my info from,

www.ptclub.com/taxfreecars.html

I have not done it myself, yet.

[Ireland]

phrich said:

I picked most of my info from,

www.ptclub.com/taxfreecars.html

I have not done it myself, yet.

This is an article I'll be reading I think.

Is it a scam or a genuine option?

Also, anyone here got experience of it?

[ringram]

Considering this comment, "UK insurance is some of the cheapest in the world. "

Id take the rest with a grain of salt!

[ireland]

ringram said:

Considering this comment, "UK insurance is some of the cheapest in the world. "

Id take the rest with a grain of salt!

True.

I've actually seen what some people in the UK are paying for insurance over on one of the TVR pages.

It's not to cheap there at all, is it?

[phrich]

Ireland said:

phrich said:

I picked most of my info from,

www.ptclub.com/taxfreecars.html

I have not done it myself, yet.

This is an article I'll be reading I think.

Is it a scam or a genuine option?

Also, anyone here got experience of it?

Just use it to gain info then go direct to Andorra authorities to confirm.
UK insurance is reletively cheap compared to most of Europe because UK has a very mature and competitive insurance market, plus a lower accident rate to most of Europe.