Bringing Gold from Germany to the UK

[Venisonpie]

Looking for any pointers on what's required to bring personal issue Gold from Germany into the UK. A friend (UK citizen but also a German passport holder) has inherited circa £100k of gold in 50gm bars and coins from her father. She is a UK resident and wants to bring the Gold from the deposit box it currently resides in - are there any declarations or any legislation she needs to be aware of?

[egomeister]

More than 10k worth should be declared, but I don't think there is anything to pay. Probably worth having documentation that backs up ownership/source as they will be concerned about money laundering. There is probably some guidance on the HMRC site in the same pages as bringing cash into the country.

[Mr Overheads]

Sell the gold in Germany, buy equivalent gold in the UK. No transport issues.

[mac96]

Melt it down and mould it into Rolls Royce components? Then melt again at destination.

[Gargamel]

Any one of these would be suitable.

[Collectingbrass]

Venisonpie said:

Looking for any pointers on what's required to bring personal issue Gold from Germany into the UK. A friend (UK citizen but also a German passport holder) has inherited circa £100k of gold in 50gm bars and coins from her father. She is a UK resident and wants to bring the Gold from the deposit box it currently resides in - are there any declarations or any legislation she needs to be aware of?

As this is PH surely the answer is to have the gold melted down and formed into a 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III Sedanca de Ville then driven sedately across several borders while tracked by a DB5, or is that for England to Germany?

(sorry, but I thought this would help your post get some attention from those who do know :-) )