Buying in the Netherlands some urgent advice needed please

[Irish Rover]

You missed the point, in the first post Boatymacboat could easily have been a UK citizen living in the Republic of Ireland and wanting to have a boat in Holland. There could have been a potential VAT problem of 20% if he sailed from Holland to the UK, even if just for a holiday. That is purely because he would not have been the owner before the UK left the EU and the Return of Goods would not have applied.

What really is the problem is that the UK does not recognise that any boat in the EU before Brexit would have been VAT paid and be able to be brought intto the UK. Now buying within the EU and bringing any boat back into the UK is a VAT chargeable event. In virtually everyones eyes this is double taxation and totally unfair.

Please write 100 times
CITIZENSHIP HAS NO RELEVANCE TO VAT LIABILITY ON YACHTS.

 

[Tranona]

You missed the point, in the first post Boatymacboat could easily have been a UK citizen living in the Republic of Ireland and wanting to have a boat in Holland. There could have been a potential VAT problem of 20% if he sailed from Holland to the UK, even if just for a holiday. That is purely because he would not have been the owner before the UK left the EU and the Return of Goods would not have applied.

What really is the problem is that the UK does not recognise that any boat in the EU before Brexit would have been VAT paid and be able to be brought intto the UK. Now buying within the EU and bringing any boat back into the UK is a VAT chargeable event. In virtually everyones eyes this is double taxation and totally unfair.

Afraid you are just confusing the issues. The OP said clearly he is resident in Ireland and intends keeping the boat in the Netherlands where he bought it. No suggestion of bringing it to UK and even then as he is non resident VAT is not an issue unless he wants to keep it here for longer than 18 months. His citizenship is irrelevant. His problem was getting insurance which is now more difficult when boat and owner are in different states and not really directly related to Brexit.

 

[DownWest]

Might be worth trying these as well Craftinsure Boat Insurance

This interested me, but they insure boats based in UK.

 

[Irish Rover]

This interested me, but they insure boats based in UK.

They quoted me for a boat based in Turkey and actually issued a policy until I discovered it was limited to operating not east of 35 or south of 34 (my mistake not reading the details carefully enough). They subsequently said they could cover me for the Eastern med at a higher premium (still not bad) but I had renewed with my current insurers by then. I will definitely be contacting them again at renewal time.

 

[Chris CJ]

Your experience is different from mine. The Dutch surveyor who did the survey on my boat did a very thorough job, which was very informative, I learned a lot about the boat as we went along. I can thoroughly recommend Olav Cox, not only a knowledgeable surveyor, but also a yachtsman who has circumnavigated and author of a pilot book for Zeeland.
[/QUOTE We used Olaf Cox as well - excellent survey and talked us through as he conducted the survey with both buyer and seller present , also used the standard Dutch contract - no issues with this

 

[Boatymacboat]

Thank you all for your input you all have been very helpful Again many thanks to all

 

[Ningaloo]

You missed the point, in the first post Boatymacboat could easily have been a UK citizen living in the Republic of Ireland and wanting to have a boat in Holland. There could have been a potential VAT problem of 20% if he sailed from Holland to the UK, even if just for a holiday. That is purely because he would not have been the owner before the UK left the EU and the Return of Goods would not have applied.

What really is the problem is that the UK does not recognise that any boat in the EU before Brexit would have been VAT paid and be able to be brought intto the UK. Now buying within the EU and bringing any boat back into the UK is a VAT chargeable event. In virtually everyones eyes this is double taxation and totally unfair.

I'm not so sure, although with Brexit who knows? If he was a UK citizen / French resident, I don't believe that he would be liable for paying VAT on a visit to UK, however a French citizen / UK resident would definitely be liable. As an AU resident and UK citizen I would not be liable for UK VAT if I visited UK. I imagine that there is even less liability given the ambiguity between UK, GB, NI and ROI.
The key thing is that your RESIDENCY determines VAT.
I'll admit that I (and other posters) have assumed that the boat was being bought in Holland, however the OP does not explicitly states this.

 

[Boatymacboat]

I'm not so sure, although with Brexit who knows? If he was a UK citizen / French resident, I don't believe that he would be liable for paying VAT on a visit to UK, however a French citizen / UK resident would definitely be liable. As an AU resident and UK citizen I would not be liable for UK VAT if I visited UK. I imagine that there is even less liability given the ambiguity between UK, GB, NI and ROI.
The key thing is that your RESIDENCY determines VAT.
I'll admit that I (and other posters) have assumed that the boat was being bought in Holland, however the OP does not explicitly states this.

Hi yes the boat is being bought in Holland