Posting a dinghy to EU

[dunedin]

Thanks for all your ideas/experience/advice. In my enthusiasm I purchased before remembering the changes!

Looks like I either pay VAT again or I put up with dilapidated dinghy until return to Blighty

Ho hum

Amazing what you can do with a tin of glue ?

 

[PabloPicasso]

This is the Brexit dividend we all voted for. But who'd want to open that can of worms.

 

[Neil_Y]

We need to post a new dinghy to an EU country. It is a replacement. On all the parcel delivery sites I have found they ask for item type codes and company import codes etc.

Firstly, I'm not a company; and, secondly, it's coming back to the UK with the boat.

Has anyone any experience of getting through the customs and EU VAT tangle? How do I make it clear that this is a personal item that is part of the temporarily imported yacht so that they don't hold up delivery and ask me to pay dues?

Is it possible?

TIA

M

As a company that sends goods to EU and an individual who lives in Sweden and imports goods, you will have to pay VAT on entry to the EU. Local rates apply and vat is charged on the frieght costs. I don't see it as a spare part for a yacht, so I don't think you can get exemption, for that you are best using a shipping agent but that will cost you. We do this for mechanical spare parts where the work is carried out in the EU on a non EU registered vessel. These are mostly superyachts that have a frieght agents. The fact that it stays with the boat is irrelevant, as it is then a second hand item. The tariff codes you can find online. You may have to pay VAT on importing it back into the UK, I'd check with HMRC

Personal items are all charged VAT on entry to EU over a specified value (you can check)

 

[superheat6k]

Ask the French Government - they import hundreds on a temporary import basis for short term, and permanent export to the UK ! indeed our Government even subsidise their purchases, so perhaps they can explain how it works.

(I'll get my coat.)

 

[DownWest]

Before the EU, I had some items sent out to Portugal for a 'yacht in transit' Not taxable, but you had to use a shipping agent and a customs footsoldier came with me from the airport to the key side to make sure it was actually going to a boat.
But, reatively high value items like a generator, on which the duty would have been very high back then. Yacht was reg in Panama.

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

Ask the French Government - they import hundreds on a temporary import basis for short term, and permanent export to the UK ! indeed our Government even subsidise their purchases, so perhaps they can explain how it works.

(I'll get my coat.)

The UK Government is also, effectively the end-user of these items and is responsible for their safe and sustainable disposal.?

 

[MikeCC]

As Poignard says and others have alluded to, there is a scheme for temporary import eg like someone taking stuff to a trade show. However, you'd need to use a commercial freight agent to do that. Won't be available through the usual parcel carriers. The overall cost is probably disproportionate though. As suggested, probably easier to just buy over there.

 

[gordmac]

Probably easier and cheaper to sell your new, unused one here and buy over there.