pantheman wrote:JimB wrote:markwoods39 wrote:plodge wrote:Hi,
Thanks for coming back to me, what sort of tax am I looking at paying - I am quite attached to my car.
Is it dependant on age etc..
well my jeep is worth £14.000 and i would have to pay £4.000gbp in tax. To ship it i could have sent it by freight and it can take up to 2 weeks to get there, that would have cost me £600 hope this helps
Not forgetting the approx £150 / 200 'grease' charge to the customs officials at the port as they will most likely refuse to inspect the container during normal hours meaning you pick up their overtime bill ......
What utter bollocks from the pair of you.
Mark, how the hell did you work out the tax based on the price of the car? You are talking shite. I suggest if you don't know what you are talking about you just shut the F up.
The Duty paid is dependent on the engine size, age of vehicle and type of vehicle.
Check this link.
http://www.mof.gov.cy/mof/customs/Custo ... enDocumentIf you tell me the type of vehicle, engine size and age I may be able to do a rough calculation for it.
As for greasing the guys at the port, total rubbish, when the container comes, the shipping company will get it through customs and you drive it away same day. You then have 3 months to register it.
Good luck.
What a well balanced and carefully considered balanced argument you make !
Having moved here and paid release fee's to the vet to examine the dog and customs for the furniture and the car I reckon I've got some experience about the process concerned.
All of agencies involved insisted that this had to be done 'out of normal operating hours' as they were simply too busy to deal with it as part of normal procedures.
The vet made me wait over three hours before he pitched and signed his bit of paper without even opening the dogs crate. During this time the helpful senior customs officer at Larnaca airport insisted that the dog had to remain in the crate pending the arrival of the vet. Both the vet and customs billed me for an 'overtime' charge - have the receipts in a file.
Pretty sure other people on here have experienced the same or worse.
Might not fit your 'fantasy island' view of the place, but hey ... shit happens.
If you work in the industry (and from your response I'd place even money on it being the case) then I suggest you take a long hard look at your fellow workers as they're bringing down your obviously excellent reputation.
I wasn't quoting figures on shipping and import duty as, as you rightly state they are dependent on size of engine etc. I suggested a couple of professional company's in the UK which would be able to provide an accurate break down of the costs involved (along with details on re-registration requirements).
Making someone aware that there could be a release fee at the port isn't off topic. These fee's aren't universal and plenty of other countries don't charge them or at least wouldn't expect you to pay the operatives over-time bill if they did. A lot of countries publish a fixed price tariff for this type of transaction.
When there's a non-fixed, which way is the wind blowing, lucky dip type charge levied I think it falls into the 'grease' payment category.
Anyhow's, can't wait for your next vitriolic post.
Kudos to you for being able to type.
Can't be easy when your knuckles usually scrape the floor.
