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Import tax

Posted: Wed May 18, 2022 1:00pm
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Hi, We are moving to Los Alcazares next month and using The Wiseguys removal company (excellent assistance so far). Alas, I do not have a polar and thus am subject to the 21% import tax. Does anyone have experience of this? Any hints, tips, advice would be appreciated. TIA.

Posted: Wed May 18, 2022 1:38pm

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Posted: Wed May 18, 2022 1:38pm

I don't know what you mean by a 'polar'. 

However, if this is your one-off permanent move, then you are not liable for Import Duty or IVA - as long as all the goods are your own, you've owned them for more than 6 months in the UK and you don't sell them within a year of moving to Spain.

Posted: Wed May 18, 2022 2:38pm

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Posted: Wed May 18, 2022 2:38pm

RichT wrote on Wed May 18, 2022 1:38pm:

I don't know what you mean by a 'polar'. 

However, if this is your one-off permanent move, then you are not liable for Import Duty or IVA - as long as all the goods are your own, you've owned them for more than 6 months in the UK and you don't sell them within a year of moving to Spain.

Thanks for that. I meant podar, not polar! My reading of the Northern Ireland protocol is that for the movement of goods, NI is still considered part of the EU for the free flow of goods. 

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Posted: Wed May 18, 2022 5:26pm

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Posted: Wed May 18, 2022 5:26pm

podar

ENGLISH

prune

verb

prune, trim, lop, clip
still nonsense?



Posted: Thu May 19, 2022 12:16pm

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Posted: Thu May 19, 2022 12:16pm

PeterC wrote on Wed May 18, 2022 5:26pm:

podar

ENGLISH

 

Read more...

prune

verb

prune, trim, lop, clip
still nonsense?



I think it is connected to cropping / pruning the value of something (which could be likened to applying a tax?)

Posted: Fri May 20, 2022 12:23pm

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Posted: Fri May 20, 2022 12:23pm

Dusty9205 wrote on Wed May 18, 2022 2:38pm:

Thanks for that. I meant podar, not polar! My reading of the Northern Ireland protocol is that for the movement of goods, NI is still considered part of the EU for the free flow of goods. 

I think you meant Padron, which is literally a census of "residents" not non residents who shouldn't have it anyway. Your courier should be following the rules regarding NI and if as you say you still have free movement no taxes are applicable. Talk to your Couriers again, before Brexit whilst in the EU we traveled with a van full of our own belongings and needed no paperwork nor any tax applied so it should be same for you now. I, m not familiar with what parts of Ireland are still in EU but I think they are treating you as UK and not in EU. 

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Pauline 

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