Classic car import duty UK: UK Vehicle Import Reliefs
The UK Vehicle Import Reliefs carries 4 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 5 to 120 day, read 24 October 2026.
6 of the 13 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 24 October 2026.
Every figure, with its source
One row per published figure: the figure as the source's own page publishes it, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
The sentence each figure was read from (6)
- GOV.UK - Apply for a Binding Tariff Information decision, read 2026-10-24:
HMRC aims to reply to your application within 120 days.
- legislation.gov.uk - The Customs (Reliefs from a Liability to Import Duty and Miscellaneous Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, read 2026-10-24:
in any event by no later than the expiry of the period of 30 days beginning with that date.
- HMRC Diplomatic Privileges manual DIPPRIV6200 - importing motor vehicles, read 2026-10-24:
The completed C426 parts 1 (Customs copy) and 3 (Applicant’s copy) and NOVA 1 (available on-line) should be forwarded to the Personal Transport Unit with a copy of the registration document and the C88 (form completed when importing goods) to the Personal Transport Unit within 14 days of the date of arrival of the vehicle in the UK
- GOV.UK - Transfer of residence to Great Britain, read 2026-10-24:
If it does not qualify for any of the reliefs, the duty and tax will normally be payable on the value of the vehicle at the time you re-import it, at the rates which then apply. However, if you bring it back to the UK within 6 months of the date by which it should have been exported under the original conditions, you’ll have to pay:
- GOV.UK - Apply to import goods temporarily to the UK, read 2026-10-24:
We’ll reply within 5 days and provide a link to the EU Trader Portal where you can access the application form.
- GOV.UK - Temporary admission technical handbook: partial relief, read 2026-10-24:
Duty is charged at 3% of the full import duty for the first month and a final balance of outstanding duties due for subsequent months will be charged once the goods are discharged from TA, the total payable will not exceed the full duty that would have applied had the goods been released to free circulation.
Read in full, publishes no figure
7 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- HMRC Imports manual IMPS05200 - works of art, antiques and collectors' items, read 2026-10-24: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- HMRC Imports manual IMPS05000 - valuation for import VAT: exceptions, read 2026-10-24: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- HMRC Imports manual IMPS06300, read 2026-10-24: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK - Application for transfer of residence relief (ToR1), read 2026-10-02: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK - Pay less import duty and VAT when re-importing goods to the UK (Returned Goods Relief), read 2026-10-02: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK - Importing vehicles into the UK: temporary imports, read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK - Refunds and waivers on customs debt, read 2026-10-02: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
6 of the 13 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 7 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in day (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 11 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one row per relief per condition: the age, ownership, residence, state-of-goods and time-limit tests, the claim deadline, the form, and the effective rate the relief produces (0% duty and an effective 5% import VAT for a qualifying collectors' vehicle, nil under ToR, nil under returned goods, the monthly percentage under partial temporary admission), each quoted from the authority.
The derivation is the DECISION TREE nobody publishes as one thing: for a given car's age, condition, origin and owner circumstances, which reliefs it can claim, what each is worth against the full rate from the duty table, and which conditions it currently fails.
11 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (14)
- HMRC Imports manual IMPS05200 - works of art, antiques and collectors' items(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- HMRC Imports manual IMPS05000 - valuation for import VAT: exceptions(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- HMRC Imports manual IMPS06300(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Application for transfer of residence relief (ToR1)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Transfer of residence to Great Britain(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Pay less import duty and VAT when re-importing goods to the UK (Returned Goods Relief)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Importing vehicles into the UK: temporary imports(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Apply to import goods temporarily to the UK(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Temporary admission technical handbook: partial relief(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Apply for a Binding Tariff Information decision(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Refunds and waivers on customs debt(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- legislation.gov.uk - The Customs (Reliefs from a Liability to Import Duty and Miscellaneous Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- HMRC Diplomatic Privileges manual DIPPRIV6200 - importing motor vehicles(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- UK Integrated Online Tariff - heading 9705 (collections and collectors' pieces)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The UK Vehicle Import Reliefs carries 4 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 5 to 120 day, read 24 October 2026.
6 of the 13 named sources read in full publish a figure; 7 publish none, read 24 October 2026.
Cite as: "carimportcalculator.co.uk UK Vehicle Import Reliefs", updated 2026-10-24, https://carimportcalculator.co.uk/datasets/uk-vehicle-import-reliefs/.
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