Cost to register an imported car UK (4 figures)
The UK Vehicle Registration Fees carries 4 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 54.85 to 440 GBP, read 24 October 2026.
6 of the 15 named sources read in full publish a figure; 9 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.
| Source | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| DVLA V149 rates of vehicle tax (April 2026) | 440GBP | 2026-10-24 |
| GOV.UK/DVSA - Vehicle approval test costs: cars (M1) | 213.98GBP | 2026-10-24 |
| GOV.UK - Importing vehicles into the UK: registering an imported vehicle | 55GBP | 2026-10-24 |
| GOV.UK - MOT test fees | 54.85GBP | 2026-10-24 |
| GOV.UK - Importing vehicles into the UK: telling HMRC (NOVA) | 14day | 2026-10-24 |
| GOV.UK - Vehicle tax rate tables | 5year | 2026-10-24 |
The sentence each figure was read from (6)
- DVLA V149 rates of vehicle tax (April 2026), read 2026-10-24:
Total including the £440 additional rate
- GOV.UK/DVSA - Vehicle approval test costs: cars (M1), read 2026-10-24:
Test or check type Service charge (in working hours) VAT (in working hours) Total (in working hours) Average test length Inspection £213.98 £42.80 £256.78 110 minutes
- GOV.UK - Importing vehicles into the UK: registering an imported vehicle, read 2026-10-24:
You’ll need to pay a £55 registration fee and tax your vehicle when you register it.
- GOV.UK - MOT test fees, read 2026-10-24:
The maximum fee for a car is £54.85 and £29.65 for a standard motorcycle.
- GOV.UK - Importing vehicles into the UK: telling HMRC (NOVA), read 2026-10-24:
You must do this within 14 days of bringing the vehicle in.
- GOV.UK - Vehicle tax rate tables, read 2026-10-24:
You only have to pay this rate for 5 years (from the second time the vehicle is taxed).
Read in full, publishes no figure
9 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- GOV.UK - Vehicle tax rates for cars registered on or after 1 April 2017, read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- GOV.UK/DVSA - Vehicle approval test costs: lorries and light goods vehicles, read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- GOV.UK/DVSA - Individual vehicle approval inspection fees, read 2026-10-09: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK - Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA): cars, read 2026-10-09: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK - Apply for Motorcycle Single Vehicle Approval (MSVA), read 2026-10-09: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK - Vehicle approval, read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK - Vehicle registration, read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK - Personalised vehicle registration numbers, read 2026-09-25: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- GOV.UK - Vehicle tax, MOT and insurance, read 2026-09-11: 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 15 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 9 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 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 GBP (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 58 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 post-customs step per vehicle class: the fee, who charges it, the deadline and the dated page it was read from - then the total the buyer actually faces, which nobody publishes: the after-customs cost of an import by vehicle class and CO2 band, with the approval route (type approval, IVA, MSVA, mutual recognition) that a car of that age and origin is forced down, and changed-since across the April rate-year turn.
58 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (15)
- GOV.UK - Importing vehicles into the UK: telling HMRC (NOVA)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Importing vehicles into the UK: registering an imported vehicle(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Vehicle tax rate tables(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Vehicle tax rates for cars registered on or after 1 April 2017(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK/DVSA - Vehicle approval test costs: cars (M1)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK/DVSA - Vehicle approval test costs: lorries and light goods vehicles(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK/DVSA - Individual vehicle approval inspection fees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Apply for Individual Vehicle Approval (IVA): cars(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Apply for Motorcycle Single Vehicle Approval (MSVA)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Vehicle approval(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Vehicle registration(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - MOT test fees(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Personalised vehicle registration numbers(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- GOV.UK - Vehicle tax, MOT and insurance(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- DVLA V149 rates of vehicle tax (April 2026)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The UK Vehicle Registration Fees carries 4 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 54.85 to 440 GBP, read 24 October 2026.
6 of the 15 named sources read in full publish a figure; 9 publish none, read 24 October 2026.
Cite as: "carimportcalculator.co.uk UK Vehicle Registration Fees", updated 2026-10-25, https://carimportcalculator.co.uk/datasets/uk-vehicle-registration-fees/.
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