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When importing a vette - Is there a 12 months rule/regulation?
gtc:
--- Quote ---Originally posted by 69 DIRTY RAT
All personal import cars must be owned for 18 months I thought & not just less than 15 year old cars. Didnt it used to be 1 year but now its 18 months(?) Most Govt. web sites are way out of date!
Mine was a personal import! at the time it was only 1 year!
--- End quote ---
Here you go:
"The Government has announced [in 2005] changes to the arrangements for the importation of vehicles 15 years or older. Under the new rules, vehicles manufactured before 1 January 1989 may be imported without restriction. Vehicles built during 1989 (or later) will need to qualify under the Registered Automotive Workshop Scheme (RAWS)."
Also on that page, see Parts 4 and 8 of the import application form, and also the notes applicable to the form, called bulletin VSB10, especially the notes for Parts 4 and 8.
http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/roads/safety/bulletin/importing.aspx
gtc:
--- Quote ---Originally posted by bootlegger
Just to put a spanner in the works. If you are planning on shipping a car from the states you better do it soon. Ive heard from a reliable source that the yanks are trying to clamp down on cars leaving their country. Something about their heritage. New legislation in the next twelve months will make it heaps more expensive or impossible if the car has any significance.
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Can you quote an actual source for that? After quite a bit Googling, I can find no reference to any such move.
69 DIRTY RAT:
Thats got nothing to do with personal imports What you are quoting is just an import of a car! Personal imports are when you've owned it in the US & means you dont pay duty!
--- Quote ---Originally posted by gtc
--- Quote ---Originally posted by 69 DIRTY RAT
All personal import cars must be owned for 18 months I thought & not just less than 15 year old cars. Didnt it used to be 1 year but now its 18 months(?) Most Govt. web sites are way out of date!
Mine was a personal import! at the time it was only 1 year!
--- End quote ---
Here you go:
"The Government has announced [in 2005] changes to the arrangements for the importation of vehicles 15 years or older. Under the new rules, vehicles manufactured before 1 January 1989 may be imported without restriction. Vehicles built during 1989 (or later) will need to qualify under the Registered Automotive Workshop Scheme (RAWS)."
Also on that page, see Parts 4 and 8 of the import application form, and also the notes applicable to the form, called bulletin VSB10, especially the notes for Parts 4 and 8.
http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/roads/safety/bulletin/importing.aspx
--- End quote ---
gtc:
--- Quote ---Originally posted by 69 DIRTY RAT
Thats got nothing to do with personal imports What you are quoting is just an import of a car! Personal imports are when you've owned it in the US & means you dont pay duty!
--- End quote ---
You always pay import duty on personal car imports, unless you are a temporary tourist here. (God, what a bonanza if cars were duty free!)
Compliance with the 12 months ownership rule for an imported car less than 15 years old determines whether or not you will be ALLOWED (i.e given approval) to import it.
It's all in the documents if you follow the links.
69 DIRTY RAT:
No you dont pay duty on Personal imports!!! If you have owned the car in the US for 18 months or longer you DONT have to pay Duty!!!! I think you are getting mixed up in your terms
*Personal import = a vehicle that has been owned /registered to a US address by you (the owner) for a period of 18 months (could be 1 year but almost sure it changed) or longer = no duty! (in other words you lived in the us for a period and brought the car back!)....I didnt pay duty on my Vette because I lived and owned it in the US for 3 years!
*Import a vehicle (by you personally) is subject to all duties!! It is not called an 'Personal import'
You would have to pay GST if the car was purchased after 2001 (whenever GST started?) Again my vette was purchased in 1998 so I didnt pay GST either but now you would! The only Govt rort was that I had to pay stamp duty on rego...which doesnt make sense! Because you only pay stamp duty on purchase of a car in Australia or the state you're in???I never bought the car in Oz so why did I have to pay Stamp duty???? There response was "because I said so!"
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