benflux

If I did decide to ship my car (Audi R8, so it's daft to sell and buy it again in AU at the Audi prices there), as I have owned the car for more than 6 months, I've heard there might be a 'one-time' tax free import option - any truth in this?

bigAPE

Sorry... almost fell of my chair laughing at this.

1. There is "no one time tax free import" for cars.
2. Even if you qualified to import, which you don't, they would screw you silly with Duty and LCT on an R8

The only option you have is to sell it and buy one here if that's what you want to do. ~$270,000 (£130,000) should get you the 4.2 FSI R-Tronic over here. You can't even leave it in the UK, wait the six months and get it shipped over. As you must have owned the vehicle for more than 12 months, been with it in country during that time and provide full documention of all this including your full passport and reasons for any travel away from the vehicle during the time you owned it. So unfortunatley unless you delay leaving for Australia for a further 6-7 months you will not be able to import the car under the Personal Import Scheme for motor vehicles. In short, no chance.

I suggest you read the following:

DITRDLG: Importing Vehicles to Australia

DITRDLG: Importing Vehicles to Australia - VSB10 Notes (PDF)
DITRDLG: Importing Vehicles to Australia - VSB10 Application Form (PDF)

You might also want to have a trawl through an article I wrote on my experience importing my car last year.

Al

The Bloke

They try all the angles to avoid paying duties, don't they?

bigAPE

I love it... "one time tax free import"

Maybe Customs will introduce an "import one get one free next"

Al