Car shipping
Dec 16th 2008, 10:59 am
#1
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Car shipping
Is it right that you have to have owned your car for 12 months before you can ship it out to Aus, we bought ours new in August 08 so we have ages to go before next August and were flying our in Jan
Dec 16th 2008, 3:58 pm
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Re: Car shipping
Sorry mate thats right and even if you were out of the UK for hols or work you have to knock that off your 12 months as well,Im going through the process at the moment
Dec 16th 2008, 8:47 pm
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Re: Car shipping
The following is taken from the article I wrote on Importing your car to Australia. I wrote this article in the hope that it helps others go through what I did and make an informed independent decision if it is actually worth the time, money and hassle of importing for you. I tried for months to find out what you have to go through and after getting totally inaccurate information from various sources on here and at the various specialist shipping companies, who only provided part of the story, I ended up doing it mostly blind. The article is the raw facts from my experience importing into Victoria (other States vary slighty)
Prerequisites
To be eligible for a personal import the following criteria must be satisfied:
To be eligible for a personal import the following criteria must be satisfied:
- The vehicle must be in a right hand drive configuration
- The vehicle has been owned and used by the applicant for a continuous period of at least 12 months (3 months where ownership and use of the vehicle commenced before 8 May 2000);
- At the time the vehicle is imported, the applicant must be:
1. an Australian citizen
2. an Australian permanent resident
3. a person living in Australia who has applied to become an Australian Citizen or an Permanent Resident - Visitors, temporary residents, foreign diplomatic personnel, companies and corporations are not immediately eligible to import a vehicle, however applications holding 410 "retriement" or 457 "Long Stay Business" Visas will be considered on a per case basis
- The applicant is of an age that entitles him or her to hold a licence or a permit to drive a road vehicle of that type;
- The applicant undertakes to comply with any requirements as to road safety that are imposed in respect of the vehicle by the Administrator; and
- The applicant has not imported a road vehicle owned by him/her within the year ending on the day on which the vehicle in respect of which the application is made is landed in Australia. If an applicant has imported a vehicle under any other provisions in that time, approval will not be granted.
- You have been granted a Approval to Import certificate from DOTARS (see below)
You can use the Excel in the article and the websites listed to calculate the probably UK and Australian street values and a good guess at a customs value, the chart will then calculate out a pretty close guess-timate as to the total "on-the-road to on-the-road" costs.
Some people have had little problem bringing their car out, others have had a nightmare. For some it has been relatively cheap and others it has been an exercise of massive expense.
The one cast iron tip I would give you is that if you do plan on looking into this seriously you must get an official valuation performed in Australia by a vehicle valuer authorised within Australia (the one we used is noted in the article). They can value your vehicle via email from scanned photos and specs for around A$220 and it will give you a figure and the paperwork which Customs accept 99% of the time as the "As Landed" value for Import Duty and GST calculation. Also your local Transport agency will use this as the valuation of the vehicle when you register the car as a second hand purchase (at least you have to in Victoria)
Hope this helps
Al
Last edited by bigAPE; Dec 16th 2008 at 9:01 pm.
Dec 16th 2008, 9:03 pm
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Re: Car shipping
Yes, 12 months to the day of time in the same country with your vehicle. They ask that you provide a "diary" stating every day you were outside of the country since the day you bought it and the reason. For me it was seven years worth of business trips and holidays. A real pain in the arse, but it's to stop people buying a car and leaving it in the UK while they emigrate to Australia and then importing it a year later.
The following is taken from the article I wrote on Importing your car to Australia. I wrote this article in the hope that it helps others go through what I did and make an informed independent decision if it is actually worth the time, money and hassle of importing for you. I tried for months to find out what you have to go through and after getting totally inaccurate information from various sources on here and at the various specialist shipping companies, who only provided part of the story, I ended up doing it mostly blind. The article is the raw facts from my experience importing into Victoria (other States vary slighty)
If you feel that you qualify and would like to bring your car over I suggest that you read into the total cost of importing (not just the part that the shipping companies tell you about) and the issue surrounding owning and selling a Personal Import (PI) in Australia, a lot of which are covered in the article.
You can use the Excel in the article and the websites listed to calculate the probably UK and Australian street values and a good guess at a customs value, the chart will then calculate out a pretty close guess-timate as to the total "on-the-road to on-the-road" costs.
Some people have had little problem bringing their car out, others have had a nightmare. For some it has been relatively cheap and others it has been an exercise of massive expense.
The one cast iron tip I would give you is that if you do plan on looking into this seriously you must get an official valuation performed in Australia by a vehicle valuer authorised within Australia (the one we used is noted in the article). They can value your vehicle via email from scanned photos and specs for around A$220 and it will give you a figure and the paperwork which Customs accept 99% of the time as the "As Landed" value for Import Duty and GST calculation. Also your local Transport agency will use this as the valuation of the vehicle when you register the car as a second hand purchase (at least you have to in Victoria)
Hope this helps
Al
The following is taken from the article I wrote on Importing your car to Australia. I wrote this article in the hope that it helps others go through what I did and make an informed independent decision if it is actually worth the time, money and hassle of importing for you. I tried for months to find out what you have to go through and after getting totally inaccurate information from various sources on here and at the various specialist shipping companies, who only provided part of the story, I ended up doing it mostly blind. The article is the raw facts from my experience importing into Victoria (other States vary slighty)
If you feel that you qualify and would like to bring your car over I suggest that you read into the total cost of importing (not just the part that the shipping companies tell you about) and the issue surrounding owning and selling a Personal Import (PI) in Australia, a lot of which are covered in the article.
You can use the Excel in the article and the websites listed to calculate the probably UK and Australian street values and a good guess at a customs value, the chart will then calculate out a pretty close guess-timate as to the total "on-the-road to on-the-road" costs.
Some people have had little problem bringing their car out, others have had a nightmare. For some it has been relatively cheap and others it has been an exercise of massive expense.
The one cast iron tip I would give you is that if you do plan on looking into this seriously you must get an official valuation performed in Australia by a vehicle valuer authorised within Australia (the one we used is noted in the article). They can value your vehicle via email from scanned photos and specs for around A$220 and it will give you a figure and the paperwork which Customs accept 99% of the time as the "As Landed" value for Import Duty and GST calculation. Also your local Transport agency will use this as the valuation of the vehicle when you register the car as a second hand purchase (at least you have to in Victoria)
Hope this helps
Al
Dec 16th 2008, 9:11 pm
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Re: Car shipping
David Nelson
Motor Vehicle Valuation Service
P.O. Box 159, Glen Iris, VIC 3146
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +61 3 9885 5075
Fax: +61 3 9885 5049
You don't have to get a valuation, but then you will not know the exact amount of the import duty, GST and other costs until you go to collect the vehicle from the docks in Australia. Would you shop for a Plasma TV, take it home on a buy now pay later deal and not want to know what you will have to pay for the TV ? This is the same thing, everything else you can come up with apart from an official valuation from an official Australian vehicle valuer is just a guess. Without a valuation which they will accept, thus it has to be an official Australian valuer, Australian Customs will determine the value of your vehicle themselves. The Custom Value the valuer comes up with is often 60% of the street used value in Australia.
UPDATE
The valuations that MVVS do are valid through out Australia (confirmed with a chat on the phone a minute ago). Call their number after 10pm in the UK (9am here) and ask them for their forms and current cost for the valuation or drop them an email (probably easier)
Last edited by bigAPE; Dec 16th 2008 at 9:38 pm.
Dec 17th 2008, 3:58 pm
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Location: Busselton, WA
Posts: 173
Re: Car shipping
Thanks such a help nice one
