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You can usually use a vehicle with foreign license plates without registering or tax in the UK, if all the following conditions apply.
The vehicle is registered and taxed in their country of origin.
You only use the vehicle until 6 months in total - this can be one visit, or several shorter visits over 12 months.
If you become a resident or staying for more than 6 months you must register and establish your vehicle in the UK follow the steps for importing a vehicle.
You won t usually pay VAT or duty if you bring your own vehicle inside the EU.
Call the imports and exports line if you have questions to provide EU vehicle for less than 6 months.
You do not pay VAT or tax on a vehicle if you temporarily import from outside the EU and all the following conditions are met.
You re-export to the EU within 6 months - or more if you qualify to use foreign license plates longer.
Seek relief by filling C110 form and take your vehicle through the nothing to declare the channel when you arrive in the UK.
Using foreign number plates for over 6 months.
You might be able to use a vehicle with foreign license plates for more than 6 months if all the following conditions apply.
You are in the UK for a fixed period as a student or worker.
HM Revenue and Customs HMRC will give you a customs release form when requesting emergency broadcast to the police if you are stopped while driving the vehicle.
If you stay after your customs relief expires, you must register and tax your vehicle in the UK, follow the steps for importing a vehicle.
If HMRC said that your vehicle should be registered and taxed in the UK, with customs, international trade and excise team CITEX.
You must tell the police that you can use the vehicle in the UK without tax and register here such proof.
The time you have been in the UK for example, a ferry ticket.
Your vehicle receive relief from VAT and duty, for example a form of customs relief.
You must obtain temporary plates Q number DVLA if you visit the UK until 6 months and be.
Your license plates bear numbers or letters that aren t identifiable in the UK, for example Arabic script.
Your vehicle is not registered in its country of origin.
Contact DVLA if you need temporary number plates Q.
Before obtaining license plates Q - vehicles outside the EU.
You must request a VAT relief and duty before obtaining Q temporary number plates to a vehicle outside the EU.
Border - C110 forms stamped on arrival in the UK.
After arrival - C110 fill the form and send the team to CITEX it stamped.
Written request CITEX compliance local team S0000 Newcastle NE98 of 1Z.
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