okjc250 Posted December 21, 2013 Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 part way through road registering my gas gas 280 txt progress: MOT Dating letter Insured on VIN number V55/5 filled in and sent off Came back saying i needed to apply for a NOVA to sort VAT out. did this online ands its telling me i now owe £130 import tax on it. The dating letter tells me it was imported by the offical gas gas importer, surely this would have been done legit and all import duties would be payed at the time???? Have rang VTU (vehicle transportation unit) today but just says lines busy. Bit annoyed that i have forked out all this money to get it road legal including having insurance running to be told that my applications ben declined because of this Any help on this would be appreciated 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okjc250 Posted December 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 PTU i mean personal transport unit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huski Posted December 21, 2013 Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 You will have to persevere with the PTU and speak to somebody,if it was imported by Gas Gas UK it would be legit.Governmental departments don't always understand out of the ordinary situations like this,but you are not the first to have this problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
totalshell Posted December 21, 2013 Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 not the first by a long stretch still battling over an AJS!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okjc250 Posted December 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 Will try and speak to them on monday part i dont understand is i said i payed £750 for it thats where they plucked £130 vat from.... but when it was imported in 2003 would have been alot more than £750 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanks Posted December 21, 2013 Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 Hi, Have you spoken to the girl in accounts at Gas Gas uk? She helped road registered my txt 2 weeks ago. She confirmed import and dating and sent a copy to DVLA and 1 to me. I sent form, dating letter, insurance,personal identity (photo copy of passport and licence) and money for registration and tax. Came back a week later tax disc, next day log book. I was surprised at speed. She's clued up on all the goings on involved. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chegz Posted December 21, 2013 Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 When I registered my Beta recently I sent a covering letter with my NOVA form, plus all the other bits, received 3 letters back, two saying I had to pay vat, and the other one saying I didn't have too. So assumed the one with no VAT was the correct one. If you have no luck on the phone try the letter, I just explained why it was only just being registered after 23 years, plus why I wanted to register it now. Perhaps I just got lucky with a bike friendly employee!!!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okjc250 Posted December 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 will try ringing then on monday if not will ring gas gas see if they can help. cheers everyone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wobblenorbed Posted December 21, 2013 Report Share Posted December 21, 2013 Ring gas gas first bud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okjc250 Posted December 23, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2013 Rang gas gas today...... they didn't import it so couldn't help me which is fair enough... its a grey import so am going to have to pay the VAT on it still dont really understand how they calculate it on my word of how much i payed for it.... wish i knocked £500 off what i said now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triple_x Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 Life does not get easy these days. Same is happening to me. Scenario 1980 Sherpa needs NOVA approval before V5 and age related plate issued. Sent dating certificate, photo copy from Comerfords ledger showing date of import and to whom the bike was sold. Thank you Dave Renham. Just have to wait, once HMRC agree it was legitimately imported and taxes paid in 1980 then I am good to go! The NOVA dept appears overwhelmed but perseverance got me through to an employee who was very helpful. However I suspect that without definitive proof of taxes paid I may have to cough up :-( Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody Posted October 20, 2014 Report Share Posted October 20, 2014 The NOVA staff are pretty good (in my experience) and understand that the process was never intended for older vehicles that had lost their registrations or never been registered. I provided the same information as you for two bikes and that was sufficient proof for them. Another two, model 49 and 92, were too old for any records to be provided (they pre-dated VAT anyway) I just sent a covering letter explaining this along with the proof of age and they accepted it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triple_x Posted October 21, 2014 Report Share Posted October 21, 2014 Hi Woody Confirmation came back today that my vehicle has been made secure, and to proceed with the registration allowing 48 hours for the details to be available to the DVLA. 6 working days turnaround is excellent for a government department considering all the staff reductions. So well done to HMRC. Can now ride it in the Perce Simon and the Downland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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