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barrynash wrote on Wed Sep 8, 2021 6:43am:
Thanks very much for the info. We took residency in December last year and we have just got our TIE cards. So going by the information you have given I should be OK to bring my personal goods into Spain with financial penalty.?
Hi Barry
Yes you will be exempt from iva and import duties for 12 months from date of your residency to bring over your personal goods ( providing they are over 6mnths) anything that,s new make it look used.
Regards
Pauline
davidsnoxell wrote on Wed Sep 8, 2021 8:03am:
We are residents, the French only took a brief glance at our antigen test result before we got on the train at Ashford. Eurotunnel looked at all of the paperwork and when I spoke to the UK Passport control they told me it was all linked so they did not need to look at anything other than passport...
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...s. At no point after Ashford did anyone stop us or ask for any paperwork, not even at the French/Spanish border at Le Perthus
Hi David
Your residency once noted enabled you to pass through unhindered, as we used to before December. It,s a differrent ball game now for non residents and I am still dreading bringing a van full next spring incase we get charged iva. Supposedly after 12 months according to Spanish customs website you are no longer entitled to exemption of duties but I don't understand when we were in the EU people moved their goods for years without any problems so I,d have expected the same as before but it must be because its now from a non EU country rather than a residency issue.
Regards
Pauline
Posted: Wed Sep 8, 2021 11:04am
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I think it's just pot luck if you get stopped, searched, xrayed or whatever at Ashford. The France/Spain border is certainly very low key but that might be because of the volume of constant traffic going through.
We have never been stopped either way in a car or van.
I would be tempted to take two copies of all paperwork, receipts, lists etc. just in case.
Best of luck
Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 8:50pm
Hi,
We are planning on driving our Movano LWB van to our villa via ferry into Bilbao. We are non residents and will have various small bits of our furniture plus boxes of a flat pack kitchen we bought last year. What paperwork do I have to infill ? Do we have to declare to someone before? Do we have to pay tax or anything prior to travel? Or do we just list stuff and pay at the border?
it would be great if anyone else in a similar situation could offer some advice.
many thanks
Sandra33 wrote on Sat Sep 11, 2021 8:50pm:
Hi,
We are planning on driving our Movano LWB van to our villa via ferry into Bilbao. We are non residents and will have various small bits of our furniture plus boxes of a flat pack kitchen we bought last year. What paperwork do I have to infill ? Do we have to declare to someone before? Do we have ...
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...to pay tax or anything prior to travel? Or do we just list stuff and pay at the border?
it would be great if anyone else in a similar situation could offer some advice.
many thanks
From what l understand. If you get stopped and checked as non residents then your own goods older than 6 months you get the first 450e free before tax then 21% on the value of the rest. You need to list all goods and add a value to each item in the language you will be travelling through. Don, t rely on that but that's how l see it. Seems better to go through France and drive over the border to Spain. I am a resident and looking at hiring a one way van to move our goods but lm not bringing any new stuff in. Depending on what your load size is you could look at sharing?
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