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    Commercial Vehicles - Avoiding VAT

    That's an interesting point which raises another question for me: If I buy a commercial vehicle and suffer the VAT cost, when I then come to sell my vehicle a few years down the line, am I not entitled to recoup that VAT which I paid, like I would for any non-commercial verhicle. ie. is it...
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    Commercial Vehicles - Avoiding VAT

    Thanks for the reply - as you may have guessed I have no experience in these matters so apologies for the dumb questions. That's cleared it up for me anyway.
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    Commercial Vehicles - Avoiding VAT

    Thanks very much for your reply. So do you think that getting my relative to buy and own it on behalf of me whilst I pay him the money would be too 'dodgy'? I guess insurance purposes would make it very difficult..? BTW it was actually the Daily Telegraph site, guess they have to sell their...
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    Commercial Vehicles - Avoiding VAT

    Hi I am looking for advice on reclaiming VAT on a commercial vehicle. I note an article on the internet which stated that on all 4100 UK sales of a Mitsibushi L200 pick-up in 2006, (over 1 tonne payload, so classified as commercial vehicle), each and every purchase claimed back the VAT. Surely...