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Buy a vehicle - how to check you’re not buying a stolen vehicle. Registering, taxing and insuring your vehicle.
Tell DVLA you've sold your vehicle or transferred it to a new registered keeper (owner), or that you've bought a vehicle
Check registration, MOT, tax, vehicle identification number and other details to help make sure a used car is not stolen or unsafe
If you buy second-hand vehicles, find out how to use a margin scheme to account for VAT (VAT Notice 718/1).
How to account for VAT on vehicles and fuel you use for your business.
VAT for car dealers and members of the motor trade - how to reclaim VAT and what to charge when you sell a vehicle
What to do when selling a vehicle: your vehicle log book (V5C), submitting the right information to DVLA, private (personalised) registration numbers.
Buy or sell a vehicle, check a used vehicle, written off vehicles, scrapping a vehicle
Search for a personalised number plate registration and buy it from DVLA online or at auction
Buy a private (personalised) number plate, assign it or transfer it to a vehicle - renew or update your entitlement certificate.
Find out how to work out the value of a motor vehicle when calculating a payment using the second-hand motor vehicle payment scheme.
Find out how to use the second-hand motor vehicle payment scheme to make a claim on your VAT Return.
Check if you can use the Personal Export Scheme and the conditions that apply if you're a buyer or a seller of vehicles.
Taking your car out of the UK - when VAT is not payable on a car you're exporting, procedures, registration and vehicle tax.
Use form VAT410 to apply to buy a motor vehicle in the UK to export to non-EU countries.
Find out how to use a margin scheme to account for VAT if you buy or sell second-hand vehicles (VAT Notice 718/1).
Find out how to use the second-hand motor vehicle payment scheme to make a claim if you are VAT registered in the EU.
Find out about using the VAT margin scheme if you're a dealer who sells second-hand motor vehicles in Northern Ireland that have come from Great Britain.
Providing advice on purchasing a repaired ‘written off’ vehicle and what you should know.
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