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How best to export a high-end Mercedes?

I am buying a brand new and very rare model Mercedes from a Dublin dealer soon. I will have to tax, insure and register it as per any other car on the road. I have already sold it to a dealer in London for a good premium. Can I export it the very same week I buy it and reclaim the VRT amount via the reclaim scheme and also how best to make the car UK VAT qualifying? It will have 100 miles max on the clock. I can buy in my own name or that of an Irish company.

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Seamus

Are pre-tax prices still lower in Ireland?

In 2000 I exported a new, unregistered car to the UK and registered it there. At the time, pre-tax prices were cheaper in Ireland than the UK and the taxes were lower in the UK. So, this all made sense, then. Is it still the case that pre-tax prices are lower in Ireland?