Can I avoid VRT by inheriting a car?

Can you avoid VRT by getting someone about to die in another country to buy it and leave it to you in their will? A bit cold but could be an option?

Daire Vickers (Dublin)

Nov 2020 Filed under: VRT

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Expert answer

Hi Daire,

Wow. Quite cold right enough. Possibly, thankfully, it also won’t work. Even if you inherit the car, you’d still have to import it and re-register it and would still have to pay the VRT. 

Neil Briscoe - Complete Car Advisor
@neilmbriscoe