Ah, pity.
They have tightened up the rules. Years ago it was easier (like, more than 20 years ago when I was there).
Pity.
Why don’t they relax the rules instead of make them harder? Is it that necessary to protect the Ozzy auto industry so much? Everyone knows protection doesn’t work, it just makes the home products worse.
Of course, if you were to travel back and forth to the UK, get someone else to use your credit card for gas receipts, etc, you could double your money. Say, buy a Ferrari, US$150,000. Do that for a year, maybe cost you US$15,000 in costs. Then import it as a personal possession and sell it for nearly double…make $US100,000 per year. Not bad for jet setting around for a year…
I’ll tell you what, I live in Belgium and go to the UK often I have a UK credit card too. Residency is very easy now because UK is in the EU.
Does someone want to buy a UK NSX or Ferrari? Or both? After a year we ship them to Oz and make $US100,000 on the Ferrari and US$10,000 on the NSX. I’ll use the credit card and produce some service receipts, the car will stay in storage (mostly) and there we go.
With that profit I will arrange a job or business in Oz, “move” there for a while and we do it all over again.
People could make a living off these high taxes…