UK import duty and VAT on boat plans?

I'd be investigating just what it is you are importing.
Seems to me there are the physical plans, which you clearly are importing,
the right to use them ( anywhere in the world ... ) and the support of the
designer.
I'd be talking to the designer about what invoice value will attach to the
plans. Especially if you have previously paid for the rights to use them.
If NZ is anything like Aus, there would be no value added tax applicable,
since the "product" was being exported.

But given the potential for either big costs or big savings, I'd be paying
for advice from an import agent - not relying on guesses from the likes of
me.

David

"Simon Brooke" <simon.DeleteThis@jasmine.org.uk> wrote in message
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 > I'm currently thinking about two possible designs for my next
 > boat. One of the designers is in the US (Dick Newick) and the other is
 > in New Zealand (Malcolm Tennant). What I don't know in my budgeting is
 > whether I'm going to be hit for import duty and value added tax (VAT)
 > on these. If I am it could easily be a thousand pounds in tax and
 > that's a big hit.
 >
 > Has anyone any experience of importing boat plans into the UK, and if
 > so are there any ways of minimising the tax hit?
 >
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