Davety
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Hi. Hoping for some advice regards traveling to Bulgaria in my Camper van.
Since we left the EU, the clarification from my searches so far on the internet have only resulted in unclear information.
My situation is as follows : I have a long term residency visa for Bulgaria due to me spending an equal if not more amount of time in that country.
Specific to my query, I have an old train set from the fifties which I intend to take back with me, which also includes some accessories which are in fact new, recently purchased in the UK from various sources. Probable value on paper near to £500 - £600 at a guess.
I also intend to take back my Mountain Bike and Racing Bike on my bike rack for some cycling, but intend to leave them at my property in Bg. The value of these together amount to around £4000. ( Separately, depending on the price of duty, I may transfer my Camper van over to Bulgarian plates at the end of my 90 day stay, I fully understand the position on this. )
Here is my problem. Forgetting the train set just for a moment, I also have a generator which I take when I go camping for access to 240 volts.
I am assuming if I go traveling normally across Europe supposedly in holiday mode, I wouldn’t have to pay any export / import duty on the generator or the bikes ??
What I am trying to find out is, regarding the position of paying import duty, where does this cross the line when it comes to carrying personal possessions on board such as for example, my said train set, bikes, generator, tool kit etc ?
I assume if I had to ship the bikes, generator, train set etc separately in a crate to Bg I would then have to pay duty on them.
So in a nutshell, I’m trying to find out whether taking them with me as personal items in my camper, I would not incur any import costs ? Otherwise, in theory import duty would be payable in every country for whatever personal items you wanted to carry ?? What if I say at each border crossing that I was traveling to Turkey. How would customs know ?? Hoping I’ve made my quandary clear enough. Hoping for some knowledgeable advice please. Thanks very much in advance.
Since we left the EU, the clarification from my searches so far on the internet have only resulted in unclear information.
My situation is as follows : I have a long term residency visa for Bulgaria due to me spending an equal if not more amount of time in that country.
Specific to my query, I have an old train set from the fifties which I intend to take back with me, which also includes some accessories which are in fact new, recently purchased in the UK from various sources. Probable value on paper near to £500 - £600 at a guess.
I also intend to take back my Mountain Bike and Racing Bike on my bike rack for some cycling, but intend to leave them at my property in Bg. The value of these together amount to around £4000. ( Separately, depending on the price of duty, I may transfer my Camper van over to Bulgarian plates at the end of my 90 day stay, I fully understand the position on this. )
Here is my problem. Forgetting the train set just for a moment, I also have a generator which I take when I go camping for access to 240 volts.
I am assuming if I go traveling normally across Europe supposedly in holiday mode, I wouldn’t have to pay any export / import duty on the generator or the bikes ??
What I am trying to find out is, regarding the position of paying import duty, where does this cross the line when it comes to carrying personal possessions on board such as for example, my said train set, bikes, generator, tool kit etc ?
I assume if I had to ship the bikes, generator, train set etc separately in a crate to Bg I would then have to pay duty on them.
So in a nutshell, I’m trying to find out whether taking them with me as personal items in my camper, I would not incur any import costs ? Otherwise, in theory import duty would be payable in every country for whatever personal items you wanted to carry ?? What if I say at each border crossing that I was traveling to Turkey. How would customs know ?? Hoping I’ve made my quandary clear enough. Hoping for some knowledgeable advice please. Thanks very much in advance.