Both BCA and Manheim sell commercial vehicles from vans to pick up trucks. A commercial vehicle will have a ‘VAT’ amount listed under pricing in the database, this is how you will know which vehicles are commercial and which are not. If you or your company are VAT registered we can issue a VAT invoice for a purchased vehicle. This means you can reclaim the VAT paid in your VAT returns against VAT due from sales for instance, as you would with VAT on other purchases. For clarity, we cannot sell a vehicle excluding VAT as we must make our own returns but you can reclaim the VAT paid as described above.
If you are not VAT registered then you cannot reclaim VAT.
If you are VAT registered and have identified a commercial vehicle you wish to purchase, please send it on to us by clicking on ‘Buy This Car’ and stating that you are VAT registered.
Finally, to give an example to help you decide, if you bid at auction and buy a Ford Transit for €10,000 and VAT is a further €2,000 then you will pay €12,000 plus our fees, transport etc. We will issue you with a VAT invoice and then you can claim back the VAT through your normal VAT 3 returns process.