TonyJ

Thanks for your replies. Not sure about being outside the EU for a year though, it's only been since January. Fairly certain it'll be woth all the grief and hassle in the long run though.....(resumes nibbling fingernails.....)   Thanks again all for your advice and experiences.  Certainly wishing we'd "jumped" much earlier, even 2020 would have been a heck of a lot easier, but hey ho, we're going now and that's that.  :-)

Hello. We're hopefully moving from the UK to Normandy soon, (house sale ongoing) and we're a bit confused about the tax implications of moving our belongings. From the French Customs website:   If you come from a country that is not a member of the European Union You may be exempt from paying duties and taxes when you import your personal belongings if you stayed in a non-EU country for at least one year and you wish to transfer your primary residence to France. Your personal belongings are exempt if you have used them privately for at least six months prior to the transfer of residence, regardless of how you acquired them: inclusive of tax or tax-free. However, a removal company I have spoken to said there is a limit of £7000, and we'll have to pay VAT on anything over this amount, is this correct? As I understand it, I will need to fill in a Transfer of Residence form with values of items, but again am unsure of just how...surely not individual items?   Also what is the value of anything? Second hand clothes aren't valuable in my wardrobe in any case! We're told that we should compare values based on eBay prices etc, but even then it's quite easy for the total value to rise quite quickly when counting everything. For the record, everything we want to take is ours, and has been for more than 6 months, and we have no intention of offloading any of it in France. Any useful info will be greatly appreciated, we have not been able to find anything online that answers our questions regarding this, and are worried we could get stung with a bit of a tax bill. Many thanks, Tony.