Originally Posted by IO540
I can see this Denmark route would work safely on the initial purchase (i.e. you buy the plane from a Danish seller, to start with) but I can't see how anybody can use it to zero-VAT a plane they already own.
It's a planning thing.....you decide, before you buy, what you want to do. You employ a Danish lawyer (I know a good one) and they buy the aircraft. They register it, ferry it to Denmark and import it. Then they sell it to you.
VAT on aircraft is a spiteful, communist thing; it is never applied to the big boys or the really rich because aircraft over 8 tonnes are exempt. So it's only the little guys (perceived to be well-off), who do not have a business import route, who have to pay. A small number of people pay a large amount of tax and an even larger amount of taxpayers money is spent persecuting them.