On items purchased at auction in the UK and exported (to the US for example) there is no VAT due on the item.

HOWEVER there is VAT on the Buyers Premium and THAT VAT is NOT refundable even if the purchased item is exported.

I have bought lots of stuff at UK auctions over the past decades and this is the system in use. I don't know why one VAT should be different from the other, but that is the way it goes.

Last edited by Gnomon; 12/20/11 04:24 PM.