Hi All
Will be moving to France early 2025 and want to bring our car with us.
Will i have to pay an import Tax?
The car is a Nissan X Trail 1.3 Tekna 2020 40000 miles.
Thanks
Steve
From the UK? Yes. And TVA.
From within the EU? No.
But no import tax or TVA if you are moving to France to become a resident and you follow all of the correct procedures (Inventory of goods etc etc etc).
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Changes to the CT in May 2018 allowed stickers on UK headlights which for many years has not been legally acceptable as long as positioned very to provide a flat beam & not mask the width of the beam
Use this site to calculate costs of getting new carte grise
This is UK advice, but generally it seems do the French procedures first!
Yes indeed - I was not thinking of the big picture. If you are taking up residency, you can bring a car in as part of your moveā¦subsequent imports are taxable.
Apologies
The problem is that, depending on what the CoC says, a DREAL inspection is very likely to be a requirement and they absolutely will not accept stickers.
But think about your critair stickerā¦
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Whereabouts on the headlight should it be stuck?
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Funny you should ask thatā¦ Somewhere on here we have a helpful thread.
However modesty forbids that I should link to it.
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On rare occasions, Iāve seen the local garage mechanic arrive at the CT Centre in a RHDā¦
the CT guy just vgives the headlights the āonce overā and the garage mechanic drives off, presumably to finish preparing the RHD car for its official CTā¦ 
as I know the CT guy very wellā¦ I did ask what it was all aboutā¦ and the answer was simpleā¦ rather than change the headlights, the garage had fitted the ābeam bendersā/(whatever)ā¦ and wanted to be certain they were correctly placed. 
When I took our RHD Saxo to them, under a different name in those far off days, the inspection consisted of stamping and handing back my papers, they didnāt even see the car.
Subsequently it passed no less that 2 CTs with the beams obviously still dipping to the left. I assumed it was not a legal requirement as such and that the only law is against the dazzling of oncomers with the main beams.
It might not have been then but it certainly is now.
I imported a UK reg Reno Trafic 10 months ago. Paid Ā£3000 for the van. Paid ā¬1120 duty/VAT etc.
The problem was it had terminally duff injectors. I went back to UK for it to be āfixedā, which turned out to be impossible, so it stayed and I got a refund.
I asked Douanes if I could have a refund of the import dues. They said I should have filled out a form for āre-exportingā it, although I hadnāt gone any further with FR reg etc. 
Of course, I had been told in UK that Iād be back in FR with a going van ā¦
But, as far as vehicle prices go, my local garagiste told me that my van, in working order, would be ā¬6k-ā¬7 in FR. My Peugeot 307 was Ā£995 in UK. Garagiste said it would +/- ā¬5k here.
So the right price, even with import duty, can be a big saving. Driving a RHD vehicle has never been a problem for the decades Iāve been doing it.
And no FR 'tief is going to steal a RHD car. No GB 'tief is going to nick it once itās onFR plates!
By the way, thereās a guy who does the biz of re-registration and all that malarky. Did my Peugeot for Ā£40 - worth every penny. Heās happy to have his email address posted here so here it is
Mark Rimmer dukwman@gmail.com
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Right! Here we go again! My old pal Sanjay in Slough has made up for the disaster of the previous Vivaro/Trafic, the one with terminal injector problems.
- 23k miles!
As checked out on DVLA MoT data base and HPI data base.
Tootling round London suburbs doing home/office vehicle valeting, not much mileage reqād.
It looks a credit to the previous owner. Immaculate, and with alloys replacing the original steel wheels. The Sportive model, electric everything, a/c .
If +/- 30% to import that will put it at < lowest price I have seen for 2018 but with x4/x5/x6 the mileage ā¦Most at +Ā£3.5kā¦ Ā£5k + VAT.
Iāll let you know how I get on.
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Have you checked its AdBlue status? 
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Your rounding methods suggest youāre an optimist. 
ā¦ not an optimist. I wonāt know until they hold their sticky hands out and demand the money. Iāve done this before. I have the Douanes bumph and the hole in my bank a/c to prove it. And the advice of import/re-reg specialist Mark Rimmer.
But who knows what mood Guillaume [for it was he] will be in when I rock up?
Itās AdBlue Status is just lovely, boyo !
As we have already mentioned above, all diesel vehicles registered after 2015 and equipped with the SCR technology need to use a diesel exhaust fluid.
Here is a list of car manufacturers that work with AdBlueĀ®:
Donāt forget to ask about the critair sticker 
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Better still, position it yourself!