Post Entry Amendments

We have a situation in which a freight agent has cleared a few of our shipments to free circulation (IM/A declaration) without retrieving any clearance instructions from us first. We now have some rather large VAT bills come through which are unrecoverable as the goods are customer owned. My question is, would it be possible to put in a post entry amendment, to large business, to change the CPC to a special procedure (e.g. IPR) and then put in a Duty/VAT reclaim with NCH?

If you have a Large Business client manager then they are your best contact . If the goods should have been declared to IP you need to make sure any requests to change the procedure is done quickly as you only have a 90 day window to do so. You will also need to need to demonstrate that the agent acted without instructions or didn’t follow the instructions given. It will just be the C285 . As you must be VAT registered you may need to explain carefully why you are entitled to the refund of import VAT and demonstrate it hasn’t been or won’t be recovered through your VAT return.

Thank you, this is really helpful.

Hi,
To check if this is possible, you need to contact the supervising office of the IPR authorisation.
Their contact details will be available on the authorisation letter issued to you when it was granted.
Thank you.