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If you live in the UK you will want to ensure that you do not pay duty on the parts you use to build your RV. (You can not legally avoid VAT.) To do this you get a form C1317 fill it out and send it to HM Revenue & Customs. Being a bunch of worthless civil servants, they are hard to contact, but one address you could use is:

Peter Bennett House,
Redvers Clo.,
Lawnswood Business Park,
Leeds, LS16 6RQ

0113 3894495

You can get the form together with 61 pages of self justifying gobledegook at:

http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsPortalWebApp/downloadFile?contentID=HMCE_CL_000190

They will piss about a bit, to justify their existance, and then give you an end use number. The theory is then you get the sender to scrawl this number on your goods and no duty will be levied on entry. When this fails to happen, you can contact them and if you are tenacious get your money back. Since its a competition between you and Gordon Brown, its worth the fight. The only problem is that it is your taxes that are paying their salaries!

Filling in the forms is a bit of a nightmare. If you were setting up British Aerospace the forms would be appropriate, but for one RV they are a bit over the top.

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Good luck!