What does it really cost to bring a US car to Georgia?
Georgia's import duty and excise depend only on your car's engine size, age and fuel type — never the price you paid. There is no VAT. Fill in step 3 for an exact total, not a range.
Enter the winning bid in US dollars.
Optional — Copart's full percentage table is not published, so we can't calculate this for you. Enter it from your own invoice once you have one.
Copart's gate and environmental fees are fixed. The bidding fee and virtual bid fee are priced as a percentage of your bid on a table Copart has not published in full — add yours above once you know it, or leave it out and treat this subtotal as a floor, not the full amount.
Duty and excise are computed from the law itself (Tax Code Art. 197, 188) — not a quote, but not a guess either. Georgia's Revenue Service sets the real rate on the clearance date.
The fees are knowable. This car's US record is not.
Salvage titles, auction damage, dated mileage readings, and an AI reading of all of it in your language. If ClearVin returns no record at all for the VIN, we refund the full price automatically.
Where the numbers come from
Gate and environmental fee, transcribed from Copart's published fee page. The bidding-fee table was not captured in full — see the note above step 1.
Sources last checked: 2026-08-18
We publish no tax rates and store no defaults. What you type stays in your browser. Duty and excise are computed from the law as it stood on the date above — this worksheet is arithmetic, not legal or customs advice, and not a quote from us or from any authority. It does not include registration or plate fees paid separately after clearance.
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Automatic refund if there is no US record for this VIN.