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Auditor-general's report on Motor tax

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    #62
    Joe 90
    Registered Users Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Joe 90


    ShadowHearth wrote: »
    girl at work drives 1.3 KA ad she complains about paying tax... :rolleyes:

    made me want to give her a good wee slap, after i payed 360eu for both cars 3 month tax.
    How much is it to tax the Ka at home these days?


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    #63
    Joe 90
    Registered Users Posts: 889 ✭✭✭Joe 90


    munchkin_utd wrote: »
    I'd say the opposite.

    Got stopped near Ballyconnell on the way to Northern Ireland last month by the guards. They were well suss on an irish lad driving a german car but I had all answers (and paperwork to back it up) so I was on my way after a barrage of questions.

    Anyhow, being near the border you'd have more folks trying to get away with driving a northern reg car without importing it properly so they're be more garda checkpoints to detect this type of stuff, one of which I had the pleasure of encountering.
    I think he was referring to the increased tax on fuel.


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    #64
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    CiniO wrote: »
    Wait a second.
    You are saying that anyone owning a car should be automatically believed to be using it on public roads, and if he/she isn't then it's up to him/her to prove it.

    Where did "not guilty unless proven" disappear.

    This is not a bloody court case. :rolleyes:

    The system works fine in the UK. If you dont SORN or tax your car, you get a fine issued. Very simple.

    astaines wrote: »
    One of my concerns was that when the lower taxrates for more efficient cars were introdcued, they were only applied to nely registered cars. I got a Fiat Panda diesel - at the time one of the lowest carbon cars on the market, about six months before the tax change, and have got no motor tax benefit at all from it.


    If you had just bought a 2litre petrol that under the new system that would be 2k a year to tax, would you have the same concerns?


    It's easy to look for equality when its working in your favour.


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    #65
    Bruthal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    munchkin_utd wrote: »
    I'd say the opposite.

    Got stopped near Ballyconnell on the way to Northern Ireland last month by the guards. They were well suss on an irish lad driving a german car but I had all answers (and paperwork to back it up) so I was on my way after a barrage of questions.

    Not many answers or documents needed to drive an irish reg car across the border and filling the car with petrol, thus avoiding the motor tax on fuel, if motor tax was incorporated into the cost of fuel here.

    You probably though I was talking about avoiding motor tax as it is now.


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    #66
    September1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,432 ✭✭✭September1


    CiniO wrote: »
    Wait a second.
    You are saying that anyone owning a car should be automatically believed to be using it on public roads, and if he/she isn't then it's up to him/her to prove it.

    Where did "not guilty unless proven" disappear.

    It did not disappear, it was never there in case of taxes, Revenue always expects you to prove being innocent.


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