Tax a commercial as a private vehicle?

matchthis · 14-08-2011 10:24pm #1

Is it possible to get a commercial and tax it as a private vehicle? Looking at the Nissan navara, but have seen a few others. Many are listed as commercial, but have crew cabins etc. Thanks

ResearchWill · 14-08-2011 10:26pm

If I remember there was a big revenue thing last year that they wanted to insist if people used a commercial vehicle for private they should tax as private, I may be wrong.

matchthis · 14-08-2011 10:31pm

Remembering hearing something about this too. Guess it could be just a case of declaring it as private. I heard the guards were clamping down on commercial being used as private as opposed to vice versa

L-M · 14-08-2011 10:56pm

Friend of mine has a Peugeot 207 van taxed and insured privately, so it is possible.

He had a row at the toll recently, and won :P

Guy:Incognito · 14-08-2011 11:01pm

Theres no problem taxing it privately. I cant see any council turning down someone offerign to pay triple the amount of motor tax.

_Conrad_ · 15-08-2011 2:34pm

matchthis wrote: »

Is it possible to get a commercial and tax it as a private vehicle? Looking at the Nissan navara, but have seen a few others. Many are listed as commercial, but have crew cabins etc. Thanks

Yes. you may experience problems with getting a reasonable inurance quote though and with getting it tested. I came across it myself when i wanted to tax a van as my private car when i no longer needed to use a van for work (was a nice handy reliable van, didn't want to stop using it and didnt need lots of seats). The tax is fine you just change over, but you still have to do the DOE test and the NCT centres here refused to test it, despite the new private vehicle status, insurance companies threw fits over it "not having the appropriate type of test", they freaked out because they wanted it to do the NCT instead of DOE but NCT crowd wouldn't let it in.

Same thing thing has happened about an old 4x4, even though it was imported as a 7 seater, registered as that, did nct tests then after a few years was changed to commercial, and now with the seats back in, changed back to private tax the it's somehow permanently stuck being classed as a commercial as if it was a truck or something that could never be a normal everyday vehicle, even though it was taxed private first, then changed to commercial then changed back.

_Conrad_ · 15-08-2011 2:39pm

Limerick man wrote: »

Friend of mine has a Peugeot 207 van taxed and insured privately, so it is possible.

He had a row at the toll recently, and won :P

I've had that row with the limerick tunnel, but over a passat estate. I had the rear seats folded down flat to allow me to collect a friend's obscenely large new television (cost more than the car, which i found hilarious, and also going into a tiny bedroom), but i was on the way back home and didn't bother butting the seats back up, so the moron at the toll plaza decided it was "a van" and "doesnt have any seats".

Tax a commercial as a private vehicle?

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