easy question..

chiefwiggum · 07-04-2010 7:19pm #1

need to tax the cabby...out since january:o..do i need to get a form from the motor tax office and get it signed by a garda or can i get him to sign my renewal form from december?

bijapos · 07-04-2010 9:01pm

If you want to avoid paying tax on the last couple of months then the Garda has to sign a form that the vehicle is off the road the past few months. Form should be in a Garda station but print it off and bring it just in case.

Esel · 08-04-2010 3:09am

bijapos wrote: »

...the Garda has to sign a form that the vehicle is off the road the past few months.

The Garda is only witnessing your signature so that you can be prosecuted if you are found to be making a false declaration....

I'm sure everyone else knew this, btw.

unkel · 08-04-2010 10:27am

If the car has been off the public road, fill in the form, bring it to your local Garda station and sign the form. The Garda will then stamp the form - this means that he / she has witnessed you signing it.

If the car was not off the road, just fill in the form and include the back tax due.

chiefwiggum · 08-04-2010 4:07pm

lads im not trying to avoid the back tax...car has been off the road bar one day due to getting some work done...i just wanted to know where to get the form

Seweryn · 08-04-2010 5:53pm

chiefwiggum wrote: »

lads im not trying to avoid the back tax...car has been off the road bar one day due to getting some work done...i just wanted to know where to get the form

There you have:
https://www.motortax.ie/OMT/pdf/RF100A_en.pdf
Print the form, fill in and bring it to the Garda station. Under point 7 you declare that the car was not in use (dates required).

unkel · 08-04-2010 6:41pm

chiefwiggum wrote: »

car has been off the road bar one day due to getting some work done...

If on that day your car was recorded as being on the road with the ANPR system (or otherwise logged into PULSE), signing the form in front of a Garda is going to be a serious offence (fraud). It's unlikely, but would you take the chance?

I have declared cars off the road several times and only once was the form stamped straight away. In all other cases, the Garda took my filled-in form I just signed and disappeared with it for several minutes. Make of that what you will, but surely he wasn't just taking it to the coffee machine for the craic.

easy question..

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