Agricultural Tractor Declaration

colrow

I've just bought a new s/h tractor and had this form sent to be filled in, my main job, isn't farming, but i only use the tractor for work on my small 5 acres Can i sign it as saying farming is my main job ?

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Agricultural Tractor Declaration

Vehicle Registration Number:

With reference to my application for a vehicle licence for the above agricultural tractor, I hereby declare:

(a) That my only or chief occupation is farming and that the vehicle is used only occasionally on public roads, and then only:

1. for the haulage of the produce of my farm and articles required for the farm including the farmhouse and farm buildings, but excluding the haulage of fuel if being transported as a commodity for sale, or

2. for the haulage of similar goods for another farmer, provided that such goods are not hauled for reward, or

3. for the haulage for another farmer for reward of
(i) milk being hauled to a Creamery or Cream-Separating Station, or
(ii) separated milk being hauled from a Creamery or Cream-Separating Station, or
(iii) milk containers being hauled to or from a Creamery or Cream-Separating Station

4. for the haulage of livestock for reward, and that the livestock
(i) are owned by a person resident not more than two miles from the hauler’s residence
(ii) are being hauled to or from a farm to or from a livestock auction mart or a place where a market or fair specified by order made by the Minister for Industry and Commerce under the Transport Act 1950 is being held
(iii) are being hauled only on the day on which such auction, market or fair takes place, and
(iv) are not being hauled in either direction or any part of a public road which is more than twenty miles by public road from the hauler’s residence
(b) That I am a contractor engaged to do agricultural work on a farm and that the vehicle is used on public roads for haulage of articles required by me for the purpose of doing that work
(c) That my Company / Firm is a body which has been certified by the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries to be a co-operative society for the purposes of the Finance (Excise Duties) (Vehicles) Act 1952 as amended

(Where my tractor is fitted with a detachable platform, container or implement used primarily for farm work, goods conveyed on the platform, etc. are regarded as being hauled by the tractor for the purposes of the provisions at (a), (b) and (c) above.)


Signature of Owner: _________________________________________________

Date: _________________________________________________

Witnessed: _________________________________________________
Kerry Motor Taxation Department
or An Garda Síochána

snowman707

colrow wrote: »

s Can i sign it as saying farming is my main job ?


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you can


BUT
you are making a false declaration ,

never saw of those forms in my life,

TBH as much as I hate to say it I am glad to be getting near retirement

dar31

yes
your main job might nt be farming
but the main use for the tractor is farming
if you will be using it down on some building site, well the no

blue5000

You're better off to say its only for farming. Otherwise who knows when some *ickhead politican will make you run it on white diesiel in the future.;)

haybob

What would you be doing witha tractor on 5 acers???????

colrow wrote: »

I've just bought a new s/h tractor and had this form sent to be filled in, my main job, isn't farming, but i only use the tractor for work on my small 5 acres Can i sign it as saying farming is my main job ?

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Agricultural Tractor Declaration

Vehicle Registration Number:

With reference to my application for a vehicle licence for the above agricultural tractor, I hereby declare:

(a) That my only or chief occupation is farming and that the vehicle is used only occasionally on public roads, and then only:

1. for the haulage of the produce of my farm and articles required for the farm including the farmhouse and farm buildings, but excluding the haulage of fuel if being transported as a commodity for sale, or

2. for the haulage of similar goods for another farmer, provided that such goods are not hauled for reward, or

3. for the haulage for another farmer for reward of
(i) milk being hauled to a Creamery or Cream-Separating Station, or
(ii) separated milk being hauled from a Creamery or Cream-Separating Station, or
(iii) milk containers being hauled to or from a Creamery or Cream-Separating Station

4. for the haulage of livestock for reward, and that the livestock
(i) are owned by a person resident not more than two miles from the hauler’s residence
(ii) are being hauled to or from a farm to or from a livestock auction mart or a place where a market or fair specified by order made by the Minister for Industry and Commerce under the Transport Act 1950 is being held
(iii) are being hauled only on the day on which such auction, market or fair takes place, and
(iv) are not being hauled in either direction or any part of a public road which is more than twenty miles by public road from the hauler’s residence
(b) That I am a contractor engaged to do agricultural work on a farm and that the vehicle is used on public roads for haulage of articles required by me for the purpose of doing that work
(c) That my Company / Firm is a body which has been certified by the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries to be a co-operative society for the purposes of the Finance (Excise Duties) (Vehicles) Act 1952 as amended

(Where my tractor is fitted with a detachable platform, container or implement used primarily for farm work, goods conveyed on the platform, etc. are regarded as being hauled by the tractor for the purposes of the provisions at (a), (b) and (c) above.)


Signature of Owner: _________________________________________________

Date: _________________________________________________

Witnessed: _________________________________________________
Kerry Motor Taxation Department
or An Garda Síochána

colrow

We used to have a few cows, now use it for maintnance of the fences, log splitting, helping at silage time, not for reward tho, gathering in my crop of ragwort, getting timber in for firewood. I had a rusty old 885 and I've just got a shinier new holland, I had the old one for 5 years and I never had one of these forms before, the only time I go on the road is silage time and to go fill it up with diesel. I'm probably better off not taxing it.

colrow

I meant to say as well, how does this effect part time farmers who have to have a job that earns more money to keep the farm going, do they think people are buying tractors to use instead of cars ?

maidhc

Weird form. Is it just a Kerry one I wonder? They have mickey mouse declarations for water charges on holiday homes there as well that no one else has.

You don't need to be a farmer to own a tractor anyway. And an agri tractor is an agri tractor irrespective of what it is used for in Irish law. While you probably can tax one as a car, and you definately can run it on car diesel, neither are a requirement irrespective of the purpose for which the tractor is put.

colrow

Thanks lads