Registration blunder!

Wiggs2633

Hi Folks,

Bit of a blunder on my behalf here,

I bought a classic car that needed a bit of engine work from the uk about a year ago and out of pure laziness I never looked into registering it as I wasn't able to drive it.

It went into the shed so I could work on it and now it's up and running I said I better register it so I can actually take it out of the shed!

After looking into this onlne it turns out I should have registered it within 7 days of it entering ireland! DOH!

Does anybody know what's going to happen when I try and register it on irish plates? Are they going to look into when it actually came into the country? I bought it privately so I have no proof of when I actually bought it anyway.......so I don't know how they know if it's been in the country longer than 7 days or not?

So can anybody help me here?

Stinicker

I paid the VRT on my car seven weeks after importing it and know other people who paid it two whole years later after getting caught on yellow plates.

As the car is older I think they get a reduced VRT rate, just tell them you didn't bother with it as you thought it might only be a museum piece and non drivable until you were able to get it roadworthy yourself. The VRT is only for to be road legal, you could import a €1m Buggati Veyron from the EU but theyt can't touch you for tax so long as it is kept on private roads and private property and not taken on a public road.

si_guru

All the NCT people ask is "did you bring it in within the last 40 days"..

Yes.. you need proof.

No.. you get fined in the VRT payment.

I had my scooter here two years before bothering to register it and got fined about €30 - it too was in my shed... on the plus side I got an 11 plate!

Henry Ford III

What year is the car?

corktina

Stinicker wrote: »

I paid the VRT on my car seven weeks after importing it and know other people who paid it two whole years later after getting caught on yellow plates.

As the car is older I think they get a reduced VRT rate, just tell them you didn't bother with it as you thought it might only be a museum piece and non drivable until you were able to get it roadworthy yourself. The VRT is only for to be road legal, you could import a €1m Buggati Veyron from the EU but theyt can't touch you for tax so long as it is kept on private roads and private property and not taken on a public road.

that is totally incorrect. You HAVE to book an appointment at the NCTS within 7 days for ANY vehicle brought into the state irrespective of the use you intend making of it. If you dont do this with your Veyron they can sieze it from you and you wont get it back untiol you pay the VRT plus a late payment fee.

Trampas

on a side track can you report a person who has not registered the car in ireland even though the car is here all the time

si_guru

Trampas wrote: »

on a side track can you report a person who has not registered the car in ireland even though the car is here all the time

I would like to know that... and can you also report your local Garda is he also knows about it and does feck all?

Stinicker

corktina wrote: »

that is totally incorrect. You HAVE to book an appointment at the NCTS within 7 days for ANY vehicle brought into the state irrespective of the use you intend making of it. If you dont do this with your Veyron they can sieze it from you and you wont get it back untiol you pay the VRT plus a late payment fee.

Since when, there was none of this back in 2006.

corktina

no you are right, there was none of that in 2006. Came in in september last year I believe.

lifer_sean

Stinicker wrote: »

Since when, there was none of this back in 2006.

Back in 2006 it was different - you had to pay VRT the next working day after the vehicle was imported. It doesn't matter if it was on the road or not. The new rules are more lenient, not tougher !

lifer_sean

Trampas wrote: »

on a side track can you report a person who has not registered the car in ireland even though the car is here all the time

You can, and it does happen. I've been reported twice even though I'm legally entitled to have cars in yard on UK plates (TAN number holder). The Customs officers came out to check, and agressively so, without even checking their own records for my case.

Wiggs2633

Thanks for the reply's folks,

The year of the car is 1976 so it's a flat rate of €50 I have to pay and it's NCT exempt.

So what type of proof do they look for as to when you bought it? As I said I bought it from another bloke who had it in a shed and have no real proof of this apart from I have all the documentation for the car.

And what's going to happen if I ring them and explain what happened?

Will i still be able to register it but just have to pay a fine for not doing so when I should have?

Vertakill

Wiggs2633 wrote: »

Thanks for the reply's folks,

The year of the car is 1976 so it's a flat rate of €50 I have to pay and it's NCT exempt.

So what type of proof do they look for as to when you bought it? As I said I bought it from another bloke who had it in a shed and have no real proof of this apart from I have all the documentation for the car.

And what's going to happen if I ring them and explain what happened?

Will i still be able to register it but just have to pay a fine for not doing so when I should have?

I've never experienced them asking for proof of when I brought my car in and I dealt with 3 different people on 3 different occasions (allbeit for the same car)... and I had the car in the country about 3 months before I VRT'd it.
I don't think anyone has asked my brother either, who's brought in 4 or more cars in the last 2 years.

I bought my car in the North.
How exactly would I have (actual, conclusive) proof of leaving/re-entering the country if I were asked?

Honestly, I really don't think they care that you had the car in longer than the 7 days.
The VRT staff are not customs - they're not paid to seize your car... they're paid to register it.

corktina wrote: »

If you dont do this with your Veyron they can sieze it from you and you wont get it back untiol you pay the VRT plus a late payment fee.

Well, it's completely different.
Dodging tax/vrt on in a Veyron's case - The VRT would be diminishing on a monthly/yearly basis. So you would effectively be saving tens of thousands of euros for every 3 or 4 months you manage to dodge VRT'ing the car.

However, in the OP's case, it's a 1976 car... It was 50 euro last year too... and the year before... and the year before that...

Henry Ford III

It's a vintage car. VRT is €50. Just go in, say the car has been off the road for years, produce your docs, and cough up.

corktina

thems the rules...what they do with them remains to be seen...thing is, they arent going to stop tightening up the procedures now are they...?

Wiggs2633

Thanks again for the replies,

I will just go in sure and see what they say and hope for the best!