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Taxing my currently uninsured car

  • 01-03-2011 9:19am
    #1
    cantdecide
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,364 ✭✭✭✭


    This isn’t as dodgy as it sounds. I have a close friend coming over from the UK at the weekend and I told him I’d lend him my ‘spare’ car while he’s here.

    He has checked out insurance and it’s not a problem seemingly. The car has been off the road since last August and is having it’s NCT retest on Thursday. It only needed a pair of new shocks so I’m expecting it to pass.

    I want to tax the car in readiness for his arrival but it currently doesn’t have insurance on it, which is a requirement. It hasn’t had insurance since August. Can the tax people be sympathetic and tax it anyway? Doesn't the trade often tax cars after being sold?


Comments

  • #2
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Technically you don't have to have insurance. Fill out the forms, stick in the insurance number of the last policy you had and hand it over. If they ask for your insurance cert (which I gather they often don't bother), feign ignorance and say that you don't have time to go home and get it; you've to go back to work or something.


  • #3
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    They never check the insurance details you provide anyway.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    seamus wrote: »
    Technically you don't have to have insurance. Fill out the forms, stick in the insurance number of the last policy you had and hand it over.

    ....... and be creative with the expiry date?

    OP, you'll need the Garda signed declaration that it's been off the road until now too unless you want to pay the arrears.


  • #5
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,190 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    RoverJames wrote: »
    ....... and be creative with the expiry date?
    Actually haven't filled out one of those forms in ages, I've done it online for the last 6 years, where plenty of people just fill in bogus insurance details and get their disc. I gather though that there's no legal issue - although the form asks for insurance details, you are not legally required to have insurance to tax the car.

    Open to correction though.


  • #6
    -Corkie-
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,025 ✭✭✭✭-Corkie-


    seamus wrote: »
    Actually haven't filled out one of those forms in ages, I've done it online for the last 6 years, where plenty of people just fill in bogus insurance details and get their disc. I gather though that there's no legal issue - although the form asks for insurance details, you are not legally required to have insurance to tax the car.

    Open to correction though.

    Not at the moment Seamus but the Traffic Corps will be using that information for their ANPR system at the end of the year I think.


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