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Motor Tax and Insurance Question

  • 09-03-2011 11:29am
    #1
    blazesoftware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭


    Hi,

    A friend has a spare car that been off the road for about a year so its out of tax and there is no insurance.

    I'm going to borrow it for about 4 weeks as I sold my own and am wait to buy something so we are going to get it taxed and I will transfer my insurance temporarily onto it.

    In order to tax it the insurance details are required. Is it ok to use my insurance details to tax the car even though its just for the month. After the month they will organise their own insurance again on it.

    (I would have assumed it was ok as I could tax a car and then a later sell it so my insurance details even though they were used to tax it no longer apply but the road tax would be still valid)

    Thanks


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  • #2
    A-Trak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭A-Trak


    Smalles amount of time you can tax a car for is 3 months.
    As long as your insurance covers you to drive other cars, using your policy to tax it should be fine.

    The majority of the time when I've taxed mine in the motor office, they don't even cross check it anyway, and if you're taxing it online, the site accepts any number of random characters as well, there's no verifying your insurance at all it would seem.


  • #3
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,363 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Also be aware that when you go to tax the car, they will look for you to pay the arears for the year it was off the road.

    If it was genuinely off the road then get the current owner to go to a Garda station and get them to stamp the RF100A form as a witness to his/her declartion of it being not used for that period.

    RF100A can be downloaded here:
    https://www.motortax.ie/OMT/pdf/RF100A_en.pdf


  • #4
    blazesoftware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭blazesoftware


    Hi,

    Thanks. We have that form and stamped and yep just going to get it done for 3 months.

    I'm switching my policy onto the car temporarily so it becomes the main car for the short period so the issue of being able to drive other peoples car shouldnt come into it

    thanks


  • #5
    Coillte_Bhoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,911 ✭✭✭Coillte_Bhoy


    bazz26 wrote: »
    Also be aware that when you go to tax the car, they will look for you to pay the arears for the year it was off the road.

    If it was genuinely off the road then get the current owner to go to a Garda station and get them to stamp the RF100A form as a witness to his/her declartion of it being not used for that period.

    RF100A can be downloaded here:
    https://www.motortax.ie/OMT/pdf/RF100A_en.pdf

    Just the info i was looking for. Have a van off the road a few months and want to get on the road for summer. Will they automatically stamp it for you? Seems an easy way to avoid paying tax.


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