Stupid VRT Question

cavemeister

Guys,

Maybe someone can help....

I'm Irish and my girlfriend is English.... If we went to the UK and I gave her the money to buy a car and she...

Registers it in her name.... to her home address in the UK
MOTs it..
Taxes it and insures it can she take it back to Ireland ? If she is stopped, she will have a UK licence, I would be a named driver on the policy...

What do you think... am I in any kind of ballpark re: escaping VRT!

Thanks

cojomo2

cavemeister wrote: »

Guys,

Maybe someone can help....

I'm Irish and my girlfriend is English.... If we went to the UK and I gave her the money to buy a car and she...

Registers it in her name.... to her home address in the UK
MOTs it..
Taxes it and insures it can she take it back to Ireland ? If she is stopped, she will have a UK licence, I would be a named driver on the policy...

What do you think... am I in any kind of ballpark re: escaping VRT!

Thanks

i think your gf may may need to have been living+working in the uk and have owned the car for at least 6 months prior to bringing it to Ireland in order to escape VRT.

Also, if she is currently residing in Ireland, I dont think she will be permitted to drive here on yellow plates..you certainly wont.

alias no.9

If she is resident here, she cannot drive a foreign registered car here, regardless of license. If she's working here, revenue can just check up her details on their own systems and see how long she's been here.
You're wasting your time thinking this is a way to get around things, it's no different to you just buying it in your own name and not registering it here.
I'm not going to pontificate beyond saying you know what your doing if you go down this road and have no cause for complaint if the car gets lifted.

cL0h

alias no.9 wrote: »

If she is resident here, she cannot drive a foreign registered car here, regardless of license. If she's working here, revenue can just check up her details on their own systems and see how long she's been here.
You're wasting your time thinking this is a way to get around things, it's no different to you just buying it in your own name and not registering it here.
I'm not going to pontificate beyond saying you know what your doing if you go down this road and have no cause for complaint if the car gets lifted.

In reality that won't happen. She can always say she comes back and forth just like the thousands of Eastern Europeans who do that. The problem is that your UK insurance will not be valid in Ireland after 30 days and the Insurance company won't pay out if you have a claim. God help you if you get into an accident with a personal injury claim you'll be wishing you paid the VRT.

-Chris-

Discussion ways of evading tax is against the Charter.

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