does a uk citizen moving to ireland have to vrt car?

seablazer1

My scottish born and bred wife has permanently moved to Donegal (poor thing!) She has a british drivers license with an address at her mother's glasgow house.

The question is; can she buy a car in scotland, (she can leave it with her mother for six months if she has to), take it here and register it and be exempt from the vrt?

Any advice appreciated!

slimjimmc

Transfer of residence

Too late, she must have owned and used the car for at least 6 months before moving permanently here.

jimmycrackcorm

She would have to show that she had it for six months prior to moving over here. Leaving the car over there for six months won't be enough if there is other evidence that she has been here in the interim because even something such as having a pps number for a job here would show up as an anomaly.

Esel

She will have to prove the date she took up residence here too.

montane

I did that once when I had been resident in the UK.

I had to show pay slips from my UK employer and various bills to prove my residence there.

DHFrame

I moved from the UK to Ireland with my car. You must have owned the car for 6 months whilst residing in the UK. Also, you are unable to sell the car for 1 year once it has Irish Plates on. If there was a way around it, everyone would be walking around with lots of Gold in there pockets as cars are 20% more expensive here than they are in UK. So you could by say a 2.0 Deisel Auris SE for £7k and sell it here for €15,500 just by owning it for 6 months at a UK address.