2010 Tractor Scrapped in Error

caesar

Hi All,

I need some advice on the following situation, I was going to post this in the farming forum but here seems more appropriate.

My father realised the other day that he hadn't received any notification about the tax on the tractor and queried it today with the local tax office.

He rang them this morning only to find out that the tractor was scrapped according to their records. They have the ownership cert (or the log book or something) in Shannon with my mothers signature on it to say that it was scrapped or going for scrap.

Now you're probably wondering how this has happened. Well, the notification for my mothers car tax arrived some weeks back and she went into the tax office to advise them that the car was going to be scrapped as it failed the NCT. Putting two and two together it's obvious that she brought the tractor documents in with her instead of the car ones. Not really sure how this happened but it did.

In essence she made a mistake but I don't know how the local tax office didnt notice as they knew it was a car she was looking to scrap or rather have it noted on their records that it was potentially going to be going for scrap and not be taxed again. I find it bizarre that they allowed someone who doesnt own the tractor to sign something to say that it was going for scrap.

Shannon are of the view that they have done nothing wrong and that my father is responsible for who has access to the tractors documents etc. which is fair enough. I did question how this came about without a certificate of desctruction but they advised that tractors dont require one, unlike cars etc. Fair enough but the local tax office seem to have fecked up here a bit, it was a 2010 tractor after-all and my mother is not the owner. Also, they have said themselves that they wouldn't normally send the docs to shannon themselves, but they did.

Shannon are sending a copy of what my mother signed and have said in order to reverse the change to the tractors status we'll need an engineers report. The thing that's annoying my father the most is that he thinks he'll have to use an approved engineer which could cost quite a bit. I know quite a few qualified mechanical and aeronautical engineers but am not sure if we can use them?

Any thoughts or advice would be much appreciated. If we can use any engineer then it won't cost us much at all and it'll be relatively easy to sort, but Shannon didn't make it clear if we could or not.

A bit of a mess but it could be worse, just a matter of sorting without getting to wound up about it.

ace86

you will have to get an engineer assessor that insurance companies use or the likes, they can be found on the internet and he will cost about €130 roughly to come out and verify the engine number, chassis number make model,weight plate and any other info on it and that will correspond with what shannon has on their records and the log book.Once its verified by the engineer you should contact your tax office to see what has to be do next in order to retrieve your logbook back.

JohnBoy

Call shannon, most likely a mechanic from that brand's main dealers will suffice.

They'll probably put a letter on headed notepaper for you if you explain the situation.