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import a car from uk

  • 28-11-2012 8:22pm
    #1
    rothai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭


    hey,
    I'm currently living in the UK. My wife is living at home. I want to buy a car over here and leave in Ireland so my wife can drive it. If I leave the car in my name for a year can i then transfer the car over to wifes name and not pay the vrt on it? has anyone on info on this? if she is driving the car on uk plates could the guards lift it on her even if it is my name and im living in the uk?


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  • #2
    CiniO
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    rothai wrote: »
    hey,
    I'm currently living in the UK. My wife is living at home. I want to buy a car over here and leave in Ireland so my wife can drive it. If I leave the car in my name for a year can i then transfer the car over to wifes name and not pay the vrt on it? has anyone on info on this?

    You would need to own and use this car in UK for at least 6 months.
    Then to avail of VRT free registration in Ireland, you would have to move to Ireland (transfer your residence) and bring car with you.
    if she is driving the car on uk plates could the guards lift it on her even if it is my name and im living in the uk?

    Yes, they can.


  • #3
    Glenalla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 432 ✭✭Glenalla


    rothai wrote: »
    hey,
    I'm currently living in the UK. My wife is living at home. I want to buy a car over here and leave in Ireland so my wife can drive it. If I leave the car in my name for a year can i then transfer the car over to wifes name and not pay the vrt on it? has anyone on info on this? if she is driving the car on uk plates could the guards lift it on her even if it is my name and im living in the uk?


    This should give you the correct information.

    http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vrt/leaflets/temporary-exemption-foreign-registered.html


  • #4
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    your wife will not be entitled to drive a UK registered car here if she is resident here.


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    awec
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  • #6
    rothai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭rothai


    thanks all for the replies.
    From reading on that website. i wont be able to do it. Im studying in the uk, so officially im still a resident in ireland! so even if i buy the car now and drive it around for the next 6months i think i'll still have to pay vrt on it when i move home next summer...


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  • #7
    sunnysoutheast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭sunnysoutheast


    rothai wrote: »
    hey,
    I'm currently living in the UK. My wife is living at home. I want to buy a car over here and leave in Ireland so my wife can drive it. If I leave the car in my name for a year can i then transfer the car over to wifes name and not pay the vrt on it? has anyone on info on this? if she is driving the car on uk plates could the guards lift it on her even if it is my name and im living in the uk?

    It's illegal for any Irish resident to drive the car in the situation outlined above.


  • #8
    BnB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,091 ✭✭✭BnB


    rothai wrote: »
    thanks all for the replies.
    From reading on that website. i wont be able to do it. Im studying in the uk, so officially im still a resident in ireland! so even if i buy the car now and drive it around for the next 6months i think i'll still have to pay vrt on it when i move home next summer...
    You could possibly get a part time job over there in the evenings just so you would be officially employed (and not just a student) and you would have pay slips etc to show.

    But it would be a lot of trouble to go to just to bring in a car. You'd have to be bringing in something of fairly high value to justify going to the trouble. And the danger with that is, the higher the value of the car you are bringing in, the more digging the Revenue are going to do and you risk them not allowing it.

    It's almost 10 years ago now but my brother brought in a car under the exemption and they did a huge amount of digging at the time eventhough the value of the car wasn't even that high. I doubt they have gotten any more lenient..!!!


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