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Selling a car with motor tax arrears

  • 06-01-2013 5:42pm
    #1
    ballygowan1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 357 ✭✭


    Hopefully someone car help me on this one.

    I am selling my car last week of january or early February and the tax was due on the 1st of December. I didnt have the money to tax it then.

    I dont really want to tax it for 3 months.

    So can I trade it in with the tax arrears?

    How does it work when I trade it in? I have no problem paying the arrears but just dont want to pay for another 3 months.


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  • #2
    MetzgerMeister
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,907 ✭✭✭✭MetzgerMeister


    It doesn't matter to whoever buys the car next, they will have to tax it from the start of their ownership and your arrears will not affect them.


  • #3
    sogood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭sogood


    If you sell the car with no tax, it's up to the new owner to tax it, but ONLY from the time that they become the new registered owner (backdated back to the 1st of the month in which they bought the car) So, better to buy a car at the beginning of the month, rather than at the end, as you can't tax a car for part of a month.

    So, in a nutshell, you don't have to tax it to sell it and you won't be due any arrears, as you wont own it. New owner taxes it upon receipt of new registration documents. Period in between................revenue loses out!


  • #4
    ballygowan1
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 357 ✭✭ballygowan1


    sogood wrote: »
    If you sell the car with no tax, it's up to the new owner to tax it, but ONLY from the time that they become the new registered owner (backdated back to the 1st of the month in which they bought the car) So, better to buy a car at the beginning of the month, rather than at the end, as you can't tax a car for part of a month.

    So, in a nutshell, you don't have to tax it to sell it and you won't be due any arrears, as you wont own it. New owner taxes it upon receipt of new registration documents. Period in between................revenue loses out!

    Many thanks for that. It will save me taxing it for another 3 months to sit in a garage.


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