UK reg cars being driven

shabalala

Can anyone give me advice on the legalities of a british person living in ireland driving uk reg cars? One of my neighbours, a very obnoxious one at that, has been living here for nearlt 10 years, working full time and has never once driven an irish reg car. Its bothering me now as he constantly brags about our stupid sysyem and how he only has to speak to a garda and they let him on his way when they hear his accent.
A little bit of me wants to report him as if it was the other way round hed be all over it like a rash waving rules and regulations....

Feel free to tell me keep my nose out of it... But the fact he brags about it makes me a little sick inside!

Gatling

Give customs a phone call

Mr Simpson

If they live here, its illegal.

If you want to do something about it, call revenue.

shabalala

what department of revenue would deal with such an individual?

Mr Simpson

I'd imagine either customs or vrt department, customs being more likely as they deal with vrt compliance

Roqueandrolle.

After importing a car from the UK and taking up residence in Ireland, you have two years to re-register it in Ireland before you've broken the law. As your neighbour has been here a long time, yes, he is breaking the law. I'd imagine you could contact the VRT department of Revenue if you really wanted to.

Kristopherus

Roqueandrolle. wrote: »

After importing a car from the UK and taking up residence in Ireland, you have two years to re-register it in Ireland before you've broken the law. As your neighbour has been here a long time, yes, he is breaking the law. I'd imagine you could contact the VRT department of Revenue if you really wanted to.

I thought you had to re-register after 1 year

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

A Brit bragging about our stupid system wouldn't be bragging for long if I heard him. Only we are allowed to slag ourselves

Report him. Muppet.

valleyoftheunos

Roqueandrolle. wrote: »

After importing a car from the UK and taking up residence in Ireland, you have two years to re-register it in Ireland before you've broken the law. As your neighbour has been here a long time, yes, he is breaking the law. I'd imagine you could contact the VRT department of Revenue if you really wanted to.

Kristopherus wrote: »

I thought you had to re-register after 1 year

Neither of these statements are correct, you need to re-register it straight away. the car must be inspected at an NCTS centre within 7 days of arriving and any VRT or other taxes must be paid within 30 days.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vrt/faqs-vrt.html#section2

Kristopherus

valleyoftheunos wrote: »

Neither of these statements are correct, you need to re-register it straight away. the car must be inspected at an NCTS centre within 7 days of arriving and any VRT or other taxes must be paid within 30 days.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vrt/faqs-vrt.html#section2

Owners of UK registered cars can claim to be temporary residents(visitors) for up to 12 months. Thats where the year kicks in. In the very recent past, 2 new members of staff moved from England to work here. Both drove UK registered vehicles, 1 a Landrover Discovery and the other a big Vauxhall. This very subject was mentioned at tea-break on a couple of occasions. Both sai the had been told by the local VRT Office that they could defer re-registration for a max of 12 months from date of arrival here.

theidiots

shabalala wrote: »

Feel free to tell me keep my nose out of it... But the fact he brags about it makes me a little sick inside!

So the fact is your jealous and want to report him. My god some people in this world I will never understand

valleyoftheunos

Kristopherus wrote: »

Owners of UK registered cars can claim to be temporary residents(visitors) for up to 12 months. Thats where the year kicks in. In the very recent past, 2 new members of staff moved from England to work here. Both drove UK registered vehicles, 1 a Landrover Discovery and the other a big Vauxhall. This very subject was mentioned at tea-break on a couple of occasions. Both sai the had been told by the local VRT Office that they could defer re-registration for a max of 12 months from date of arrival here.

Thats an interesting origin for the confusion. I see though that it applies only where the owners are ordinarily resident in a European State other than Ireland.

There are other exemptions to VRT, if you've been resident in an EU state and have owned the vehicle for six months or more in that state and are coming/returning to Ireland to take up residency the vehicle is exempt form VRT.

I've brought a few vehicles in from the UK so its a bit of a pet subject of mine;)

coylemj

theidiots wrote: »

So the fact is your jealous and want to report him. My god some people in this world I will never understand

No, the OP pays his VRT, VAT and car tax like the rest of us (unless he's a complete hypocrite but I'm prepared to assume he does) and he has an obnoxious neighbour who is abusing the fact that he has a British accent by paying no Irish vehicle tax even though he's lived here for 10 years and is bragging about it - what more do you want as a reason to report him to customs & excise?

theidiots

coylemj wrote: »

No, the OP pays his VRT, VAT and car tax like the rest of us (unless he's a complete hypocrite but I'm prepared to assume he does) and he has an obnoxious neighbour who is abusing the fact that he has a British accent by paying no Irish vehicle tax even though he's lived here for 10 years and is bragging about it - what more do you want as a reason to report him to customs & excise?

What good is it going to do to "tell on him"? Stop politicians milking every cent they can get? or does the op just want to cause trouble for him?

Mr Simpson

theidiots wrote: »

What good is it going to do to "tell on him"? Stop politicians milking every cent they can get? or does the op just want to cause trouble for him?

What do politicians milking it have to do with this? Change the record.

3DataModem

If he maintains residence in the UK, and taxes and insures his car over there, then he is not breaking the law.

However if he allows an Irish resident to drive the car then he and the driver are breaking the law.

ABajaninCork

OTOH. Why don't the Gards pull all the foreign (French, Italian, German, Polish, Hungarian, etc.) driving about here? In my last role, the amount of foreign registered cars in the car park had to be seen to be believed. And most, if not all actually live here.

A German man I know thought I was mad for re-registering my car. I had to tell him as it's a UK car, I was a sitting target.

All the Gards do is pull British cars. As if other Europeans don't drive their cars here whilst living in the country.

shabalala

theidiots wrote: »

So the fact is your jealous and want to report him. My god some people in this world I will never understand

What would I be jealous of someone that's abusing our countries system and laughing at us as a result???

Markcheese

There's a photo record of cars leaving the ferry ports , assume there's something similar near the border , don't know how far back the records go, or if they're computerised, how much time do you and your car have to spend in the uk to avoid Irish regs (sure half the Irish population lived for some time in uk, and still have a relative over there for an address,)

Pat Mustard

Markcheese wrote: »

There's a photo record of cars leaving the ferry ports , assume there's something similar near the border , don't know how far back the records go, or if they're computerised,

Never heard of this. Link?

BRAIN FEEDs

theidiots wrote: »

So the fact is your jealous and want to report him. My god some people in this world I will never understand

its in the psychic of Irish people to grass on each other.it goes back generations which led to the civil war.

there are exceptions to where a foreign car can be driven in ireland,eg a work vehicle