Motor Tax

LaDeeDaa

My tax is due for renewal this coming Monday, 1st of May. On the 16th of June (A month and a half from then) I am off to New York for 3 months so my car will be off the road. Is there anyway of pausing the tax, sorry this may sound ridiculous, until Im back or will I just get 3 months even though the car will be off the road after a month and a half?

CiniO

LaDeeDaa wrote: »

My tax is due for renewal this coming Monday, 1st of May. On the 16th of June (A month and a half from then) I am off to New York for 3 months so my car will be off the road. Is there anyway of pausing the tax, sorry this may sound ridiculous, until Im back or will I just get 3 months even though the car will be off the road after a month and a half?

No there isn't.

Only way for you is to not pay the tax and drive without it for next 1.5 month.
That way you will cheat on our government for 1.5 provided you don't get caught.
If you pay your tax for 3 months, our government will cheat on you for 1.5 month by charging you tax on a vehicle you won't be using.

It's up to you to decide which option is better.

Celly Smunt

Well there is the urban legend of the months grace which allows you to drive without tax for a month when it's out of date.

Alanstrainor

You are also caught in between a change in the legislation with regard to taking your car off the road. In the past you should have been able to just stop into a garda station and get a form saying your car has been off the road for X months. But this will change in the coming months. So i'm not too sure how that will work.

I'm in a very similar position to you OP.

CiniO

Alanstrainor wrote: »

You are also caught in between a change in the legislation with regard to taking your car off the road. In the past you should have been able to just stop into a garda station and get a form saying your car has been off the road for X months. But this will change in the coming months. So i'm not too sure how that will work.

I'm in a very similar position to you OP.

Is the date of those regulations coming in confirmed?

K.Flyer

CiniO wrote: »

No there isn't.

Only way for you is to not pay the tax and drive without it for next 1.5 month.
That way you will cheat on our government for 1.5 provided you don't get caught.
If you pay your tax for 3 months, our government will cheat on you for 1.5 month by charging you tax on a vehicle you won't be using.

It's up to you to decide which option is better.

And if don't pay and you manage to avoid being caught for no road tax for the first six weeks and if you park your car on a public road while you are away you still run the risk of a ticket.

CiniO

K.Flyer wrote: »

And if don't pay and you manage to avoid being caught for no road tax for the first six weeks and if you park your car on a public road while you are away you still run the risk of a ticket.

Oh yes. Car parked on public road is still liable to tax.

LaDeeDaa

Thank you! Looks like they'll be getting free money off me then so!!!

Alanstrainor

CiniO wrote: »

Is the date of those regulations coming in confirmed?

I'm not 100% sure. MugMugs said around August, but I'm not sure.

Scortho

Alanstrainor wrote: »

I'm not 100% sure. MugMugs said around August, but I'm not sure.

I've heard August as well.
At the moment the legislation has bedn published and to be in force by August would need to be passed by the oireachtas before the summer recess probably.
For anyone looking for a bit of late night reading here it is:
http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/bills/2013/3713/b3713d.pdf

The gov. Have highlighted that they want to get the abortion legislation passed before the summer. Currently the abortion legislation is at draft stage as well and due to its contentious nature, there is a chance that these new motor tax rules could be delayed until the dail returns after the summer (think its late September!)

Tldr
May not be enacted by August.

MugMugs

Scortho wrote: »

May not be enacted by August.

Realistically, it probably won't.

Thats the date they were throwing around though.

No doubt when the form for review is submitted, it'll get lost and begin some sort of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy type process of being lost, found, lost again, escalated, left under a desk for a few weeks, covered in coffee, found again, signed, rejected because a digit was wrong and sent back without action because somebody didn't use a ball point pen at the start of the whole affair.

Big Nasty

Alanstrainor wrote: »

You are also caught in between a change in the legislation with regard to taking your car off the road. In the past you should have been able to just stop into a garda station and get a form saying your car has been off the road for X months. But this will change in the coming months. So i'm not too sure how that will work.

I'm in a very similar position to you OP.

Where are you fvckin off to for the summer then!?!

Alanstrainor

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Where are you fvckin off to for the summer then!?!

South America chap!

Big Nasty

Alanstrainor wrote: »

South America chap!

I missed that - nice!