How to re-register a UK Range Rover in Ireland?

patdoll

Hi Everybody,
I will soon be moving back to Ireland and I want to bring my 2004 reg V6 3.0 diesel Range Rover with me. A Range Rover dealer I enquired with about re-registering it suggested I go to revenue.ie for info and mine is not listed there so no info. After speaking to the most unhelpful bag in the revenue office who said "if its not listed it cant be registered in this country" I ended up here. Can anybody tell me how I go about reregistering it in Ireland as a private vehicle or better still will it be possible to reregister it as a commercial vehicle?
Thanks in advance
patdoll

bazz26

A lot of information in this sticky should be relevant to you:


http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=176389

corktina

Is it a commercial then? You will have to modify it extensively to commercialise it otherwise.

Perfectly possible to re-register it here and if you have owned it for some time, there would be no VRT payable either. Details are on revenue.ie if not in the link above

Limbo123

Bring the car down to revenue, they will inspect it and contact the vehicle office down south who upload your model on to the 'system'. I had same problem with a new limited edition spec uk import a year or two back. Takes about two months to upload but at least the car is recorded with revenue in the meantime.

_Kaiser_

Bear in mind that if you tax that as a private car here it'll cost you a lot more than it likely does over there (€422 a quarter or €1494 for the year).

patdoll

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

Bear in mind that if you tax that as a private car here it'll cost you a lot more than it likely does over there (€422 a quarter or €1494 for the year).

That's why I was wondering about taxing it commercially
Thanks anyway

patdoll

corktina wrote: »

Is it a commercial then? You will have to modify it extensively to commercialise it otherwise.

Perfectly possible to re-register it here and if you have owned it for some time, there would be no VRT payable either. Details are on revenue.ie if not in the link above

Read my original post re:revenue.ie.
That's why I posted here

corktina

patdoll wrote: »

Read my original post re:revenue.ie.
That's why I posted here

details of YOUR car aren't there, but all the info about converting it to commercial are and about bringing it in VRT free, that's why I posted here.

Bear in mind you can't tax it as a commercial unless you are using it as a commercial and you have to declare you will ONLY use it for commercial purposes.

Theanswers

Bring it in and register it as a private car. Don't pay VRT as you've owned it for a period abroad.

Once registered change it to commercial. Then tax and DOE it.

This way if at some point in the future you want to put the seats in it you will not have to pay VRT.

Don't worry about private use in commercials. No one ever gets a word said to them about it. The guards have much bigger fish to fry than someone going to the shop in a commercial 4x4.

patdoll

Firstly, sorry for not replying to anyone who posted on this thread as I unexpectedly got called away on business to a country where I couldn't access the internet.
Secondly, thanks to everyone for their help and advice regarding the Rangey. It is now re-registered in the ROI as a private vehicle (at no charge because I have owned it since 2006) and it is in the process of being converted to a 'commercial' vehicle at the minute. Should be ready by the weekend.

Thanks again for all the help and advice and apologies again the lack of contact during the last ten months.

Quo Fas et Gloria Ducunt

biko

Sound, thanks for updating your thread.