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Green / Red diesel

  • 15-05-2014 8:22pm
    #1
    Pat Custard
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 78 ✭✭


    Everyone (or nearly everyone) knows that being caught with green diesel means trouble if customs nab you.

    In NI, they have RED diesel, it has a different dye.

    If I, as a resident and citizen of ROI were caught with my southern registered car in ROI with red diesel, could customs seize it?

    I know that they are losing tax of fuel, hence the fine, but it'd really be no different if I were to purchase diesel from a legitimate petrol station up the North.

    What if I was driving a Northern Registered car and I was caught with Red / Green Diesel in the south?

    Could customs do anything?

    I work in NI but live in ROI. I'm genuinely just curious.


Comments

  • #2
    h1034799
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭h1034799


    I live on the border and know of a few people from the north caught with green and ni customs let them off. But I'm afraid its a loophole that may now be closed. This was going back a few years....

    Don't know how customs in south deal with red in their jurisdiction.


  • #3
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    I'd say the offense is using "marked" gas oil, and the cour of the marker doesn't matter to the revenue commissioners


  • #4
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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