car off the road, taxing again, how best?

celica00

Hi all,

I have a car off the road (declared off for a year until Sept14), and Im ready to tax it from next month on.
Due working hours I can't go to the tax office, so how do I tax the car now?
Insurance will be swapped during this week and NCT will be booked in for in a few weeks as I need tax first anyway to drive to the NCT centre.

Is this something I can do online?
Anyone put the car back on the road?

saucyleopard

Just email them at your local tax office and tell them you want to put the car back on the road. I've always found them helpful. They'll tell you what hoops you need to jump through.

celica00

thought so alright, just wanted to get it done asap and was afraid it might take them too long to answer

saucyleopard

I've emailed them several times and normally get an answer back in 24 hours or less. If you rang them you could get an answer straight away.

visual

You dont need motor tax if you are driving directly to or from NCT test.

Im not sure of the logic behind it but that is only exception with having untaxed car on road

corktina

visual wrote: »

You dont need motor tax if you are driving directly to or from NCT test.

Im not sure of the logic behind it but that is only exception with having untaxed car on road

Not so.Small correction You may drive a SORD car (which this is ) to the NCT. You may not drive an untaxed non-SORD car though. (It's still an offence not to display a disc however...)

To tax the car just fill up an RF100 and take it or post it to your Motor Tax Ofice. It's simple (just you cannot do it online for some reason)

CiniO

corktina wrote: »

To tax the car just fill up an RF100 and take it or post it to your Motor Tax Ofice. It's simple (just you cannot do it online for some reason)

But he can't give them this form before end of May if he intends to tax it from 1st June.
And as OP is working he can't go there in person on 1st of June.
So he will need to wait until case is done by post, and it might take several days, during which he will be unable to drive his car.

corktina

No and there seems little point in doing the insurance this week as he wont be on the road until the 1st June.

Post is the best option, Cork at least are red hot at this, never takes long to get the disc.


(You can give them the form early, but they wont issue the disc until the first)

wendell borton

The silly bureaucracy of taxing a car is infuriating, why cant you just pay for a tax disc at a PO.

celica00

I will let you know how it goes.
I also heard you can drive to the NCT and back but i wont risk it really.
Im gonna email them now as I couldnt get through by phone yesteday, thanks for the input!

corktina

You are fine driving to and from the NCT as long as the car is SORD (which it is) It is the one exception to SORD rules.

celica00

Im not sure what it means to have a SORD car?
And how is it insurance wise?
I could imagine that they still find a way around, for the simple reason to not have a tax disc in the window....

CiniO

corktina wrote: »

You are fine driving to and from the NCT as long as the car is SORD (which it is) It is the one exception to SORD rules.

Thats what motortax website faq says but no one was able to find appropriate law yet. Maybe it doesn't exist.

corktina

celica00 wrote: »

Im not sure what it means to have a SORD car?
And how is it insurance wise?
I could imagine that they still find a way around, for the simple reason to not have a tax disc in the window....

declared off the road, you did it for a year last September (is what you said in OP) If you are insured, then you are insured. Whether they would pay out or not is another matter, but you would be road legal. Tax disc not on display is an offence but I think you'd get away with that one due o being a SORD vehicle on way to NCT

celica00

Okay I see, I didnt know the SORD term before.
I got a response already (that was quick!)

I can only do it by post or in person and must fill out the RF100A form (as someone mentioned it before).

Post it is so!

CiboC

Post it in on 31/05, keep a copy of the form in the car.

You would want to meet a terribly grumpy garda for them to make an issue of it over the few days it will take for the cert to arrive.

Parking on the street may be another issue as you could get a ticket for non display from a warden which will probably stick, so best to avoid that until the disc arrives.

You can drive to the NCT centre and back with a SORD car without taxing it as long as you have an appointment there. You can drive to a garage and back to get repairs done on foot of a failed NCT on the same basis.

corktina

That's a better way to describe it than the official wording which is very muddled.

celica00

THanks for all the info, that is very helpful!
I hope the disk arrives in time...
I still don't trust the whole NCT thing because once I was booked in already and they still gave me a fine for not having NCT.

But I was always told as long as you are booked in for NCT (and can proof it, just like I did), you will be fine....

Parking without a disk (but taxed) got me already one time, so I won't do that anyway haha

corktina

That's a different matter. I don't think there is any dispensation to drive to the NCT with no NCT. A sympathetic Gard will possibly wave you in the way, but don't bank on it

celica00

yeah I don't trust them haha. If I send tax away tomorrow I hopefully have it in time anyway as they normally proceed it fast enough! Fingers crossed