Did the off-road notification process change actually work as expected.

18MonthsaSlave

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/100000-declare-vehicles-off-the-road-248484.html

They claimed that the savings or rather additional collected motor tax would amount to 55 million euro.

I look at the 2013 statistics and the increase in the number of private passenger vehicles with a current disc only increased in 2013 from 2012 by 27615 vehicles.
Giving the average tax rate at about 500 which is rough but I have to choose some figure I come to additional income of 13.8m

http://www.transport.ie/sites/default/files/publications/roads/english/irish-bulletin-vehicle-and-driver-statistics-2013/irish-bulletin-vehicle-and-driver-statistics-2013.pdf

so there appears to be evidence of motor tax evasion/avoidance which has been clamped down on but not to the level that was suspected and prompted the department of environment to clamp down on avoidance.

Other things to note is that the national fleet is steadily getting older and the number of cars where motor tax is calculated based on CO2 isn't increasing very quickly; it is only 540k out of a national active fleet of 1.9m so screwing owners of older cars taxed on based on CC will continue as the government simply can't afford to go easy on them even though I'd guess most cars over
7 years old are worth less than 4000 euro.

cerastes

was that the entire aim of it though?
Or was it a reason (not a bad one) to shut most motor tax offices?
We should really be able to put a vehicle on/off the road for 1 or 2 months as an option also. I cant see why someone cant longterm SORN a vehicle, where someone might be emigrating, a year is all well and good, but why not a 2,3 years option? or more, might be mostly unused and its possible there are ways around it by getting someone to SORN it for you.

porsche boy

short answer is no. It wasn't implementated properly and there are loopholes. I did initinally sign a few of my cars off road but when the documentation lapsed I didnt renew it, initially by missing the first renewal date by a month and realising that 'selling' or signing the car over to my mother in law negated the need to do stoopid paperwork. So now basically when I want to recomission a car I just sign it over to someone else and tax it from then. The down side is the amount of previous owners stacks up but thats not really an issue for me.

18MonthsaSlave

On another point: Does anyone who has been to the Aran Islands or any of the Islands which has no bridge connection to the mainland believe there are 1017 vehicles in use on the Islands. I don't.

porsche boy

short answer is no. It wasn't implementated properly and there are loopholes. I did initinally sign a few of my cars off road but when the documentation lapsed I didnt renew it, initially by missing the first renewal date by a month and realising that 'selling' or signing the car over to my mother in law negated the need to do stoopid paperwork. So now basically when I want to recomission a car I just sign it over to someone else and tax it from then. The down side is the amount of previous owners stacks up but thats not really an issue for me.

18MonthsaSlave

I know someone who did the same on an old 2.5 litre engined car and saved 300 hundred euro.