Buying car with vrt paid but no logbook

Toyota1968 · 18-01-2015 8:54pm #1

Evening all...... a guy I know brought a car in from the uk a number of years ago to restore ....he had a visit from customs at the time and ended up paying vrt on the car although it never went on the road..... he has now finished restoring it and is considering selling it ..... I fancy buying it but although the vrt was paid and a registration number was allocated he never followed through and had a logbook issued as he says he could only get the logbook when he went to tax it...... since he wasn't going to tax it... it never got a logbook issued.....

How might I buy this and get a logbook without ending up with a large lump of back tax ???

colm_mcm · 18-01-2015 9:13pm

Get him to try and tax it for 3 months and see if they talk about arrears. I get the feeling there won't be any.

Gumbo · 18-01-2015 9:15pm

Tell him to tax it for 3 months and when the log book arrives, you an do the transfer of ownership on the VLC then. Maybe have a price agreed for the car before hand including the price of 3 months tax.

The logbook does not arrive on imported cars until they are taxed for the first time.

Toyota1968 · 18-01-2015 9:19pm

Will he get caught for back tax between the time he vrt'd it and now ? Think it was vrt'd in 2008

Gumbo · 18-01-2015 9:21pm

Toyota1968 wrote: »

Will he get caught for back tax between the time he vrt'd it and now ? Think it was vrt'd in 2008

He shouldn't. But I'd want that sorted before I bought it too. Has it been declared off the road? Just to be clear, he bought a UK car, paid the VRT and never taxed it?

Toyota1968 · 18-01-2015 9:33pm

Bought car in UK in 2006 ish, after a visit from revenue in 2008 he paid vrt, never taxed so never got a log book.....Sat in a shed until now not declared off the road ...... now I thinking of buying it......

Toyota1968 · 19-01-2015 9:58pm

Any ideas guys ? Is there an office I can ring to enquire ?

Toyota1968 · 19-01-2015 9:58pm

Any ideas guys ? Is there an office I can ring to enquire ?

mullingar · 19-01-2015 10:06pm

It's simple and I have done similar as I sold a uk 06 Focus that I paid the vrt and nct but didn't tax it so no VRC as you only get it when it's first taxed.

The seller just sends a nice typed letter to Shandon detailing that it was sold to Mr B of B address with the reg/chassis number and most importantly it's signed by the seller.

Buyer gets the tax renewal form in the post to the B address, then taxes it and new VRC will arrive at Mr B address

Edit,

I also forgot. No harm in checking motortax.ie to see what the dates are for arrears as the first Pin number is the last 6 digits of the chassis number

Buying car with vrt paid but no logbook

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