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Can I get tax back?

  • 05-02-2016 7:27pm
    #1
    Asmooh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭


    Bought my volvo 28th of January.
    Just paid tax for 1 till 31 Jan but I should have paid from 28-31jan.

    How to get it back?


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  • #2
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #3
    sunnysoutheast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,072 ✭✭✭sunnysoutheast


    Asmooh wrote: »
    Bought my volvo 28th of January.
    Just paid tax for 1 till 31 Jan but I should have paid from 28-31jan.

    How to get it back?

    That's not how it works. You pay for the full month.


  • #4
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,364 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Motor tax runs from the beginning of the month in which ownership transfers to you. So if ownership transferred to you on 28th January then you are liable for motor tax from 1st January.


  • #5
    bmwguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,006 ✭✭✭bmwguy


    Yep, the others are fully correct. Too late this time but if it bothers you get the car changed into your name on the 1st of the month or as close as possible to get the best value out of the tax. I presume it's somewhere in the region of a 2 litre engine so you are somewhere in the region of only 60 quid wasted. If it's a newer, emissions based car you are probably only about half that. Next time.


  • #6
    Avatar MIA
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,750 ✭✭✭Avatar MIA


    Reminds me of the time I was due to pick up my car from the Garage and I asked them to ensure to register it on the 1st of February, the day I was picking it up only to find they had registered it on the 31st of Jan. I presume for targets. Sneaky feckers.

    Thankfully at the time a declaration at the garda station meant I didn't have to pay the month's tax for Jan.


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  • #7
    Asmooh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,469 ✭✭✭Asmooh


    Isn't that stealing? Paying for something you didn't have at that time?


  • #8
    Toyotafanboi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,917 ✭✭✭✭Toyotafanboi


    Not stealing, no.

    It's priced by the month. Regardless of what day of the month you buy it on.


  • #9
    Atlantic Dawn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84,762 ✭✭✭✭Atlantic Dawn
    M


    Asmooh wrote: »
    Isn't that stealing? Paying for something you didn't have at that time?

    You had it on 28th so had use of it in January.


  • #10
    Pops_20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 720 ✭✭✭Pops_20


    Asmooh wrote: »
    Isn't that stealing? Paying for something you didn't have at that time?

    Welcome to Ireland! Same thing happened to me when I bought my car in December 2014. Had to pay tax for all of December AND pay a back tax fee on top of that for missing the deadline as change of ownership didn't go through because of Christmas and New Year.


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