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Tax on Garda bike

  • 16-12-2016 5:51pm
    #1
    aziz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 748 ✭✭✭


    Just watching a report on Garda check points on TV3 news and it looked like the camera man went out of his way to get a close up of the front of a Garda motorbike with a very out of date tax disc.
    I take it that all Garda vehicles are subject to road tax and would the driver of this bike be responsible for it


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  • #2
    Johnboner
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 331 ✭✭Johnboner


    aziz wrote: »
    Just watching a report on Garda check points on TV3 news and it looked like the camera man went out of his way to get a close up of the front of a Garda motorbike with a very out of date tax disc.
    I take it that all Garda vehicles are subject to road tax and would the driver of this bike be responsible for it


    They are exempt same as everything else such as mobile phone use due to their superior genes. Gardai in Ireland are known as Mr. Hitler would refer to as ''Master race" so don't you dare questions your masters.


  • #3
    Holysock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 184 ✭✭Holysock


    aziz wrote: »
    Just watching a report on Garda check points on TV3 news and it looked like the camera man went out of his way to get a close up of the front of a Garda motorbike with a very out of date tax disc.
    I take it that all Garda vehicles are subject to road tax and would the driver of this bike be responsible for it

    Was it stock footage from 2014-2015?


  • #4
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    That bike came from a good family


  • #5
    TallGlass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,935 ✭✭✭TallGlass


    aziz wrote: »
    Just watching a report on Garda check points on TV3 news and it looked like the camera man went out of his way to get a close up of the front of a Garda motorbike with a very out of date tax disc.
    I take it that all Garda vehicles are subject to road tax and would the driver of this bike be responsible for it

    Exempt IIRC from the RTA, in fact it is a waste of pheking paper that any departmental car has to have a tax disc, in fact it is a waste in general of paper, toner and staff to have tax discs and insurance disc as well as NCT certs, should be all computerised and compulsory to carry your cert of insurance.


  • #6
    aziz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 748 ✭✭✭aziz


    No, looked like a very recent report


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  • #7
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    If it's anything like businesses taxing their vehicles it would be up to the business not the driver.

    I would have thought it a complete waste of resources and time taxing state vehicles. It's just using money to do paperwork.


  • #8
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    ScumLord wrote: »
    If it's anything like businesses taxing their vehicles it would be up to the business not the driver.

    I would have thought it a complete waste of resources and time taxing state vehicles. It's just using money to do paperwork.

    It's the law, I thought the law does not differentiate the State from individuals.


  • #9
    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    Which is it we're looking for -
    1. the state to pay itself motor tax. (tough negotiation)
    2. the state employee to personally pay to tax the state vehicle.


  • #10
    punisher5112
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,644 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    All state vehicles are exempt.

    Its just put on as due course and more so for unmarked as some parking dudes wouldn't know other wise.
    This includes the likes of Irish fisheries board.


  • #11
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,789 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    darkpagandeath wrote: »
    It's the law, I thought the law does not differentiate the State from individuals.
    But those are state vehicles, making them pay tax is like me leasing my own vehicle to myself. The state would be paying tax to itself. That's just spending money on unnecessary administration.


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  • #12
    Steve012
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Steve012


    Johnboner wrote: »
    They are exempt same as everything else such as mobile phone use due to their superior genes. Gardai in Ireland are known as Mr. Hitler would refer to as ''Master race" so don't you dare questions your masters.

    Someday you may need "the master race" son.


  • #13
    sjb25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,406 ✭✭✭sjb25


    Garda vehicles have a discs ambulances and fire engines also but if you look at them the amount of tax is just €0.00 where on my or your car it shows the amount of tax paid


  • #14
    Johnboner
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 331 ✭✭Johnboner


    Steve012 wrote: »
    Someday you may need "the master race" son.


    I needed on 3 occasions but they never showed up :(


  • #15
    sjb25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,406 ✭✭✭sjb25


    aziz wrote: »
    I take it that all Garda vehicles are subject to road tax and would the driver of this bike be responsible for it

    Garda vehicles are excempt from road tax but the still carry a disc which states they are the driver is only responsible the disc is up to date really rest would be looked after by a fleet manager of some sort


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