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Importing a bike.

  • 05-04-2017 10:52am
    #1
    Lyle Lanley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 642 ✭✭✭


    I'm considering buying a bike that's on UK reg but has been in Ireland for years. Am i likely to have a problem with this?

    Don't want to wind up paying the back tax since its not mine to pay!

    I'm not really sure on the procedure to bring a vehicle in either so if anyone could point me in the right direction that'd be great.


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  • #2
    zubair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,459 ✭✭✭zubair


    Lyle Lanley wrote: »
    I'm considering buying a bike that's on UK reg but has been in Ireland for years. Am i likely to have a problem with this?

    Don't want to wind up paying the back tax since its not mine to pay!

    I'm not really sure on the procedure to bring a vehicle in either so if anyone could point me in the right direction that'd be great.

    Has the UK road tax been paid in that time?


  • #3
    Lyle Lanley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Lyle Lanley


    zubair wrote: »
    Has the UK road tax been paid in that time?
    No. Been in a garage for most of it.


  • #4
    BronsonTB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭BronsonTB


    It is illegal to sell a UK register vehicle without paying the VRT first. (Revenue)

    So make sure you have a recent receipt to show it has not been in the country for years ;)

    Sligo Metalhead



  • #5
    zubair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,459 ✭✭✭zubair


    BronsonTB wrote: »
    It is illegal to sell a UK register vehicle without paying the VRT first. (Revenue)

    So make sure you have a recent receipt to show it has not been in the country for years ;)

    Exactly, you'll need a shipping receipt showing when it was imported to the country, anything will do, it could be in crayon for all they care.

    As far as i know that unpaid road tax will have to be paid if it's not been declared off the road so someone will have to pay it.


  • #6
    Lyle Lanley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Lyle Lanley


    So.. I've just bought a bike over in England. I've a handwritten receipt for the bike and the boat back. I can then pay the vrt and get a plate?


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  • #7
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,903 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    yes either that or you bought it up north


  • #8
    zubair
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,459 ✭✭✭zubair


    As its a UK reg and not NI to be in Ireland it will need to have been shipped at some stage. Best go with a shipping receipt or get tangled up in a web of lies.


  • #9
    Lyle Lanley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Lyle Lanley


    zubair wrote: »
    As its a UK reg and not NI to be in Ireland it will need to have been shipped at some stage. Best go with a shipping receipt or get tangled up in a web of lies.
    Thought that might be an issue. Unless a previous owner had shipped it and i bought from him.

    Probably just as easy to get a receipt though.


  • #10
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,903 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    no need to lie anyway if you have a hand written real receipt and the ferry ticket, that's as legit as it gets as far as they are concerned


  • #11
    Reindeer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭Reindeer


    What all would it entail to bring in a bike from NI that is currently registered there?
    Thanks


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  • #12
    Fireblade77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭Fireblade77


    http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vrt/vrt-guide.html


  • #13
    Lyle Lanley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 642 ✭✭✭Lyle Lanley


    This turned out to be very simple. A letter from myself explaining that the bike was brought over years ago and parked in a shed til I bought it was taken in lieu of a ferry receipt. No question of back tax, that is the last owners problem, doubt they'll come looking for him


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