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Vrt exemption letter

  • 24-05-2018 9:58pm
    #1
    snootsnoot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭


    Gathering up all my proof for so I'll not have to pay the vrt fee on a car I've owned over 6 months in the UK. I've just moved back and have to get it registered.

    This is from the revenues website...

    In the case of relief from import charges, you must have used the vehicle at your former normal place of residence. Any possession and use in the State, even during times when you were living abroad, does not count. You must bring the vehicle into the State within 12 months of the date of your TOR.

    So is import charges the same thing as vrt? I had the car back over Xmas for a week. Will this void my exemption? Also had paid a few m50 tolls so would the revenue check eflow for tolls paid?
    Thanks.


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  • #2
    TomOnBoard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,122 ✭✭✭TomOnBoard


    snootsnoot wrote: »
    Gathering up all my proof for so I'll not have to pay the vrt fee on a car I've owned over 6 months in the UK. I've just moved back and have to get it registered.

    This is from the revenues website...

    In the case of relief from import charges, you must have used the vehicle at your former normal place of residence. Any possession and use in the State, even during times when you were living abroad, does not count. You must bring the vehicle into the State within 12 months of the date of your TOR.

    So is import charges the same thing as vrt? I had the car back over Xmas for a week. Will this void my exemption? Also had paid a few m50 tolls so would the revenue check eflow for tolls paid?
    Thanks.

    Import charges probably includes customs duty and VAT in addition to VRT, so the 1st two wouldn't apply to you..

    NO, I WAS NOT IN IRELAND AT CHRISTMAS!!!! Now go practice that in front of the mirror and you'll be grand..


  • #3
    snootsnoot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭snootsnoot


    TomOnBoard wrote: »
    Import charges probably includes customs duty and VAT in addition to VRT.

    NO, I WAS NOT IN IRELAND AT CHRISTMAS!!!! Now go practice that in front of the mirror and you'll be grand..

    Cheers Tom, but would they check the m50 toll? They have a check box that asks if you had the car in the state, reckon just say no?


  • #4
    TomOnBoard
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    snootsnoot wrote: »
    Cheers Tom, but would they check the m50 toll? They have a check box that asks if you had the car in the state, reckon just say no?


    Can't imagine how or why they would possibly be set up to access the eToll system.


  • #5
    TomOnBoard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,122 ✭✭✭TomOnBoard


    I meant to ask how long have you been at the UK address you're giving them and do you have MoT certs?


  • #6
    snootsnoot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 ✭snootsnoot


    TomOnBoard wrote: »
    I meant to ask how long have you been at the UK address you're giving them and do you have MoT certs?

    Well the car is 2014, I bought in 2017, have all previous mot certs from that period, it didn't need to be serviced or motd in the time I had it as it had just been done prior to purchase. I lived in the UK for 10 years. Had a mortgage on a house 3 years leading up to leaving the UK.


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  • #7
    TomOnBoard
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    snootsnoot wrote: »
    Well the car is 2014, I bought in 2017, have all previous mot certs from that period, it didn't need to be serviced or motd in the time I had it as it had just been done prior to purchase. I lived in the UK for 10 years. Had a mortgage on a house 3 years leading up to leaving the UK.

    Get the application in quick. I think it has to be done with 7 days of landing the car in the State.

    Good luck!!


  • #8
    TomOnBoard
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    TomOnBoard wrote: »
    Get the application in quick. I think it has to be done with 7 days of landing the car in the State.

    Good luck!!

    Oh, and I think that if your MOT is in date you can get it converted to an NCT cert, free of charge once its been re-registered


  • #9
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    TomOnBoard wrote: »
    Oh, and I think that if your MOT is in date you can get it converted to an NCT cert, free of charge once its been re-registered

    No you cannot.


  • #10
    Marcusm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,633 ✭✭✭✭Marcusm


    snootsnoot wrote: »
    Well the car is 2014, I bought in 2017, have all previous mot certs from that period, it didn't need to be serviced or motd in the time I had it as it had just been done prior to purchase. I lived in the UK for 10 years. Had a mortgage on a house 3 years leading up to leaving the UK.

    Have you got 6 clear months of ownership after excluding the period for which the car has been in Ireland?


  • #11
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,092 ✭✭✭✭Esel
    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Marcusm wrote: »
    No you cannot.

    Recent change says you can. No link, but read it on here Boards a day or two ago.

    Not your ornery onager



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  • #12
    Esel
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    Not Your Ornery Onager


    Marcusm wrote: »
    Have you got 6 clear months of ownership after excluding the period for which the car has been in Ireland?

    Not unless the current date is end of June, which it isn't.

    Not your ornery onager



  • #13
    TomOnBoard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,122 ✭✭✭TomOnBoard


    Esel wrote: »
    Not unless the current date is end of June, which it isn't.
    This is confusing for the OP. S/he said the VRT exemption was required for "a car I've owned over 6 months in the UK"


  • #14
    TomOnBoard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,122 ✭✭✭TomOnBoard


    Marcusm wrote: »
    No you cannot.


    Yes you can:

    http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2017/si/415/made/en/pdf

    Recognition of other Member State roadworthiness certificates
    18. (1) Where:
    (a) a vehicle was registered in another Member State outside the State
    and is brought into the State, other than temporarily where the
    vehicle is the subject of an exemption under section 135 of the Finance
    Act 1992 (No. 9 of 1992), in circumstances which require the
    vehicle to be registered in the State in accordance with section 131 of
    the Finance Act 1992, and
    (b) such vehicle has a valid roadworthiness certificate issued by that other
    Member State which has not expired or otherwise been revoked or
    cancelled,
    [415] 17
    such roadworthiness certificate shall be regarded as being a test certificate for
    the purposes of these Regulations but only for so long as it has not expired,
    been cancelled or revoked.
    (2) The test due dates for a vehicle falling within paragraph (1) shall be:
    (a) the date on which the roadworthiness certificate issued by the other
    Member State expires, is revoked or cancelled; and
    (b) in the case of each subsequent test due date, the test due date determined
    in accordance with Regulation 3.
    (3) For so long as it is valid, a proof issued by a testing centre or competent
    authority in another Member State shall be recognised in the State as if it was
    a test disc and issued as part of a test certificate and these Regulations shall
    apply to it, and the related vehicle, as if it was a test certificate issued under
    these Regulations.


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