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Motor tax

  • 16-02-2019 9:55pm
    #1
    coolio69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭


    I am out of the country most of 2018. Car was not in use. My tax was out in July 2018. My insurance ran out in Oct 2018. Do I need to pay tax since July 2018 if I want to sell the car? When you pay motor tax online you also need to give insurance details but I probably can give the policy which has lapsed as was still in force in July 2018? Appreciate help.


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  • #2
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,396 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    coolio69 wrote: »
    I am out of the country most of 2018. Car was not in use. My tax was out in July 2018. My insurance ran out in Oct 2018. Do I need to pay tax since July 2018 if I want to sell the car? When you pay motor tax online you also need to give insurance details but I probably can give the policy which has lapsed as was still in force in July 2018? Appreciate help.


    if your selling the car you don't have to pay the back tax.


  • #3
    ayux4rj6zql2ph
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭ayux4rj6zql2ph


    coolio69 wrote: »
    I am out of the country most of 2018. Car was not in use. My tax was out in July 2018. My insurance ran out in Oct 2018. Do I need to pay tax since July 2018 if I want to sell the car? When you pay motor tax online you also need to give insurance details but I probably can give the policy which has lapsed as was still in force in July 2018? Appreciate help.

    Did you declare your car off the road in advance if it expiring? If you did then you have no worries, if you didn’t then if you remain the registered owner you are liable.

    You are correct with regard to needing insurance to tax it.


  • #4
    coolio69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭coolio69


    Never declared it off the road. Suppose I need to just pay the tax now and then get rid of?


  • #5
    ayux4rj6zql2ph
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭ayux4rj6zql2ph


    coolio69 wrote: »
    Never declared it off the road. Suppose I need to just pay the tax now and then get rid of?

    If you sell the car the new owner isn’t liable for the back tax ;)


  • #6
    coolio69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭coolio69


    If I dont pay the tax from July then I presume the new owner must pay?


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  • #7
    Avns1s
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,423 ✭✭✭Avns1s


    Deckard Shaw wrote: »
    If you sell the car the new owner isn’t liable for the back tax ;)

    This!! ^^^


  • #8
    coolio69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4 ✭coolio69


    Hi Deckard Shaw and am I liable for the back tax if I sell it? I presume not!


  • #9
    ayux4rj6zql2ph
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭ayux4rj6zql2ph


    coolio69 wrote: »
    Hi Deckard Shaw and am I liable for the back tax if I sell it? I presume not!

    No no, you’re off the hook


  • #10
    SCOOP 64
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,396 ✭✭✭SCOOP 64


    coolio69 wrote: »
    If I dont pay the tax from July then I presume the new owner must pay?
    No, the new owner only pays tax from the month he/she bought it.


  • #11
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Moved out from old thread


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  • #12
    Isambard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,795 ✭✭✭Isambard


    you had the answer in post #2


  • #13
    colm_mcm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73,522 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    And #3 #5 and #7


  • #14
    flazio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,414 ✭✭✭✭flazio


    By "sell" do you mean transfer the car over to another owner and then, I dunno, transfer it back?

    This too shall pass.



  • #15
    ayux4rj6zql2ph
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭ayux4rj6zql2ph


    flazio wrote: »
    By "sell" do you mean transfer the car over to another owner and then, I dunno, transfer it back?

    I don’t want to be banned or infracted if I answer that truthfully :D

    But the dogs on the street even know how to circumvent it, it’s a loophole basically, the Irish legal system has more holes in it than a block of Swiss cheese.


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