Motortax exemption or otherwise during COVID-19?

tandcapply

Hi all,


I couldn't find a discussion about this anywhere.
I was wondering if payment of Motortax is still required for these times?


I saw that the government was calling on Motor insurance companies to offer rebates/refunds for the COVID-19 period but saw nothing about anything like it for Motortax.
Tax on my own car (other half has a car, used for short drives to shops only in the last 2 months)..


I haven't driven my car is at least two months now and was wondering what do I need to do as my renewal is due next.
I'm unlikely to need the car in 2020 as work from home looks likely for 2020 but won't sell the car in case I'll need to buy one in 2021.


Is it again a case of do as I say not as I do?

Black_Knight

tandcapply wrote: »

Hi all,


I couldn't find a discussion about this anywhere.
I was wondering if payment of Motortax is still required for these times?


I saw that the government was calling on Motor insurance companies to offer rebates/refunds for the COVID-19 period but saw nothing about anything like it for Motortax.
Tax on my own car (other half has a car, used for short drives to shops only in the last 2 months)..


I haven't driven my car is at least two months now and was wondering what do I need to do as my renewal is due next.
I'm unlikely to need the car in 2020 as work from home looks likely for 2020 but won't sell the car in case I'll need to buy one in 2021.


Is it again a case of do as I say not as I do?

Declare it off the road from when it's tax expires. Tax it when you get back driving again

splinter65

tandcapply wrote: »

Hi all,


I couldn't find a discussion about this anywhere.
I was wondering if payment of Motortax is still required for these times?


I saw that the government was calling on Motor insurance companies to offer rebates/refunds for the COVID-19 period but saw nothing about anything like it for Motortax.
Tax on my own car (other half has a car, used for short drives to shops only in the last 2 months)..


I haven't driven my car is at least two months now and was wondering what do I need to do as my renewal is due next.
I'm unlikely to need the car in 2020 as work from home looks likely for 2020 but won't sell the car in case I'll need to buy one in 2021.


Is it again a case of do as I say not as I do?

You can declare it off road if your not using it/going to use it at all. This was always the case. Nothing to do with covid.

https://www.motortax.ie/OMT/pdf/RF150_en.pdf

You can declare it off road for between 3 months and 12 months. As long as you know that you then can’t drive the car at all in that time unless you tax it again, starting at the date you want to start driving again.

tandcapply

Thanks but do you know if there a COVID-19 specific exemption too or something like that?

Isambard

well, it's a tax, so if they collect less from us from this source, they'll have to collect more from another source. So there's no point in doing more than allowing SORD . We'll all be paying for this virus for a long time so don't be worrying about a couple of months motor tax.

Black_Knight

tandcapply wrote: »

Thanks but do you know if there a COVID-19 specific exemption too or something like that?

I don't believe so.

biko

There is no exemption to pay your tax.

There is an exemption have a NCT cert to tax

All motor tax counter services are closed until further notice. Motor tax online services are operating as normal.

During the COVID-19 emergency period, you do not need a current National Car Test (NCT) or Commercial Vehicle Certificate of Roadworthiness to tax your vehicle online.

Gumbo

tandcapply wrote: »

Thanks but do you know if there a COVID-19 specific exemption too or something like that?

You can still tax your car online or by post.
What’s the point of an exemption if your not driving it anyway. Just declare off road.

zg3409

You need to declare it off the road BEFORE the tax runs out, then you need to tax it before you drive it again. You may have no savings as I believe you have to tax it for a full month even if you use it for a day, so if tax runs out end of may, you would need to not drive it ever in June to make any savings, that's like 6 weeks from now. That said you can declare it off road for 12 months and tax it again first time you really need it.

If lying up you should move it a few feet to rotate tyres, leave handbrake off (in gear) and disconnect battery. You nat need to jump start car if battery is not charged.

tandcapply

zg3409 wrote: »

You need to declare it off the road BEFORE the tax runs out, then you need to tax it before you drive it again. You may have no savings as I believe you have to tax it for a full month even if you use it for a day, so if tax runs out end of may, you would need to not drive it ever in June to make any savings, that's like 6 weeks from now. That said you can declare it off road for 12 months and tax it again first time you really need it.

If lying up you should move it a few feet to rotate tyres, leave handbrake off (in gear) and disconnect battery. You nat need to jump start car if battery is not charged.

I'm nearly sure that the battery is dead, I've started the car a few times but didn't move it (thanks for the tip btw, it could be handy for wave two of COVID-19 f ever comes) but not recently.
I agree about paying tax, but I was more thinking along the lines of them deferring it like they did for VAT and they did ask Motor insurance to do something so what's the major difference?
Now that everyone not using their car(s) (many in the country I assume) will need to declare their cars off the road for during the COVID-19 period which is too late now anyway.
I never would have thought that 2 months on I'll still be working from home and to be told that it's likely to remain for the rest of the year would have made me laugh before the lockdown (no one really worked from home in my office before Covid-19).

But since I couldn't find anything and it seems that I'll just pay tax as is in case I'll need to use it

newmember2

biko wrote: »

There is no exemption to pay your tax.

There is an exemption have a NCT cert to tax

You normally can only tax a car online that has a current NCT certification?

zg3409

newmember? wrote: »

You normally can only tax a car online that has a current NCT certification?

You can renew your motor tax online without a current NCT or CVRT during this period.

From
https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/travel_and_recreation/vehicle_standards/national_car_test.html

I think for many years you have not needed a valid nct to tax a car, as people were not paying the motor tax as a result.

Ron30

Just a quick question.

I paid my annual motor tax on 25th February 2020 (just few days before covid 19 madness started)

The car has not been used since as working from home and use wife car if we are going anywhere.

Is there anything I can do regarding the motor tax paid till 2021. Can I stall it or get it refunded as car not being used? Is there anything I can do.

Many Thanks

Bass Reeves

Ron30 wrote: »

Just a quick question.

I paid my annual motor tax on 25th February 2020 (just few days before covid 19 madness started)

The car has not been used since as working from home and use wife car if we are going anywhere.

Is there anything I can do regarding the motor tax paid till 2021. Can I stall it or get it refunded as car not being used? Is there anything I can do.

Many Thanks

You can do nothing about it. The car also has to be parked off the road if not taxed.

Isambard

if it was the case that your wife's tax is due shortly, you could SORD that one and use yours. Other wise not a lot you can do