No longer need to input insurance details to tax vehicles

chasm

New notice on Motor Tax website:

"When taxing your vehicle online, you will no longer be required to enter your insurance details. The Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland have a new dedicated insurance database, the Irish Motor Insurance Database (IMID), which contains policy holder details and vehicle registration numbers covered by each policy. The data in the IMID is provided by motor insurers, brokers, fleet owners and motor traders. This new insurance database is being used by An Garda Síochána to support enforcement of the legal requirement for motor insurance."

Suits me, it's a pain having to search my emails for my policy number 😆

billbond4

I used to make up a sequence of letters and numbers on the form

Dial Hard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122000772#Comment_122000772

Yeah, @chasm, you never needed to search for anything, you could always literally put 123467890 into that field and it would work. It was never linked to anything, just needed to be populated.

Still, nice that they've finally scrapped the pretence.

standardg60

I did have a chuckle when I saw the message, I've never put in a real policy number.

sniperman

same here,never used real details

galwaytt

kinda like that "M. Mouse" guy that signs the damage waiver on my car at NCT every year :)

S.I.S.O. if you know, you know……… :)