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Motor Tax

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  • 16-11-2015 3:39pm
    #1
    223vmax
    Registered Users Posts: 475 ✭✭


    Do I need to pay motor tax to the County Council I live in or can it be paid at a neighboring county. I live close to a town with motor tax office but its outside my county.


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    Enright
    Registered Users Posts: 943 ✭✭✭Enright


    Any motor tax office or alternatively, you can pay online


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    denis160
    Registered Users Posts: 429 ✭✭denis160


    223vmax wrote: »
    Do I need to pay motor tax to the County Council I live in or can it be paid at a neighboring county. I live close to a town with motor tax office but its outside my county.

    Not sure on the above, but you can pay online, saves all that hassle, or you could free post it to the county council & they will post it back to you.


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Any office is good, and you get disc immediately.


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    #5
    Lefty2Guns
    Registered Users Posts: 720 ✭✭✭Lefty2Guns


    Regarding motor tax and back dating.

    My car has been off the road over 5 months now and have finally got the money up to get it fixed.

    I never sent any notification to the tax office. Is there any way I can get away with back taxing considering the car is off the road at the minute.



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    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,144 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Transfer ownership and any arrears go away.



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    hoodie6029
    Registered Users Posts: 3,469 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121309552#Comment_121309552

    Are the arrears a lot? If it isn’t too high I’d just pay it to avoid adding an extra owner to the car.

    Only option to avoid paying them, as Bazz says, is to transfer ownership to a family member/friend etc to wipe arrears and start again.

    The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.



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    Lefty2Guns
    Registered Users Posts: 720 ✭✭✭Lefty2Guns


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121309663#Comment_121309663

    It would be €600 or so. On top of the cost to get it fixed.



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    FishOnABike
    Registered Users Posts: 4,378 ✭✭✭FishOnABike


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    Where was it parked for the five months?

    I don't think it might be relevant to the arrears now in any case as afaik you can no longer declare a vehicle off the road retrospectively.



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    hoodie6029
    Registered Users Posts: 3,469 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121309672#Comment_121309672

    That’s a right bugger. Transfer ownership it is so. They closed the old way where you could declare it unused after the fact a few years ago.

    Hopefully the renovation went well for you 🙂

    The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.



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    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,378 ✭✭✭cml387


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121309774#Comment_121309774

    The old way was so widely abused that they brought in this system.



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    hoodie6029
    Registered Users Posts: 3,469 ✭✭✭hoodie6029


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121311093#Comment_121311093

    A TD getting caught for no tax and a few days later going in to the station to declare it ‘unused’ to the same Guard who caught them originally. That was the last nail in the coffin for it.

    The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.



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