Forgot to declare car off the road

it’s 98 M3 Evo, still on the €1809 tax rate until 2028.

Is that law still going ahead?

I'm in the same boat with one of mine as didn't get the 'renewal' letter in time due to a dodgy postman and lazy neighbour. (now have reminders set on the phone for them all)

No other way around it, no appeals process, you'll just get 'computer says no!'.

Unless you've got a 1 owner car I can't see number of owners mattering too much, most people are aware of the less than ideal situation.

It should eventually come in hopefully, but probably won't apply retrospectively so won't help in our situation.

I'm just leaving mine roll on for now as it'll be a good while before it goes near a public road again and I may sell it beforehand anyway.

When I switched my Golf from standard to classic rate I had to tax it for year to avail of the switch. It was declared off the road at the time of the switch so there were no arrears. But since you'll be switched tax class i can see how they can make you pay the arrears first. You have to tax it for 3 months minimum to clear the arrears as part of that transaction but if the car is over 30 at that stage, i don't see how they could legally force to tax the car on the old classification first.

There must be dozens or hundreds of old vans that were never declared off the road, converted to campers and registered as a camper to get the camper rate. They were hardly forced to pay back tax for a old Revenue classification first before they could change.