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  • 16-10-2006 2:35pm
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    pj9999
    Registered Users Posts: 154 ✭✭


    Living in the UK for a few years, and just bought a 3yr old Focus (£6500) low mileage (<5000).
    Looking at returning to Ireland for good in about a month's time, so will not have owned the car abroad for the 6months necessary to legally avoid the VRT.
    I guess though if I can maintain a UK address, I could prob drive around in Ireland for 6 months on English plates before re-registering th car?
    At the end of the 6 months would I have to take the car out of the country, and re-import it to avoid the VRT?

    thx
    PJ


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    Anan1
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    pj9999 wrote:
    I guess though if I can maintain a UK address, I could prob drive around in Ireland for 6 months on English plates before re-registering th car?
    At the end of the 6 months would I have to take the car out of the country, and re-import it to avoid the VRT?

    thx
    PJ
    Revenue will need a lot more than just a UK address - you will have to prove that you were actually living in the UK and using the car there for the 6 months. In practise, it is impossible to "prove" that you were there without the kind of things you would have if you actually were living there.


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    whippet
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    As you have been genuinely living in the UK for a while and the car is relativly low value it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

    Keep your UK mobile active, make a few calls here and there, don't close your UK bank account. Have a friends address that you have been 'renting', send the phone bills and account statements there. Keep your UK Tax and Insurance up to date. After 6 months of being home take the ferry to hollyhead and back in the one day and declare the car .. you shouldn't have a problem.

    your problem could be with the customs here, while you are driving on UK plates ... all it takes is a nosey neighbour, a small tip in a car park or getting caught sneeking up the bus lane and you are then driving an illegal car, which could be confiscated.


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