Tax on a crashed car

TheBazman

Hi all,

A friend has just written off her car (thankfully no major injuries) but one thing she just mentioned in passing was that she was extra vigilant this year and had just renewed her tax for a full year (obviously this is a tiny problem in the scale of other problems)

Is there any way to transfer this or get a refund? I'm presuming not.

Cheers

$Leon$

Don't think so.

smashey

Motor Tax can be refunded. This is from Donegal Co. Council's website and I would assume the same rules apply in other counties.

galwaytt

actually, yes, you can..........there's a form avail from the Motor Tax office, or most Garda station's........

kikel

If it is a write off, never to see the road again. then maybe. I think there was a thread about this lately. I'm gone searching

furtzy

Only if the car has been scrapped i.e by declaring this on your Vehicle Reg Cert and returning it to Shannon.

Motor tax cannot be transferred

Esel

See http://www.environ.ie/DOEI/DOEIPol.nsf/wvNavView/Motor%20Tax?OpenDocument&Lang=en#Link8 for details on getting a refund.

junkyard

You have to cut the chassis legs and be witnessed by the Gardai doing it. Then fill out the necessary forms.

unkel

@TheBazman: yes she can get a refund of motor tax because the car has been scrapped. The refund applies from the first day of the month the car has been scrapped. So if she has paid a full years motor tax from 01/01/2007 and the car was scrapped on 31/01/2007, she's entitled to a full refund

Esel

unkel wrote:

@TheBazman: yes she can get a refund of motor tax because the car has been scrapped. The refund applies from the first day of the month the car has been scrapped. So if she has paid a full years motor tax from 01/01/2007 and the car was scrapped on 31/01/2007, she's entitled to a full refund

From the link I posted above:

"MPORTANT:Tax discs must be surrendered immediately as refunds are generally calculated from the first of the month following the surrender of the disc. A minimum of three unexpired whole calender months must be left on the disc when surrendered."

There has to be a destruction cert AFAIK. The car being 'written off' is not enough.

TheBazman

Cheers folks - some useful info there - I'll pass it all on

dingding

REFUNDS OF MOTOR TAX
IMPORTANT:Tax discs must be surrendered immediately as refunds are generally calculated from the first of the month following the surrender of the disc. A minimum of three unexpired whole calender months must be left on the disc when surrendered.


Applications for refunds of motor tax can be made to you local motor tax office, on Form RF120, in circumstances when,


The vehicle has been scrapped/destroyed or sent permanently out of the state,


The vehicle has been stolen and has not been recovered by the owner,



Above from The COCO website.

How do you return the tax disc from a car that has been stolen and not recovered. Do you bring in the tax disc every night ?

mathie

esel wrote: »

See http://www.environ.ie/DOEI/DOEIPol.nsf/wvNavView/Motor%20Tax?OpenDocument&Lang=en#Link8 for details on getting a refund.

Dead link.
Anyone know the correct one?
Thanks
M

Seth Brundle

http://www.kildare.ie/countycouncil/PrintingForms/MotorTaxation/LinkToFormName,11516,en.pdf

[Please avoid resurrecting really old threads]

mathie

kbannon wrote: »

http://www.kildare.ie/countycouncil/PrintingForms/MotorTaxation/LinkToFormName,11516,en.pdf

[Please avoid resurrecting really old threads]

Thanks for that.

Sorry I didn't want to start a new thread for a subject that's already been discussed.

I get flamed either way