getting bike back on the road - taxing

rymus · 08-06-2007 2:27pm #1

This is probably very straightforward, but here goes anyway..

Bike has been off the road for about 18 months, looking to get it all re-taxed and insured so I can have a few months of fun before I have to sell it. Now stupidly enough, when I got the tax renewal form a year and a bit ago, I just let it sit and only recently read the part where you have to declare your vehicle as off the road. D'oh.

If I turn up at the tax office with this severely outdated form, am I going to face problems in getting a tax disc for the bike? Is a years tax still 65 euro and are they going to make me pay arrears because I didn't properly declare the bike as off the road? Cheers.

subway · 08-06-2007 2:29pm

i think you need something from the gardai to confirm it was off the road.
call the garda station and ask them is there a form they need to stamp for you.

if you go in to the tax office with noithing its likely theyll try to charge you the full whack

tk123 · 08-06-2007 2:42pm

there's a part on the form where you can delcare it off the road but you have to get it stamped at the police station.

rymus · 08-06-2007 2:46pm

has the ship not sailed on me declaring it off the road now though? I mean shouldnt I have done that when it actually went off the road? Don't really wanna pay a couple of hundred quid to re-tax the bike if I dont have to.

subway · 08-06-2007 2:53pm

thats why you have to talk to the gardai.
if they take your word theyll stamp the form

bjmotors · 08-06-2007 4:21pm

subway wrote:

thats why you have to talk to the gardai.
if they take your word theyll stamp the form

yep i know somebody who managed to avoid paying the back tax on a car that was parked up for nearly 4 years! just got the garda to sign the form and all was ok.

tk123 · 08-06-2007 5:14pm

it just says on the form to fill the non-use part in at your local cop shop : https://www.motortax.ie/mtoapp/pdf/RF100A_en.pdf you might as well chance your arm!

Oryx · 08-06-2007 6:50pm

You can have that form stamped after the fact, no problem. Any time I had to get one stamped they barely glanced at it. And the fee is still 67 I think.

rymus · 08-06-2007 7:08pm

great stuff... shall attend to it on monday. thanks all

getting bike back on the road - taxing

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