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Min VRT Payment €315

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  • 12-02-2008 2:25am
    #1
    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,379 ✭✭✭


    Hi All,

    Just wondering why they set the min VRT payment at €315 for a car, if the open market selling value of the car is quite small (eg <€500)... In the current market for second hard cars quite a few 10 year old cars could fall into this category...

    Surely we would be better off trying to attract people who drive older foreign reg cars to re-register here, then start paying road tax and doing the NCT, also the garda would know where the car is kept in the event of an accident....

    It just doesn't make any sense... if its a matter of charing for the administration of the registering of the vehicle surely it should be €50 like VRT on commercial vehicles...

    They should drop/reduce the charge for older vehicles, they'll make it back in the first years road tax anyway, it would encourage people to re-register....


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    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 39,748 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    If we are talking about "they should"s then they should abolish the whole tax. However, the country needs the money, the motorist is an easy target and will pay up!


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