VRT exemption for importing your own car from abroad - is it fair?

colm_mcm

VRT exemption for importing your own car from abroad when moving to Ireland - is it fair?

Why does this exemption exist?
Is it fair?


Why do those moving into the country get to avoid a tax that Irish citizens have to pay to drive a car on our roads?


Discuss.

psmiley

colm_mcm wrote: »

VRT exemption for importing your own car from abroad when moving to Ireland - is it fair?

Why does this exemption exist?
Is it fair?


Why do those moving into the country get to avoid a tax that Irish citizens have to pay to drive a car on our roads?


Discuss.

Discuss??!! What is this, the leaving cert? Why don't you give us your opinion?

colm_mcm

You'd fail a leaving cert with that response!

ronnie3585

Na troracha agus na ceisteanna a gabhain a cuid A

peasant

Fair?

Depends on whether you're moving to Ireland or not

Do you know why this rule is in place? Because if it wasn't, VRT would openly break EU rules on free movement of people and goods.

The way it stands EU citicens can bring their personal belongings (and that includes vehicles) into the state without impediment and the old excuse of VRT being an "internal" tax (after all it's called registration tax, not import tax) still holds just enough water for the EU not to come down like ton of bricks on the Irish goverment but be satisfied with "criticising" VRT every now and then.

pontovic

Personally I think it's fairer if they abolish VRT on older cars being imported or cars that fall under an open market selling price of €5000.

alpina

Well, in the spirit of discussion.
Feel like back in school debating a topic whether for/against..

Maybe it shoud be Debate not Discuss

I guess Paddy Irishman goes abroad to get a car out of choice so leaving oneself open to whatever tax's one's country can legally impose whereas Paddy Euro is coming here to live thus entitled to bring his already purchased car (in their opinion VAT paid already) without penalty after all he does not have the choice as addressed above.

I don't know how fair it would be to impose VRT on someone relocating here anyhow there would be loophole after loophole in order to avoid. I was head hunted, may not stay, and on & on

Could come up with arguments for & against all evening.
Basically VRT is a crock of ...tax the fuel for goodness sake!

unkel

peasant wrote: »

Do you know why this rule is in place? Because if it wasn't, VRT would openly break EU rules on free movement of people and goods

It really is as simple as that.

drunkmonkey

VRT on used cars is wholesale theft by the revenue

Fairness dosen't even come into it......

Tipsy Mac

If VRT is as the name suggests a vehicle registration tax than all cars getting registered should have to pay it.

JHMEG

colm_mcm wrote: »

VRT exemption for importing your own car from abroad when moving to Ireland - is it fair?

Why does this exemption exist?
Is it fair?


Why do those moving into the country get to avoid a tax that Irish citizens have to pay to drive a car on our roads?


Discuss.

If you move back to this country you're probably going to end up working in Dublin and living in Limerick or Sligo. So it's fair compensation imho.

craichoe

Course it is, Its the same in other countrys, you shouldn't have to pay registration tax if your bringing your own car and its not like your trying to profit from it !

2 Espressi

Tipsy Mac wrote: »

If VRT is as the name suggests a vehicle registration tax than all cars getting registered should have to pay it.

Why? We don't pay VAT if importing second hand from the EU, so why pay VRT on a car you already own? It's not as though people are making a fortune dodging the VRT system...