Motor tax €95 pa

davycc

darragh o meara wrote: »

The car is mist likely registered as a taxi, I'm not sure what happens if a non taxi person bought one with a fresh disc though. Does the vehicle get reclassed as private again when it's sold on to a private buyer after being a taxi or could the buyer keep driving it and taxing as a taxi?

yea taxis are also 95€ per year.

& if you buy a car taxed as a taxi its up to you alone to change the tax status back to a private car.....if you were caught driving it as a private car i know its a fineable offence & cant recall exactly how much off the top of my head sorry.

darragh o meara

davycc wrote: »

yea taxis are also 95€ per year.

& if you buy a car taxed as a taxi its up to you alone to change the tax status back to a private car.....if you were caught driving it as a private car i know its a fineable offence & cant recall exactly how much off the top of my head sorry.

That interesting, I must check that out. I was looking at a 08 Skoda Superb recently and the lad selling it was boasting about it being 95 a year to tax. Would the savings in tax be enough to offset the cost of a fine?? Probably not with an 08 Superb where the tax would prob be less than 300 anyway, But say you had a pre 2008 Bmw 530d, I know id much prefer to fork out 95 than the 1400 odd that it is at the moment.

Funny thing with motor tax is, If they brought every car into the cheaper (in most cases not all ) emmisions based system the government would probably bring in a lot more money as people who wouldnt bother taxing the car wouldnt be half as sore as they are now. As for the new SORN system, I was talking to a few lads the other day and they have already come up with a way around it, It wouldnt work in all parts of the country but should work very well down my end where checkpoints and ANPR are rare.

mgbgt1978

Only works with the current disc. When you go to renew you will be asked to produce your taxi licence (plate number).

@Cinio, the only 1 out of your 8 suggestions that may be remotely possible is the Hearse option....and even then it must be used as a hearse, not a vehicle for moving deceased persons from the morgue to a funeral parlour for example.
I have yet to see an MPV pulling up outside a graveyard and unloading a coffin at any funeral.

aisr1ofk43dpy5

darragh o meara wrote: »

As for the new SORN system, I was talking to a few lads the other day and they have already come up with a way around it, It wouldnt work in all parts of the country but should work very well down my end where checkpoints and ANPR are rare.

Are you allowed enlighten us further.

darragh o meara

Layla Scary Silverfish wrote: »

Are you allowed enlighten us further.

Its probably best if I don't air it publicly, plus I must check out the workability of it.

djimi

darragh o meara wrote: »

As for the new SORN system, I was talking to a few lads the other day and they have already come up with a way around it, It wouldnt work in all parts of the country but should work very well down my end where checkpoints and ANPR are rare.

Does it consist of declaring the car off the road and driving around avoiding Garda cars?

CiniO

djimi wrote: »

Does it consist of declaring the car off the road and driving around avoiding Garda cars?

Assuming you can tax vehicle online when it's declared off the road, one could tax it just at the moment he get's caught.

Imagine - you drive around car which is declared off the road. Once you approach a checkpoint of get pulled over by garda, you quickly login to motortax website and pay your tax. All good.
Obviously to make it quicker you can prepare a script which will pay motortax for you with one click on your smartphone.

Anan1

CiniO wrote: »

Assuming you can tax vehicle online when it's declared off the road, one could tax it just at the moment he get's caught.

Imagine - you drive around car which is declared off the road. Once you approach a checkpoint of get pulled over by garda, you quickly login to motortax website and pay your tax. All good.
Obviously to make it quicker you can prepare a script which will pay motortax for you with one click on your smartphone.

What about wardens?

CiniO

Anan1 wrote: »

What about wardens?

You found a flow in my solution :P
All you can do is to avoid parking in public places.

darragh o meara

CiniO wrote: »

Assuming you can tax vehicle online when it's declared off the road, one could tax it just at the moment he get's caught.

Imagine - you drive around car which is declared off the road. Once you approach a checkpoint of get pulled over by garda, you quickly login to motortax website and pay your tax. All good.
Obviously to make it quicker you can prepare a script which will pay motortax for you with one click on your smartphone.

I think your onto something there But you could have only took the car off sorn that day and intend to back tax for the month.

A similar thing was tried in the UK a few years back but now the DVLA sets up random ANPR checks using civilians and not police, plus the UK has a huge amount of ANPR on the roads.

davycc

mgbgt1978 wrote: »

Only works with the current disc. When you go to renew you will be asked to produce your taxi licence (plate number).

@Cinio, the only 1 out of your 8 suggestions that may be remotely possible is the Hearse option....and even then it must be used as a hearse, not a vehicle for moving deceased persons from the morgue to a funeral parlour for example.
I have yet to see an MPV pulling up outside a graveyard and unloading a coffin at any funeral.

well im leaning towards possible mpv taxi tax instead but have also seen a regular bmw e39 525i m-sport estate completely stock exterior bar tinted rear windows on hearse tax as it had been used to move dead peeps & still had back seats removed & a coffin runner installed instead..
it was mentioned on this forum maybe the bangernomics thread.

i couldnt find the BMW ad anymore as was months ago but i found a standard looking mb 300e instead:

http://cars.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/merc-300te-herse/5362515