Relocation - Car VRT / VAT

Should be alright as you've owned for over 6 months. You do need to jump through quite a few hoops in terms of paperwork that they want to see. And it takes time, last year I moved here from the Netherlands and I brought my car with me at the start of July and only got my registration mid September. Mind, I also had to wait for a PPS number, which you already have I assume.

Just fill out the form and include any documentation that you have and go from there. If you're running out of UK insurance then go to the VRT office to have the car inspected (just a check on the VIN, the current registration, the amount of seats and the mileage), so when you have the paperwork sorted you don't have to have the car towed to the VRT office.

Not entirely sure if there are any differences between moving from outside the EU or within the EU.

See the link I posted. You have to have owned the car for at least 6 months before transfer of residency and you have to bring in the car within 12 months after transfer of residency. You also have to apply for VRT exemption within a week after bringing the car here (which is why I submitted a preliminary application before I received a PPS number), so OP might have to come up with a reason that he's only applying for exemption now, as evidence of when the car was brought in will be non-existent (whereas I had a ferry-booking, for example, although they actually wanted the boarding ticket but of course I had already thrown that out, who's gonna hold on to that 🙄).

I made a VRT appointment immediately, then cancelled it by phone. Then they can't say you didn't make the appointment in time. That was (for me) in July.

Mid-August I booked a new appointment, still pending the TOR-exemption, as my Dutch insurance was about to run out (they had already extended it twice because it took Revenue forever to deal with the TOR-exemption application). NCT/VRT office told me to go there to present the car, then when the TOR-exemption came through I could come back without needing to bring the car. Be aware that there's some waiting time in certain centers. I went to Arklow on the 19th of August, whereas Greenhills and other Dublin centers had availability on the 30th at the earliest and that was a bit too close for comfort in case I needed to come back with something (my Dutch insurance expired on the 31st).

Of course it meant I couldn't use the car after the Dutch insurance expired, until I had the exemption, registered it here and then it took another week to get the insurance here sorted. So it also depends on how urgently you need the car (I could use my wife's car in the meantime).

And technically it needs to be off the road. As I live in a cul-de-sac and no Garda is going to check tax/insurance on a foreign registration (at least that's what I hoped for) I just left it parked on the road and only swapped the Dutch for the Irish plates after the insurance and motortax was sorted.

Sorry I can't help you with that one, as my car has always been registered within the EU.

Good luck with the whole process!

Currently going through this process and waiting to hear back on TOR application, now been 3 weeks. How did you receive notification your application was accepted? Was it on revenue.ie or a letter through the post?

Have had my VRT appointment and all so literally just waiting on the TOR acceptance before i can call back and complete the registration.

Almost two weeks later and still no letter!

Struggling to find the right number to call to chase this up. Did you call revenue or VRT?

I submitted it on revenue.ie via MyEnquiries.

I called revenue yesterday and was transferred to the customs reliefs office who said they'd chase it up with the case worker responsible for my application. Got notification 6pm last night requesting additional info which I supplied there and then and just now after getting notified that application has been accepted.

If only I chased them sooner!!