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UK resident driving UK car in ireland.

  • 28-09-2014 08:04PM
    #1
    eireann98
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭eireann98


    Hi all,
    I am a UK passport and license holder that spends between 7-9 months of the year in the uk and denmark.Is it legal for me to drive my UK registered car when i am in ireland for 4 months of the year?
    Many thanks,


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  • #2
    meathstevie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,777 ✭✭✭meathstevie


    eireann98 wrote: »
    Hi all,
    I am a UK passport and license holder that spends between 7-9 months of the year in the uk and denmark.Is it legal for me to drive my UK registered car when i am in ireland for 4 months of the year?
    Many thanks,

    If your main center of interest and residency is in the UK our anywhere outside Ireland for that matter, Revenue put the burden of proof on you when it comes to VRT, Irish resident driving foreign registered vehicle rules shouldn't apply to you.


  • #3
    Lmklad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 433 ✭✭Lmklad


    meathstevie wrote: »
    If your main center of interest and residency is in the UK our anywhere outside Ireland for that matter, Revenue put the burden of proof on you when it comes to VRT, Irish resident driving foreign registered vehicle rules shouldn't apply to you.

    As above. You must be permanently resident in the State for VRT / "road tax" to apply.


  • #4
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,655 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    You will of course need to have the vehicle street legal for the UK - tax, MOT and insurance (which will need a non-UK clause).

    Full-time Irish residents are not allowed drive your vehicle.


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    Fred Swanson
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    Fred Swanson
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  • #7
    rock22
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    A lot of insurance companies provide cover for other EU countries but limited to 30 days. That would not cover an extended period here


  • #8
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
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    +1

    Have had similar grillings from the guards.
    Lots of questions, but if you have a foreign licence and know when your ferries are, and importantly when you're going back, then they'll cop on quick enough that there's no vrt issues pending.


  • #9
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    rock22 wrote: »
    A lot of insurance companies provide cover for other EU countries but limited to 30 days. That would not cover an extended period here

    Every car insurance policy issued in the EU is valid for the whole preiod of the policy in every EU country at least 3rd party.
    That means that while extra cover (like fire, theft, comprehensive, etc) might be indeed limited as you say to 30days or whatever insurer wants to limit it, but third party cover won't be limited and car will be legal in any EU country for the whole period of the policy.


  • #10
    Peppa Pig
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    Victor wrote: »
    Full-time Irish residents are not allowed drive your vehicle.
    Never knew that - can you drive it on your own insurance?


  • #11
    RainyDay
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,925 ✭✭✭RainyDay


    CiniO wrote: »
    Every car insurance policy issued in the EU is valid for the whole preiod of the policy in every EU country at least 3rd party.
    That means that while extra cover (like fire, theft, comprehensive, etc) might be indeed limited as you say to 30days or whatever insurer wants to limit it, but third party cover won't be limited and car will be legal in any EU country for the whole period of the policy.

    THere may well be a clause requiring you to notify your insurer of any change in details. A change of address for 3-4 months is a material change in details.


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  • #12
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    Peppa Pig wrote: »
    Never knew that - can you drive it on your own insurance?
    can who drive what under whose insurance?

    I think you mean "can you (irish person) drive it (a foreign car) under your own(irish persons irish) insurance".
    possibly, but thats not the issue.

    No irish resident can drive a foreign reg car in ireland regardless of insurance issues. The car will be potentially seized on the spot if they find you behind the wheel.
    Its to do with VRT / motor tax and preventing people importing cars and not re-registering them in Ireland, not an insurance issue.


  • #13
    Peppa Pig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,670 ✭✭✭Peppa Pig


    munchkin_utd wrote: »
    I think you mean "can you (irish person) drive it (a foreign car) under your own(irish persons irish) insurance".
    possibly, but thats not the issue.
    Yeah - that's what I meant
    munchkin_utd wrote: »
    No irish resident can drive a foreign reg car in ireland regardless of insurance issues. The car will be potentially seized on the spot if they find you behind the wheel.
    Its to do with VRT / motor tax and preventing people importing cars and not re-registering them in Ireland, not an insurance issue.
    Didn't realise that.


  • #14
    CiniO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,069 ✭✭✭✭CiniO


    Caiden Mealy Oncology wrote: »
    Off topic and asked before but still wondering. What if you were a South IRL resident, but employed by an Norther Ireland company, who supplied you with a UK company car but part of your job was to visit clients in the south in this car.

    There is an exemption for company cars for Irish residents employed abroad, and it's not only for business use but also for private use.
    However to avail of this exemption, you'd need to apply to revenue.


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