Road Tax question
Discussion
Howdy folks,
I'm putting my car back on the road after it's 6 month hibernation at the start of April. I always tax it for 6 months from April until the end of September and the end of the good(ish) weather. I always rock on up to the tax office at 9am on the 1st of April but this year it happens to be a bank holiday so obviously the office will be closed. With work commitments I might have to wait another week until the following Monday to get to the tax office with the form to tax her.
Obviously I'm mad to get my car back on the road and another week wait will kill me! Also it annoyes me that when I'll get around to taxing the car I'll end up paying for a weeks worth of road tax where I won't have been able to drive the car, my car by the way is in the highest bracket (€1800 or there abouts) so my question is is it possible to tax the car on the last working day of the month of March for the 1st of April? So that would mean calling into the tax office in Cork city on Friday 29th of March and attempting to tax the car for the Monday 1st onwards? Or will the tax office tell me that I need to pay road tax for the month of March aswell which is what I fear will happen?
Any help is appreciated, apologies if this seems a stupid question to some but I'm just trying to gather some info!
Cheers,
Pete.
I'm putting my car back on the road after it's 6 month hibernation at the start of April. I always tax it for 6 months from April until the end of September and the end of the good(ish) weather. I always rock on up to the tax office at 9am on the 1st of April but this year it happens to be a bank holiday so obviously the office will be closed. With work commitments I might have to wait another week until the following Monday to get to the tax office with the form to tax her.
Obviously I'm mad to get my car back on the road and another week wait will kill me! Also it annoyes me that when I'll get around to taxing the car I'll end up paying for a weeks worth of road tax where I won't have been able to drive the car, my car by the way is in the highest bracket (€1800 or there abouts) so my question is is it possible to tax the car on the last working day of the month of March for the 1st of April? So that would mean calling into the tax office in Cork city on Friday 29th of March and attempting to tax the car for the Monday 1st onwards? Or will the tax office tell me that I need to pay road tax for the month of March aswell which is what I fear will happen?
Any help is appreciated, apologies if this seems a stupid question to some but I'm just trying to gather some info!
Cheers,
Pete.
Unless something has changed very recently then you'll be asked to pay for March if you turn up in March.
Why not just do it by post?
Make copies of everything before you send it off in case you are stopped and at least that way you'll have proof it's been sent in and the worst that'll happen is that you have to produce ypur paperwork at the Garda station once it all gets sent back to you.
The only thing you'll need to worry about then is a warden giving you a ticket for no tax displayed.
Why not just do it by post?
Make copies of everything before you send it off in case you are stopped and at least that way you'll have proof it's been sent in and the worst that'll happen is that you have to produce ypur paperwork at the Garda station once it all gets sent back to you.
The only thing you'll need to worry about then is a warden giving you a ticket for no tax displayed.
You need to get an RF100A form signed in the local Garda station to declare that you've had the car off the road for whatever time you didn't use it.
You can download that here ...
https://www.motortax.ie/OMT/pdf/RF100A_en.pdf
All the info on what you need to do is on there.
You can download that here ...
https://www.motortax.ie/OMT/pdf/RF100A_en.pdf
All the info on what you need to do is on there.
Ya i'm well aware of "da form" or however people refer to it on Irish motoring forums. I need to get one of them signed every year by a guard and I've never had any issues getting a guard to sign it and stamp it a day or two before the 1st of April for me...
Oh well it's looking likely I'll just have to sit tight and wait until after the 1st and until I get some free time from work to go to the tax office. I suppose on the positive side at least the queues won't be as mental a few days into the month then they usually are the first working day of a month to get a car taxed. I've queued for over an hour before in the Cork tax office!
Cheers,
Pete.
Oh well it's looking likely I'll just have to sit tight and wait until after the 1st and until I get some free time from work to go to the tax office. I suppose on the positive side at least the queues won't be as mental a few days into the month then they usually are the first working day of a month to get a car taxed. I've queued for over an hour before in the Cork tax office!
Cheers,
Pete.
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