how to reg a roadster in rep of ireland

[MarkB]

Can you buy a car over here and take it back to Ireland? If so why not do what French folk have to do and build the car then bring it to the UK to IVA and register over here(sure someone would help out with this bit) then take it back home...would that work?

[flyerncle]

As above what is to stop you owning a car registered in the uk and keeping it in the south ,it was done previously in NI with some of the undesireables I used to know.

[Darryl]

look up
http://www.nsai.ie/Our-Services/Cert...-Approval.aspx
for the iva ect for ireland.
If we were to bring a vehicle from the Uk, we would still have to pay VRT which works out about the same at the end of the day.
For us in Ireland, its a very costly project!

[james737800]

thanks for your help lads much appericated.
theres no way i could afford to spend tat much on tax for a year pure madness.
i am going to continue with the build and use it for track days, hill climbs and try a little auotcross.
cherrs and thanks
james

[transverse]

Revenue are pretty tight on this now.
ROI residents are not permitted to drive non ROI registered cars (some limited exclusions)
They will just take the car from you unless you can prove residency up North.

My wife brought her car in from the UK after living there for 4 years and the documentation they wanted to proved she was actually living there on a day to day basis was huge to get the Transfer of Residence VRT exemption. When the regitration document came through it was markedup as such and a writen instruction that only the 2 of us could drive it for the next 12 months!

They want their money and will not be stopped!!!

[james737800]

is it possible to get details of Co2 data from engine manufactoror so that could be used to verfiy the lower tax??

[Darryl]

this will work if you have a donor car that is after 1996 i think. any old sierras ect, the manufacturer doesnt have a co2 rating for

[Darryl]

i have also found out that in order to have an IVA, you must present your plans ect to the NSAI and they must access it. they charge 1300 plus VAT a day for this and the woman i was talking to said it may take half a day, a full day, a day and a half, even more, she really didnt know.
So i find it rather unreasonable and hard to justify having a car like this on the road.
Just a bit of info,
Darryl

[MarkB]

If it's daft money to IVA a car over there surely it would pay to find a friendly bod over here to act as address etc so you could IVA over here then just take home a UK car?..I know folk in France do that..