UK reg in Ireland, had a visit from customs !

About £600, but the business bit, 3 named drivers and small excess whacks it up..I was quoted €600 with limited mileage, €500 excess and named driver only.

Duty has to be paid on any imported car..if you are a resident in the state ie a taxpayer with a PPS number.

If you are interested (really?) then:

http://www.revenue.ie/services/vrt/vrt_quot.htm

Quote from the Irish Revenue Services web site:

"When a Motor Vehicle is being imported from outside the EU it is liable to Value Added Tax (VAT) and Common Customs Tariff (CCT) known as Customs duty. VAT and CCT are payable at the point of importation. Vehicle Registration Tax (VRT) is payable within 24 hours of arrival in the State."

So, as the car is an import from within the EU, €2000 is Vehicle Registration Tax then?

Phew.

Pete

They are pretty hot on this. According to the rules any vehicle in the state must pay duty somewhere and its illegal to hold an unregisted vehicle. When I was trying to arrange the import of Malaysian Coupes to UK they were coming to Ireland first for service/belts/tyre changes.
Even though they were for re-export the Revenue insisted on full payment of import duty (€10,000 each)which had to be 'reclaimed' once I could prove they had been exported abroad. Instant payment to the State naturally, and 3 months to process the rebate.

The whole thing finally fell apart over Revenue refusal to accept the Malaysian Cert of Conformity and insisting on a new one from Fiat. Then we discovered that the Coupe doesn't meet current EU emission specs for new cars and would need a complex and expensive (of course..this is Ireland) SVA process, done in the UK which Ireland doesn't recognise anyway.

GAHHHH!

you can import the car to ireland with no tax if you have been living outside for 183 days ie you were resident in the uk in the eyes of the revenue but you have to keep the car for one year and no one else in the country can drive it bar yourself and if someone else is caught driving it the vrt is payable.when it comes to cars in ireland we are just ripped off everywhere we turn labour,parts,vrt etc etc

Damn Irish. That just seems insane to have to pay that much.

They have to money from somewhere to keep the roads surfaced in such an immaculate condition over there!!

i can show you a lot of roads that aint surfaced to well and a couple of dents in my alloys of the years