Hi all!
I was hoping if someone could help me with a problmen with VRT. I'm a Finn who has a 11 month contract here in Ireland, so I'll be living here max 12 months. My plan was to buy a bit later a tax-free car from Finland and keep it here with Finnish export plates and get a Finnish insurance for it for the time I'll be staying here.
In that way I could avoid the Finnish VRT which is somewhere around 28%. Conditions are that I'll be staying abroad for 12 months and own the car at least for 6 months.
If I would live for that 12 months e.g. in Sweden, France or Germany there would be no problem with that. I would be allowd to have the car with Finnish export plates at least for 6 months, usually 12 months before I would have to register it. But now as I have contacted Irish officials, for instance at VRO, they have told me that I have to register the car and pay VRT within 24 hours when it's brought in Ireland.
And what is even more confusing, one answer I received was, that as long as the car won't be here more than 12 months and as long I have that 11 months contract, no VRT should be paid. So I'm extremely confused what is the truth.
The fact that you would have to be registered within 24 hours sound a bit odd, since all around EU that time is usually between 6 and 12 months.
Thanks in advance
I was hoping if someone could help me with a problmen with VRT. I'm a Finn who has a 11 month contract here in Ireland, so I'll be living here max 12 months. My plan was to buy a bit later a tax-free car from Finland and keep it here with Finnish export plates and get a Finnish insurance for it for the time I'll be staying here.
In that way I could avoid the Finnish VRT which is somewhere around 28%. Conditions are that I'll be staying abroad for 12 months and own the car at least for 6 months.
If I would live for that 12 months e.g. in Sweden, France or Germany there would be no problem with that. I would be allowd to have the car with Finnish export plates at least for 6 months, usually 12 months before I would have to register it. But now as I have contacted Irish officials, for instance at VRO, they have told me that I have to register the car and pay VRT within 24 hours when it's brought in Ireland.
And what is even more confusing, one answer I received was, that as long as the car won't be here more than 12 months and as long I have that 11 months contract, no VRT should be paid. So I'm extremely confused what is the truth.
The fact that you would have to be registered within 24 hours sound a bit odd, since all around EU that time is usually between 6 and 12 months.
Thanks in advance