motor tax on April 2008 imported in 2009

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cloughy

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looking at buying a april 2008 car in the uk and importing it, I have come across differing opinions as to what is the motor tax based on, per the reverue webside:

https://www.motortax.ie/OMT/staticContent.do?page=motortaxrates

in the attachment headed, it seems to say that those cars imported after 1/7/08 but registered abroad 1/1-1/7/08 states that you will get the lesser of teh engine size and CO2 tax, has anyone done this and confirm this to be true, will help in deciding between importing a 2.2D 167g and 1.8P 177g.

CO2 EMISSION LEVEL RATES FROM 1 JANUARY 2009
The attached document sets out the rates of motor tax for brand new vehicles registered in this country after 1 July 2008. Vehicles registered before 1 January 2008, including imports first registered abroad prior to 1 January 2008, will continue to pay motor tax on the basis of engine size (cc rates are shown in previous link).


Cars First Registered Outside Ireland​

A private car first registered abroad prior to 1 January 2008 will be taxed on engine size (cc). The new CO2 based system does not apply to second-hand imports that were registered abroad prior to 2008.

A private car first registered abroad between 1 January 2008 and 30 June 2008 inclusive and subsequently registered in Ireland will be taxed on whichever is the lesser of the motor tax rates based engine (cc) or CO2 emissions.​

A private car first registered abroad after 1 July 2008 and subsequently registered in Ireland will be taxed on the CO2 rate.​


also why are there so few CO2 tax bands ahen there were a lot more based on cc's,

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i don't see the differing advice there. in your case you will be taxed on whichever is the lesser between the cc or co2.
regarding your second query i've no idea, perhaps it's to make it simpler?
 
apologies, the differing advice was based on different responses on this board and others, and also websites, so was looking for a definitive answer, and ideally if someone had gone through it and imported an early 2008 where the motor tax is lower based on the CC's as opposed to the co2, whether the motor tax was in fact based on teh cc's or the lesser of the two, don't want to import and find that am stung with the co2 when the cc's would be lower.
 
an april 2008 car will pay vrt based on CO2

an april 2008 car will pay annual motor tax based on CO2 or cc, depending whatever one is lower.
 
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