rip off ireland

Eddie Hobbs covers transport tonite on Rip of Ireland, no doubt he'll cover new car prices and VRT might be worth a look!

Yeh but alot of what he says makes sense!

 

anyone that gets government talking bout how we are ripped off im in favor of.  Still ahve to ask myself why we live he when id be far better ogff going bak to the uk.

 

Hopefully he'll talk about the m50

shar_k wrote: Eddie Hobbs covers transport tonite on Rip of Ireland, no doubt he'll cover new car prices and VRT might be worth a look!

 

Can't be much worse than rip-off WCUK....

I dunno. It is sending out signals to an otherwise ignorant and apathetic society. This is clearly reflected in the rantings from some FF/PD quarters.

kbannon wrote: Interesting program but I didn't hear anything I didn't really know. I think the person in the tallaght VRO was wrong though when she said he had to pay VAT again on the new Ford after the 17.5% was paid in Northern Ireland. It will open some peoples eyes but won't make much difference though!

I don't think she was - the mileage was so low (think its below 1000 miles or something) that the VRO consider the car to be new, and impose VAT on it...

Same as that K.

You have to wonder why there is no opposition party prepared to raise these issues and tackle the govt., it really does highlight the amount horse ****e these politricksters talk though, while entertaining to watch, it's also scary to see how public money is squandered!

Maybe I took it up wrong - I thought he was pricing a nearly new Focus, which would have VAT @ 17.5 included. (I was half watching, if thats possible) Taking it down South would result in VAT @ 21% + the VRT being due on it, as the mileage was low enough that its classified as new. So VAT is paid twice... have heard of it happening a good few times.

The opposite logic was behind the scam were the guys were buying Bentleys/BMW's/Mercs brand new up north or in the UK, and not paying VAT as they were due for export, then driving them enough to take them above the threshold where the car is considered new, and then registering them here - meaning there was no VAT paid anywhere on them.

Chaps

It was easy to miss but when he put the powerpoint presentation up about the focus afterwards, there was a deduction at the bottom for UK VAT already paid, leaving the difference between the price of importing and purchasing domestically at around €3,500 IIRC.  This was different to the video section where he said for dramatic effect to the woman in the VRO that it was €6,900 more expensive (or thereabouts).  

You can reclaim the UK VAT paid on new cars (you can't pay VAT twice in the EU).

I actually think the prime time program he referred to was far better and far more factual than this one.  Nonetheless, I think the program served a purpose if it gets people off their asses to actually complain and demand some accountability  for the chronic waste of public funds that goes on in this country. 

The toll fiasco particularly makes my blood boil.  Despite the fact that the West Link is an unmitigated disaster, the government is still planning to give private operators the opportunity to collect tolls on lots of new stretches of motorway around the country.

Muppets.

 

Mick

kbannon wrote: Fair enough, then VAT isn't being paid twice. However, why is there a need to pay the VAT here once it was already paid within the EU, even if a rebate is being offered? On a €20K (without VAT) car the UK VAT is ~€3500. The Irish VAT is ~€4200. There is about a €700 difference just in VAT alone.

Are cars the only item where you have to pay the Irish vat on them rather than the vat where the car was bought?

I think most people were aware of the VRT costs here, but the new news to me was the planning of private authorities managing the new toll roads in the future.

Are the rumours also true about VRT being abolished on cars above 3.0litre?

Can you imagine going into a dealer and seeing a 330i 20k cheaper than a 325i....

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