How best to tax an older car?

Hi,

I'm looking at buying an old car - late eighties early nineties. Something that will be a classic hopefully. Is there some way of paying reduced tax as it would only be used a couple of weeks a year? Those weeks might be spread out across the year.

Thanks

Jim

Jim O'Sullivan (Co.Cork.)

May 2013 Filed under: taxation

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Expert answer

Hi Jim,

Only if you go through the process of declaring the car off the road. You can get form RF150 from your local Garda station and the minimum time declarable is three months. And you can’t switch the declaration on and off as you like; the process has to be gone through again every time. To be honest, unless the car you’re looking at is from 1987 or before, you might just be better off waiting until the 30-year rolling limit for classic tax has passed.

Neil Briscoe - Complete Car Advisor
@neilmbriscoe