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Oldblue (95 Posts)	Posted: 12-May-2012 21:28	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
Oldblue (95 Posts)	Lads looking for a bit of advice - had a sh1t week - Mrs Blue rec a parking fine earlier in the week 80 eur - driving to the city today and pulled by the gards - no tax - didnt pay since Feb on principle and stuipidity { we pay too much tax anyway } and couldnt afford it - fined 60Eur - Anyway into town and bought all round - 230 eur worth of clothes - left a bag behind - about 70 + eur of clothes - cost for the day = 130 eur + parking fine = 210eur question - if i was to tax the car from say May 1 can i get the stamp from them { guards } saying the car was off the road for feb and only pay the tax from May1 or would i be caught ? prision more fines ? consider the parking fine / pulled by the guards !!! Advise required
Limerick Rake (257 Posts)	Posted: 12-May-2012 21:33	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
Limerick Rake (257 Posts)	Tell them your a Traveller and its part of your culture and you'll never again here a thing...else tell them your a ordinary joe soap and your sorry and they will throw the book at you...The Guards love handy catchs like you and your wife!!
mandarin (412 Posts)	Posted: 12-May-2012 21:37	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
mandarin (412 Posts)	No
yankeelad (5,535 Posts)	Posted: 12-May-2012 21:52	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
yankeelad (5,535 Posts)	This is not a post to be made light of so long as he is not wummiung.Yes I am a sucker for hard luck storys and have been wummed here more thn once.You have obviously had a day from hell which we have all had.Pointless giving advise about where you very obviously did not use your head properly in the past.Water under the bridge now and very little I can advise from NY but whatever advice is on offer from your side of the pond will be more than welcome i assume
Oldblue (95 Posts)	Posted: 12-May-2012 22:07	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
Oldblue (95 Posts)	This is not a WUM - - i have dodged the TAX before i.e said the car was off the road for the last 3 months ! - and got away with it - hope to recover the shopping tomorrow in one of the stores i was in { honesty on behalf of the shops / contradiction on my behalf !!!!} but could do with avoinding having to back pay the car TAX - having done this before the Guard just stamped the TAX form and asked the usual quetion -" has this car been off the road " - - surely i can do it again ? or is this a case " whats for you wont pass you " ??
joe bloggs (1,069 Posts)	Posted: 12-May-2012 22:21	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
joe bloggs (1,069 Posts)	I think they changed this in the last budget that tax must be paid at all times so cheap skates like you couldn't keep dodging
The Boo (154 Posts)	Posted: 12-May-2012 22:26	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
The Boo (154 Posts)	You say you can afford to tax your car and yet you send 230 on clothes??? get your priorities straight
Oldblue (95 Posts)	Posted: 12-May-2012 22:38	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
Oldblue (95 Posts)	prioities ??? cloth the childer or pay TAX !!!!!!!!!!!
yankeelad (5,535 Posts)	Posted: 12-May-2012 23:09	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
yankeelad (5,535 Posts)	Originally posted by Oldblue: prioities ??? cloth the childer or pay TAX !!!!!!!!!!! Fine I can understand that.But you know back in the day my Dad and us would have loved the car.But you know what even as young lads we knew the ould lad could not afford it so we took the bus to the city had a great day out and extras left over to go to the chipper on the way home.Why as kids I wonder were we satasfied with that.Dunno,I became my Dad and before we knew it he was gone before I thought about asking that question.Ah well maybe it is just as well it was never about the car anyway it was the journey
Oldblue (95 Posts)	Posted: 12-May-2012 23:21	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
Oldblue (95 Posts)	yankee lad thats deep -- - - i can afford the tax and maybe its about gettin one over on the system !!
Larkin (4,404 Posts)	Posted: 12-May-2012 23:22	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
Larkin (4,404 Posts)	Originally posted by Oldblue: prioities ??? cloth the childer or pay TAX !!!!!!!!!!! Unless you did it the day you got fined and taxed the car straight away you will most likely get caught. I know someone this happened to and they went straight to the station with the form got it stamped and taxed that day. Once the ticket is processed you are doomed.
cowpat (1,540 Posts)	Posted: 13-May-2012 03:27	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
cowpat (1,540 Posts)	WUM of the month so far
Oldblue (95 Posts)	Posted: 13-May-2012 09:25	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
Oldblue (95 Posts)	Originally posted by Larkin: Unless you did it the day you got fined and taxed the car straight away you will most likely get caught. I know someone this happened to and they went straight to the station with the form got it stamped and taxed that day. Once the ticket is processed you are doomed. It happened yesterday {SAT} no tax office open - i suppose in hind site if i had said to the Garda i'll be back to you within the week to show you its paid maybe he would have let me off ! but it would be a rare public servant that would have any empithy for the likes of me
jbrown (421 Posts)	Posted: 13-May-2012 09:32	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
jbrown (421 Posts)	Just send the form down to Shannon to change the ownership between yourself and the wife, might as well hold out until June 1st now, once the ownership is transferred post it to your local tax office with your cheque, this way you have to deal with no civil service incompetent face to face so they can't ask stupid questions. You could chance driving it for another 2 months with the new ownership form in the car and if the guards stop you tell them it's just after being bought, and then change the ownership back again, and repeat the cycle until you have recouped your €230 and maybe a bonus month to reward yourself with a few breakfast rolls to savour getting one over on the overpaid, incompetent, over holidayed civil service.
cerebus (3,258 Posts)	Posted: 13-May-2012 10:24	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
cerebus (3,258 Posts)	Originally posted by Oldblue: but it would be a rare public servant that would have any empithy for the likes of me Ah Tom Waits said it best '' come down off the cross, we can use the wood''......pithy or what? This message has been edited - 13-may-2012 @ 10:25
Jimmy Conway (364 Posts)	Posted: 13-May-2012 12:00	Quote Edit Delete Report Post Post Reply
Jimmy Conway (364 Posts)	The ''car was off the road'' excuse is coming to an end and im not surprised though as far as i know its not in force yet.It was one of the best loop holes ever and I used this trick every year in recent times, i'd say i've paid about 7 or 8 months tax every year for the last five or six years. In my experience they hardly even look at the form not to mind asking you any questions, just stamp it and hand it back. From their point of view they think,look,this lad is taxing his car, better have him doing it than not...

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