motorhome vrt

Hello all,
I'm wondering has anyone any experience on bringing a foreign van into the State.
Specifically, We have had the van in the Country since August (5 months). We are only now getting around to VRT/NCT and it states that you must register within 30 days of coming into the State. I need to know has anyone been in this position? were they hit with a fine or was it ignored etc.
best regards

Maybe you kept the van outside the state for the last 5 months (northern ireland) ? Your only have to pay vrt when the camper is permanently kept in the state.

And some lad let the receipt blow out the window whilst it was in Tyrone,

Id say they will be very happy to take your money and not cause too much hassel to ruffle your feathers.
After all they are gonna charge you 13.3% of what ever figure they pluck out of the clouds

Find the cheapest return fare to the UK, bring the MH over and back. Show the vrt folks only the return ticket.
From my experiences of Revenue, they can backdate a tax and then charge a pile of interest onto it.

If you want to be exact you could sell it to the little girl from Omagh or her cousin Danny from down the road by the Foyle , and change your mind and buy it back again, then you would have a dated receipt. Also I don't know if it still applies but when you move house from the UK to Ireland you were allowed to bring a motor vehicle duty free as part of you personal effects as long as it was at least 6 months and not above a certain value.

I would be very very careful with the revenue,I hope you had it locked away out of sight,because I'm sure if you had it on the public roads they would have spotted it.Maybe they are on here reading this post.
Good luck.Think of booking a one way ticket from Uk but how will you work the receipt.

Unfortunately, I expected as much from revenue. Don't let it spoil your dream.
Malcolm

so to update
went to the nct spot they took a few photo's, inside and out, were very friendly but under pressure for time, they said that when you book in they allocate them the same time to deal with a car as a camper not giving them more time due to photo's etc. the paperwork was all in order and it took about 30 mins for them to enter everything, they were in no way intrusive, no hard questions, just going through the motions, one thing of note was we had the original cert of compliance (birth cert) he said this greatly speeds things up as they have weight etc on it. only problem was it turned out my bloody german log book had it listed as a 5 seater, mines got 6 seatbelts!, so NCT dude gave me a list of accepted Engineers, went to 1 off the M50 then he had a gander filled out a conversion form for 6 seats and back to the NCT centre sent it all off and waited 4 days.

got a call from Rev telling me how much i owed, he also said that it would go up daily by €4 till i paid. this was based on the previous fine system i mentioned in the last post. stands me about €800 fine since we took the ferry (minus a month grace period) . Had to pay up that along with the VRT and was an extra €25 for reg plates, now organised for DOE. next week. after that insurance and tax. you cannot do the tax online first time for a camper you need to head in to Smithfield or post.
now i can appeal the late fee (if you feel you have a case) ill update later on that one.

overall it was fast and easy so far, i feel the price VRT that they charged me was not greedy, i had an amount in my head as a cut off and they came in just under that so i dont feel ripped off (but i do!) the scare stories i had read have not come to pass. hopefully this thread will help others in the future, ill update the appeal, tax etc when its sorted, but without a doubt the late fee is calculated in so bear that in mind when getting your ferry etc. more to follow
regards all, keep on truckin!