Noch mehr Öl für meinen Hass auf VRT. Hier ist ein Zitat aus dem Artikel, das das Problem, das jeder hat, gut zusammenfasst
„Am Ende kaufte ich einen BMW M550d, Baujahr 2013. Die Preise waren auf etwa 10.000 bis 12.000 Euro gesunken. Da wir Familie in Frankfurt haben, schien es eine gute Idee zu sein.“
Bevor er das Auto kaufte und nach Irland zurückbrachte, kontaktierte er das Finanzamt, um eine ungefähre Vorstellung davon zu bekommen, wie hoch der Wert eines solchen Autos sein würde. Das Finanzamt sagte jedoch, dass es das Auto erst nach der Inspektion bewerten würde.
Dieser Mangel an Vorabtransparenz bzw. die Festlegung fester VRT-Kosten für Fahrzeuge vor dem Kauf stellt für viele Verbraucher ein erhebliches Problem dar und wurde bereits von der EU als besorgniserregend eingestuft.
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/01/26/vrt-rules-on-cars-bought-abroad-are-unfair-says-buyer-who-believes-they-breach-eu-tax-rules/
Von CatchMyException
5 Kommentare
I think they’re getting away with it as they claim it’s not a real tax, even though the T stands for tax, but it’s just a fee for the registration, therefore totally different.
I am surprised it has not been renamed to get rid of the word tax a long time ago.
Just because it’s pretty obvious „The European Union (EU) acts as a free and fair market, built on a single market of 27 member states that guarantees the „four freedoms“: the free movement of goods, services, capital, and people.
the astronomical values and VRT that revenue put on vehicles here means that we cant access that „free and fair market“ because importing a vehicle will likely cost much more than it should.
But I think the catch here is that the majority of vehicles we would want to / used to import, come from the UK which isn’t part of the EU trade agreement – the free-trade car market is all LHD. Like this BMW example in the article is. If we want to use the EU rules then it doesn’t apply to the UK market, which is the only RHD market for us to deal with.
I’d say 90% of our 2nd hand market used to be fresh UK imports, there’s way more cars on Irish roads that were first registered in the UK than people realise, most of our car market in the 90s/00s compromised of imports because it was stupid expensive to be registering a new car.
I’m fairly sure you could corelate the downturn in the motor trade and SMEs involved with the change to Nox and VRT over the past 6years.
All the little guys are gone already, and with them went the selection of 2nd hand cars – government made buying cars more expensive for the people so that they could line the pockets more.
If Ukrainians can drive around for years without paying it, why should we? I pad it before and this fact alone boils my blood. Just NCT alone, could have highly dangerous cars on the road but it’s fine because they’re Ukrainian.
For such a car dependent country, we really like to do our sacrifice to subsidizing the UK used car market.
As far as I recall it is 100% in breach of EU law but the revenue it generates is more than the fine by the EU for having it, so the government keeps it in place and just keeps paying the fine every year.