Change of Vehicle Details / Status
Change of Vehicle Details
If you have made a change to your vehicle such as engine, colour, body type, tax class, unladen weight for goods vehicle, or replacement engine, you will need to complete Form RF111 and send to your local motor tax office. Form RF111 is available here.
Where the details of your vehicle are incorrect, such as VIN (chassis number), CO2 value, seating capacity, Basis of Assessment, EU Category etc, you will need to contact the Revenue Commissioners. For further details, please click here.
You must contact the Revenue Commissioners about conversions to a vehicle, and to find out if VRT implications apply. For further details please click here. If there are VRT implications, all documents must be sent to that office.
If there are no VRT implications, you must send a declaration of conversion form to your local motor tax office. This form must be completed by a suitably qualified individual. Further details, including a copy of the conversion form, are available here.
If you want to receive an amended Vehicle Registration Certificate, you must send in the old one with the conversion document to your local motor tax office.
For the destruction of a passenger car and light commercial vehicle (less than 3,500kg gross vehicle weight), you must deposit the vehicle for destruction at an Authorised Treatment Facility (ATF). Details of ATF's can be got from each local authority.
The vehicle registration certificate/licensing certificate must be surrendered to an ATF when the vehicle is being deposited for destruction. You should request a Certificate of Destruction (COD) from the ATF after it has been destroyed. ATF's are required to notify us of all vehicle destructions.
For scrapped/destroyed notifications of vehicles other than passenger cars, and/or commercial vehicles over 3,500 kg gross vehicle weight, please send us the Vehicle Licensing/Vehicle Registration Certificate and we will update the computer records.
You must tell your local Motor Tax Office, or this office, that the vehicle is being permanently exported to a given export destination (country).
Where the ownership of the vehicle is being changed to a person outside the jurisdiction of the State, you must send us a copy of the Vehicle Registration Certificate (VRC) with the buyers name and address details also included.
You must give the original VRC to the buyer of the vehicle either in Ireland or abroad. We will help the authorities in the exporting destination with any queries they may have. The vehicle will only be recorded as exported on the computer record once we have received confirmation from the country of export that the vehicle is registered in that country.
You will need to contact the Revenue Commissioners to find out if you can get a VRT refund. You can get further details by clicking here.
Any imported vehicle which is owned by, or registered, in the name of a non-resident person does not need to be registered in Ireland as long as the period of time that the vehicle is in the State is not more than 12 months.
There are a number of other rules to be met, which you will need to contact the Revenue Commissioners about. For further details please click here.
You must notify An Garda Siochána and your insurance Company if your vehicle is stolen.
We can only record this notification on the National Vehicle and Driver File (NVDF) upon receipt of written confirmation from either An Garda Siochána or your insurance Company.
