Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 May 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 26: Collection of Motor Taxation
Vote 20: An Garda Síochána

12:00 pm

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

No. The gap declared was of one month's duration, in other words, the vehicle was off the road for the month. For example, if one is due to renew the tax in April and does not do so by the end of April, one must make a declaration or pay the tax for the month of April in order to tax the vehicle for the month of May. There is a kind of structural complication. That option will be eliminated with the gapping Bill.