Tom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason a commercial van has to be weighed when first taxing it in view of the fact its weight is already listed on the log book (details supplied); and if this requirement can be eliminated. [23069/17]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The Finance (Excise Duties)(Vehicles) Act 1952 provides that motor tax for goods vehicles is based on the unladen weight of a vehicle (the weight of a vehicle weighed with the heaviest unladen trailer or trailers used during the validity of a tax disc).

The unladen weight of a vehicle is not documented on the Vehicle Registration Certificate.  Rather, the Vehicle Registration Certificate shows both the technically permissible maximum laden mass and the mass in running order of a vehicle. Both of these are provided for in EU Commission Regulation 1230/2012 but are not directly comparable to the unladen weight of a vehicle.