Contact

The Revenue Commissioners
Central Vehicle Office, Rosslare Harbour
Co. Wexford
Tel: 00 353 53 61200
Fax: 00 353 53 33790
Website: http://www.revenue.ie

Responsible manager: Mr. Cyril Power, Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Stamping Building, Dublin Castle, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland

General and Technical information: Mr. John Walsh, Higher Executive Officer

Use of the EUCARIS system

Ireland is participant of EUCARIS and is making use of the EUCARIS technology for information exchange based on

  • the Road Safety Directive (2015/413/EU, CBE),
  • legislation concerning the European Register of Road Transport Undertakings (ERRU), the regulations (EU) No 1071/2009, 1072/2009, 1073/2009 and 1213/2010,
  • the Roadside Inspection Directive (2014/45/EU,RSI),
  • the EU Prüm Council Decisions (2008/615/JHA and 2008/616/JHA),
  • the 3rd Driving Licence Directive (2006/126/EU, RESPER),
  • Tachograph card data exchange (TACHOnet) between the European registration authorities related to the Council Regulation (EEC) No 3821/85,
  • the VAT service (2010/24/EU and 2011/16/EU, Council Regulation (EU) No 904/2010)

How to use the VATAllVHOH-service

  • Natural persons can’t be identified with a personal identification number.
  • It is also not possible to filter candidate Persons of Interest (PoI) using a date of birth.
  • It is recommended to search with exact forename and surname.
  • It is also recommended to use address data as refinement data however please note that postcode (known as Eircode in Ireland) was only introduced in 2014 and, while uptake is good, it is not a mandatory field when registering a vehicle.
  • If your search by name or name+address does not exactly match, “101 – No information found” with a “509 – offline query” is returned
  • If your search contains a non-unique name, “117 – Person of interest not identified uniquely” is returned
  • If refinement data is included, only exact matches will be returned.  There is the possibility that a PoI instance can be missed, for example, “John Smith, 1 Beach Street, Lehinch” and “John Smith, 1 Beach St, Lahinch” are both valid addresses but refinement data will not hit both.
  • Legal persons can be uniquely identified by the company identification number however, validation of the CIN (known as CRO Number in Ireland) was only recent introduced, so the database is incomplete. If name is provided, results may be incomplete due to name variability, for example, “CIN123, The Electric Co” and “CIN123, Electric Company” may exist.
  • For all searches, where a Registration Number is provided, PoI is filtered for the reference date. A “110 – No owner-holder found (at reference data and time)” response is returned when a record for the PoI is not found on the reference date.

Further information

The Revenue Commissioners are responsible for the collection of all taxes in Ireland, including Vehicle Registration Tax (VRT). In this context, they are also responsible for the first registration of all vehicles and for the maintenance of the register of vehicles since VRT was introduced on 1 January, 1993.
More information on VRT and other taxes can be found on the Revenue website.

More detailed information about the vehicle and driving licence registration in Ireland can be found in the publication The Vehicle Chain in Europe (https://www.vehicle-chain.eu).