First you need to find where your Revenue Digital Certificate is located
Firstly, to locate your Documents Folder, click on your Start Menu Button, then Click on the Documents icon
Next, find the root of your C: drive by clicking on MyPC followed by C: as highlighted in yellow below.
You are looking for a file which ends with the three letters “bac”
First check the C:\ROS folder – in this example, we have found a Digital Certficate called “test.p12.bac” – that is what we were searching for. In your case, the work “test” would correspond with the username you use in ROS, for example jsmith.p12.bac
If you don’t find a .bac file there, you should also check your Documents and Downloads folders. You may have saved them to that location.
Always check the date on the .bac file that you find. Digital Certificates have an expiry date. If the file is too old, you will not be able to import it.
Once you have found a likely candidate, it is time to move it to the new computer. You have a few options here. Often the easiest way is to copy the file to a USB key. Then plug the USB key into the new computer and copy the file again, back corresponding location on the new computer.
Once that is done, it is time to load the Digital Certificate into your new browser.
Firstly open Internet Explorer (or whatever browser you prefer), go to www.revenue.ie and click on the link to ROS
If you are missing your Digital Certificate, you should see a warning like this. Note the red circle with the white X.
Click on “Manage My Certificates”.
Click on the “Browse” button.
Navigate to where you found your .bac file, select and open it
Type in your ROS Digital Certificate password.
Click on “Load Certificate”.
If the Digital Certificate is in date, and your password is correct, then you should see, highlighted in light blue, “Certificate details have been imported successfully from file” – well done, you have imported your Digital Certificate.
When you return to your browser, you should now be greeted with a working login for ROS as shown below.
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