As in the UK, cars have to be taxed every year - but that's where the similarity ends. You don't display an sign of your road tax in the window of your car, you just have to carry the certificate that proves you have paid it in the car with you. And this is where it gets really odd.
The car is taxed to the end of the calendar year - I believe this applies to all cars in Spain. Wow, last week in December is going to be busy with renewals if the whole of Spain are trying to renew their road tax! Not so, as I've mentioned in a previous post, the car tax is issued by the local council office not central government and each council have 1 month each year where you can renew your road tax. We understand ours in Pulpi issues road taxes in June - and only June. So when we get to January 2009 our road tax will be out of date, but we cannot renew it until June 2009 - and this is not a problem if you get stopped by the police over here.
Apparently, and understandably, this freaks out a lot of the newly resident English people in Spain, but is just another example of the manana mentality we are learnig to accept over here.
Just need to confirm with one of our new friends what month Pulpi definitely issue road taxes and then make a diary entry for 2009.
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