How does this apply to European vehicles? We (In Ireland) have a tax book (like they have a V5 in the uk) which shows you are the owner, your address, etc. Seperate we have a tax disk which is an annual motor tax fee we pay that gives us a disk the size of a  mat (funny that!) to stick on the windscreen.
The tax disk is for 1 year, and in order to renew it, we have to put the vehicles through an inspection. so: once we're abroad for a year after our last inspection, we cannot get a new tax disk without shipping the truck home to be inspected.
Our number plates are different too, once a vehicle is registered in Ireland, it gets a number, and that is it's number for life, even when the vehicle changes hands. So in that way, the number is always valid, even when the tax is out of date.
Any Irish / Europeans have hastle with a registration document request while in North / Central / South America?
Merv.
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