Brendan Hughes

Here in Portugal, annual road tax varies according to your engine size (bigger - more pricey) and the age of your car (newer - more pricey). For a car with an engine of more than 3500cc, less than 6 years old, you pay €329.

So, to tax my 1987 motorised biscuit tin (sorry, 900cc Seat Marbella) for a year, I've just coughed up... wait for it....








€4.99!

Oh, plus €0.12 for the application form, so €5.11 in all!


It's no wonder the roads are so bad round here!!!

Freak

not like the ££ over here we pay for road tax gets spent on the roads anyway.....

Lucky Git

Pete Croney

They don't actually spend road tax money on the roads in Portugal and Spain either.

We pay for their roads to be built through EC grants

Once built with our money, the governement sells them to toll road companies

Hence the low cost of car ownership in Portugal.

Pete Croney

Not a dig at you Brendan. Make the most of it M8

Butkus

Yes, the roads I've driven on in Spain (in the Malaga area) have generally been very good, and the toll roads exceptional. And deserted too.

Brendan Hughes

Pete - you sort of forgot the tax you have to pay when buying a new car, again based on engine size.

My 2.0 RAV4; price without taxes 26 000. + VAT @ 19% =31 000 (ish). Price to the public after adding new car tax - €41 000.

A 1.8 Caterham Roadsport here is over €50 000