Well, I had to take a day off work today - for my car! Yeah I know, seems a little mad. The problem is that I have been driving around for six weeks without any car tax. Now, I was in no rush to give the government any more money. But unfortunately, the law is the law and it was becoming increasingly likely that I was going to get stopped by a Garda. So I decided I should finally get this sorted out.
The problem is, I should have been able to do this online, even though this was the first taxing of a brand new car. However, I couldn't because those wonderful folks at Revenue messed up t.he registration of the first few Leafs. You see, being a zero-emission vehicle meant that the current system of car taxation, which is supposedly based on carbon emissions couldn't handle 0 being put in that Carbon Grammes field. So the site did what all government applications do - it charged the highest amount possible! €2,500! Yes, far from being a Bunny-hugger car,my little Pepé was being treated like an earth-killing Hummer! Not impressed! This necessitated a trip down to the Motor Tax office to resolve this issue. Thankfully, the wonderful guys in the Motor Tax office resolved it very quickly and I proudly paid my (relatively) menial €104 for one year's of road tax.
Next up - car insurance. This one is all me. Stoopid me forgot to get my documents from my previous insurer, and my new insurer was getting anxty! In fact they threatened to cancel my policy unless I delivered all the documents to their door stop by close-of-business today. So, given that this was turning out to be a Pepé and Ciarán day, I decided to go and pay them a visit too. At one point it was suggested that I pay them a visit in Drogheda in order to collect the print out of my insurance disk. However, my poor Pepé would not be capable of doing such a return trip with out the presence of a FCP (fast charging point) in Drogheda, which is due by the end of the year. We all agreed that it was best for them to post out the documents.
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