Road tax rates for 2026 now available online

Details of the road tax payable for 2026 have now been posted online. The rates are the same as last year and the tax must be paid by the deadline of 31st December. Failure to pay on time will result in a fine calculated as follows:
– 25% of the tax if it is paid within the month of January 2026.
– 50% of the tax if it is paid by the end of February.
– 100 per cent if its is paid from 1st March onwards.
In all cases the fine will not be less than €30.00

Vehicle owners can download a form which states the amount due and gives a payment code for payment at a bank or post office, by going to the AADE website at https://www.aade.gr/en/road-tax-without-taxisnet-access-codes.

The road tax notification which can be downloaded from the AADE website and used for payment at a bank or post office (our English translation).

The opening page is now in English. Pressing the blue button (“Log in to the app”) will take one to the usual input page (still in Greek), on which one enters one’s AFM and the vehicle registration, plus the year for which payment is required. Pressing the bottom left button (Εκτύπωση – “print”) will produce the form with the vehicle details and the amount payable. Payment can also be made via online banking using the payment code, which is given under the total.

The MyCar platform
The AADE’s MyCar platform (https://www.aade.gr/en/mycar), which can only be accessed with Taxisnet codes, also has details on the road tax owed, plus a facility for declaring immobility for a vehicle. The initial page only is in English. Entering the app, there is the choice of Road Tax information (dark blue LH button), or declaring “digital immobility/mobility” of the vehicle (light blue RH button) which has replaced the traditional method of handing in the vehicle’s number plates.

Unpaid Road Tax from 2020
As we noted in an earlier post, the increasing digitisation of government information has facilitated the cross-checking of data between different departments, and in the motoring field the government has been able to check the status of motorists’ vehicles through collating data from the vehicle licensing agency, vehicle testing stations and insurance companies. Following an initial phase carried out in August of this year, the government departments involved conducted a further round of cross-checks, this time identifying vehicles for which road tax remained unpaid for the year 2020. Notices were sent with the requirement to provide an explanation as to why the tax was not paid by the last day of October.

Those who maintained that they were not obliged to pay road tax had to provide evidence, such as confirmation of immobilisation or destruction of the vehicle, and those who ignored the warning will be faced with a fine which amounts to twice the value of the road tax. Notice of the charges will be sent out by the AADE in the period from 28th November to 5th December 2025.

Using the AADE’s MyCar platform as mentioned above, owners can state whether a vehicle was immobilised, had been deregistered or stolen, was missing abroad or was exempt from the tax, while submitting documentation confirming the claim, and this still applies after the expiry of the deadline.

A new round of warnings for 2025
The fact that the last round of cross checks applied to the year 2020 suggests that the government is intent on recovering all lost road tax income from the past five years – a warning to those who might have been be tempted to think that they had got away with non-payment.

However, with the end of the current tax year approaching, the government has evidently decided to put pressure on motorists who either by negligence or intent have so far failed to pay the road tax for 2025. As reported by Haniotika Nea, a joint press release issued by the Ministries of Economy and Finance, Digital Governance, Infrastructure and Transportation, Citizen Protection, and the AADE, announces that cross-checking of vehicles is continuing and a new round of warnings has begun to owners whose vehicles are uninsured or who have not paid the road tax for the current year.

According to the announcement, a total of 187,301 warnings have been sent, namely:
a) 99,498 regarding non-payment of road tax for 2025 of which 80,758 were to natural persons and 4,452 to legal entities.
b) 87,803 notices for failure to insure the vehicle, of which 71,663 were to natural persons and 4,139 to legal entities.
In addition 87,026 vehicles were discovered both with unpaid road tax and without insurance.

As with the earlier round of warnings, citizens are being sent notice of their failure comply and their need to do so within 15 days. Following the completion of this new round of warnings, citizens and legal entities who have not complied will receive notices with confirmation of the fines.

Citizens and the representatives of legal entities are being informed via SMS, email or or ordinary mail, according to the available contact information held by the public Registers. In order to see any notices which relate to their vehicle, citizens can visit the application oximata.gov.gr using their personal Taxisnet codes for access. Through the application they can get detailed information about the state of non-compliance of each vehicle and proceed with the required actions.

The checks are carried out by the GSIS, the above-mentioned ministries and the AADE, under the coordination of the Prime Minister’s Office.
(Haniotika Nea, 06/11/25, gsis.gr)

Source: kolymbarcourier.com

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