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TARI Tax 2024

 

Just had my TARI bill for 2024.  I used the PagoPA website to pay it online 

I had major problems with it not accepting my payment - it seemed to freeze after the card details were entered.

Travelling back from Lake Orta area in N Italy, we travelled to the Simplon Pass to reach our first overnight stop in Sion.

Imagine our delight to find that a landslide has closed the pass "for the foreseeable future"

Don't forget - IMU 1st payment due 16th June

Swiss Motorway Vignette - Online E-Purchase.

 

You can now buy a e-vignette online.  All electronic, so no sticker issued.  It work by using your car number plate. 

 

We used to use Book Depository to get books for our Italian friends at Christmas.

Book Depository now closed.  Does anyone know of an Italian (or EU) bookshop that will accept orders from the UK and deliver to an Italian address?

Train travel from UK to Italy 

 

Open Log Fires in Piemonte [and other areas]

 

DRIVING THROUGH FRANCE  -  LOW EMISSION ZONES.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66449514

 

EU Entry Permit Required From 2024

 

IMU DISCOUNT FOR UK PENSIONERS

 

I am aware that some posters on this site have got the IMU discount for UK Pensioners with a holiday home in Italy, that is not rented out at all.

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France appears to be softening its stance on transit journeys

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59832076

 

Apparently the French Foreign Ministry say there is no ban on UK citizens who are resident in the EU from transiting France  but people have been turned back by French Border Staff at Folkestone (Eurotunnel).

Could be miscommunication with Border Staff ....    or just the French having a go at bashing the Brits  as there is an election coming up in 2022

Double posting

Hope you made the trip.

BBC announced today that France is preventing Brits that live in EU from driving through France.

Seems to be about EU Brits not be allowed back into France from uk.

Details a bit confused at present  (08.00am GMT)

I don't think that there are any special checks between Italy and France

However, assuming you are in a UK registered car, the automatic number plate system  may flag up that you're a Brit, and you could get pulled over just to check you've been in Europe long enough to avoid any speciaL requirements for UK citizens entering France. 

( If you're in an Italian registered car, I wouldn't expect any stop at all,,)

Hope so - I was planning for the end of January,  but I'm pretty sure that's not going to happen now.

At least  we got over in November.

The problem is that France is banning entry to UK citizens from 11pm Friday.

Getting to Italy by road would mean completely avoiding France.

Useful, if you lose the passport- should ease things getting help at the embassy.

I also carry photocopy of Driving Licence.

 

Latest advice

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/italy/entry-requirements

In particular,  see the bit about date of paper certificate.

I'd suggest you take a few photocopies of any paper certificates.  They do show "COPY" faintly in a box, but you can't see it easily, and they still work.

Also photocopies of Passports, just in case

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/eu-pet-passports-how-make-21462647.amp