# Germany license plate: Green tax-exempt

> The Germany green tax-exempt license plate: format LL-LL 9999, for example EF-KF 1093, 1956 to today, tractor, machine, trailer, and truck.

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Part of [Germany license plates](https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/germany) (13 registration series).

![Germany license plate, Green tax-exempt (1956 to today)](https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/de/de-green-taxexempt/germany-license-plate-green-tax-exempt.svg)

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | `LL-LL 9999` (L is any letter, 9 any digit) |
| Years | 1956 → today |
| Class | agricultural |
| Issued for | tractor, machine, trailer, truck |
| Plate size | 520 × 110 mm |
| Colours | background #FFFFFF; characters #008000; band #003399 on the left; border #008000 |
| Checking a registration | The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued. |
| Series id | `de-green-taxexempt` (https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plates/germany/green-taxexempt) |

Decodes like any German plate — district prefix, meaningless serial. The green ink is the code: the keeper pays no vehicle tax, a rule in the law since 1956, one sentence after black-on-white. Mostly farm machinery, but the criterion is tax, not tractors.

Sources:

- [§ 10 Abs. 2: green lettering on white for vehicles whose keeper is exempt from motor-vehicle tax, with the seven-item exclusion list, plus the trailer special rule under § 10 KraftStG](https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/fzv_2023/__10.html)
- [V. vom 14.3.1956, BGBl. I S. 199 — § 60 Abs. 1 Satz 2 StVZO, verbatim: 'Bei Fahrzeugen, deren Halten von der Kraftfahrzeugsteuer befreit ist, ist die Beschriftung grün auf weißem Grund; dies gilt nicht für Fahrzeuge von Behörden, für Fahrzeuge des Personals von diplomatischen und konsularischen Vertretungen sowie für Fahrzeuge, deren Haltern Steuererlaß gewährt worden ist.' In force 1.7.1956 (§ 72a). PERIOD START.](https://media.offenegesetze.de/bgbl1/1956/bgbl1_1956_15.pdf)

## About this plate

GRÜNES KENNZEICHEN, and the redate pass's biggest surprise: the green tax-exempt colour rule is 1956-ORIGINAL, in the very sentence after black-on-white, § 60 Abs. 1 Satz 2 StVZO as amended 14.3.1956, quoted verbatim in the source line, in force 1.7.1956, and already with an exclusion list of the same shape as today's § 10 Abs. 2 FZV (authority vehicles and diplomatic/consular personnel vehicles excluded from green). The 32. ÄndVStVR (2000) still carries a transitional headed "§ 60 Abs. 1 Satz 2 (grüne amtliche Kennzeichen)", continuity across the era boundary. Flagged as a vocabulary gap in the L0 report.

## Use it

- Plate image (SVG): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/de/de-green-taxexempt.svg
- Make it with your own text: https://vehiclesdb.com/license-plate-generator/germany?series=de-green-taxexempt
- API: `GET https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/de` returns this series as the entry with `"id": "de-green-taxexempt"` (https://vehiclesdb.com/api)

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