Iceland license plate: VAT free
Issued today Documented since 2003. Standard plates for van and truck, issued by Samgöngustofa (Icelandic Transport Authority). One of 11 Iceland license plates.
Format, years and the law
- Format
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LL-999, for exampleCI-577(L is any letter, 9 any digit)The format above follows the issuing rules: a registration that fits it is one this series could have issued.
- Years issued
- Documented since 2003; the format is likely older than the first year documented. Still issued.
- Vehicle class
- Standard: the default series issued to private road vehicles. Issued for van and truck.
- Colours
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Characters
#CC0000Background#FFFFFF - Size
- 520 × 110 mm · every country's size
- About this plate
- THE RED VAT-FREE PLATE, for goods vehicles on which value-added tax was not paid and which may not be used privately. The DIAMOND is the distinguishing device and is prescribed in terms, Iceland is unusual in colouring a named geometric field rather than the ground.
Legal basis and sources
- 19. gr. 2. mgr. a: red border, characters, bandstrik and diamond for VAT-free sendibifreiðar. https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/751-2003
This plate in your app
The series id is is-vat-free-2003. The API returns its format, validation, colours and designs with the rest of Iceland's series:
curl -s https://vehiclesdb.com/api/v1/plates/is \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $VEHICLESDB_API_KEY" \ | jq '.series[] | select(.id == "is-vat-free-2003")'
- Plate image (SVG, sample serial): https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/is/is-vat-free-2003.svg
- Blank template, filled on your side: https://vehiclesdb.com/plates/is/is-vat-free-2003/template.svg
