I arrived in Malta at the end of 2013. Been driving my Italian car knowing I could do so for 6 months as a tourist. I applied for Maltese residency in mid march, and yesterday I picked up my ID card. Today I started to check what I should do to register my car, hoping to get an exemption on registration tax, but reading here and elsewhere I found out that not only I'm late according to the terms provided for the exemption, but that I'm also late for registering the car. I should have done it soon after applying for the ID card (which carries as official issue date March the 28th) or within 20 days from my new status as resident. So basically I have to pay something like 2000 euros for the registration, plus 30 euro per day starting from the 21st day after I became officially a resident. Big trouble also because I don't even have a damn bank account yet here, banks wouldn't open one without the maltese ID (can I make a wire from Italy to pay for the registration tax??). I'll call Friday to get more info from the trasport malta authority and fix an appointment to register the car. Does anyone have a similar experience? Are they strict on the 20 days? Or I can just get away with it and pay only the 2000 registration fee, which is a big hit anyway?