This refers to Odoo8:

In Accounts- Configuration>Accounts>Templates>Taxes there are:

Tax Templates
Tax Code Templates
Fiscal Position Templates

All of these are set up just the same as there non-template counterparts, and intuition would tell me that a template should be selectable when creating a new tax or tax code, however these two things seem to be completely separate.

There is no way to turn a tax template into a useable tax.
Tax templates cannot be selected or used anywhere in Odoo.

When you install a preset chart of accounts for a country, such as Spain, all the new taxes for that location are automatically generated under tax templates. This is extremely frustrating as you cannot us these tax templates anywhere - instead you have to manually copy the data over to taxes in order to use them...

Am I missing something here? Right now I'm considering just merging tax templates and tax into the same thing, since they seem to be identical - the only difference being taxes can be used and selected throughout odoo, but tax templates cannot.

Please Help!