ARRGH! Just got my CA registration
09-06-2003, 11:47 AM
#4
Just think want a newer car is going to cost and what this will do to new car sales. Most people don't think about it much until they write the check.
Why so much in Indiana ?
Why so much in Indiana ?
09-06-2003, 11:52 AM
#6
Instructor
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Indy
Posts: 144
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Mine was over $500 because I had to pay the sales tax. I bought it from a private party and had to pay the sales tax when I registered it. As far as the DMV knows I paid $5000 for my car which is $300 in sales tax, and a little over $200 in registration fees, taxes, etc...
09-06-2003, 01:56 PM
#7
Intermediate
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Black Rock CT
Posts: 46
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Does anybody else see this as double jeopardy??
Here in CT, we pay sales tax as well. So lets say your buddy buys a new Boxster for 50G . He forks over 6% to the sate, $3K. And a year later he's driven the car a little, washed it a lot, his wife gets pregnant, and says "sell the stupid car and buy a minivan". His loss, your gain! BUT, when you go to register it, you pay 6% of the selling price! Another $2K+ to the state!
On top of that there is the yearly registration fee, income tax, and property tax on all vehicles! And houses of course.
And if you forget to pay the $23 dollars property tax on that old trailer registered in a town you haven't lived in for 2 years, they won't let you register anything else! (but they won't tell you that until AFTER you've waited in line for an hour!)
Thanks for letting me vent!
Here in CT, we pay sales tax as well. So lets say your buddy buys a new Boxster for 50G . He forks over 6% to the sate, $3K. And a year later he's driven the car a little, washed it a lot, his wife gets pregnant, and says "sell the stupid car and buy a minivan". His loss, your gain! BUT, when you go to register it, you pay 6% of the selling price! Another $2K+ to the state!
On top of that there is the yearly registration fee, income tax, and property tax on all vehicles! And houses of course.
And if you forget to pay the $23 dollars property tax on that old trailer registered in a town you haven't lived in for 2 years, they won't let you register anything else! (but they won't tell you that until AFTER you've waited in line for an hour!)
Thanks for letting me vent!
Trending Topics
09-06-2003, 08:40 PM
#13
The worst part about paying all these taxes, as lateapex911 mentioned, is that once you think you have them all paid, you are hit with a utterly ridiculous, communist, exorbitant and immoral inheritance tax. The only way out of that one is to pay outrageous yearly life insurance premiums to offset it at death. Not to mention the piles of paperwork and trust bs. Which in the end is more like an installment plan, so it gets paid regardless. Yes, this might be a great land to strike it rich in, but not one to reside in if one is lucky enough to achieve success. And then the idiots in government sit there in wonderment as to why so many of the biggest taxpayers in America have made it a hobby to renounce their citizenship. Because they had no choice, or maybe a better one. Sorry, I had to vent as well.