Vehicle registration fees--RIPOFF

[ToadHill]

Not only does New York make you pay for a two year registration, if you look at the form they add a $20 " Use Charge".

Are they charging me to use the plates or what?

 

[ultrarunner]

1985 Chevrolet owned since 1990 $185 tags plus $60 for smog... driven 3000 miles yearly

1930 Ford owned since 1981 $92 tags... driven 200 miles yearly and cost $450 NEW

 

[mjncad]

Colorado bases registration on manufacturer's cost, vehicle type, weight, and model year. Figure 2% of the manufacturer's cost the first year you own the vehicle (e.g. $1,000 on a $50,000 vehicle), then it slowly drops to a fixed rate. Here you are penalized for buying a new vehicle with high license fees. Then our glorious former governor Ritter tacked on another $40 per year "fee" for all vehicles to pay for roads. Well our roads are still just as crappy as ever.

Oh, and don't forget the $10 per vehicle E-470 fee for us in the E-470 zone. E-470 is a PRIVATE toll road! That ripoff from end to end costs about $25 one way as I recall for the 25 - 30 mile trip. Heaven help you if you have more than 2-axles as they'll really stick it to you. This toll road is mostly empty because it costs so much to drive on it, and I won't use it due to the cost.

Then add into the mix the biannual emissions test at $25 a pop for some areas along the Front Range.

Factor in state and federal fuel taxes, and you get to bend over big time here.

 

[JDgreen227]

Don't mind the registration fees near as much as having to pay sales tax on used vehicles. It's already been collected every time the vehicle is sold!!! ~~ grnspot

Here in Michigan, when you buy a new car and trade one in, they still charge the full 6% sales tax on the new car price WITHOUT deducting the allowance given for your trade in. Buy a 40 grand car and if your trade in is worth half that, you still pay sales tax on 40 grand instead of 20. What a ripoff.

 

[ultrarunner]

Here in Michigan, when you buy a new car and trade one in, they still charge the full 6% sales tax on the new car price WITHOUT deducting the allowance given for your trade in. Buy a 40 grand car and if your trade in is worth half that, you still pay sales tax on 40 grand instead of 20. What a ripoff.

Same here... tax on full amount

 

[mjncad]

Here in Michigan, when you buy a new car and trade one in, they still charge the full 6% sales tax on the new car price WITHOUT deducting the allowance given for your trade in. Buy a 40 grand car and if your trade in is worth half that, you still pay sales tax on 40 grand instead of 20. What a ripoff.

Same here... tax on full amount

That's because the Gummint has no concept of the word depreciation, especially when they can screw people again and again.

When I worked for NREL, getting rid of obsolete computers was next to impossible because the Gummint still carried them on the books at their original purchase price. So off they went to a warehouse to be stored at taxpayers' expense instead of scrapping them, or donating still functional units not too out of date to poor school districts, or what have you.

One time I got to go to the defunct Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Facility's bone-yard and warehouse in the late 90's to see if they had computer equipment we could use. None of it was usable; but it was a museum of 60's and 70's equipment that had no practical use other than to be scrapped.

 

[Skyco]

Some of ya'll have it made...we just bought a 2011 Toyota FJ Cruiser.
Here in poor, economically near the bottom, South Carolina, the annual property tax/registration fee is near $800. It will drop over time but I'm still paying almost $200 a year on my 15 year old pickup.

 

[77bronco]

My '06 international 4400 was $71/yr for a non-commercial truck @ 26k weight.
The '98 Explorer was $35/yr. This is in Idaho, I guess we have it pretty good.

 

[ultrarunner]

My '06 international 4400 was $71/yr for a non-commercial truck @ 26k weight.
The '98 Explorer was $35/yr. This is in Idaho, I guess we have it pretty good.

Yes you do!

 

[JDgreen227]

My '06 international 4400 was $71/yr for a non-commercial truck @ 26k weight.
The '98 Explorer was $35/yr. This is in Idaho, I guess we have it pretty good.

Your 4400 is a good size medium duty truck, glad your state doesn't base the registration fees on weight like Michigan would.