If you read the article you would have found out that Jobs leased a vehicle. The leasing company would have paid the taxes....
some states have another loophole...if you go ten years without registering a new vehicle, you never have to pay the initial tax.
Hey, cut him some slack. He only had $1/year salary. It's a wonder he could afford to eat!
shame on the gawkers and arm chair quarterbacks.
Six month loophole, smart..
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I bought a new car in California last April, and the dealer applied for the tags. It took the state of CA at least 4 months to mail me the license plates. In the meantime I drove the car without license plates. After receiving the plates I didn’t put them on for another month or so. Bottom line: Nobody cares if you drive a car in CA with no license plates.
That is my favorite car. If I could have one... I would.
I am the aspiring 1%
So he was constantly driving a new car, nice new car smell from the plasticizers floating in the air - kind of thing that could give a guy cancer... hey wait a minute...
Just another fact that proves how private of a person he was.
Pretty inventive. Since the registration fee is $46 it wouldn’t rank high in the annals of tax evasion. The big tax, like the sales & use tax, would have been paid to the dealer upon receipt of the vehicle so there wasn’t any evasion of the sales tax. Also, by leasing a new vehicle every 6 months he was basically paying two times the sales tax on the car every year.
Sounds to me like he was pretty heavily subsidizing the California DMV, not cheating them out of anything.
What were his last words? “Let ‘em eat license plates!”?
Jobs was notorious for this: he would park in a handicap spot right in front of the building. At some point, I think someone called the police, but they refused to tow the car.
Jobs could have parked the car in the building lobby if he wanted to. But, CA state (and federal?) law prohibited him from parking in a designated handicap zone.
If I never see another article about Steve Jobs it’ll be too soon.
What he did was legal and I see nothing wrong with it aside from the aggravation of being pulled over periodically.
This doesn’t have anything to do with taxes or registration, etc. - it has to do with aesthetics. SJ thought a license plate detracted from the design of the car and therefore was not needed. That’s it.
I’m surprised the Inventor Of The Internet and Apple board memeber iGore didn’t convince Jobs to drive an electric microcar.