Posted on 05/18/2009 3:22:06 PM PDT by SmithL
All vehicles with a registration date of Tuesday and beyond will see the license fee increase from 0.65 percent to 1.15 percent of value of the vehicle.
Based on the purchase price of a $20,000 vehicle, the vehicle licese fee will go from $131 to $231. The increase is part of the state's effort to close its budget deficit.
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License fees!! Hurray!! I’m jazzed!!
The tax should only apply to the rich people. Tax the rich, it’s the route to prosperity!
I always like it when our state government finds creative ways to assure our safety by encouraging more illegals aliens to register their cars and that the rest of us purchase more new cars to spur economic growth. Way to go California, you really understand Obamaeconomics
This is the kind of tax that socks the little guy right in the gut.
If anyone deserves it it’s the majority of voters in California. Of course by that logic, America is in for some really bad times.
Why in hell are people required to register the same damn vehicle, over and over and over and over? lol...
It takes an army of GD government employees just to perform these endless tasks, so they can confiscate our money, over and over and over and over.
Just more insanity brought to us by big government.
Those in government must be kicked out and start job hunting in the civilian sector like the rest of us. No job security and fighting everyday just to survive. I think that they should also start at or close to minimum wage.
Why in hell are people required to register the same damn vehicle, over and over and over and over? lol...
Funny, when I lived in the Northeast and owned a car, I would get a separate tax bill for about 2% of the cost of the car, called "property tax", which was a write-off on my income tax. Nobody ever whined that I can recall. (Well, they did, but about the size, not the fact of it).
I move to Cali-phony-a, and the separate "property tax" bill is now collected as part of your annual "license fee", with a note that the amount of the fee, clearly delineated, may be deductible from your income tax. But because it's on the same bill as your registration, we hear howls of objections that it's an unfair fee.
Can someone explain the difference? I've lived here 20 years, and I still can't.
In Utah it’s not deductible from your taxes.
I pay $38.45 USD per year, including uninsured motorist for my little 20 year old WV pickup truck, about the same as I pay for a case of good wine! I like Chile!
Why should the public pay for these crooks thievery. They should be the ones paying it back.
The insanity in Kalifornia continues. We are billions upon billions in debt for the for seeable future. I hope the state has to file for bankruptcy and start all over.
And if I recall (and apparently these legislators didn’t), wasn’t the jacking up of vehicle fees part of the platform for recalling Gray Davis in 2003?
I can tell you a difference. My state charges me about $35 per year. Unfortunately, it’s not deductible (because we don’t have a state income tax). BTW, being deductible doesn’t mean that you’re getting your car tax money back.
Add 9.25% sales tax on top of that. I won’t be buying ANY new cars in Cal.
Your annual fee is Federally deductible to the extent that it is based upon the vehicle’s gross weight. If it is a flat fee however, it is not deductible.
Correction to my last post: the fee must be based upon the vehicle’s value, not its weight. I was thinking of commercial rather than private autos.
If the looters that run my state would simply deport illegals that are in the department of corrections, we could do away with the need for registration taxes, fuel taxes and sales taxes.
And with the reaming funds- build multi million dollar computer labs at every garde school, Junior high and High school.
If the looters that run my state would simply deport illegals that are in the department of corrections, we could do away with the need for registration taxes, fuel taxes and sales taxes.
And with the remaining funds- build multi million dollar computer labs at every grade school, Junior high and High school.
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