Posted on 02/23/2013 9:48:59 AM PST by nascarnation
In its simplest form, an exotic car with a Montana plates is an immense tax dodge. Being the Wild West, you see, Montana levies no sales tax. Instead, its government chooses to operate under the unique “we don’t need no stinkin’ money” principle, which possibly explains why they went without speed limits for several years: they couldn’t afford the signs.
In my home state of Georgia, the Veyron’s $1.7 million MSRP would be taxed at seven percent, which comes out to $119,000. For a license plate.
Anyway, if you lived in Montana, the same Veyron would cost virtually nothing to register. Yes, maybe $200 for some fee or other, and of course the requisite $30 for the special plate that no one notices. But aside from that, nothing. You’ve just saved $118,770.
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Someone was selling 1 square inch lots somewhere. Deeded, taxed, and all. Amusing story, look it up.
They can make going there difficult, on the presumption you will at some point.
We got a mundane speeding ticket (56 in a 45, normal traffic pattern there) in NY after moving out. State demanded $500 beyond the ~$125 ticket, threatening arrest if ever caught driving there if not paid.
They pay tax in whatever state they are registered in. If they are registered in no state they pay no state income tax but few people want to go through the bother to do that. Nearly everyone comes back stateside every now and then and you generally have some sort of home base.
Of course you are not going to pay much in state income tax because you (a) don't live there and (b) usually don't get paid out of there.
What about US citizens who live in one of the territories?
That depends but usually they just pay whatever tax they pay in the territory they live in.
Curiously, the registration fee for that car in New York (which charges by vehicle curb weight) would be $73.50 (4,162 lbs) (although the sales tax on it would kill you). When I was active duty Navy I would order my cars from the sales rep at the Exchange in Sasebo or Subic, take delivery in Reno, drive it to San Diego and send the registration to NY. No sales tax and total cost was around $50. The first time I registered my cars in CA as a civilian I was astounded at how expensive it was.
" And so began the Great Klondike Big Inch land Caper, one of the most successful sales promotions in North American business history.
For long after all the rocket rings and plastic submarines arid other cereal-box prizes were lost, millions of those official-looking, legal-sounding, gold-embossed deeds to a square inch of Yukon land remained in drawers, albums, safe deposit boxes, scrapbooks, vaults and, more importantly, in the memory of a generation of men and women not so young anymore.
And given the ravages of the years and the current uncertain economic times, a steadily mounting stream of these former children, their attorneys, their widows and their executors are writing to inquire after their “property,” which they assume has increased in value over all these years.
But, alas, the replies carry sad news. Not only do these people not own the land now. They never did, because each individual deed was never formally registered. The Klondike Big Inch Land Co., an Illinois subsidiary established to handle the cereal’s land affairs, has gone out of business. And anyway, the Canadian government repossessed all the land back in 1965 for nonpayment of $37.20 in property taxes."
Not to speak of the People's Republics like Missoula, Bozeman, Butte and Helena.
From looking into finding a "compound" there, it's amazing how controlling the State is (through water rights adjudication and all sorts of land use tracking, etc.) along with very restrictive zoning ordinances/districts in some counties.
I laugh when I hear vacationers claiming that they are going back to "civilization" when they are headed to the airport after their ski vacation.
Civil control of the peeps in MT is often right up there with many lib majority States.
What a coincidence. I just was following a Lotus with Montana plates just two days ago. I wondered whether that was a bit of an incongruity.
Just what ruined northern New England. The Beautiful People from Boston and New York screwed up where they were from too the point where that place was unlivable and then they move to someplace not screwed up and proceed screwing everyone.
Trick question?
Because the gov't political power comes out of the end (i.e. confiscation) of your barrel.
Ted Turner owns a lot of Montana.
The Feds and the State own quite a bit too.
The NH motto “Live Free or Die” needs to be changed to “Tax and Spend like MA”.
Of course we could fence off a bit of one of the more remote states and drop in any commielibs we find so they can form Utopia there without contaminating the rest of the country.
Kind of like a combination of the Minutemen and Escape From New York
Indeed.
Stay away.
I think it'd be better to just wall them off in their 'rat infested urban hellholes.
Too late, I'm a pseudo homeless bum, just one step in front of the local popos from being bussed to live on the streets of Butte. ;-)
I thought of that but I just think it would be more fun to see what they'd do without any form of government infrastructure. Just drop them in to a remote location without WiFi or a Starbucks and whatever happens happens.
You drop me a line if you get over east of Bozeman.
I’ll spring for a nice lunch.
Take care!
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