Personal property tax on your automobile. Basically, it's just like the property tax on your house, you get charged a certain percentage of the assessed value (according to the gummint, who typically use a Kelly Blue Book or similar) of your car, every year. Typically it's (allegedly) used for local expenses such as schools.
Here in Virginia, you have to pay the tax *and* pay extra to purchase a window decal from your county or city. Without that window sticker on your windshield, you're liable to being pulled over and ticketed, every day. In South Carolina, there were no decals, but you couldn't renew your license plates without evidence that you paid your car tax. No tax receipt, no registration.
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yes - here in GA we renew our tags every year, and must pay a tax to do so based on the blue-book value of the vehicle.
just paid this tax last week on my '92 Mazda B2200... something like $40.00.
faiure to pay the tax = failure to renew the tag = no current sticker on the plate = loss of the vehicle (possible) and hefty fine (definite) if pulled over on public roads for any reason.
I don't believe in this car tax in Virginia or anywhere else on planet earth. End the car tax in Virginia, raise the sale tax to 6% and reduce Government spending.
Tax on my home in Virginia is up 41% over last year. What till you see your 2005 increased property tax USA property owners!
These taxes are crazy.