livingaboard
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WA state you pay the local sales tax rate where you buy it or transfer title. This is just about 9 percent ...then you pay yearly registration fees. The RV in my sig was under $200 this year for tabs and there are no other fees or taxes.
It still ticks me off that sales tax is paid multiple times on items such as rvs when they are resold. The sales tax should be paid ONE TIME at time of purchase and that is it!
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Mike and Trish
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gemsworld wrote:California registration fees are deductible on Federal returns for those filing long form.
Huh? Can you explain how that is? My understanding is that the only motor vehicle taxes/fees you can deduct are sales taxes (or non-sales, like in Delaware), annual personal property tax (like in Virginia), and taxes related to business use. I seem to recall that annual registration fees are specifically NOT deductible on your Federal taxes.
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TomandCandy
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All states seem to be out of money no matter how much tax they get they still can't figure it out they put a $5.00 donation on our tabs and if you don't request it removed you donate.
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Lobstah
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In Mass, you pay an exise tax on vehicles. That tax is deductible on fed taxes. That may be the situation in Cal?
Mike and Trish wrote:gemsworld wrote:California registration fees are deductible on Federal returns for those filing long form.
Huh? Can you explain how that is? My understanding is that the only motor vehicle taxes/fees you can deduct are sales taxes (or non-sales, like in Delaware), annual personal property tax (like in Virginia), and taxes related to business use. I seem to recall that annual registration fees are specifically NOT deductible on your Federal taxes.
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Lobstah
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It doesn't matter. If they changed it so it was only collected once on a given item, they'd just have to increase the rate, or add another tax somewhere.
The issue isn't what they collect...the issue is what they SPEND. As long as they keep spending, they'll keep collecting at every transaction they can think of.
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livingaboard wrote:
It still ticks me off that sales tax is paid multiple times on items such as rvs when they are resold. The sales tax should be paid ONE TIME at time of purchase and that is it!
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JTHarley
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In our wonderful state of Michigan you pay 6% sales tax. Even if you have a trade in you still pay the entire sales Tax on the final price, not the price less the trade in like in Florida.
Now the plates.........they are based on the original sale price. In my case the coach was $189K and that translates into over $1,200 per year just to get a plate. They are nice enough to let us tag it month by month but no longer than 2 months and that cost is $120 per month. Even though the coach depreciates each year the price of the tags never goes down.
Now you know why my next coach will be titled in Montana. Heck, I'll spend a month in Montana, two months in Florida and then take a couple of out of state trips each year on top of that and I've met all the criteria making this "legal" in Michigan.
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Lobstah
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JT,
States in the Northeast require you to pay state tax on any vehicle that stays in the state for 30 consecutive days.
So every 29 days, you'd have to take a trip and cross a state line 
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Lobstah wrote:JT,
States in the Northeast require you to pay state tax on any vehicle that stays in the state for 30 consecutive days.
So every 29 days, you'd have to take a trip and cross a state line
Jim
I had my attorney contact the Bennett law firm in Montana (I think that's the name) and we determined that looking at Michigan law I felt it would not be a problem to meet the requirement. The worst part was the coach could not come back to Michigan for 90 days after purchase.........is there really a downside to this? So we plan an extended vacation after we purchase. In the next few years, my plan is to be in Michigan at the lake house for 4-5 months and then spend the rest of the time on the road.
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thataway
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A number of states have "personal property" taxes. This can include RV's, Cars, Trucks, Boats etc. These are a fixed percent value of the item. (Many states use bluebook--for example I had purchased a boat and stored it in Calif. It made no difference that I had purchased the item for half of the "blue book" value--the tax I was forced to pay was based on that value--even though I did not live in that state).
I moved to Florida 18 years ago, from a life time of Calif. taxes, just to get away form those. In Florida my RV fee is about $69. Based on size/weight, not value. In Calif. it would have been well over $1000.
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Like said above, Most States have Personal Property Tax, but it is not always regulated by the State, you also have to be aware of the County that you live in, the PP Tax is mostly a County thing, at least NC each county can be different, also in the way they evaluate or appraise your vehicle, some use contractors some us NADA and some will use the Bill of Sale, but you may have to sign a Noterized Statement that the info given is the whole truth...\
If moving to NC, which I saw a post referring to NC, be sure to check out the County Tax also...
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