lbligh wrote:
Rollnhome wrote:
What is AZ definition of "Passenger Carrying Vehicle"? If it is not a motorhome then the tax doesn't apply no matter of weight or axles.
A simple Google of passenger carrying vehicle comes up with a commercial bus or motorcoach. However it is AZ definition of passenger carrying vehicle that matters in this case.
My next question is then, why do all other vehicles require a special or commercial drivers license and a motor home does not. All passenger carrying vehicles are commercial...why include this singular vehicle, motorhomes, into this otherwise commercial tax?
I think because MHS are Recreational Vehicles not Passenger Carrying Vehicles they are exempt from this otherwise commercial tax.
OK... then why are not RVs listed along with all the other type of vehicles that are exempt. Arizona has taken the time to list the exempt vehicles on their pump posting and RVs are not on that list. Everyone here wants to "interpret" a law when it appears that Arizona has made it pretty simple by listing those vehicles that are exempt.
Now don't take me wrong, I believe that Arizona is wrong not to have included RVs as noncommercial vehicles like every other state, but it is what it is.
Let me try this one more time. This law lists what vehicles are included. If a motorhome is not a passenger carrying vehicle, which I don't think it is, then it's not included to begin with so there is no reason to exempt a vehicle that isn't included. Most of the exemptions listed are for vehicles that otherwise fit the definition of included vehicles such as church buses, but because of who owns them or how they're used the are exempted.
That's why.
