Hank85713 wrote:
If you look I said if you buy new/used from a dealer you will/maybe charged taxes. If you purchase from an individual you do not pay taxes and I mean SALES taxes. there are no taxes generally to license per se but there are registration fees for license plates and sometimes there are velorum taxes, but it will depend your legal residence. I only paid to have the rig registered no taxes but also as I said the registration is generally based on msrp.
Lucky you. In Tennessee you do, indeed, pay full sales tax on a used vehicle. While it is true that you don't pay it to the seller, you pay it when you register and get tags.
Saying that there are no taxes, or no sales taxes, is wrong when the tax is just paid days or even a month later. They are still paid. Now SOME states don't collect sales taxes on used vehicles, but to blanket say that you don't pay taxes is misleading in the extreme.
Now, if you had prefaced that comment with "in my state" I would not have taken issue. It was the broad brush treatment that I objected to.