Registration Fees!

catkins wrote:
Several counties in and around Seattle have an added RTA tax in addition to the normal licensing fees. Our RV license was over $1700 for one year when we renewed last week. Approx $1600 was for the Rapid Transit Tax (RTA). Unreasonable tax based on purchase price of the RV. OUCH!!!!!!!! Literally thinking of moving out of the greater Seattle area to where fees, taxes, and cost of living are so much lower.

So those counties just reimposed the excise tax, that sucks!!

Gdetrailer wrote:

gheicher wrote:
Here in PA, in addition to the State Registration Fee a County Tax of $5 is added. Doesn't matter if your trailer weight 100 lbs or 10,000 lbs, you still pay $5. ??????

Total BS.

PAs registration fees do not have an "additional county tax" for ALL counties.

YOUR county you are registered in MAY have an additional fee but I can tell you that the county I reside in DOES NOT.

If his county charges $5 and yours doesn’t, wouldn’t that be partial BS? ;)

Last time I bought a new truck in Mass, it charged sales tax, THEN another USE tax (not sure if that's the tax label) almost identical to the sales tax. So, a new truck - estimate $50,000 - cost sales tax of roughly $3000 AND the Use tax $3000 in addition to regular registration fees etc. Then, EVERY YEAR thereafter, it charges that same Use tax again, only slightly less each time until the vehicle depreciated over several years and until it at some point becomes stable for every year you own it.

And that was the last time I bought a truck in that state ...

If your in W. Wa, we gotta pay for the worlds most expensive toy train set some how.

gheicher wrote:
Here in PA, in addition to the State Registration Fee a County Tax of $5 is added. Doesn't matter if your trailer weight 100 lbs or 10,000 lbs, you still pay $5. ??????

Here is the current list of counties that are hogs.

I don't think it was necessary for another member to give a rude comment.

Lynnmor wrote:

gheicher wrote:
Here in PA, in addition to the State Registration Fee a County Tax of $5 is added. Doesn't matter if your trailer weight 100 lbs or 10,000 lbs, you still pay $5. ??????

Here is the current list of counties that are hogs.

I don't think it was necessary for another member to give a rude comment.

Thanks for that - my county is on the list! :M

We have 6 things to register every year - it adds up!

These threads always make me so very glad that we live in Montana!
ANY vehicle 11 years old or older can have PERMANENT registration.
ANY trailer, regardless of size or type, gets PERMANENT registration.
ALL motorcycles, including street-legal ATVs, get PERMANENT registration
ALL boats get PERMANENT registration, but the Coast Guard requires an annual sticker, but the sticker is free.
In August, I will put PERMANENT registration on the PT Cruiser. That will complete my no-renewal wish list. Never again will I have to renew license tags!
Unless, of course, we buy a different vehicle...

fj12ryder wrote:
Just remember you elected the people who approved all those fees.

Bingo! Not only did they approve them, they probably created them.

Remember the good old days when taxes were low?


Nobody likes them , but some are necessary.

Mortimer Brewster...... you made my day! That's hilarious! And true!

Mark