Some Iowa MH owners facing big tax problems.

Again, it is really very simple:
KNOW the law!
OBEY the law!
If that means you can never bring your RV into your home state, don't bring it home.
If that means you must keep the RV out of your home state for one full year before bringing it home, to avoid paying the sales tax, store it out of state for that year, then bring it home and register it. I know a guy who did exactly that, but he was lucky, he could store it at a relative's place for nothing, and saved quite a bit of money.
KNOW the law, and OBEY the law, and you will have no problems. It really IS just that simple!

jaycocamprs wrote:

CRST is out of Cedar Rapids Iowa. Why does the truck have Oklahoma plates? The states pick on the individual because we don't have the money to fight, the big corporations do. So they get a free ride, CRST has more than 1,200 company-owned tractors and 3,000 van trailers. How many have Iowa plates? And yes they pay fuel taxes for miles driven in any state, but base plates are not cheap either.
I'm not out to pick on CRST, but the thread was about Iowa. And Cedar Rapids Iowa is what they have on the door.

The tractors are Apportioned...those fall under Federal DOT/ICC rules.

DiskDoctr wrote:
Here's an interesting TWIST to this question...

If the MH is owned by a Corporation, does that make it a COMMERCIAL vehicle? As such, it would NOT be exempt from 'Commercial Drivers License' (CDL) requirements for drivers and/or DOT number requirements.

Thoughts?

Clearly not...otherwise that would apply to Cruise America or El Monte units!

gotsmart wrote:
What packnrat is saying is that the trucking companies are using fleet management software that tracks the locations of the trucks. The company knows the residency rules for each state that their trucks are in, and will move those trucks out of state (to be replaced by trucks coming in from out of state) before the state revenue agents can cite the trucking company for violating vehicle registration laws.

This is why the states don't (as a rule) go after the trucking companies. Because they know that the trucks in the yard today will be gone by the time they return to check on them.

Rvers are much less likely to do the "3 card monte" trick with their RVs, so they become an easy target for the revenue agents.

I wonder where the RV'ers generate most of their revenue?

What packnrat is saying is that the trucking companies are using fleet management software that tracks the locations of the trucks. The company knows the residency rules for each state that their trucks are in, and will move those trucks out of state (to be replaced by trucks coming in from out of state) before the state revenue agents can cite the trucking company for violating vehicle registration laws.

This is why the states don't (as a rule) go after the trucking companies. Because they know that the trucks in the yard today will be gone by the time they return to check on them.

Rvers are much less likely to do the "3 card monte" trick with their RVs, so they become an easy target for the revenue agents.

i drive for a world wide trucking corp and no it is not one you would know the name of.
but the USA corp offices are not in the state the trucks are base regetered in, even the trailers are in a differnt state. (three states here). but in use for 48 if not all 50 states including canada.
and i am based in another state.

any trucking company can save thousands if not tens of thousands in doing the same thing one can do with a rv.
all one needs to keep you state off your back and out of your pocket is to have a place to park your rv in the "other" state. or beanle to prove you are not in your base state 9 months of the year. fuel receipts, repair bills, entrance tags, etc. all with dates.

it is sad that the law makers think increasing taxes will increase there profits.
look at all there other tax scams and you can see how sales went down there but up in a lower tax place.

"Montana had a flat rate of $450.00 regardless what you paid for your unit when I checked several years ago. You can't beat that!"

I can, and did. It cost me about $253 to put PERMANENT registration on my coach. Anything 11 years old or older can be permanently registered.
All trailers are permanently registered.
All boats, too.
Same for motorcycles, including street legal ATVs.
PERMANENT registration is GREAT!!

jaycocamprs wrote:

CRST is out of Cedar Rapids Iowa. Why does the truck have Oklahoma plates? The states pick on the individual because we don't have the money to fight, the big corporations do. So they get a free ride, CRST has more than 1,200 company-owned tractors and 3,000 van trailers. How many have Iowa plates? And yes they pay fuel taxes for miles driven in any state, but base plates are not cheap either.
I'm not out to pick on CRST, but the thread was about Iowa. And Cedar Rapids Iowa is what they have on the door.

seems to me that your CRST example is a true Corporation owning vehicles, not a sham RVer. I remember years back these semis having various state tags/plates showing that they had paid road taxes in those states.
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CRST is out of Cedar Rapids Iowa. Why does the truck have Oklahoma plates? The states pick on the individual because we don't have the money to fight, the big corporations do. So they get a free ride, CRST has more than 1,200 company-owned tractors and 3,000 van trailers. How many have Iowa plates? And yes they pay fuel taxes for miles driven in any state, but base plates are not cheap either.
I'm not out to pick on CRST, but the thread was about Iowa. And Cedar Rapids Iowa is what they have on the door.

maybe if the poor state of iowa would drop the hurtful reg and taxes to lower than Montana they would increase there profits as people from other states would run iowa plates??

but that would never work in the eyes of the tax and spend fools in there government.

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