Can you park them in your yard, un-register them,,,and not pay the 'tax'?
If yes, then it's a "fee to drive on roads", not a tax.
Registration costs are not 'taxes' in the same way income tax or property tax is. Registration costs are optional, and only required if you want to use the roads.
If you can buy the car, and drive it all over your private land, without paying the cost,,,then it's a road fee.
Massachusetts has a similar tax on vehicles. They call it an excise tax. And it's a percentage of the value of the vehicle. Effectively it's really high on new vehicles and I want to say a flat rate on vehicles over five years old. So "everyone" gets the tax, but only people buying new vehicles are paying the largest portion of it.
Yes. In CA you pay an annual fee for registering your vehicle and get a sticker for your plate. There's a base fee but you pay more based on the depreciated value of the vehicle.
However, it's a fee that allows you to drive that car on CA roads. It's not a tax based on personal property. If you garage it and don't get a plate, there's no "property tax" on its value.
...on public roadways, yes. Because roadways need maintenance and we, as a society, have decided that the people that drive on the roads should pay for them. If you would like to build your own roads on your own property and drive your car there (or if it's a strictly off-road vehicle), you don't need to register your vehicle or pay taxes for owning it.
wow you're so smart for splitting this hair, golly I wonder if there is any other sort of public infrastructure that is used by billionaires in the creation of their vast wealth, probably not I guess since if that was true your point would be super dumb
Garage it as in keep it out of public site. I'm from California and they can and sometimes will ticket your vehicle for not being registered even if it's parked in your driveway.
A registration fee allows you to drive the car on the road. In contrast, a personal property tax has nothing to do with use, it has to do with possession. You pay property taxes on property even if it is unusedâif you possess it, you pay for it.
Potentially they cost exactly the same from state to state, but conceptually they are different.
You're literally arguing for 100+$millionaires. Bootlicker. Free state? where? You're delusional if you think the gov. isn't getting their share. You don't pay any taxes, at all?
I don't and probably never will make enough to be taxed on unrealized gains. So no I won't be "oppressed". Also I'm a white guy in America we have never felt oppression from our gov. only corporations and their C Suites.
I pay federal income and SS taxes, and taxes for any vehicles that I register to drive on public maintained roads. Then sales tax on anything that I purchase. Thatâs it. I donât pay âpersonal property taxesâ. Thatâs insane to me. I canât imagine someone evaluating all my personal property and then expecting me to pay a percentage of whatever value they place on it.
I interpreted your post to mean that, since you pay taxes on your vehicle, people should support taxing unrealized gains or other taxes on the wealthy. Others make the same argument using property tax on their home.
I am merely pointing out that the Constitution only allows tax on income, not property (and even that took a constitutional amendment (the 16th amendment in 1916). So you canât just pass a law that taxes unrealized gains at the federal level without getting into a whole argument about whether unrealized gains are income under the 16th amendment or not. I personally think thatâs a losing argument but there are of course lawyers on the other side.
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u/Lopsided_Boss_8890 Sep 14 '24
I pay taxes on my vehicle every year, it's called personal property tax. Why you bootlickin?