Best State to register a vehicle

[ChargerX3]

Why not tackle this topic? What is the best state you know of?


I nominate Idaho. Here is why:


Titling
-Our family has a home there, so I qualify.
-$14 title fee, plus 6% of purchase price/value.

Registering
PASSENGER VEHICLES
Idaho code sets the basic annual registration fee for passenger vehicles (pickup trucks, neighborhood electric vehicles, or other motor vehicles having a maximum gross weight 8,000 pounds or less) as follows:

$69 for vehicles one or two years old
$57 for vehicles three to six years old
$45 for vehicles seven or more years old
Electric Vehicles: Add $140 per year (Neighborhood electric vehicles not included)
Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles: Add $75 dollars per year

$73 for Pickup trucks you wish to rate at 8,001-16,000 lbs. capacity. (My Ram would only be $4 more for this option vs the 8k limit).

Other perks:
- Register 2 years in advance
- No SMOG or safety checks.

[Chris GTO TT]

From what I understand it's Montana, they have pretty lax laws for cars and setting up a LLC there. It's part of why a lot of exotic cars are registered there.

[stealthee]

PA is not bad.

For cars you pay 6% sales tax upon purchase. After that you no longer pay any taxes on your vehicle. Regular yearly registration on a car or small SUV is $37. Trucks start around $72 and go up to around $80 for a one ton. In my county we do have a yearly safety inspection but the only "emissions" we have is visual. Other, more populated counties do have emissions though.

[tabasco122]

Louisiana sales tax is like 10%, but zero emissions, safety inspection every year or two. Think registration renewal is $32. I only paid it once. BMW was the only car I had long enough to have to renew it.

[vr4]

[quote=""Chris GTO TT""]From what I understand it's Montana, they have pretty lax laws for cars and setting up a LLC there. It's part of why a lot of exotic cars are registered there.[/quote]

This. I see a ton of Montana plated RVs here towing Washington plated cars.

[vr4]

Up here it's 8% of sales price or fair market value at purchase, registration every year roughly 100 bucks. Used to be 50. Biannual emissions inspection at 15 bucks going away next year.


The "magic number" for sales price vs fair market value is 5k. I can easily "pay" a hundred bucks for a car valued at 4990.

[Monochrome]

[quote=""stealthee""]PA is not bad.

For cars you pay 6% sales tax upon purchase. After that you no longer pay any taxes on your vehicle. Regular yearly registration on a car or small SUV is $37. Trucks start around $72 and go up to around $80 for a one ton. In my county we do have a yearly safety inspection but the only "emissions" we have is visual. Other, more populated counties do have emissions though.[/quote]

It’s $42 now to register a car/small SUV. It went up on the 1st of this year.

PA is awesome because:

*No front plate
*1 or 2 year registrations
*classic tags never need to renew registration or emissions- vehicle only must be 15 years old to qualify.
*specialty construction vehicles can literally get a VIN and title for anything created out of thin air - also never need to be emissions tested

[stealthee]

I reupped in September for two years so I wasn't aware it shot up.

[Chris95RT]

Not North fucking Carolina that's for sure, it's worse than the mitten.

Here your car is property, and they tax it like that based on the value of the car.

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[aaronatstate]

[quote=""Chris95RT""]Not North fucking Carolina that's for sure, it's worse than the mitten.

Here your car is property, and they tax it like that based on the value of the car.

$$$[/quote]

Same here in Arkansas. Car's are property so I have to get an assessment every year, then pay property taxes on my vehicles (the following year, i.e. 2018 taxes due Oct 2019), and then pay the registration fee as well. Though there are no inspections, or emissions testing, so that's a plus.

I think Oklahoma must be good for commercial vehicles, because all the Walmart and JB Hunt semi trucks and trailers are registered in OK.

[stealthee]

Most of the semis I see around here are registered in ME