California DMV sucks

[CrashDavis]

YOU don't pay sales tax multiple times. You pay it only once, when you first buy the vehicle and sometimes not at all (if, like AZ, you buy it from a private party and not a commercial business).

For other than Florida I can't say it is still true, but it was when I was there: in South Carolina and Georgia, you didn't pay sales tax every year but you did pay property tax annually on your vehicle just like you do on your house. In Idaho you don't pay sales tax on a vehicle you brought in from another state even if they don't have a sales tax (this doesn't apply to a vehicle you had in another country that you bought when stationed there). Texas and Florida will only charge the difference on a vehicle you import if you paid less tax where you bought it than what you would have paid if it was bought in their state.

In SC, military non-SC residents didn't pay the vehicle property tax, but if one of the spouses was a civilian you had to pay half the tax. So unless it was a dual military couple, vehicles that had been jointly owned in the past became owned just by the military member when transferred to SC.

[RinconRyder]

If you look at taxes as just the cost of living in the greatest Country in the World: it helps a little bit...



...A very little bit!

There was a time, long, long ago when I would have agreed with the statement "greatest country in the world". Not any longer. We have some major fixin' to do.

[Pirate looks at --]

If you look at taxes as just the cost of living in the greatest Country in the World: it helps a little bit...



...A very little bit!

But it does. I have lived here all my life, I still have not seen all of the different ecosystems this state has to offer, and I have paid the taxes all of my life so I don't know anything else. I had hoped that all of the taxes would keep people out! That hasn't worked either. So I will pay the cost to live in the most beautiful of the lower 48!

[classicvw]

YOU don't pay sales tax multiple times. You pay it only once, when you first buy the vehicle and sometimes not at all (if, like AZ, you buy it from a private party and not a commercial business).

Not in NJ

[ThreeWheels]

There may be some confusion here.
For instance, in Connecticut, you only pay SALES tax once when you buy your vehicle.
Then annually, including the first year of ownership you pay personal PROPERTY tax.
See the difference ?

[LateLifeCrisis]

I recently got my 2013 RT registered in Ca. I must say it was an adventure getting an out of state spyder registered in Ca. They nearly took me out in handcuffs when the idiot told me I did not have a Motorcycle license. I told him none was needed in California. After going back and forth and speaking with management I finally got my tags and temporary plates. After what they charged me for transfer, tags and taxes a person wonders why California has a money problem?

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[Pirate looks at --]

There may be some confusion here.
For instance, in Connecticut, you only pay SALES tax once when you buy your vehicle.
Then annually, including the first year of ownership you pay personal PROPERTY tax.
See the difference ?

Exactly the same in California!

[Bswank]

The people at DMV's attitude is I'm here 8 hours a day and you want me to work too.

[BoilerAnimal]

Last year when we came back from New York after buying our Spyder, my wife and I stopped at the DMV at the town next to ours. We walked in with our sale papers and paid $25 sales tax for buying an out of state vehicle, paid $47 for our plate and sticker and walked out in less than 10 minutes with everything we needed. We also were treated very politely and had to answer some questions about our Spyder. The questions were out of curiosity because they could see it on the trailer in the parking lot. VERY nice people and experience.

I went to another DMV in another town a couple of weeks earlier to get my license after completing the MSF class. Walked in at their busy time and took a number. Waited maybe five minutes to get called, then handed them my completion card, got my picture taken, was asked if any info had changed and had my new license in about three minutes and it cost me, I believe, $10.

Illinois still does a few things right. It also helps to live in an area with a smaller population. We may not have all of the latest and greatest when it comes to some things and we may have to drive a ways to do our shopping but it's worth EVERY bit of it to live where life is a little bit more slow paced!!!

[classicvw]

There may be some confusion here.
For instance, in Connecticut, you only pay SALES tax once when you buy your vehicle.
Then annually, including the first year of ownership you pay personal PROPERTY tax.
See the difference ?

I think some of us here are commenting on different views toward taxes and it's getting mucked up.
Maybe because each state has different ways of collecting taxes and may call it something different. Sales, property, use taxes.

Of course YOU don't pay tax more than once on your vehicle. But every past and future owner(buyer) gets to pay the state tax each time it's sold/bought. So my state gets 7.5% of a vehicle's value every time.

See the difference?

[ARtraveler]

I think some of us here are commenting on different views toward taxes and it's getting mucked up.
Maybe because each state has different ways of collecting taxes and may call it something different. Sales, property, use taxes.

Of course YOU don't pay tax more than once on your vehicle. But every past and future owner(buyer) gets to pay the state tax each time it's sold/bought. So my state gets 7.5% of a vehicle's value every time.

See the difference?

Regardless of the method--their gonna gettcha.

[Bob Denman]

There was a time, long, long ago when I would have agreed with the statement "greatest country in the world". Not any longer. We have some major fixin' to do.

So where would you go?

...If you were given the choice!

[bobnaquin]

So California's DMV sucks...
Please tell me about one, that doesn't!

The one in St George Utah.

[RinconRyder]

So where would you go?

...If you were given the choice!

Canada or New Zealand (and they are second only because they don't have hockey)

[Bob Denman]

Well now that the secret is out...

on having one of the good ones!

[Lew L]

So where would you go?

...If you were given the choice!

I'd go back to my alma matter ---------- UM-------University of Mars.

I'll bet their DMV isn't crowded.

Kaos

[BajaRon]

So California's DMV sucks...
Please tell me about one, that doesn't!

Here in East Tennessee I can walk in just about any time the DMV is open (with the exception of around lunch time the last day of the month. And I may have to wait 5 minutes to get to one of the 3 windows. But usually I walk right up to an open window.

The DMV I went to in California had 52 windows. And if you did not have an appointment you could count on a 1-2 hour wait.

[Pirate looks at --]

Come on Ron....ya gotta learn how to play the game!

[Bob Denman]

Canada or New Zealand (and they are second only because they don't have hockey)

You could get a job with their Border Patrol...

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[RinconRyder]

You could get a job with their Border Patrol...

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I'd know a Mountie when I see one and that's no Mountie!

[Allensr]

I'm visiting Ca from Tx and have used the HOV lane, am I breaking the law? Why is the Spyder not a motorcycle? Are Honda or Harley three wheeler not motorcycles?
Tks Allen R

[RinconRyder]

I'm visiting Ca from Tx and have used the HOV lane, am I breaking the law? Why is the Spyder not a motorcycle? Are Honda or Harley three wheeler not motorcycles?
Tks Allen R

Give a call to the Highway Patrol and ask an officer for an opinion. They would be the ones to pull you over if they felt you were illegal.

[Pirate looks at --]

I'm visiting Ca from Tx and have used the HOV lane, am I breaking the law? Why is the Spyder not a motorcycle? Are Honda or Harley three wheeler not motorcycles?
Tks Allen R

Nope you are perfectly legal in the HOV lane in California! Enjoy the ryde! We drive it all the time!

[Peter Aawen]

You could get a job with their Border Patrol...

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That Moose riding Border Patrol is only found in Canada Bob!


In New Zealand their Border Patrol rides Kiwi's (small flightless birds that lay bloody ginormous eggs - you really don't wanta argue with anything that can survive pooping out such a bloody large thing! ) & here in Orstrailya the Border Patrol either rides Drop Bears (savagely carniverous Cousins of Koala's that really don't like any bloody Furriners as well as people who don't eat vegemite & so drop on them outta the trees at every opportunity) or 'bare-foot water ski-ing Kangaroos' - their big feet make them vastly more maneuverable at speed so that's how we Patrol the vast coastline we've got here!

[Bob Denman]

I'd know a Mountie when I see one and that's no Mountie!

He's undercover...