-=> Quoting Jack Yates to MIKE ROSS <=-

 JY>> It'll cost me an extra 15 bux to buy a new tag but wot d'hel, the
 JY>> state is not going to tell me what to do with my stuff. Stoopid
 JY>> stuff...
 
 MR> Do they have a temporary storage "tag"...? They have them
over here.
 MR> You can't drive on a public road with the car is all.

 JY> Nope, no such thing here.  What they're afraid if is that I might fix
 JY> the car a frew years down the road and then try to register it without
 JY> paying the ad valorem taxes for the years that I didn't have a tag on
 JY> it.  Silly system, that.  They can annotate the vehicle as "stored"
 JY> and send me a tax bill, or not tax me for the years that I do not use
 JY> the vehicle, but instead, they "prefer" that I sell it before I
 JY> transfer the tag.  I read the law and it says that the Tax
 JY> Commissioner shall transfer the tag if I no longer own *or* operate
 JY> the vehicle tha tag was originally issued to.  I tild he that I would
 JY> transfer the tag and let the state suffer my ministrations later, if I
 JY> decide to fix the car. 

 What would be the difference between transferring the tag or letting it
 expire then in a few years putting it back on the road.  I have
 transferred tags then later put new tags on and put it back on the road
 with only paying the cost of the new tag.  If we transfer to a vehicle
 with the same or lower tag cost it is a small paper shuffling fee but
 if to a vehicle that has a higher tag fee the we must pay a prorated
 difference.

 What is the "ad valorem taxes"?  Until about the mid 80's our tags
 fees were base on weight then they changed to the value of the vehicle
 as of it's new value.  Any thing older than the cutoff date still are
 based on weight.
                      
... Ben    

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