Originally posted by frenchblueC2:
Originally posted by IRingTwyce:
That's weird. Here you pay sales tax on what you paid for an item (minus any trade-in equity), not tax on some generic blue-book value. Eh, diff'ernt strokes for diff'ernt states.


yeah that seems weird.
Did you perhaps mean to say "registration fees" not "sales tax"?

Either way, I don't have a clue how to help.




seems weird to me too. when i bought cars in ny i always paid tax on what i paid. maybe they need a number independent of what i paid for it, so they can make sure i'm not trying to rip them off, saying i paid way less for it than i actually did. in any case, i can't get the bike registered until i get a blue book or it appraised. really pisses me off - i have to pay a mechanic just so i can pay tax on something that was already taxed at least once, when it was new.

now officially a troll, i guess. used to have a black 96 SE, until it broke down one too many times. now I'm hunting for a motorycle.