I live in California, and my 2011 Sep G37 has a $276 to be paid.. isn't it not reasonable? every year paying this premium? anything needed to be audit?

just wondering how much do you pay for registration?

 

in IL, it's $101/yr, regardless of age for the state tag (license plate). When you buy the car, you pay a state, county, city, and in some areas a municipality tax (in addition to the $101). Around chicago (but not IN chicago), this is 8 or 8.25% (it goes up every so often). Chicago I believe is 9 or 9.25%

Also, some municipalities charge an annual tax too. This varies wildly, in the city of chicago it's $100, in my town it's $20 (used to be $10 or $5). When the leo's have nothing better to do, they'll run plates of car's who don't have the sticker displayed. If there is no city tag # associated with the plate, you get a ticket. Where I went to school, the town had no city sticker at all - no emission testing there either!

Since getting the G, I buy the city sticker, but don't display it. They want it on the driver side lower corner. Windshield realestate on this car is limited, so I just keep it in the glove box.

 

In Florida registration is quite reasonable. I think I paid $67 for my 2011 g37 sedan. However, I have a 2012 mustang convertible at my summer home in Colorado and the registration there is a personal property tax and costs $587 for this year. Don't complain, California is far from the costlyest.

 

I pay slightly over $200 a year in California. In Oregon it's around $90 for 2 years, around $170 if you want 4 years.
I don't think anything is reasonable about Ca's fee now that I can compare it to Oregon.

 

Virginia is crazy, and possibly the worst state for taxing cars.

First I'll give an extreme example, then a G37 example.

Owning a $100,000+ garage queen exotic here is prohibitively expensive. Take a USED Lamborghini Gallardo, 2006 or so. $4500 PER YEAR TAX just to keep it registered, for almost the life of the car! Some people will register exotics out of state for this reason.

EVERY year you pay tax based on the inflated NADA value of the car.

First there's the sales tax. 4%. You say it sounds good so far? There's much more.

Second year, I paid about another $500 tax for the G37.

Then next year the NADA will fall a little, and it will be something in the $400 range for year #3.

Still, on my other car, for year #6, I was still paying $200+ per year on top of registration fee.

Again, this is in addition to the sales tax paid when purchasing the car. Old cars have little or no tax. The infinitis are brutal because NADA is very high and they retain value.

In Virginia, you pay a big penalty for having a nice sporty car with all the modern safety systems.

Meanwhile someone with a polluting, road-menacing, 15 year old Chevy Suburban pays almost no tax, maybe $15 a year.

Crazy system in this state. You end up paying around 15 to 20% taxes on a new car purchase over the life of the car, for a pretty ordinary car, by my estimate. It was cheaper to have a nice car in NY state where I am originally from. Even though on paper the sales tax in NY is 3 times what it is here, you only pay it only once.

My old infiniti was 3 years old when I moved to VA. I bought it new in NY. When I came to VA, the NADA was still higher than the original price I paid for the car, and they wanted over $300 tax on the spot (plus registration fees) when I registered it in Virginia for the first time. It didn't matter that I had already paid NY state sales tax, three years ago. I told the commissioner of the revenue that if he believes it is worth that much, then you are welcome to buy it from me. Still had to pay...

 

Many states treat annual car registration as a luxury tax. As a result, the tax rate on the car is a sliding scale based on a number of possible criteria including age, mileage, original MSRP... basically, they try to index your annual registration costs on the value of the car.

So, driving a nice car costs more. Driving a ****box costs less. The idea being that they tax people with lower income less than those with higher income. Not all that different from the original idea behind income tax brackets, actually (in theory, the more you earn, the higher % you pay in income tax).

 

You can find New Jersey registration fees here

State of New Jersey - Motor Vehicle Commission

Our gas tax rate is lower than surrounding states and self service is not allowed.

We also have jug handles to make left turns.

Telcoman

 

Here in New Mexico I pay $77 and that's including a custom plate.

 

$36 in PA.

PennDOT Driver and Vehicle Services - Fees

 

I think we have a winner here. In Arizona its based on the car price, declining each year.

First year registration for 2013 G37

$741.80

 

$325.00 in CA too.

 

$317 for my 2010 G37 w/custom plate.

 

I just got mine in the mail yesterday. Kentucky registration for my 08 g37 is $260.91. I hate it.

 

Jughandles? You must be from Southern NJ.... in fact, I recall frequenting the Jughandle Inn on many occasions...I miss that place!

And don't forget circles. Here in TX, they install a circle then call it a 'Round-a-bout'. Every time I tell someone they are building another circle - they look at me strange....at least I think that is why they look at me strange

BUT... I digress - I really don't recall how much I paid in TX - it wasn't alarming...

 

In Kansas....just received my one year renewal for my 2013 G37x - $642. Includes about $600 in personal property tax. The good news, no income taxes this year on farm or K1 income (about half my income) and the maximum income tax rate on salary has been reduced to 4.75%. I guess we all pay...just varies accordingly to state.