Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!pyramid!pesnta!epimass!jbuck From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: net.taxes,net.legal,net.auto Subject: Re: Paying Sales tax twice Message-ID: <169@epimass.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Mar-86 12:59:32 EST Article-I.D.: epimass.169 Posted: Fri Mar 7 12:59:32 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Mar-86 08:21:36 EST References: <493@faron.UUCP> Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck) Organization: Entropic Processing, Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 22 Xref: watmath net.taxes:1066 net.legal:3081 net.auto:9712 Summary: Standard practice In article <493@faron.UUCP> ao@faron.UUCP (Alan R. Ouellette) writes: >..., I bought a new car >from a Massachusetts car dealer (I got a good deal). At the time, >... I registered the car in Vermont, which involved paying >sales tax to the state of Vermont. I have since moved to >Massachusetts and I need to register my car in Massachusetts. I >went to the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles to get plates, >figuring it would cost about $50 to transfer the registration. I >was wrong! Massachusetts will not register my car until I pay them >5% sales tax on the car, plus penalties and interest. >... So, the bottom line is that in order to register my >car in Massachusetts, I have to pay the sales tax again. Same thing happened to me. While I was living in DC I bought a car in Maryland. Then I moved to MD and had to pay sales tax again. Then I moved to California and had to pay yet again (fortunately, only on the reduced value of the car, which was 3.5 years old by then). No, there's nothing you can do about it. -- - Joe Buck This sentence is false.