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From: djm@cbdkc1.UUCP ( Debbie Matthews x2013 CB 3D280 LYN)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.auto
Subject: Re: Paying Sales Tax Twice..funny
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Date: Thu, 20-Mar-86 12:27:17 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 20 12:27:17 1986
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In article <592@mb2c.UUCP> mpr@mb2c.UUCP (Mark Reina) writes:
>> 
>>   About 4 years ago I decided to transfer the registration from
>>   my mothers name (under her because of cheaper insurance rates)
>>   because I decided to get my oun auto policy.
>> 
>In Michigan, you would benefit because of an allowance for a
>multiple car discount. (ie. whether you or mommy owned the cars!)
>> 
>>   There is no way in hell I was going to repay sales tax on my
>>   own car.  What annoyed me was way right does the state have
>>   (if, let's say, some relative or otherwise decided to GIVE
>>   ME a CAR for the legal transfer sum of $1.00), to tell you
>>   the market value of the car and attempt to get you to pay
>>   appropriate sales tax on it.
>> Donna
>
>In Michigan, you don't have to pay sales tax on a transfer of title
>within the family lines.  (I'm not sure how close you have to be.)
>
>		   Mark Reina

Same in Ohio. Once, when I was "down and out" and needed a car, my
father gave me his extra car. We went down to the registrar, he
swore that he was my father and that indeed, I didn't pay him a
cent for the car. The sales tax was zip. Car was mine.