What makes registration go up or down? Because some cars my parents bought get about 150 bucks in registration while others cost 400-700.
Depends on style of car and the cost of the car when it was new.
when you register a car in california, in addition to the regular fees, there's a tax that's based on how much you paid for the car.
Yeah I paid around $200 for mine. GF's $247.
The tax is what eats up all of it depending on what you put as the purchase price.
There's a registration fee based on the value of the car, and there is a higher number added to it based on the curb weight. I paid $50 to register my pontiac in Washington, then I moved to CA again, paid a $120 import fee, and $350 to register it as well as the normal $60 for smog. Bottom line is Califonia is trying to hit you up for money. They have a website through the CHP to turn in your neighbors and people who have not registered their cars in state, called "reg cheaters" for people like me that said they didn't want to pay more than the damn car costs to register it. It costs me $97 a year to register my 1995 Accord Ex. It costs me $80 to register my 1968 Dodge Dart (w/ no smog). When you buy a car second hand, if it has the tags still current, say you buy a car today that's registered through December 2013, you go to DMV, pay $35 to transfer the car to your name, and get it smogged, and that's it.
Usually how much the car weighs factors into the tax too.
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In WA, you pay the "Fair Market value", aka $300 tax on a truck I paid less than $1000 for.
[QUOTE=Del91;40239438]Usually how much the car weighs factors into the tax too.
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In WA, you pay the "Fair Market value", aka $300 tax on a truck I paid less than $1000 for.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, that's what the GVWR is (gross vehicle weight ratio) that they charge you for. How'd you manage $300? Do you live in a smog present county? I lived in Kitsap county on the peninsula, specifically in Bremerton, and it was $48 to register my 2004 Pontiac Vibe every year.
Yeah, Clark county. They claimed the truck had a market value of $3000, even though my bill of sale was only marked for $1,000. OH, that was just when I first registered it. I think I paid $80 for tags back in September to renew them. Not counting the $300 I paid to have a new cat and muffler put on to pass my final year of emissions.
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It sounds pretty awesome now though.
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