Calif doing away with "paper" dealership plates :(
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Calif doing away with "paper" dealership plates :(
Effective January 1, 2019:
AB 516: License plates
Auto dealers will now be required to place a temporary license plate on newly purchased vehicles. It is estimated the state loses out on collecting $19 million a year on tolls from recently purchased vehicles that don't have a license plate.
This was always such a perk and fun to "have a new car longer", not having CA license plates on the car. I can kind of understand why this is being done, but still a bummer!
AB 516: License plates
Auto dealers will now be required to place a temporary license plate on newly purchased vehicles. It is estimated the state loses out on collecting $19 million a year on tolls from recently purchased vehicles that don't have a license plate.
This was always such a perk and fun to "have a new car longer", not having CA license plates on the car. I can kind of understand why this is being done, but still a bummer!
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Hah! I moved here from Boston and was always astonished that people can drive new cars without license plates and that I can walk in to a dealership and drive off with a car.
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So they must rent alot of trailers there so people can haul the cars home? And oh they have no trip permits there? Sounds like a different country in that state.
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Funny then in Boston if you buy a new car then you have to wait a month for the license plates? No one is going to buy a new car and leave it at the dealer to get banged up and scratched.
So they must rent alot of trailers there so people can haul the cars home? And oh they have no trip permits there? Sounds like a different country in that state.
So they must rent alot of trailers there so people can haul the cars home? And oh they have no trip permits there? Sounds like a different country in that state.
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Well, in WA we have a 1.1% of the value of the car tax to register a vehicle. Get this, that is an annual cost, but it is on top of a 10.3% sales tax when you go to purchase the car. To register a new Gwagon, it's like 1,800 each year plus $15,000 in sales tax. WA has no state income tax but government gets their money that they waste somehow. And its going to get worse. Record levels of corporate and government debt that is going to roll here in the next few years (that debt has to be replaced and any cost) combine that with massive unfunded liabilities with SS and Medicare, and we're in for a rough ride for the next decade or two.
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Well, in WA we have a 1.1% of the value of the car tax to register a vehicle. Get this, that is an annual cost, but it is on top of a 10.3% sales tax when you go to purchase the car. To register a new Gwagon, it's like 1,800 each year plus $15,000 in sales tax. WA has no state income tax but government gets their money that they waste somehow. And its going to get worse. Record levels of corporate and government debt that is going to roll here in the next few years (that debt has to be replaced and any cost) combine that with massive unfunded liabilities with SS and Medicare, and we're in for a rough ride for the next decade or two.
