For years my 70 Polara 4dr has had no value in the eyes of North Carolina taxes.This year they upped the value to $4500 and hit me with a tax bill of $69 LOL.The nerve of some people!Don't they know it is a 4 door and presently has more cobwebs than a haunted house! If someone offered my $4500 for it I would pull the motor and trans and say here you go!
Joined: Tue Oct 11 2005, 01:33AM
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Crazy as a car property tax sounds, there is a darker cloud on the horizon. Fifteen years ago the US Federal Government passed a moratorium on internet access taxes and now politicians are looking to get it overturned. That opens a virtual Pandora box with taxes at every level, city, county, prov/state, federal. This would tax your phone, TV and all internet usage. Now that people are buying and selling all over he planet using internet, the door would open for sales tax on all these transactions.
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Excessive taxation is the reason the united states was founded so I guess we are going full circle....and every time a new tax starts it doesn't seem to help so where is all the money going?
Joined: Tue Oct 11 2005, 01:33AM
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If we stopped worrying about popularity and started voting based upon candidate education and job experience, taxes would drop. Most of our politicians literally don't know what their doing.
as a mortar and brick retailer I say tax the internet on all sales that are corp/bussiness related. level the playing field. A guy selling on craigslist in example would not be taxed ( 1 or two items/ mounth/ year. Businesses on the internet should NOT be exempt from their share. JMO, but firm with it. John
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Location: Australia
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300Rag wrote ...
I still can't comprehend the idea of yearly taxes on a vehicle, and I sure hope some dumb@ss politician doesn't try that here.
Yep .. Neither can I. Vehicle "taxes" vary state to state in Australia, but non look at them as "assets" to be taxed. Only really the transactions around them are taxed .. Eg stamp duty on sale, fuel tax, registration tax, etc ..
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Quebec has announced a yearly tax on vehicles based on engine displacement, effective 2016. They're technically not calling it a "tax" but an increase in registration fees.
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Mike66Chryslers wrote ...
Quebec has announced a yearly tax on vehicles based on engine displacement, effective 2016. They're technically not calling it a "tax" but an increase in registration fees.
Joined: Sat Oct 16 2010, 09:56PM
Location: Brandon, MB
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These days nothing surprises me when it comes to this sort of thing.
I remember back in the late 1980's, when the government in this province tried to bring in a big increase in MPI rates. Thousands of angry car owners gathered on the lawn of the legislative building, carrying picket signs and protesting. The government backed down but, they still lost the next election, about a year later.
There just may be a similar reaction to this, you never know.