Ran into the same thing buying a vehicle in Ga to be ;licensed in SC. Ga wanted their $750 and SC wanted their $700. The tax law is clear, Ga tax is not collected for a vehicle leaving the state. When I called the state tax office to get the proper procedure, the gov’t drone lectured me on my obligation to pay taxes.
I canceled the sale with the dealer I was working with and paid cash to an individual for the car I wanted, done deal.
Ran it for a year with the CA plates?
Taxation is about revenue, not about fairness. (“Because you millionaires and billionaires, at some point, surely have enough money.”) In 1992 my father sold me a 1988 Crown Victoria with 8,000 miles on it for $3,500. The state would not license the car because I had bought it too cheaply. I had a cancelled check and they said that was no good. However, I asked them what the process was to verify the price and they grudgingly told me that I could have my father sign a sworn statement and that would do.
Ask them what the process is for verifying a price. Also, you might try a different office, one where the clerks are really, really busy.
Yes. Sounds right. PA does same thing.
Sure they can do it.
The Government can do anything.
Our Government here in Maryland does the same thing.
It used to be you paid the tax on what was listed as the sales price. Now they go to a Blue Book Price and you pay the taxes on that.
You ask can they do it? Like I said the Government can do anything they like.
Ask Justice Roberts-—call it a tax and anything goes.
You might want to contact your local office of the American Automobile Association. There was no reason to register the car in California before taking it home. For all California knows, the owner of the car drove it to you!
For awhile California was charging out of state cars brought in. It was reversed and people got their money back.
Socialism isn't cheap. The left has to pay for it somehow.
Simple solution...immediately move from Minnesota’s tax hell to neighboring South Dakota. The tax on vehicles purchases is only 3% and a license plate will cost you about $60. South Dakota also has no state income tax. Minnesota long the land of 10,000 taxes is poised to become even worse with a solid Democrat majority in both houses of the Legislature and moonbat liberal Mark Dayton as governor.
I’ve done exactly what you’ve done several times, scoured ads nationwide for a specific vehicle I wanted, found it off in some other state in the condition I wanted at a price I was willing to pay, then got a cheap one way ticket out to buy it and drive it back home.
The difference is, you paid the tax in the seller’s state when you as the buyer resided in a different state, whose tax jurisdiction is actually the applicable one over you as buyer.
You’re stuck, pay up. Chalk it up to a lesson learned. You drive it back with temporary tags and register it in your home state next time.
It was always like this. If you bought a car elsewhere and bring it in state to register it, you pay the valuation that the state assigns to it. Usually they follow the actual sale price, but if it looks like you are hiding the full cost, they go by valuation from a published source. You are supposed to declare all out of state purchases for taxes, but most people don’t. Since you have to register the car, you can’t avoid it. You failed to do your homework, so shame on you.
Must have been a heck of a car and a great deal to fly from MN to CA.
What kind of car was it and can you post pics of it?
I’m in Idaho I just did a deal on a PT Cruiser for a friend in NY. The car was a 2006 with 8k miles and under priced. Plus it was a desert car which is desirable.
We shipped the car for $800 along with a signed title and bill of sale, and only NY taxes were collected. Had the car been driven, it would have had to be titled in ID and taxes paid too.
As it turns out, you can’t fly to ID from NY and drive it back for $800.
Personally for myself, I would avoid buying a car in CA especailly with their extra emission control equipment versus the other states. I have ties between Colorado (home state) and Indiana where I am from.
I have a vehicle permanently in Indiana and I have been contemplating getting Indiana registration for the vehicle but however, Indiana has strict enforcement on window tinting where as Colorado is pretty lenient. I talked with the Indiana BMV and State Police and they mentioned if I leave a vehicle permanently in Indiana even if I am not a resident, I am suppose to get IN registration. However, technically if you hold a Colorado license, all vehicles you own are suppose to have Colorado registration. But to get Indiana registration, I have to give up the Colorado title which then cancels my Colorado registration. Indiana doesn’t give you the option to keep your out of state title unlike Colorado.
When I moved from Indiana to Colorado back in 1995, when I switched my tags to Colorado, I kept the Indiana titles since I didn’t know if I was going to stay or go back to Indiana. This was on two vehicles. Over a year later, one vehicle was traded in and the other one which was my pickup truck, I kept for several more years. About a year before I got rid of the truck, I gone ahead and traded the IN title for a CO title since at that point, I was set to stay in Colorado.
On my car kept in Indiana, I keep it stored at a storage place and I go back often but the thing, the town where it is kept in and where I often drive around has a reputation for being very strict on motor vehicle law
You made sense up to there.
How did Minnesota get title to the car you bought in California?
That’s nothing. I moved to teh People’s Republic of Maryland and had to pay sales tax on a car I had owner for over FIVE YEARS.
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suck it up and pay it. I just did. The tax on my 05 express was MORE than I paid for it.
That is right. MORE than I paid for it.
I bought it at an auction while everyone was sleeping for a few hundred bucks. It had 300,000 miles on it (north of 310,000 now)
Auction company wrote it up, taxed me at the purchase price and I got plates in the mail a few weeks later. 5 months later I was wondering where my title was so I called the good old DMV..
You owe us 700 dollars Mr Cableguy.. We don’t think that is really what you paid for the van and it’s worth much more.
I fought with um till the plates ran out and they would not let me get new tabs till I paid um. Even told um if it’s worth more than I paid for it cut me a check! I’ll pay the income tax and you can sell it again at the price you think it’s worth and tax it again! a win win! No sale.
What else was I to do?
If you paid tax in CA I am sure there is a way to get a refund of it. I suspect they will just send you an IOU though.