[Proud_texan]

"Actually think this is more of an overreation by those buying cars for five grand and reporting the sale as five hundred."

But of course. It doesn't take a brain scientist to understand that the tax has already been paid on the car when it was originally purchased and that other than the cost of transferring the title the state has no business collecting taxes on a downstream sale.

Seeing as how it's pretty dangerous not to pay the IRS or property tax underreporting the amount paid on a used car was our Boston tea party.

[palmer]

other than the cost of transferring the title the state has no business collecting taxes on a downstream sale

Bought any real estate lately?

[SouthTexas]

Double taxation is a valid argument, but everyone that buys a car through a dealership pays it. Those skirting the tax are perpetrating fraud, not dumping tea.