Posted on 09/01/2009 7:22:29 AM PDT by xcamel
ALBANY, NY (WAMC) - Come tomorrow, you'll need to dig a little deeper into your pocket to pay for a new vehicle registration or driver's license in New York State... Capital District Bureau Chief Dave Lucas reports.
As of September first, state Department of Motor Vehicles registration fees will go up for passenger and commercial vehicles, trailers, taxis, buses, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and motorboats. The changes were called for in the state budget passed this year. Registration for passenger vehicles, will increase from $44 to $55. The cost of a driver's license or a renewal will rise by 25 percent - pushing the cost of a standard, eight-year renewal up from $50 to $62.50. With the increases comes a requirement that all people obtaining or renewing registrations starting April 1, 2010, must buy new license plates for $25. If people want to keep their existing plate numbers, it will still cost $20.
Assemblyman Jim Tedisco is criticizing Democrats for allowing the fee hikes, which he wants repealed. Governor David Paterson's office referred questions to state Division of the Budget spokesman Matt Anderson, who blames the fee hikes on the economy. Anderson points out that this is the first time registration fees have increased since 1998, and the first time driver's license fees have increased since 1992... the Governor's office has ordered that the revenue be directed to the Dedicated Highway and Bridge Trust Fund, used for road improvement projects and DMV operations.
Jim Tedisco says instead of increasing Department of Motor Vehicle fees, the state could have reduced spending by consolidating state government operations. Tedisco notes upstate residents have had it with rising costs... he says Republicans have sat down with the Governor to talk about eliminating non-essential purchases and services. The GOP is also suggesting the elimination of "member items" in the state budget.
Huh?
Did they mean that if you wish to keep your current number it will cost an additional $20?
It means $45 if you want to keep your existing number on the **new** plate. It’s double that for a vanity plate.
Hubby loves his vanity plate but will probably give it up now.
Aren’t the plates made by prisoners? Is this increase so that they can get a raise or something???
In CA, all car purchases require a 10% downpayment to the state. When you consider income tax and state income tax, the cost of buying a car in gross income dollars is pretty awesome.
As a result..even our wealthy friend here in CA tend to keep their cars for a long time. The benign weather helps, but they also leave them outside mostlly. The good part is that you are not looked down on for driving a ten year old car. Just the younger, poorer set seems to be driving around in new Beemers.
Medicade BROKE
AmTrack BROKE
Post Office BROKE
Fannie Mae BROKE
Freddie Mac BROKE
Social Security BROKE
FDIC BROKE (A 1929 style run on the banks – and yikes!)
DMV BROKE AND HATED
IRS HATED AND FEARED
And we want them to handle our health care?
This year in CA=$289 for a 2005 lincoln LS, a rise of $84 from 2008 thanks to the inept CA legislature that thinks we are their ATM
Yeah, you folks that pay a personal property tax in addition to registration fees really suck wind.
Folks here in FL are up in arms after they bumped the registration fee for a typical car from around $45 to $75. But we don't pay any other "personal property tax" or other fees on a yearly registration.
“Thats all? I just paid $354 (personal property tax and registration fees) for another year on my 1999 Ram pickup and 2006 Saturn Vue in Kansas. “
Yes but did Kansas also tax you 8% on your income and did you pay nearly $3,000 in yearly property tax on a house worth less than $100,000?
I’ll be glad to sell you my house in NY if you want to come live here.
TAX, TAX, FEE, FINE, PENALTY, TAX, FEE, PENALTY, FINE, FEE, TAX, TAX, FEE, FEE, TAX, PENALTY, TAX, TAX!!!!!!!!
FU, DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Including everytime it is sold to a private buyer. The tax on a vehicle in CA does not die until the vehicle ends up in the junkyard.
I found out the hard way. CA taxes a vehicle everytime its title is transferred (sold).
SZ
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