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Yeah, there are an annual registration fee as well. Spread over to payments a year. It isn't much though, and it depends on how environmentally friendly your ca

by colde 9y ago

Yeah, there are an annual registration fee as well. Spread over to payments a year. It isn't much though, and it depends on how environmentally friendly your car is. I think the lowest rate is approx 200 USD pr. year.

andys627 9y ago
> Isn't much... $200/yr. For comparison: California $83/yr. Nevada $33/yr.
- jonknee 9y ago
  More comparison: Seattle $597 a year (just got my bill recently, vast majority pays for transit expansion)
  - andys627 9y ago
    Woah! Seattle and LA are majorly investing in transit. I'm excited to visit as they come online throughout my life!
    - barsonme 9y ago
      "Seattle" is not. Three counties—Snohomish, King, and Pierce—are funding Sound Transit via insanely high car tabs (as well as additional property and sales taxes...), even though Pierce County voted against it and Snohomish only slightly for it. If you've got a $16,000 car (KBB) you'll pay ~$425. For reference: they valued my 18 year old beater Corolla with 300k miles at approximately $1,700. KBB puts my car at $600. Granted, the MVET predates the RTA tax, but 0.3% is manageable. 1.1% is utterly insane. And it's a 25 year project.
- reaperducer 9y ago
  Nevada isn't exactly $33/year. When I lived there, even a small economy car, it was well over $400. It's how many counties pay for schools instead of property tax. It's also why so many Nevadans get mad at the thousands of people from California who move to Nevada and don't register their vehicles, then complain about the schools that they send their kids to but don't pay for. This web site shows that a two-year-old $25,000 car will cost $406: https://dmvapp.nv.gov/dmv/vr/vr_estimate/vrestimationinput.aspx https://dmvapp.nv.gov/dmv/vr/vr_estimate/vrestimationinput.a...
  - tzs 9y ago
    Dealing with people who don't register their cars seems like a problem that should be reasonably solvable, if enough people are pissed off by it. Authorize police to issue tickets to cars with expired out of state registration. Make the tickets dismissible if you have lived in Nevada less than whatever the grace period is they give for new residents to register and you get the car registered in time. Make it so the dismissal happens automatically upon registration. Provide a way for officers to quickly check to see if a car already has a pending ticket for this so that a given car only gets ticketed once. There should not be many people who are living in Nevada and driving around Nevada with expired out of state registration and are not trying to cheat. About the only such people that come to mind are people who moved to Nevada near when their registration was going to expire in their old state, so did not renew it, and are still in the grace period for registration in Nevada. Some of those people will have the slight hassle of receiving one ticket, but since they are not trying to cheat, and therefore are going to register by the deadline anyway they don't have to do anything about it. It will automatically go away when they register. The above should catch a lot of the cases, especially if police are authorized to pull over people to issue these tickets, as opposed to just allowing them to issue these tickets to parked cars they come across or issue them incidentally during pull overs for other issues. Of course there might be people who decide to fake it. In many states the indication of current registration is just a sticker with year of expiration on it stuck onto the license plate. It would not take a master forger to make a fake sticker. (Heck, if someone's home state is sufficiently cheaper for registration, they might even not let their home state they have left, and keep registering their car there!). It would be going too far to try to crack down on non-expired out of state plates directly, because a large number of those are going to be visitors, not residents (especially for a state like Nevada that has a large number of automobile tourists visiting). To deal with the people who fake it (or keep registering in their old state), they would probably have to limit it to checking only when they pull someone over for some other violation like speeding or drunk driving where they can check ID. Unless the driver has kept a current (or fake current) out of state driver's license matching their out of state plates with them, the jig will be up. Make it so that these people get hit with a very large fine.
- khedoros1 9y ago
  I don't have the exact number with me, but CA was much closer to $200 for my 10 year old car, last year.

by colde 9y ago

andys627 9y ago

> Isn't much... $200/yr. For comparison: California $83/yr. Nevada $33/yr.

jonknee 9y ago
More comparison: Seattle $597 a year (just got my bill recently, vast majority pays for transit expansion)
- andys627 9y ago
  Woah! Seattle and LA are majorly investing in transit. I'm excited to visit as they come online throughout my life!
  - barsonme 9y ago
    "Seattle" is not. Three counties—Snohomish, King, and Pierce—are funding Sound Transit via insanely high car tabs (as well as additional property and sales taxes...), even though Pierce County voted against it and Snohomish only slightly for it. If you've got a $16,000 car (KBB) you'll pay ~$425. For reference: they valued my 18 year old beater Corolla with 300k miles at approximately $1,700. KBB puts my car at $600. Granted, the MVET predates the RTA tax, but 0.3% is manageable. 1.1% is utterly insane. And it's a 25 year project.
reaperducer 9y ago
Nevada isn't exactly $33/year. When I lived there, even a small economy car, it was well over $400. It's how many counties pay for schools instead of property tax. It's also why so many Nevadans get mad at the thousands of people from California who move to Nevada and don't register their vehicles, then complain about the schools that they send their kids to but don't pay for. This web site shows that a two-year-old $25,000 car will cost $406: https://dmvapp.nv.gov/dmv/vr/vr_estimate/vrestimationinput.aspx https://dmvapp.nv.gov/dmv/vr/vr_estimate/vrestimationinput.a...
- tzs 9y ago
  Dealing with people who don't register their cars seems like a problem that should be reasonably solvable, if enough people are pissed off by it. Authorize police to issue tickets to cars with expired out of state registration. Make the tickets dismissible if you have lived in Nevada less than whatever the grace period is they give for new residents to register and you get the car registered in time. Make it so the dismissal happens automatically upon registration. Provide a way for officers to quickly check to see if a car already has a pending ticket for this so that a given car only gets ticketed once. There should not be many people who are living in Nevada and driving around Nevada with expired out of state registration and are not trying to cheat. About the only such people that come to mind are people who moved to Nevada near when their registration was going to expire in their old state, so did not renew it, and are still in the grace period for registration in Nevada. Some of those people will have the slight hassle of receiving one ticket, but since they are not trying to cheat, and therefore are going to register by the deadline anyway they don't have to do anything about it. It will automatically go away when they register. The above should catch a lot of the cases, especially if police are authorized to pull over people to issue these tickets, as opposed to just allowing them to issue these tickets to parked cars they come across or issue them incidentally during pull overs for other issues. Of course there might be people who decide to fake it. In many states the indication of current registration is just a sticker with year of expiration on it stuck onto the license plate. It would not take a master forger to make a fake sticker. (Heck, if someone's home state is sufficiently cheaper for registration, they might even not let their home state they have left, and keep registering their car there!). It would be going too far to try to crack down on non-expired out of state plates directly, because a large number of those are going to be visitors, not residents (especially for a state like Nevada that has a large number of automobile tourists visiting). To deal with the people who fake it (or keep registering in their old state), they would probably have to limit it to checking only when they pull someone over for some other violation like speeding or drunk driving where they can check ID. Unless the driver has kept a current (or fake current) out of state driver's license matching their out of state plates with them, the jig will be up. Make it so that these people get hit with a very large fine.
khedoros1 9y ago
I don't have the exact number with me, but CA was much closer to $200 for my 10 year old car, last year.