Cost to TTL in your area.

[bowlofturtle]

I just wanted to know what the cost is to buy a car. NEW or USED.

Here in chicago, in COOK county they just added a new COUNTY tax on cars new or used.

So now to buy a 5 year old car in chicago.

$115 state tax
$200 cook country tax
$95 Cost for title
$99 Registration ( plate sticker)
$85 Chicago city sticker
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$600 or so and $200 yearly for new stickers.


I've heard of some states being higher but a lot of areas being lower as well.

 

[chevys10]

As a former resident of Cook now residing in Kane, I feel your pain.

 

[dparm]

Glad I live in a suburb with no city stickers or county taxes...

For me it's just the $99 yearly plate renewal.

 

[javacontour]

Glad I live downstate

None of that city sticker nonsense and no emissions testing either

 

[Lead Shoes]

I pay $42.50 for tabs once a year that's it, for a regular transfer it is 40 something, then a tax based on how much you paid for the car.

 

[Donald]

In NY its around $30/yr for a plate (2 years at a clip) for a normal personal vehicle, the title is maybe $50 and sales tax, and $24/yr for inspection but only $15 for a diesel.

Trailers are by weight. My homemade trailer is a bargain. They are Jan-Dec and just register it when you need it that year. Small trailers get no title, they just transfer on the registration.

I went in one year in the fall and the registration for the rest of the year was $1.75. The lady said that was the least anyone had ever paid that she could remember.

Not sure if NYC has any city taxes for cars.

 

[Shannow]

Here, we have a 3% transfer tax (FIL just bought a 10YO winnebago, and found it's 5% on them).

Annual is
$320 personal liability insurance
$35 inspection fee (have no problem with that, they pick stuff up, and I can choose whodoes it).
$459 vehicle road tax and registration renewal.

per vehicle...

 

[getnpsi]

Everyone makes fun of nazifornia but ours isnt nearly that bad. If the car is more than 5 years old and always on transfer of title it requires a smog check, often you have to replace the cat with a special one that is triple the price of 49 state cat. If that is not needed its about 40-50 dollars plus sales tax of what you paid for the car. Of course you fib a little about it, but even if it approaches $200 to put it in your name, the next year tags will be >$80 or so, and then the following year your cat will die after only 15,000 miles because its a special obd2 cat and by then you will have met someone to do a crooked smog and life goes on. No wonder my sister took trains in chicago when she went to school there.

 

[HTSS_TR]

Originally Posted By: getnpsi
Everyone makes fun of nazifornia but ours isnt nearly that bad. If the car is more than 5 years old and always on transfer of title it requires a smog check, often you have to replace the cat with a special one that is triple the price of 49 state cat. If that is not needed its about 40-50 dollars plus sales tax of what you paid for the car. Of course you fib a little about it, but even if it approaches $200 to put it in your name, the next year tags will be >$80 or so, and then the following year your cat will die after only 15,000 miles because its a special obd2 cat and by then you will have met someone to do a crooked smog and life goes on. No wonder my sister took trains in chicago when she went to school there.

Sale tax is as high as 9.xx% in LA city, for $15,000 car it can be as high as $1450, more than most states.

 

[Charlie1935]

Originally Posted By: bowlofturtle
I just wanted to know what the cost is to buy a car. NEW or USED.

Here in chicago, in COOK county they just added a new COUNTY tax on cars new or used.

So now to buy a 5 year old car in chicago.

$115 state tax
$200 cook country tax
$95 Cost for title
$99 Registration ( plate sticker)
$85 Chicago city sticker
--------
$600 or so and $200 yearly for new stickers.


I've heard of some states being higher but a lot of areas being lower as well.







Glad I live 300 miles south.

 

[volk06]

I have to pay 284.50 every year for my registration..... It use to be 65 for a truck until 2 years ago when they upped it.

 

[bowlofturtle]

We have bi-yearly emissions, but thats a simple OBD2 check for codes. No light= pass. No cost to us.

I do wish we do have a safety inspection. They might as well add it and charge us $25-50 done at the same time. Thats just a quick look at tire tread and lighting.


I'm [censored] now because that $500 beater car is now going to be $1200ish.

 

[Spector]

Try TN, like a 9% tax on purchase price of vehicle, brutal!

 

[javacontour]

But no income tax in TN.


Originally Posted By: Spector
Try TN, like a 9% tax on purchase price of vehicle, brutal!

 

[dja4260]

I just purchased a new car in COOK county. 17,991 + TTL.

It was like 20,005 OTD.......

 

[VicVinegar]

VA has 3% sales tax on cars, plus the potential for city tax if you are in an incorporated city. Trade does not lower your sales tax liability. It is based on the price of the car.

Title is $10
Registration is $83.50 for 2 years (on my car anyway..I think it is higher for heavier vehicles)

Then you have good old "personal property tax". That 3% sales tax isn't so nice anymore.

How much depends on your county/city. Where I live I pay $4.20/$100 in assessed value to the county, and another $1.00/$100 to the town. The first $20k in value gets "relief" of a certain discount (51% on county, and 52% on town). So for a car worth $25k it is an extra $767.60 the first year, plus a $30 "decal fee" where I am (even though we have a permanent decal now). Some counties don't have the decal fee. You pay the personal property tax "forever". It may go away when the car is an antique. I pay $60 a year on my 13 year old Civic. So while our sales tax is cheaper, the personal property tax gets its share in the end.

In the DC suburbs and Newport News area they have emissions testing every two years. Safety inspection every year. I forget how much that runs me. Have to do it in January.

 

[eljefino]

Car registration: $35/yr. Trailer: $10.50 under 2K lbs.

Excise tax (goes to town) 0.4% of MSRP for cars 5 years old and older, ramps up for newer cars, have never had anything that new.

On a $10k car it's $40.

Inspections: $18.50 or less.

5% sales tax on new or used cars. They go by what's on the bill of sale and don't try to blue book a suspiciously low number.

$33 for a title, 1995 cars or newer. No title needed on older stuff.

"Agent fee" $4. Can skip it by going to the DMV not the town hall, but there are no lines at the town hall. Almost every town lets the town hall do vehicle registrations as an agent for the state. I'm pretty cheap but pay the $4. Renewals can be done online and the agent fee is only $3.