$850 for a TAG!?!?!?

Just left the County Tag Office empty handed and in total disbelief! Bought my Tacoma on May 5th from a salesman at a local dealership. It was his personal vehicle , the lot bought it at the sales and before it had a chance to go on the lot he bought it. My local bank told me that the loan value was $19800 so thats what he came down to from $22000. I noticed that he had one of the CarLots tags on the rear but I didn't think anything about it because he said that he had owned it since Feb. and he even paid the extra $2200 with my $19800 to pay the truck off at his Credit Union. So....I go to the tag office yesterday , to get my tag from my recently sold Z71 transfered to the Tacoma and the lady says $850!!!! She told me that I owe the sales tax on the $19800 AND the salesman has owned the truck for a YEAR and never bought a tag! He drove it around with a Dealership tag! I guess I better start saving , deal is already done , bought as is , but it's a great truck , I jus hate to give $850 for a car tag!

 

That is majorly f'ed up.... I wouldnt know but shouldnt he be legally held liable for something???

 

Here in Maine we not only have a 5% sales tax but we also have an excise tax (road tax if you will) all payed before you get your tags. What really bothers me is every time a car/truck changes hands they collect tax again so if it's fairly new thousands of dollars are collected on the same damn truck!

 

The deal was done as of May 5th , I bought the truck ,just didn't have any idea about the tag situation , of course the lady at the tag office said "you can ask if he'll pay his penalty" But I figured yeah right , he's going to pay for something that he just got out of. Alot of it is also the sales tax on $19800.

 

so how much would it have been for JUST the sales tax on the what-ever-the-fuck-much you paid for it?

 

Just the sales tax on that deal here would have been $2300

 

The way the teller tried to explain it , he's costing me around $200 for not buying a tag for a year.

 

Just to be clear on a few points:

Your tag ISN'T $850, your sales tax + tag is. In Missouri I had to pay about double that for sales tax alone.

Also, for non-Alabamians: In some states you pay property tax on a vehicle. Here, your tag covers your vehicle taxes, and usually ends up being $100-$200 for a new vehicle.

 

This is the first time that I've bought a vehicle of this price without going through a dealership and paying the sales tax....It was a loan from the bank for $19800 ,I guess you live and learn , If I'd known this...I would have asked the bank for another $850....maybe what I end up doing.

 

IMO you should pursue the cost of the missing tag from the dealer though, that's BS. Or report him to the BBB.

 

Don't know much that I could do with the dealership , it sat there because it belonged to the salesman ( thats was to cheap to buy a tag for a year! and used one of the dealership tags)

 

You bought it through the dealer? You should not be paying penalties on a truck you just bought from a dealer, period.

 

What happened to full disclosure rights? Sounds a bit shady to me!

 

Yup...I paid over 7% in sales tax on my truck. Pretty tough to negotiate a deal with tradein and then have to shell out another $1700 for sales tax. Welcome to the real world, son.

Here's some shiz - the houses across the street from me aren't in the city, so they only pay state sales tax. I would have saved $600+ by living across the street.

 

No , I bought it through the salesman , he works at the dealership and drove it to work everyday , he told me that he bought it BEFORE they put it on the lot.Truck was in his name.

 

and you are an LEO
aaaaannnd you don't think you can go get your 200 from him?

motherf**ker go get all samuel L on his ass!

repeat after me
"DO I LOOK LIKE A B*TCH?"

Don't forget the crazy eye!!

 

sales tax where I live is 15%...

 

12% in BC

 

Yeah well the way I figure is if you got a 2008 DCSB TRD Sport automatic for $19,800, you got an awesome deal. And as others have mentioned, $850 for tax + tag is cheap! My tag alone first year was around $650. Tax was another $1000 or so on top of that!