Registration Transfer fees

If anyone is moving to Delaware from another state anytime soon or in the future & your vehicle is worth a good deal of money, your gonna be paying out the a$$ for registration here. I lived in FL, now I'm in DE & since my truck was worth over 13K, it cost me nearly $600 just to get registered here but luckily every year here on out will only be $40 per year. It was quite a shock, lol.

 

2nd Gen?

 

Yes

 

We have personal property tax here in Kansas. I pay over $400.00 a year for tags on my 2010 Tacoma! I only paid $54 dollars a year in Ohio.

 

Yikes, every year?? This was just initial & that was bad enough! FL was about $70/year when I was there. We don't have sales tax here but they make up for it in other ways!!

 

Here's the detail on fees when bringing a vehicle to Delaware (source)

"Whenever a motor vehicle is brought into Delaware from another state and a title and a registration is sought, the owner must pay a vehicle document fee of 3.75 percent of the value of the vehicle but not less than $8.00, unless the owner presents proof that he/she has paid to such other state, a sales tax, transfer tax or some similar levy on the purchase of the vehicle and must be titled and registered within ninety (90) days prior to registering in Delaware." ~Delaware Division of Motor Vehicles

 

Uh! Holly shit! For that cost there better not be on single pot hole or hump in any of your roads for that price. I pay $85.00 a year for registration. I'll take that over $400.00. That's shocking.

 

Yup... The property tax is based on the value of the vehicle each year. In Kansas, I feel I'm being punished for owning a vehicle that holds it's value!!

 

My wife's 2012 Wrangler is almost $500.00 per year so far.

 

Ok, now I don't feel so bad since it's only the initial fees that raped me & not highway robbery each year, lol. Thanks for the pep talk!

 

Since he is military he could have kept his registration for his vehicles in MI.

 

Here in AZ, we get raped on registration/tags. It goes down a few bucks each year but I'll be around $500/yr for a few years and it will go down sloooowly.