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Originally Posted by DebeeDoo
I am very curious about how to get around paying sales tax to both states when you purchase in another state? Doesn’t Florida charge sales tax when you go to register the vehicle? I don’t know how that all works. Thanks to OP and all other contributors to this thread!! I’m in the market for a new vehicle and suspected it would be challenging to get a fair deal in this area. And in fact, just yesterday my trusted technician/mechanic told me I would need to go to a big city -Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville - in order to not get “taken”!
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In MOST states, an "out of state" buyer doesn't need to pay the Sales Tax in the state he buys in. The caveat being, he has to "take delivery out of state". In Massachusetts for example (which was an early adopter of Sales Tax), we could sell a car to someone from NH and not charge Sales Tax, provided we got an "affidavit of out of state delivery".
Sales Tax on an automobile purchase in most states, is paid upon Registration, not purchase. Any new car dealership you opt to do business with, will surely know how to deal with the situation.
FYI. There are (5) states that do not have a sales tax on automobiles. I happen to be a resident of one of them. That can get into a sticky situation, as some states will charge you a Sales Tax when you register a vehicle that has previously been registered in a non-sales tax state . It typically depends on how longer it was registered in the other state.
With automobiles, it's a fairly straight forward process. Airplanes & boats are horse of another color ... that can be a horror show.