[ricthemic]

We are hopefully going to purchase in TV possibly within six months. We are also considering purchasing a new car. We live in Taxachussetts and will pay 6.25% sales tax (new proposed sales tax rate coming this september) plus a excise tax every year for the "luxury" of owning a car.
Are we better off waiting to purchase and register the new car after we become FL residents?
Thanks
RichfromCapeCod

[MelZ]

Here is the website which you provide you answers for Registration and Drivers Licensing:

http://www.flhsmv.gov/HTML/titlinf.html

[Hancle704]

Depends on the County you will live in. Sales Tax vary from 6.5-7% on new cars. We don't have an excise tax but you do pay for registration each year. A call to County office where you will move to, can answer your questions.

[ricthemic]

Thanks for the information. So I assume there is no annual excise tax which in MA is $22.00 per $1000.00 of evaluation. What I am confused about is this>
If I pay the MA sales tax then move to FL do I have to pay the sales tax again when I register the vehicle?
This annual registration fee, is it based on evaluation of vehicle? If so what is the percentage?
Thanks again

[SteveFromNY]

I registered my camper here and did not pay sales tax.

[Sgt Mac]

If you own the car for more then 6 months or so you might not pay for the car tax in Florida But a Call to the County Tax office would be your very best thing to do also ask about all the forms that you may need from your old state. I my self had a new car about 8 months old and did not pay the tax only for the place 7 months as they expire on your birthday and not the end of the month like other states might do. Good Luck in about 2 hours my wife and I got our drivers lic, car Insurance, License plates, and Property Tax done
no lines that day and the nicest people I have ever dealt with in that type of business.
Just have all the require paper work. Call them now to find out

Da Sgt

[chuckinca]

Very good info from zcaveman in "Nuts and Bolts of the Villages" forum at the bottom of the "Talk of the Villages" front page.

[SUNNYMARYANN]

When I moved from Florida to Louisiana I nearly lost my teeth at the Dept. of Motor Vehicles place when I found out how much it cost to register a vehicle here. Outrageous compared to Florida.

[TrudyM]

money when we move.

Here in WA we pay a 10% sales tax an area transportation benifit tax. A Metro impovement excise tax and a state excise tax as well as a $65 licence fee, The paper said we have one of the highest tabs in the nation.