WA sucks $$$ out your wallet. I even had the eBay listing with winning
bid price when I went to the DMV. Right there it had $117.50. What'd
I get charged? Tax on $1700, because unless it was in the junk yard, a
Running 220D is worth at least $1700 here in WA!
On Monday, December 12, 2005, at 09:01 PM, Jim Cathey wrote:
Well, if I have it on the Bill of Sale that the purchase price is
$4000,
they'll have to base it on that. Right? Sounds like I have to go to
the
Oh, if it were only so. The State needn't choose to treat a BOS as
a legal document, and can look up its own Blue Book value and use
that, if the sale price is too low. That's what WA does, and paying
sales tax on a "$2500" car that you bought for $400 is galling, to say
the least. I ended up having to get the clunker 'appraised' at the
local MB dealership, where a helpful salesman wrote (on letterhead)
that they'd only give me $500 for the heap. (This was the Chicken
Wagon, btw.) They accepted that figure, and taxed me accordingly.
I found out later that they have an equivalent legal document to
the bill of sale, the name of which escapes me, that I could have
filled out with the seller. Got to have one with you, of course,
or arrange for it later.
Obviously they've rigged the system for maximum income, figuring that
relatively few 'donors' will take the extra trouble to avoid the
unjustified tax.
Of course, _your_ State may be different!
-- Jim
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1972 220D - Gump
1995 E300D - Cleo
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