Is it wrong for a state to cash in on the desirability of its state? Will Texas follow suit?
If passed by state referendum, new residents moving from out-of-state to South Carolina would be required to pay two one-time fees, $250 for new driver’s licenses and $250 for vehicle registrations.
Sen. Goldfinch shared with Fox News Digital that the proposal is not trying to stop people from coming from out of state, just for new residents to “catch up with the rest of us.”
Ayup. A FB friend of mine recently moved there from Michigan. It cost about $1000 to have her 2020 model car registered there.
But then, I remember my mom howling about the cost to register her car in Arizona, in the mid 80s.
Steve
This is not new.
I moved to Texas in 1989 right out of college to start my first “real” job. Two months prior I had bought a new car, registered in Indiana. Newly arrived and settled in an apartment I go to register the car in Texas and had to pay the sales tax difference, between what I paid in Indiana versus what I would have paid in Texas. Note: I did not actually buy the car in Texas. I explained this clearly several times to the lady before I realized she knew that this was the case and it simply did not matter: Texas wanted sales tax revenue on a purchase that did not happen in their state.
Ever since, and all this time, I’ve never understood why the natives are so proud of their state.
This is the rule in all states with a sales tax. Otherwise everyone would go to a state with no or low sales tax and buy their vehicles there.
I have two friends who have moved to SC because it is cheaper to live there. Neither could fully afford CT in retirement.
I expressed my opinion to them that it wont stay that way.