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Title: Buses or Boats
Post by: luvrbus on November 23, 2011, 09:14:49 AM
This sucks I just opened the mail in Scottsdale received a tax bill for over $1300 from San Diego County for a boat I had there for a year never heard of such crap before have you guys ever had to pay extra taxes on a bus ? I never have even in OK


good luck
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: gcyeaw on November 23, 2011, 09:23:23 AM
Michigan charges a yearly tax/licence fee on motorhomes, based on the ORIGINAL NEW purchase price, no depreciation after the first three years. There are some extreme age limits for prior to 1984, which is then based on weight.
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: muddog16 on November 23, 2011, 09:44:29 AM
Clifford, I received a tax bill just this summer for the year 2008, I was kind of stunned....I usually do a decent job.....!  I moped around for a day or two...thinking about it and finally called the State and started asking questions.......well it ended up being when I filed my taxes I did the internet filing.....the lady said, you failed to send page 8, if you send it......you won't owe anything.......($1,200.00) I said, I filed on the internet how do I lose a page?........she paused.....and said........send page 8 again!.....I did! and haven't heard another word yet!  (fingers crossed)   


Pat
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: Oonrahnjay on November 23, 2011, 09:52:08 AM
Quote from: luvrbus on November 23, 2011, 09:14:49 AMThis sucks I just opened the mail in Scottsdale received a tax bill for over $1300 from San Diego County for a boat I had there for a year never heard of such crap before have you guys ever had to pay extra taxes on a bus ? I never have even in OK

    What do you mean "extra taxes"?  North "Never Seen a Chance to Tax People We Didn't Love" Carolina sends me a tax bill for my bus; it's tied to the plate -- if you don't renew your plate (i.e. if it's in storage while you're converting), you don't pay tax.  If you do renew the plate, you pay the plate fees then they send you a tax bill.  This year the blood-suckers sent me a bill for almost $18.  No wonder the retirement magazines rate NC as being one of the worst places to retire.
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: luvrbus on November 23, 2011, 10:12:08 AM
I forgot what it cost to register the boat around 1000 I think but this a Tax,Bruce N.C doesn't seem as bad as California lol

good luck
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: bobofthenorth on November 23, 2011, 10:25:51 AM
Suck it up big guy.  I thought you and Warren Buffet were on a crusade to pay more taxes not less. 

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: Boomer on November 23, 2011, 11:08:29 AM
I feel for ya Clifford, you should moor it in Oregon.  I am guessing this is a personal property tax assessment.  Guys with jets and other corporate aircraft are savvy enough to never let it set on the ramp in a CA city (like Palm Springs) when the CA Tax Gestapo are due to come around and collect the tail numbers off the aircraft.  I feel for the folks that live in the bankrupt CA welfare state and are underwater and can't sell out.
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: luvrbus on November 23, 2011, 12:45:28 PM
Bob,Buffet can pay all the taxes he likes not me big guy lol
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: artvonne on November 23, 2011, 03:54:08 PM
  IRS out of Austin lost a document, said we owed a lot of $$$$$ in back tax. Must have mailed, faxed the stuff 20 times, deny deny deny. Finally got an IRS advocate, Austin even tried telling her she didn't send it, around and around it went. Over three years trying to fight it, trying to get whichever moron down there to do their job.

  Then that guy flew his plane into their building..... our problem was solved less than a month later, advocate said she never saw anything like it, said suddenly lots of peoples problems were solved. Feel like decorating that guys grave someday, lol.
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: Ericbsc on November 23, 2011, 04:10:20 PM
Clifford, move it to South Carolina and register it as an airplane. State law says that all aircraft on SC soil on december 31st. are subject to state tax. Guess how many private and corporate planes fly to the bahamas on dec. 29th for new years!!!
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: bobofthenorth on November 23, 2011, 04:19:15 PM
They have something like that in Washington too.  That's why a year ago now we were in a panic to get our boat out of WA because apparently we had 45 days grace to do that.  They have a little annual sticker in the window of all their boats and evidently the revenuers just walk the dock looking for boats without the sticker.
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: artvonne on November 23, 2011, 06:31:46 PM
  I had a cop in Minnesota get PO'd at me over an expired license plate sticker, was only an oversite on my part. He claimed it was tax evasion and could write it up that way if he wanted. 
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: expressbus on November 24, 2011, 06:39:30 AM
I had a 1974 Harley Superglide. I once got a property tax bill for $0.29  >:((does anyone know where the cents key went?). The stamp on the envelop was $0.35  >:((where's that darn cents key again?). I guess they make the money here in Moore County NC by using bulk mailings! :o
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: Oonrahnjay on November 24, 2011, 07:26:25 AM
Quote from: expressbus on November 24, 2011, 06:39:30 AMI had a 1974 Harley Superglide. I once got a property tax bill for $0.29  >:((does anyone know where the cents key went?). The stamp on the envelop was $0.35  >:((where's that darn cents key again?). I guess they make the money here in Moore County NC by using bulk mailings! :o 

    In NC, the loss of $.06 is nothing compared to the fine feeling that local government gets for the feeling that they haven't missed an opportunity to tax us. 
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: thejumpsuitman on November 24, 2011, 08:49:44 AM
I just got the annual NC "property tax" on the Eagle, $149.29. 

Not as bad as what happened a couple years ago.  I got a B.S. tax bill for an old 1983 piece of crap Georgie Boy motorhome I paid $1,200 for.  I got a property tax bill for $450!  Somebody made a huge mistake on the assessment and classified it as something it was not.  By the time I got the bill they said it was too late to change it! 

Marc
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: niles500 on November 24, 2011, 06:19:45 PM
Once had Sprint send me a final bill for 10 cents - I threw it in the garbage - about a month later I got a call from a collection agency (not kidding in the least) - I have a refund check from Francis Thigpin, Tax Collector for Marion County FL, on the wall in my office for .01 dollars - I bet you they spent hundreds of dollars trying to balance the books when I didn't cash it  ;D
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: Kubla on November 24, 2011, 06:54:05 PM
I like Ohio, $71.25 for a motorhome no mater what its value is
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: Carcrazyguy57 on November 30, 2011, 08:46:32 PM
Just registered my bus in Texas $340.00 a year goes by weight 32,000 lbs. Taxes on my 75ft Chris Craft weren't due until it arrived in Texas, I left it in Puerto Rico!
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: Len Silva on December 01, 2011, 06:12:51 AM
Back in the seventies, I worked for a manufacturer in California.  They maintained a large warehouse just over the line in Nevada.  Both raw materials and finished goods were quickly moved back and for with a minimum kept in California just to beat the tax man.
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: artvonne on December 01, 2011, 06:32:16 AM
  Funny how people down here in Arkansas are about taxes, its one of the biggest topics of discussion. I don't think we were in the house a week when this pickup comes up the drive with these two old boys, they stopped before coming in the yard and the guy asks if I'm going to shoot him. He was the Tax assessor. I am still amazed at peoples rights down here, if you don't want someone on your property, you can run them off. Tax man included.

  I pay $32 to register the Bounder, and a pittance in personal property tax on it, I doubt the whole deal is $50 a year. I do suppose they could hit ya good on something real valuable though. There was some issue a year or so before we moved down, the state was tired of people claiming their $500K RV lived in another state and I guess went around snooping and started gigging folks for back taxes when they proved the rig lived here.

  No wonder those Tax guys ducked, lol.
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: luvrbus on December 01, 2011, 06:42:20 AM
AR would nail me every time I did a job in that state lol but nothing like CO there they have a tax on all equipment used in the state for work it is terrible in price they base it on the retail price of the equipment when it was new and if you don't buy their tag and play the silly games there you will not get the equipment out when the job is over and it can cost 1000's of dollars for the tags.

The fee is so expensive for the SME tag the rental equipment stores and a fee to the rental bill it sucks


good luck
Title: Re: Buses or Boats
Post by: Ericbsc on December 01, 2011, 12:20:54 PM
Thought I would throw this out. In South Carolina once a vehicle reaches 14 years old the tax drops to app. $ 17.50. The county adds $ 25.00 for road maint. I have a personalized tag which adds $ 35.00 for a grand total of $ 77.50 this year. For business it is not so good. My equipment from machines to copiers is taxed every year and dep. can not exceed 85%.