This state is a fucking crock

"Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo" (thetomselleck) 08/27/2016 at 18:15 • Filed to: the great PNW

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$106.75 to renew the tabs on my wife’s car.

Spaceball-Two > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 18:18

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$101.75 Screw the state parks!

Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 18:18

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Vehicle weight fee? Wtf???

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Spaceball-Two 08/27/2016 at 18:20

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Fun fact: the year they started doing that (2008or9) was also when they cut the State Park budget by 25% afterwards. In other words, that extra $5 most certainly did NOT go to the parks. Source: worked for WA State Parks some years ago.

atfsgeoff > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 18:20

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And I thought $81 to renew the registration on my truck was bad...

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Supreme Chancellor and Glorious Leader SaveTheIntegras 08/27/2016 at 18:21

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“Yep. It has mass! That’ll be 25 bucks, ma’am.”

Spaceball-Two > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 18:21

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We’ve got a tunnel to pay for!

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Spaceball-Two 08/27/2016 at 18:22

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Oh God not that again.

Spaceball-Two > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 18:24

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By the time that fucker is ready my kid will be able to drive through it!

fhrblig > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 18:24

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That’s around a third of what I paid for my plates last year, but my car is a 2013. Oh shit, that’s coming up again soon.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > atfsgeoff 08/27/2016 at 18:24

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It was $75 last year... The year before that $50... I THINK I SEE A PATTERN HERE

TheHondaBro > Spaceball-Two 08/27/2016 at 18:25

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Wars in Afghanistan and more seafood.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Spaceball-Two 08/27/2016 at 18:25

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Children are our future, after all

Birddog > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 18:28

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That’s on par with Illinois! $101 for a Car or B Truck.

The money doesn’t go to some of the good causes like yours does though.

Spaceball-Two > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 18:29

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RIP Whitney Houston you crack smoking New Edition groupee

Spaceball-Two > TheHondaBro 08/27/2016 at 18:31

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mmmmm space crab with butter and lemon

lone_liberal > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 18:31

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As bad as it is it used to be worse. I think in 1998 I paid over $300 for tabs for a 1996 Ford Probe GT.

TheHondaBro > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 18:32

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Lol

For Sweden > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 18:34

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The proletariat must seize the means of tab production

interstate366, now In The Industry > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 18:35

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That’s more than the registration on both my non-antiques combined. The 3rd gen was a one-time $50 fee for the antique plates.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > TheHondaBro 08/27/2016 at 18:36

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Get fucked, Harold

TheHondaBro > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 18:39

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no

Svend > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 19:00

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For my Superb 1.4TSi ACT it’s £30 (USD$39.40) per year (free the first year though).

Svend > Spaceball-Two 08/27/2016 at 19:03

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And now a wall. ;)

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Svend 08/27/2016 at 19:03

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Damn you Commonwealthers and your ways

Svend > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 19:07

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Commonwealthers?

British Commonwealth, yes.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Svend 08/27/2016 at 19:09

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Well I thought you were in Britain, but based on your handle, I didn’t want to guess wrong and find out you lived in elsewhere

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 19:11

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Move to Tennessee. Just saying...

Svend > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 19:14

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Lol. Makes sense. Ye’, I’m British, but would be proud to come from any one of the other 53 commonwealth countries.

1111111111111111111111 > TheHondaBro 08/27/2016 at 19:15

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I’m pretty sure I paid 38$ for 2 years.

Edit: nope it was 86.

Dru > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 19:17

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In SC you pay vehicle tax and renewal at the same time. My 85 4Runner is 50 per year and every other year I get charged an extra 25 registration free. The wife’s 2011 Kia is 200 dollars per year.

Grindintosecond > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 19:20

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Colorado bases the cost on the new value and a percentage of that based on its age. A $30k new car will cost $600. My 1978 mini cost $1.74...

glemon > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 19:27

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How old? In Nebraska it is based on a set valuation based on year make and model, which basically goes down to zero when the car gets to be ten years old or so. The highest is up somewhere north of $500 I think, but even after the valuation goes to next to nothing there are fixed “wheel taxes” and such that still push annual registration for older cars up around $100.

If the car is 25 years old or more you can get a one time historic plate for about $60, but you have to prove you have a regularly licensed daily driver and it is supposed to be limited use, i.E. not daily driven to work. I don’t think that is ever really enforced though.

Boxer_4 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 19:28

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Commonwealth of PA here; $36 yearly.

Svend > Boxer_4 08/27/2016 at 19:32

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Lol. Ye’, I wasn’t sure whether the good Doctor mean’t British or American commonwealth.

PS9 > Svend 08/27/2016 at 19:32

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Can I be a commonwealther? It’s getting fucking scary over here. I wanna leave yesterday.

Svend > PS9 08/27/2016 at 19:36

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Pick a country! I think we can accommodate.

Nothing > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 20:00

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My truck was $460, the wife’s Jeep was $591, here in CO. Five year tags for the Cougar ran $200 or so, total. Both are up n June, which makes for an expensive month.

Boxer_4 > Svend 08/27/2016 at 20:01

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Haha, based on registration costs, it looks like it doesn’t much matter!

Svend > Boxer_4 08/27/2016 at 20:08

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Well a lot of PA was settled by many of the people of mine and neighbouring counties of Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire, etc... so we're almost kin anyways.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 20:20

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Ontarian here: I paid just under $300 today to renew my driver’s license for the next five years and renew my vehicle plates for two years. To renew my plates, I had to pay around $35 for a cash grab an emissions test to be able to renew my plates.

I had to do it all this weekend since the cost of plate renewal is going up again in September - it’ll be $240 for two year renewal instead of the $216 I paid today.

Gripevo1 > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 20:27

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Have to renew mine next week.....$306. ugh

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 20:35

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Y’all are spoiled.

$180 for the Jeep.

$120 for the Kia.

$75 for the ‘97 Accord 4 years ago.

In North Carolina.

Where we hate taxes. Because communisms.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 20:41

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It’s going up to $120 to renew the license plate sticker here in Ontario, Canada this year... and $40 extra if you need a new plate.

And if you’re in England and had something like a Ford Focus with the 2L gas engine, you would pay around £210 in tax plus another £55 registration fee... £265 total which is around US$348... for one year.

https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-ra…

https://www.energy.eu/car-co2-emissi…

And if you have something a little bigger, like a 2.5L Subaru Legacy, then you’re paying around $427.

And if you had something like a VW Passat CC with the 3.6L V6, then you’d be looking at about US$729

It’s cheap in Saudi Arabia though... only costs around US$40

http://life-in-saudiarabia.blogspot.com/2014/06/how-to…

And in Russia, the registration fee is 2000 Rubles!!!! But in US dollars that’s about 25 cents... KIDDING... It’s actually around US$30.

In Zimbabwe, the car registration fee is US$160... which works out to about 57,900 Zimbabwe dollars the last time they used that currency. The don’t use that currency anymore though as it has gone completely to shit...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-afr…

So that US$106 registration fee isn’t so bad. But if you want it to be cheaper, you can move to Russia or Saudi Arabia.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > TheHondaBro 08/27/2016 at 20:43

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They need to increase that transit authority tax...

fintail > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 20:44

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I live in King County, I think it’s worse here (as if real estate prices weren’t enough).

But the fintail has year of manufacture plates to balance things out.

CodyVella > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 20:45

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I pay $120 Canadian to renew my stickers in Ontario yearly.

It’s total bullshit.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > gin-san - shitpost specialist 08/27/2016 at 20:46

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You got lucky... in september, the sticker fee is going from $108 to $120. My registration is up in December... So it’ll be $240 for me. My licence doesn’t need renewing for another couple of years.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Grindintosecond 08/27/2016 at 20:48

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Good place to own a fleet of classic cars...

Danger > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 20:53

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I used to live in Chicago, I feel your pain of insane fees just to live somewhere.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 08/27/2016 at 21:23

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I didn’t have the two-year renewal option when I did my plate renewal last year because my car needed the e-test this year. I swear the “fee increase” notice was on last year’s renewal as well.

EDIT: never mind, it was something else written in red.

Svend > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 08/27/2016 at 21:55

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The U.K. Has a rather complex system as it’ currently based on CO2 emissions, cars registered before 2010 are taxed on a different system, cars registered between 2007 and 2010 different again. It also depends on what class each vehicle is in as to what emissions it will be taxed on, etc...

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 22:20

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It’s ~$140 Canadibucks every two years here in Nova Scotia.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > Svend 08/27/2016 at 22:40

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I’ve heard about it. And I was imagining how much his car or truck in the US would cost to register in the UK... LOL... it would very likely be in the “Over 255" petrol tax category... meaning it would probably be over £500/year in CO2 taxes alone. That’s why I gave the Passat CC V6 taxation example... heheheh.

AdverseMartyr > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/27/2016 at 22:51

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Damn you mainland people and your cheap license plate fees. I pay that much to register my motorcycle here in Honolulu. My Accord is $299. Now if I was military it would be about $25.

Svend > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 08/27/2016 at 23:21

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Argh, ye’, imports such as the good doctor’s would be tested at a VOSA (vehicle inspectorate) station who will notify the DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency) of the emissions and what tax band it should be. Grey imports tend to be tested on a one off basis. So Dr Zoidberg’s pickup wouldn’t be as detrimental as an Aston Martin DB9 I saw about five years ago which was £1,000 a year to tax (before last year vehicles had a tax disc displayed on the passenger side window which showed the tax was paid, what post office it was paid at and how much along with the make and licence plate number, now it’ a virtual tax disc an all done on the computer).

duurtlang > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 08/28/2016 at 06:44

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And the UK isn’t even all that expensive in comparison. We only have a one-time (but very steep) CO2 tax on new vehicles in the Netherlands. Ownership tax is based on vehicle weight and fuel type.

A Corolla wagon (closest to that Pontiac I imagine) from the early zeros would be about €600 a year. Your VW CC 3.6 example: €1000 a year. That same CC with the 1.4 TSI: €800, with TDI and 4 motion: €1820 a year (because diesel).

Extreme example of the CO2 tax: Ford Mustang V8 with a manual: roughly €73.000. And that’s the CO2 tax alone, you’ll have to add the vehicle itself plus VAT to that. You’ll end up with a €115k vehicle. Which is exactly the same as what a much less CO2 emitting base Porsche 911 costs after tax.

Manwich - now Keto-Friendly > duurtlang 08/28/2016 at 11:04

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I imagine the Mustang with the 2.3L ecoboost would be substantially cheaper, but still quite expensive.

duurtlang > Manwich - now Keto-Friendly 08/28/2016 at 11:17

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Yes, the Ecoboost costs literally less than half of what the V8 costs here.

(car+VAT+CO2tax)
Ecoboost: (31+6.5+15.5) = €53k
V8: (35+7+73) = €115k

So the Ecoboost competes (in price) with the Audi TT 2.0 TFSI, BMW 430i and Merc E250 coupe.

The V8 competes (in price) with the BMW M4 and 640i, Jag F-type 3.0 S S/C, Merc C63 AMG and the base Porsche 911. And the Camaro with 6.2 V8.

As you can imagine I don’t really see Mustangs (or Camaros) here. Especially no V8 powered ones.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/28/2016 at 13:02

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Err it’s not that friendly to all of us. I have a 2010 twingo 1.2 and the e36 compact with the 1.6 litre engine. 345 total to tax yearly.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. 08/28/2016 at 13:03

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Are you being penalized for driving older vehicles?

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/28/2016 at 13:07

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Sort of. The Twingo is on the most modern tax rates so based on CO2 emissions, NA petrols get stung on that a bit other than some newer ones. The bmw applies to the older rates which is anything 1.55 litre or below is £145 then 1.55 or above is 235. Bmw just squeaks into the upper bracket unfortunately.

PetarVN, GLI Guy, now with stupid power > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/28/2016 at 13:51

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The GLI is $147 and change. I’m confused as.to how wa state got to that number... oh well, it beats serbia, where anything with a 2L+ engine costs $400+ a year to title...

(No joke, tabs on my dad’s old E36 M3 with the 3.2 would have been $700, but he just drove to Germany and titled it as a company car on the cheap)

Nauraushaun > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 08/31/2016 at 08:23

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In Australia, yearly registration is $690.

Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/13/2016 at 06:17

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Twingo Tamer - About to descend into project car hell. > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 10/13/2016 at 06:19

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Woah what the hell, ignore my (now deleted) comment. This came up on oppo main page and I thought it was new. Id already made the exact comment i just typed XD. Combined failure of kinja and my brain.