Hello:<br>Almost $550.00 here in Wy. Will never get below $300.00! Per Year. Ouch!!!

 

I don't know whether this is applicable:
My truck costs me:
Engine Tax: 650,62 EUR / year
Insurance: 784,88 EUR / year ( against claims from others whom I did damage- maybe somebody could give me the right vocabulary ;D )
Insurance : 917,36 EUR / year ( against damages caused by me on my truck)

Plus 73 EUR/ year highway fee.
Plus EUR 0,799/ Liter Diesel- About 55% of the prices are taxes.

Oh well 1 EUR = 1,04 US$
So maybe this gives you some grins

AlpineRAM

Oh, by the way, did I mention 54% income tax &gt;

 

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Well compared to some of you guys I guess I don't have it to bad for my 3500, rated at 11,000 gross. Here in Pa. it casts me $198.00 per year. ??????????? I forget which one of you said your rated for 20,000 gross How is that.
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That's 20,000 pounds GCVW, the max the manufacturer recommends. DMV wouldn't let me go higher than that.

In Virginia:

4% sales tax at purchase (I think)
$167 per year for liscense
$15 per year for state inspection
$998 per year personal property tax to county
$168 per year personal property tax to town
$10 per year for town sticker
$109 per month for insurance
plus a few more I can't think ofright now because I'm seeing red. I don't mind paying my fare share but this is ridiculous.

Anyone care to top this?

 

[quote author=AlpineRAM link=board=10;threadid=9026;start=15#86901 date=1041423987]<br>I don't know whether this is applicable: <br>My truck costs me: <br>Engine Tax: 650,62 EUR / year<br>Insurance: 784,88 EUR / year ( against claims from others whom I did damage- maybe somebody could give me the right vocabulary ;D )<br>Insurance : 917,36 EUR / year ( against damages caused by me on my truck)<br><br>Plus 73 EUR/ year highway fee.<br>Plus EUR 0,799/ Liter Diesel- About 55% of the prices are taxes.<br><br>Oh well 1 EUR = 1,04 US$<br>So maybe this gives you some grins <br><br>AlpineRAM<br><br>Oh, by the way, did I mention 54% income tax &gt;<br><br>[/quote]<br><br>Is that engine tax displacement-based?<br><br>Your first insurance amount sounds roughly like what we would refer to as liability insurance. The second sounds like a combination of comprehensive and collision. In the U.S., most people often carry some excess medical payments coverage as well. <br><br>Our total tax burden approaches 50% on average if one includes all the various levels of government with their hands in our pockets. <br><br>Your fuel costs are a bit more than twice what I'm paying right now, and about 33% or so is taxes in the state I live in.

 

I also live in MN. Called the center for the plate fee and the woman didn't know for sure but it sounded like it would be at least 175.00. I also have to come up with 6.5% of 31,700 which I paid for the vehicle as it was bought in wis. and I have to pay the plate fee on this side of the river.

 

What was the above mentioned 300 mile thing on farm tags. I have farm tags and travel to Florida each year in the truck. No problems.

 

We've got government owned vehicle insurance in Saskatchewan. Plates and insurance cost me $767CAN/year ($486US)

 

EVERY JANUARY ITS 105 smackers for my 16k tags- im thinking of going to the 20k tags cause ive been over 16k a few times without knowing it : <br><br> i must admit, i bought my truck in may, and went to get the tags for it... cost me 80.00 total !!<br><br> then in early december i got my personal property tax bill for it, and it was 293.02<br> <br> all that totals up to around 400.00 which is DARNED CHEAP compared to shelling out 1200.00 to the DMV when i bought my 96 dodge truck new-<br> <br> im tickled that i didnt have to shell that much to the DMV this year~<br>

 

HG,<br>The limit on miles is just a state thing. I'm sure it varies from state to state. I've never even heard of the police enforcing the rule.<br>The F tag covers just about anything related to agriculture, but it has to be owner/operator. For instance, I can haul my own cows to market and not worry about having to upgrade tags because of weight, however, if I have someone else haul them, the tag has to match the load capacity.

 

jfpointer:<br>Is that engine tax displacement-based?<br>No it is based on engine HP- I am really glad that my RAM has an 160 HP engine ;D<br>Your first insurance amount sounds roughly like what we would refer to as liability insurance. The second sounds like a combination of comprehensive and collision. In the U.S., most people often carry some excess medical payments coverage as well. <br>Thanks for the vocabulary- the medical payments are included in the liability- If I damage somebodys health it is my liability to pay for the restoration. EUR 8 millions coverage. My health insurance includin accidents is not connected to the car insurance.<br>Our total tax burden approaches 50% on average if one includes all the various levels of government with their hands in our pockets. <br>Ours is a bit higher- because there is a sales tax of 20% on almost every good. On cars there is a gas consumption tax on sale ( 5% - 16% ), plus 20% sales tax. And 20% import tax for foreign cars.( non EU )<br><br>Your fuel costs are a bit more than twice what I'm paying right now, and about 33% or so is taxes in the state I live in.<br>The fuel tax I mentioned is just the mineral oil tax. add 20% sales tax, 10 % county tax etc. <br>Sometimes I want to pack my bags and be away again... lived in the Togo for some time. Had a flat tax of 2% on everything..... <br><br>AlpineRAM

 

[quote author=AlpineRAM link=board=10;threadid=9026;start=15#87223 date=1041503337]<br>jfpointer:<br>Is that engine tax displacement-based?<br>No it is based on engine HP- I am really glad that my RAM has an 160 HP engine ;D<br>Your first insurance amount sounds roughly like what we would refer to as liability insurance. The second sounds like a combination of comprehensive and collision. In the U.S., most people often carry some excess medical payments coverage as well. <br>Thanks for the vocabulary- the medical payments are included in the liability- If I damage somebodys health it is my liability to pay for the restoration. EUR 8 millions coverage. My health insurance includin accidents is not connected to the car insurance.<br>Our total tax burden approaches 50% on average if one includes all the various levels of government with their hands in our pockets. <br>Ours is a bit higher- because there is a sales tax of 20% on almost every good. On cars there is a gas consumption tax on sale ( 5% - 16% ), plus 20% sales tax. And 20% import tax for foreign cars.( non EU )<br><br>Your fuel costs are a bit more than twice what I'm paying right now, and about 33% or so is taxes in the state I live in.<br>The fuel tax I mentioned is just the mineral oil tax. add 20% sales tax, 10 % county tax etc. <br>Sometimes I want to pack my bags and be away again... lived in the Togo for some time. Had a flat tax of 2% on everything..... <br><br>AlpineRAM<br>[/quote]<br><br>I can't blame you a bit--I hear stories like this and wonder why there aren't serious tax revolts in nearly every country in the E.U. Do you actually get to keep any of your money at all? ???<br><br>Medical insurance here isn't really connected to auto insurance, either, but there is a fine tradition of suing people after traffic accidents for medical treatment whether the individual is injured or not. We have far too many lawyers per capita, so the courts in this and many other instances are treated as a lottery system.

 

I think I just paid $145.00 for the custom plate.... :<br><br>Tony

 

jfpointer- <br><br>I think tha there are no tax revolts over here because we are just too darn lazy to get up from our .... you know a revolution could be some hassle. <br>Yes sometimes we may keep some of the cash. 2 years ago they made up a tax on the incomes from saving. A meagre 25% cut here.. <br><br>Over here the liability insurance has to cover anything that is the result of an accident that was my responsibility. So the claims you mentioned would be against the insurance. ( Something that sounds more logical to me than your system of separating these issues as I see it) <br>Be careful with your posts- maybe a lawyer will construe something that his fiancee has read this thread, changed her mind, ran away and you'll be left over with a 10 000 000 000 US$ bill from his psychiatric treatment.. <br><br>AlpineRAM

 

[quote author=AlpineRAM link=board=10;threadid=9026;start=15#87325 date=1041526874]<br>Over here the liability insurance has to cover anything that is the result of an accident that was my responsibility. So the claims you mentioned would be against the insurance. ( Something that sounds more logical to me than your system of separating these issues as I see it) <br>Be careful with your posts- maybe a lawyer will construe something that his fiancee has read this thread, changed her mind, ran away and you'll be left over with a 10 000 000 000 US$ bill from his psychiatric treatment.. <br><br>AlpineRAM<br>[/quote]<br>AlpineRam,<br><br>Insurance is a bit of a racket, I think. But I'm not scared of lawyers... They can have the whole $3.48 US that I actually have in my pocket.

 

jfpointer- you are a rich man.. 3,48 $ ... tsk... go to the IRS immediately and give them al least ... say 3,48.... naah.. .say 34,80.. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D<br><br>To stay on the topic: As far as I've seen here I think that moving to the US would not be a too clever move tax-wise.. <br><br>AlpineRAM