"Motor Vehicle" Excise Tax

[clarkee]

Thank God we don't have that in Texas. We also don't have a state income tax but they eat you alive when it come's to property taxes. I lived in Louisiana for 13 years and they have a state income tax. However, their property taxes are dirt cheap. In 1993, I purchased a house for 75,000.00 FRN's. My property taxes were only between 3 and 4 hundred FRN's a year. I had Allstate Home Owner's Insurance, their deluxe policy and it was only a little over 400 FRN's a year.
Sorry about getting off the main thread but has anyone here ever checked out this site? www.6towns.com/
They have some pretty good info on obtaining an IDP(International Drivers Permit) plus some other interesting things. I talked to the lady who I believe owns the site, Claudia Monticelo. She's very nice and understandable.

[clarkee]

Originally Posted by SaveUncleSam

For Auto excise taxes, the statements I receive have two tear off portions. One if a "taxpayer's copy" and the other is a "remit copy". Would writing Accepted For Value across the remit copy and returning it in effect authorize them to redeem it? Nowhere on this paper does it say Bill, Statement or any other word of description. It says "Notice of Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise For The Year 2007 Due and Payable In Full Within 30 Days of Issue". So this is a notice, I gather. R4C?

Hey Sam, if it's an excise tax then it's indirect so it's a privilege tax. Turn your plates along with your drivers license and ask them, would this now be a direct tax?
Write to your Dept of Motor Vehicles, I believe it is and demand they send you you're MCO ( maufacturer's certificate of origin ). Of course send a cancellation letter showing that your plates were returned. Now the state doesn't have a claim to you or your automobile. I'm doing this in July as soon as my automobile come's out of the shop. I'm thinking and deciding on how I can write up an affidavit proving that I am free to use my POV in my own capacity and not for commercial use. Get this document notarized, sent to the SOS of Texas and get it documented and recorded with them, the Dept of Motor Vehicles, Dept. of Public Safety and the county court. I'll give it a try.

[SaveUncleSam]

Originally Posted by clarkee

Hey Sam, if it's an excise tax then it's indirect so it's a privilege tax. Turn your plates along with your drivers license and ask them, would this now be a direct tax?
Write to your Dept of Motor Vehicles, I believe it is and demand they send you you're MCO ( maufacturer's certificate of origin ). Of course send a cancellation letter showing that your plates were returned. Now the state doesn't have a claim to you or your automobile. I'm doing this in July as soon as my automobile come's out of the shop. I'm thinking and deciding on how I can write up an affidavit proving that I am free to use my POV in my own capacity and not for commercial use. Get this document notarized, sent to the SOS of Texas and get it documented and recorded with them, the Dept of Motor Vehicles, Dept. of Public Safety and the county court. I'll give it a try.

Clarkee, did you end up doing this? My automobile is 12 years old and I got it used from Connecticut anyway so I'm sure the MCO at Connecticut is destroyed by now. Would a microfiche copy send to me (and destroyed on their end) be sufficient? I heard that the original document is the only gold here, any copies are worthless.

[robhalford88]

Originally Posted by SaveUncleSam

For Auto excise taxes, the statements I receive have two tear off portions. One if a "taxpayer's copy" and the other is a "remit copy". Would writing Accepted For Value across the remit copy and returning it in effect authorize them to redeem it? Nowhere on this paper does it say Bill, Statement or any other word of description. It says "Notice of Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise For The Year 2007 Due and Payable In Full Within 30 Days of Issue". So this is a notice, I gather. R4C?

That isn't good enough to get a setoff and adjustment. You need to accept for value and return for value.

[SaveUncleSam]

Originally Posted by robhalford88

That isn't good enough to get a setoff and adjustment. You need to accept for value and return for value.

I wrote Accepted For Value across it and returned the entire thing to the address certified mail with returen receipt (signed by the receiver). I also crossed out the word Amount and assigned value by writing Value. A week or two later I received a demand notice so I just paid it. What the demand what I wanted?

[robhalford88]

Originally Posted by SaveUncleSam

I wrote Accepted For Value across it and returned the entire thing to the address certified mail with returen receipt (signed by the receiver). I also crossed out the word Amount and assigned value by writing Value. A week or two later I received a demand notice so I just paid it. What the demand what I wanted?

I don't understand what your question is.

[SaveUncleSam]

Originally Posted by robhalford88

I don't understand what your question is.

Sorry, I meant to say: Was the demand notice what I wanted to receive? A non-response to the first notice invites a second notice and then a demand. In my case, they went right to the demand notice. I dunno if it was as a direct result of my A4V.

[robhalford88]

Originally Posted by SaveUncleSam

Sorry, I meant to say: Was the demand notice what I wanted to receive? A non-response to the first notice invites a second notice and then a demand. In my case, they went right to the demand notice. I dunno if it was as a direct result of my A4V.

I wouldn't care what they sent me, if I were attempting a setoff and adjustment. In fact, I don't.
You proved you weren't entitled to the remedy, because you 'paid' with fiat money.
Not being nasty, but you have to pick one, or the other.