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Location: Northern Utah | Utah has enforced this for years. Oregon has no sales tax, People often purchase cars, trucks, trailers there and return to Utah. A two year license plate in Oregon was $55. vs Utah accessing a annual renewal based upon the vehicles value. A $60,000 truck could easily be $300 or more a year in renewal fees on top of the 7% sales tax you paid when buying the vehicle. Buying and licensing $60,000 trailer or truck in Oregon could equal a $5000 difference for driving 14 hours up the freeway. Officers typically look at your vehicle registration, owners drivers license and where the vehicle insurance is purchased to determine if somebody is trying to avoid being taxed in Utah. Our law is that you have 30 days after moving to our state to change your registration. And I've found that is a pretty common law in most of the states I've looked at. Cops have been known to cruise apartment complexes in the wee hours of the morning when they are bored, looking at license plates and giving tickets if the out of state plates that they have documented being parked in the same complex for more than a month. The point is this is very common for most states to try and collect as much tax as they can. They are working hard to close tax loop holes. Licensing a trailer in Maine but using it in Delaware does nothing to pay for the roads and other services that your home state provides. These loops holes were originally developed for over the road equipment, ( 18 wheelers) where the trailer ( or entire truck for that matter) really had no home state. They are moving down the interstate. each day finds them in a different state. IFTA and other taxes collect taxes and apportion them to each state the trailer passes thru giving each state a pro-rated share of the revenue, as opposed to one state collecting an annual renewal fee. |
Maine Trailer Tags Are Not Legal for Delaware Residents
