Re: [FWDLK] property taxes/old cars

I’ll bet the environmentalists could be behind a tax plan in North Carolina like that. They love to push all old cars off the road and to dry up the parts sources (those old cars back in the woods) so you can’t keep the old cars running. They think every old car is a gas hog, excess green-house gas emitter, and general polluter. They are making it expensive to own an old car on purpose.

A sharp lawyer could see the gold his share of a class action suit could bring in. Just think of how much excess tax has been collected on every old car in the state valued many times their true value, over the last 10 years, and the lawyer could potentially collect a third! Or the threat of such a lawsuit could convince the politicos to change the tax process as a compromise for letting them keep their past ill-gotten gains.

Dave Homstad

56 Dodge D500

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From: Forward Look Mopar Discussion List [mailto:L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Ted Blackington
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Subject: [FWDLK] property taxes/old cars

In North Carolina an annual property tax must be paid on every vehicle. It matters not whether the car is usable or licensed. . A special "book" is kept in the state capitol which gives the local assessor the "correct rate" at which to tax your old car. The book assumes every old car, including that rusted out old Model A in the wood behind your house is a restored model. Appeal is virtually impossible, as I stated in another post a few minutes ago. One must go to Raleigh with a hired lawyer after filing a petition and formally present your appeal to a tax appeal board. This is what I was told by letter when I protested my tax bill.

As mentioned above, the tax is an ANNUAL one, and though it decreases slightly each year on new cars, it increases on "antique" models.

I have many friends who "hoard" old parts cars "out back" that are in great fear of the tax assessors finding their ":stash." Especially so since they have begun using aircraft to spot these vehicles. North Carolina is NOT a tax friendly state to homeowners or old car lovers. And yet each year I receive an "invitation" to enter my 55 Imperial in the annual Christmas Parade. For free, of course.

Oh yes-fail to pay the tax on that "junker" out back and they will refuse to license your regular driver.

Ted ( who would get the h--ll out of here if someone would buy his house!!)

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