MG-Cars.net

Welcome to our resource for MG Car Information.

Recommendations

Parts

MG parts spares and accessories are available for MG T Series (TA, MG TB, MG TC, MG TD, MG TF), Magnette, MGA, Twin cam, MGB, MGBGT, MGC, MGC GT, MG Midget, Sprite and other MG models from British car spares company LBCarCo.

MG MGA - Massachusetts Question

A question for Mass MGA owners. What does our intrepid Registry of Motor Vehicles use for a value to calculate sales tax on the initial registration?
Thanks,
Doug
D Sjostrom

Doug, when I titled my 1958 MGA the Registry compared my receipt and I believe a reference to book value and used my $6500 receipt to calc the sales tax.

A couple of years ago when I registered my MGB exactly the opposite happened.... my receipt was for a few hundred $'s due to the car being inoperative. But they checked book value and calculated the sales tax on a value of $2k. When I questioned why, the clerk implied tax would be paid on the higher of the amount paid or their value reference.

Hope this helps.
Brian Denis

Hi folks,
here is what we do in Vermont. Go to a car dealer and get an appraisial, before any work is done. Register vehicle at much reduced value. repair car. re-register.
when i did my midget up i had a receipt for the sale price and receipts totalling lots of money for parts. they didnt care at all, and hit me with a 3oo.oo registration fee......never again


mark
Mark Youden

Mass uses a book value, "cars of particular interest" IIRC. You have to have a sales receipt. I just registered a plow truck and they wouldn't do it without a bill of sale, even though they use the book. They want the higher of the two. There is, at present, no way around it.
Keith Gustafson

Thanks to all...Guess my genuine $100.00 Bill-of-Sale won't fly...
Happy New Year,
Doug
D Sjostrom

Man..thats awful,here in Mi I don't even like the 6% sales tax.Call me niave,but do people there just accept that,no gettin on your state rep.That's arbritary taxation.
wc wolcott

It's worse than arbitrary taxation it's often double taxation.

In the case of my MGB... I paid tax or a higher value than the car was worth at the time. Then I bought parts from Massachusetts companies and paid tax on them.

A $3k engine from Proper PM cost me $150 is sales tax.... ouch!
Brian Denis

Brian,
Don't forget our excise tax making it a triple whammy.
COL,
Doug
D Sjostrom

Doug:

By way of consolation, the excise tax on my '57 coupe has been $5.00 per year since I bought it three years ago.

Regards,
M.D.
M. D.

This thread was discussed between 01/01/2006 and 03/01/2006

MG MGA index

This thread is from the archive. The Live MG MGA BBS is active now.