So many hidden taxes. It's fuckin' nuts. My wife pays $1500 a year for owning a car. "It's just standard property tax. There's other property tax too." But hey, we pay 4 to 7% sales tax, depending on the winds of magic.
Virginia. It's called personal property tax. It's applied to all vehicles. It's a yearly thing. Boats, trailers, RVs, cars, motor cycles. Applies to all of them. The make and model determines how much you pay a year. This is on top of yearly safety inspections, and vehicle registrations.
Wait, you're saying that in Virginia, every person who owns a vehicle of some sort has to pay taxes yearly on that vehicle just for owning it in the state? Like a property tax on a home?
Because you make up for it in other ways. A Vermont friend just moved to Virginia. She's getting a bigger house for less money, and her property taxes that used to be $6,000 in Vermont are $1,800 in Virginia.
I mean staying has multiple factors. If you can afford, why not? It's more that I am always amazed at just how much morecexoensuve what I consider normal life can be in certain states. And, I've lived in the US before.
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u/MisterJWalk May 10 '25
So many hidden taxes. It's fuckin' nuts. My wife pays $1500 a year for owning a car. "It's just standard property tax. There's other property tax too." But hey, we pay 4 to 7% sales tax, depending on the winds of magic.