3 thoughts on “good thing GA does this, instead of the value”

  1. In Illinois, you have to pay a sales tax on any car you purchase or are given.

    If I am looking at the right table, if you are given a car or buy it from a person (and not a dealer), you have to pay a tax of about $100.00 to $465.00 depending on the age of the car (the newer, the more tax). And if you live in Chicago or Cook county (where Chicago is), you owe the city and county a sales tax, too.

    If you buy from a dealer, I think you pretty much pay what the going sales tax is where you buy the car (city, county, and state sales tax).

    Mike, are you saying in Georgia, the sales tax on a car is a flat fee no matter whom you bought it from?

    • they have a valuation scale based on previous auction sales, and a database they base your tax on. Barring that, or lack of information regarding that, the default is what you paid for it. There is a family member exemption for inherited vehicles valued under $85,000

      I “paid $3,500 for my DB7”

  2. not exactly a ‘sales tax’ because they tax it when you bring it into the state AND when it is sold/resold etc. – even if you paid the “sales tax” in another state they still expect you to pay the full ad valorem when you bring it to the state.

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