[Robustus]

Just registered my Altima today. Breakdown of fees:

VIN Inspection: $1
Prison Industry Fee: $1
Registration Fee - Passenger Vehicles: $33
Basic Gov Services Tax - Clark: $36
Supplemental Gov Services Tax - Clark: $36

Total: $80.

So, to everyone who complains about the vehicle reg fees: stop whining. It's hilarious that when someone brings up the lack of state income tax, inevitably someone will chime in to counter with: "yeah, but the car reg fees are really high". Oh yeah? No state income tax saves me about $7000/yr.

Granted, I was registering a 1996 Altima, so the fees were a good deal lower than for a newish car. But if you're complaining that a $400 car reg fee is unaffordable, then guess what: you should be driving a MUCH cheaper car anyway.

[irishspy]

I can't answer about NV but NYS you have to buy 2 years at a time. So what if it is higher in NV it sure beats paying over $5,000.00 a year on school and land tax. We also have to buy our licenses 6 years at a time. The make up $$ in NV is spread out over more people in many ways and unlike NYS they do not keep hiking the Fees (tax) each year. I agree the savings from no income tax is much more of a better deal.

[MollieW]

Originally Posted by Robustus

Just registered my Altima today. Breakdown of fees:

VIN Inspection: $1
Prison Industry Fee: $1
Registration Fee - Passenger Vehicles: $33
Basic Gov Services Tax - Clark: $36
Supplemental Gov Services Tax - Clark: $36

Total: $80.

So, to everyone who complains about the vehicle reg fees: stop whining. It's hilarious that when someone brings up the lack of state income tax, inevitably someone will chime in to counter with: "yeah, but the car reg fees are really high". Oh yeah? No state income tax saves me about $7000/yr.

Granted, I was registering a 1996 Altima, so the fees were a good deal lower than for a newish car. But if you're complaining that a $400 car reg fee is unaffordable, then guess what: you should be driving a MUCH cheaper car anyway.

I was astounded when I registered our cars after paying the fees in California by how much lower they were here as well as how much lower the car and homeowner's insurance are

[Everdeen]

I came from Oregon (many moons ago) and was shocked by how high the registration and car insurance was.

Of course, Oregon has a state income tax, too.

[Prosze]

You registered an old car so of course it was cheap. Im not going to buy an old car just to avoid paying registration fees even if I feel like ive just been robbed afterwards.

[nfapps]

Originally Posted by Robustus

It's hilarious that when someone brings up the lack of state income tax, inevitably someone will chime in to counter with: "yeah, but the car reg fees are really high".

Yes, I found the same. For a while I just took it for granted that the car registration fees were high because of this, but when I actually looked into it I found registration and insurance to be much lower than I expected. This is also for an older vehicle, don't know what the difference in cost would be for a newer vehicle.

Lesson to learn - when "people" says something is "expensive" check the actual numbers before believing it.

[MadManofBethesda]

Originally Posted by Robustus

Just registered my Altima today. Breakdown of fees:

VIN Inspection: $1
Prison Industry Fee: $1
Registration Fee - Passenger Vehicles: $33
Basic Gov Services Tax - Clark: $36
Supplemental Gov Services Tax - Clark: $36

Total: $80.

So, to everyone who complains about the vehicle reg fees: stop whining. It's hilarious that when someone brings up the lack of state income tax, inevitably someone will chime in to counter with: "yeah, but the car reg fees are really high".

You register a 16-yr-old POS for $80 so you claim that everyone complaining about high registration fees is being ridiculous? You have got to be f'n kidding me.

I just registered my new car this week and here are my fees:

Red Rock Canyon Plate: $35
Red Rock Canyon Plate Fund: $25
Prison Industry Fee: $1
Registration Fee - Passenger Vehicles: $33
Basic Gov Services Tax - Clark: $1,130
Supplemental Gov Services Tax - Clark: $282

Total: $1,506

When I registered the car I didn't come here and whine about the high fees because I can afford it; and like you, I moved here from a high income tax state and I realize that Nevada has to get their income from somewhere. (My last year in Maryland I paid over $13,000 in state and county income tax.)

But people do need to be made aware of the high registration fees when they move here or it could come as a bit of a shock and an unexpected expense for which they weren't prepared.

For you to belittle that warning just because you're happy tooling around town in a 1996 Altima is absurd.

[MadManofBethesda]

Originally Posted by nfapps

Yes, I found the same. For a while I just took it for granted that the car registration fees were high because of this, but when I actually looked into it I found registration and insurance to be much lower than I expected. This is also for an older vehicle, don't know what the difference in cost would be for a newer vehicle.

See my post above.

Originally Posted by nfapps

Lesson to learn - when "people" says something is "expensive" check the actual numbers before believing it.

Now you have the actual numbers. You can decide for yourself whether that meets your definition of "expensive."

[nfapps]

Originally Posted by MadManofBethesda

You register a 16-yr-old POS for $80 so you claim that everyone complaining about high registration fees is being ridiculous? You have got to be f'n kidding me.

I just registered my new car this week and here are my fees:

Red Rock Canyon Plate: $35
Red Rock Canyon Plate Fund: $25
Prison Industry Fee: $1
Registration Fee - Passenger Vehicles: $33
Basic Gov Services Tax - Clark: $1,130
Supplemental Gov Services Tax - Clark: $282

Total: $1,506

When I registered the car I didn't come here and whine about the high fees because I can afford it; and like you, I moved here from a high income tax state and I realize that Nevada has to get their income from somewhere. (My last year in Maryland I paid over $13,000 in state and county income tax.)

But people do need to be made aware of the high registration fees when they move here or it could come as a bit of a shock and an unexpected expense for which they weren't prepared.

For you to belittle that warning just because you're happy tooling around town in a 1996 Altima is absurd.

Thank you for providing some more actual numbers. It's not absurd to look at different situations and different numbers, everyone's experience is different based on the actual numbers and this is great information you've added.

It looks like it's the taxes that are high. How do your numbers above relate from year to year? Are any of those fees or taxes only charged on initial registration or will you pay them every year?

[MadManofBethesda]

Originally Posted by nfapps

It looks like it's the taxes that are high. How do your numbers above relate from year to year? Are any of those fees or taxes only charged on initial registration or will you pay them every year?

The taxes are paid every year, but decrease slightly as the value of the car depreciates. The DMV has a fee estimator on its website so you can calculate how your fees will change:

https://dmvapp.nv.gov/dmv/vr/vr_esti...tioninput.aspx

For example, my registration fee was for a 2012 vehicle. When I use the fee estimator and plug in 2011 instead of 2012 in order to simulate one year's depreciation, the fee went down $72.