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Caroline County Supervisors approves ordinance for Date published: 8/15/2010
BY PORTSIA SMITH
After next April, Caroline County residents won't have to stand in line to buy decals for their vehicle windshields. But they will need to scrape those old decals off just one more time--replacing the current stickers with the new ones by April 2011. Those decals then become permanent. Tuesday night, the Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 to join many other counties and make motor vehicle decals permanent. The change is expected to generate an estimated $806,385 in revenue, said County Administrator Percy Ashcraft. The amended ordinance requires all motorized vehicles currently licensed in Caroline as of Jan. 1, 2011, to require permanent decals. The decal sales will begin in early 2011, with a deadline to display of April 1, 2011. Once permanent decals have been sold for all vehicles for calendar year 2011, no additional decal will be required unless a new or used vehicle is purchased. Once a permanent decal has been established in 2011, a license registration fee will be assessed annually on all motor vehicles, Ashcraft said. The annual fee will be payable June 5 with the collection of the first half of the individual's property taxes. The fees are $30 for all vehicles, with the exception of a $25 fee for motorcycles and similar two-wheel vehicles. Purchasers of new or used vehicles and/or new residents during calendar 2012 and thereafter will be required to file with the commissioner of the revenue within 10 days of the purchase date or date of residence, Ashcraft said. After filing with the commissioner, the treasurer will issue a permanent decal for the new vehicle or resident. Portsia Smith: 540/374-5419
Caroline You need to get out of the decal business anyway..
Fees for decals now a PERMANENT TAX INCREASE. What kind of place are we living in? They tax Dogs, Cats & barnyard animals too... Think I'll get a pet snake the county has figured out a way to tax that yet..
They won't have to print the things every year. You have to pay the fee for it, but the county is just getting that money in, not dishing it out to print them each year.
This is not saving any money just still paying for the decal in another manor. All other counties stopped with the decals however Caroline County want to keep getting the revenue for what. No one wants a permanent sticker/othr than the yearly state inspection sticker. VA will never end the tax on vehicles.
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