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To: longnshort who wrote (200290)	3/23/2007 4:27:16 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793731

I wasn't a Washington resident when I bought the cars, so I wouldn't have had to pay the tax if I had registered them in the state where I lived at the time.

To: longnshort who wrote (200290)	3/23/2007 5:10:22 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793731

If you had a car titled and registered in another state for a certain period (90 days comes to mind), there is no sales or use tax due when you register in Washington State. Only pay the licensing and title fees. What they want to avoid is having people buy cars in low or no sales tax states and then bring them here. Oregon, for example, is 10 miles from where I sit, and has no sales tax. Biggest problem IMO is that they sometimes don't base the tax on what you paid for the car, but on some "value" they come up with in a table they use. You could have gotten a helluva good deal, and still pay tax on a higher amount than what was paid.