Anonymous wrote:I find it hard to believe it's rental cars. There has been a clear uptick in these license plates over the last 6 months.

90% tax cheats, 10% legitimate. The IRS is so understaffed everyone will get away with it.

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Anonymous wrote:Funny to see certain people immediately shriek tax cheats.

These people are just doing what the various state laws allow them. Florida makes it easy to establish residency and also doesn't demand that you spend six months +1 day in Florida. You just need to spend no more than six months + 1 day in any other single state. There's been a major "drain" of higher net worth people setting up residency in Florida because of the generous tax benefits. Have a property in Florida, a property somewhere for the summer, and keep your original residence in the DMV for seeing friends and your doctors. Or have a Florida PO box and spend most of the winter in the Bahamas/Caribbean and six months - 1 day in DMV. Still very legal. That's what my aunt and uncle do. They probably spend no more than six weeks of the year in Florida and the rest of the time is between MD and the Bahamas, but they're still legally Florida residents.

FYI you still pay property taxes where the property is. Once you declare residency in Florida or any state outside Maryland, you lose your homestead tax credits.

Love to hear slime balls rationalizing this behavior.

Anonymous wrote:Funny to see certain people immediately shriek tax cheats.

These people are just doing what the various state laws allow them. Florida makes it easy to establish residency and also doesn't demand that you spend six months +1 day in Florida. You just need to spend no more than six months + 1 day in any other single state. There's been a major "drain" of higher net worth people setting up residency in Florida because of the generous tax benefits. Have a property in Florida, a property somewhere for the summer, and keep your original residence in the DMV for seeing friends and your doctors. Or have a Florida PO box and spend most of the winter in the Bahamas/Caribbean and six months - 1 day in DMV. Still very legal. That's what my aunt and uncle do. They probably spend no more than six weeks of the year in Florida and the rest of the time is between MD and the Bahamas, but they're still legally Florida residents.

FYI you still pay property taxes where the property is. Once you declare residency in Florida or any state outside Maryland, you lose your homestead tax credits.

Anonymous wrote:I'm convinced if a VA governor ran on the platform of eliminating (or even halving it) the car tax, they'd win by an unprecedented landslide. It means people don't register their cars properly and it even stifles people buying new cars. I know for us personally we put off buying a new car to avoid the massive tax. We got a 40k car and the tax bill is $1600 yearly. ugh.

I personally received a new car (20k?) as a graduation present before I moved up here to work for peanuts on the Hill. I was from FL. I tried to register the car, but when I saw the huge tax bill, I realized I couldn't afford to register my car. So I kept the Florida plates. Because my wages were about 30k, my parents even had to buy my food sometimes. No way I could afford the car tax.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm convinced if a VA governor ran on the platform of eliminating (or even halving it) the car tax, they'd win by an unprecedented landslide. It means people don't register their cars properly and it even stifles people buying new cars. I know for us personally we put off buying a new car to avoid the massive tax. We got a 40k car and the tax bill is $1600 yearly. ugh.

I personally received a new car (20k?) as a graduation present before I moved up here to work for peanuts on the Hill. I was from FL. I tried to register the car, but when I saw the huge tax bill, I realized I couldn't afford to register my car. So I kept the Florida plates. Because my wages were about 30k, my parents even had to buy my food sometimes. No way I could afford the car tax.

I bought one new car twenty years ago and I’m still driving it and only it with over 200k miles. Why? One reason. The car tax

Anonymous wrote:I'm convinced if a VA governor ran on the platform of eliminating (or even halving it) the car tax, they'd win by an unprecedented landslide. It means people don't register their cars properly and it even stifles people buying new cars. I know for us personally we put off buying a new car to avoid the massive tax. We got a 40k car and the tax bill is $1600 yearly. ugh.

I personally received a new car (20k?) as a graduation present before I moved up here to work for peanuts on the Hill. I was from FL. I tried to register the car, but when I saw the huge tax bill, I realized I couldn't afford to register my car. So I kept the Florida plates. Because my wages were about 30k, my parents even had to buy my food sometimes. No way I could afford the car tax.

Anonymous wrote:I'm convinced if a VA governor ran on the platform of eliminating (or even halving it) the car tax, they'd win by an unprecedented landslide. It means people don't register their cars properly and it even stifles people buying new cars. I know for us personally we put off buying a new car to avoid the massive tax. We got a 40k car and the tax bill is $1600 yearly. ugh.

I personally received a new car (20k?) as a graduation present before I moved up here to work for peanuts on the Hill. I was from FL. I tried to register the car, but when I saw the huge tax bill, I realized I couldn't afford to register my car. So I kept the Florida plates. Because my wages were about 30k, my parents even had to buy my food sometimes. No way I could afford the car tax.

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Anonymous wrote:So many people are responding that these are military plates from FL and TX. Does this scare anyone? I am not sure I want my kids to attend school with kids whose parents are war mongers.

You just realized there is a huge military presence around here? Are you also wondering what that big pentagon-shaped building off of 395 is?

Anonymous wrote:So many people are responding that these are military plates from FL and TX. Does this scare anyone? I am not sure I want my kids to attend school with kids whose parents are war mongers.

Anonymous wrote:I find it hard to believe it's rental cars. There has been a clear uptick in these license plates over the last 6 months.

90% tax cheats, 10% legitimate. The IRS is so understaffed everyone will get away with it.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of military people keep their Florida plates.

+1, I assume anybody with FL plates is military