I have a situation here that I need some insights on. When I first got the car at a dealership(took finance under them) I mentioned to them that I need the car registration to be under a particular state and I signed all the necessary paperwork. The deal got funded and everything. Now I want to ask them to do the registration in a different state due to some personal reasons and I am ready to pay off the whole amount with the difference in the taxes via a cheque from a different bank.
You are asking the wrong folks. You need to call the dealer and the state office that you wish to register the car in. If the car is already registered in the state you chose first, it is up to you to re-register the new car in your new state.
Thank you for responding. The car is not yet registered. I did ask the dealer and my sales consultant said its possible and asked me to send out a cheque with total amount including the taxes of the new state. But today when I talked to the finance person, he said that there is no way they can do the registration to a different state as he started all the processing with the 1st state I mentioned. So I wanted to ask here to know if this is possible.
If the registration application has been submitted how can it be stopped? I don’t believe that it can. You will have to turn in the license plates when you register the vehicle in the next state and see if there is a way to get a partial refund on the first registration fee.
For the registration, I was asked for additional address proofs. Due to my situation, I will not be able to provide those and hence I asked them to do the registration in MA for which I have a drivers licence.
Are you Active Duty Military by any chance, stationed in a state other than Massachusetts? If so, the car can be registered in the state you are stationed regardless of your drivers license.
At the dealership I was just asked for bank statement and I provided those. But later I was asked for a drivers licence. I do not want to change my drivers licence away from my work location.
I dunno but you can’t just pick whatever state you want to register a car in. You have to be a resident of that state and then the car has to be registered in that state. Usually for out of state sales the dealer will provide a 30 day sticker for you to accomplish that. What does financing have to do with it? Why do they care what state you are in?
I bought my first motorcycle in Georgia, but I live in Florida. They sent me home with a paper tag and told me I was on my own to register it. I registered it at the DMV (actually, the county tax collector’s office) in Florida and everything was fine.
Don’t overthink this. Just let them send you home with a temporary tag and register the car in your home state before the paper tag expires.
There is no reason the dealership has to register the vehicle for you except that it’s another chance for them to overcharge you.
If you bought a car in a private sale, you’d have to register the car yourself, so just pretend it’s a private sale and take the bill of sale and/or the signed title to the DMV and pay the annual registration fee. Piece of cake.
There have been threads here about vehicle buyers beating the dealer out of collecting the sales tax because of a mix up over state or county residence. It seemed that some applauded those who beat the sales tax, dealers take this seriously.
This was my red flag. Them chose one state originally and then changed the state for personal reasons. There was nothing that suggested it was where the OP was living. Maybe so but something is not right. A while back someone was living in one state and working in another and trying to register the car in the work state. So it’s a little cloudy.
In my mind registration and sales tax are two different issues since the tax should be charged where the car was purchased, regardless of where it is eventually registered. The only apparent danger is that the OP might have to pay for registration twice, which seems appropriate if the dealership has already registered the car in the state originally listed on the paperwork.
I suppose there might be states that still charge some kind of impact fee or sales tax along with the registration, but with the motorcycle I paid Georgia sales tax and Florida registration.
I live in NH on the boarder with MA and I’ve bought 2 different cars over the years from a dealer in MA.
You need the dealer to give you a temporary license plate (transport plate) when you buy the vehicle. Once you get the vehicle then you register it in the state you want. When you register your vehicle is when you pay the tax. The dealer can NOT collect the tax unless they register it for you. And all dealers around here charge you for that…At least $100 per vehicle. No thank you.