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Originally Posted by diz
It's on roads plowed and maintained by NH but all of the registration, excise tax, insurance costs, etc. go to Massachusetts. It seems to me that the car should be registered where it spends the most time, not where its owner spends the most time. In my case anyway, I think NH deserves the money I spend keeping that car on the road.
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I can't say that I disagree with you... However where NH was getting caught in the middle, of legal issues, is that most states dictate that if you have a vehicle in the state for more then 30 consecutive days and have declared a residence in the state, that you must register the vehicle in that state. For Ma. a state with 6% sales tax, and towns that generate money from Excise tax, that generates a great deal of revenue. Now if a neighboring state such as NH allows Ma. residents to register a car to there vacation home, and drive it back into Ma., thus robbing the state of Ma. of Revenue. The state of Mass. not only goes after the person, but also goes after the state and town that allowed the issue to happen. The problem is not the vehicles that come go to another state for a few days, but rather the ones that come into the state for months at a time.
Bottom line is people abused a system, now the system (state of NH), is having to punish not only the people, that used the system as intended. People who register cars, and other vehicles in the state that are intended to be used in the state 80-90% of the time. But more importantly give them selves a defense, when the idiots who have vehicles registered in NH that spend 80-90 % of the time in other states, get in trouble.