HAVE YOU STUDIED THE PROPOHED MOTOR TAX
BILL?
The bill is apparently designed to dis
tribute the payment of motor vehicle taxes
n$re evenly by taxing heavy equipment oyer
light cars in proportion to the w6ar and
tear they inflict -on the highways, by
supplanting t he existing tax with a
weight tax. Critics have no particular
complaint about the registration fee of
,60 for each 100 lbs. of weight named '
fir privately owned passenger vehicles,
hearses and ambulances not publicly ovned
and se?iU-trailers of not more than 3000
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pounds gross weight, or'the $10 fee pro
posed for a motor cycle.
But when it comes to trucks and trailers,
the bill increases the tax per pound Tor
every few thousand podnds over 3000 pounds,
until a vehicle of °4,000 pounds,which is ’
the limit gross weight permitted any’
single vehicle, the tax is set at $1.50
per hundred pounds.
For busses a $1 fee is charged for each
100 pounds of weight that includes not
only the car but also the passenger carry
ing capacity at 150 pounds per person ex
clusive of the driver.
Translated into dollars and cents the
vehicle owner would have to pay, our in
formant has gleaned the following facts •
from'bills:
License fees will-be $225 for taxicabs,
$50 for a bus and $50 for each truck which
includes pickups since there is no other
provision for them.
Registration fees:
Pickups can be classified as trucks in the
7000 pound group at 75gf per hundred pounds
or a fee of $52.50. This frill also include
autos towing two wheel trailers if the
total weight is over 3000 pounds.
The average flatbed truck rated as lit ton
or more will come under the 20,000 pound
group'at $1.20 per hundred wounds or a fee
of
i semi-trailer truck unit would be classi
fied at 33,000 pounds at $1.50 per hundred
oounds or a feo of $495,
»• bus shall have to pay $1,00 per hundred
jouncls which”includes payment on 'the esti
mated weight of jthe -passenger capacity,
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Delinquent Fees:
)nce a vohielc is registered it vrould become
lolinqucnt/on. February 5th following the
jxpirtation date of January 1st. The Code
jro.vidcs that the Marshal can immediately
seize the vehicle and junk and sell it as
10 seos fit. #There is no .provision made
'or a vehicle”that is not 'in uso or that
is in storage, , . .
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oss Receipt Tajf of S§ % payable every
lonth is also required from any operator.
?his can bo a tax" of a very high poroent.ago
if'thc net profit.
Tte :are informed that this bill nay cone
up .fop further consideration and possiblo
passage at the pronosed coming special
sossion iii: March.
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This information was gleaned from an'
art-ielc appearing in Jcsson's Weekly.Thor'
-is more detailed information in the orig
inal article and those intorostad mil'
find it tho issue of January 25.Our gjteea
is tOdlirnTfoa to print all of tho article.