Todd Esque: My name is Todd Esque and I'm a research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. I was on a field expedition down in Mexico over in Baja and one evening at the end of the field day I had the great opportunity to capture on my cell phone I captured video of a tarantula hawk wasp finding a place to hide its prey.
Calculating Your Tax Amount. Local car tax bills are a function of the tax rate times each $100 of assessed value. In other words, take the value of the car as assessed by DTA, divide by 100, and multiply the result by the tax rate (which is $4.57 for most vehicles). For personal use vehicles, a substantial part of this bill is then subsidized by the stateâs Car Tax Relief program.
If you look on your car registration, usage tax is listed first, then registration fee, then title fee, then ad valorem tax. The usage tax is sales tax and cannot be deducted. Ad valorem tax is property tax and CAN be deducted. The registration, title and clerk's fees cannot be deducted. If it was a new car, the ad valorem tax may have been paid by the dealer or previous owner for the year and may not be listed on your fees, so you wouldn't have any to deduct on taxes for the year. The next time you register the car, you will pay ad valorem tax (in KY it is a yearly fee paid at the time of registration) and you can deduct it for that year.