does insurance pay tax on totaled car?

Skeeterbop · 12-15-2011, 01:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Pharmacist

Yes, that's the thing. I was wondering if anyone here had experience with totaled cars and whether they were compensated for sales tax. I already faxed the bill of sale to the insurance company, and still waiting for them to respond.

Honestly, I think the greedy government is double dipping. They already taxed the cars once when they were new. They should not be taxing them again when sold used. really, if a car was sold 10 times, with each time the government getting a 13% tax revenue (assuming no depreciation), that means the government earned on that car 130% of the car's value as tax!!!!

If you had a 30k dollar car and it got sold 10 times for 30k dollars with a 13% sales tax you would end up at 39k dollars. So yes the grand total is 130% of the value of the car, but you wouldn't see that unless you bought and sold the car to yourself 10 times. Realistically, the way most cars hold value I bet a lot don't ever add up to even the original MSRP if you added up all sales tax on a given car.

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