Florida tag fees

[Padgett]

Effective 1 September the additional licence fee taxes enacted in 2009 will expire. This means the tag for a standard car wwill drop from $57 to about $39/year.

If you can wait until 2 sept to renew, you could save some money on multiple tags.

[tentcamper]

How sweet, but do you think they will not reenact the tax? One thing I noticed in my short life, all temporary taxes become permanent.

[hillbillyhotel]

LOL in my long life I have seen the same thing, taxes or fees never go away as planned,

[Padgett]

http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2014/0156

Originally Posted by tentcamper

How sweet, but do you think they will not reenact the tax? One thing I noticed in my short life, all temporary taxes become permanent.

Not until after the elections, our current administration wants to be re-elected.

[scrubjaysnest]

+1, MisterP....about 30 seconds after the elections

[oldstick]

Originally Posted by scrubjaysnest

+1, MisterP....about 30 seconds after the elections

Ha Ha, !

Then, about 90 days later the GA legislation will copy and pass the same thing just to prove how "progressive" and up with the times they are.

[Padgett]

Well there is precidence. the original Sunshine State Parkway went from North Miami to Ft. Pierce and was financed by bonds. When the bonds were paid off, they had a ceremony, the SSP was toll-free for one day, the name changed to Florida's Turnpike, the Ft. Pierce to Wildwood extension announced, and the tolls were reinstated.

Incidently when you look at I-95 just south of Ft. Pierce, it make this strange loop of about 10 miles into the hinterlands, then returns to the coast south of Stuart. There are two schools of thought. The first is that some politician's buddy had land out west that he wanted the Interstate to run through. The second was to make sure that the toll SSP was significantly shorter from Ft. Piece to the Gold Coast than the free Interstate.