Comments on: i hate: the dmv, the town, the tax people and reggie hates the cone https://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:27:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: the insider https://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65682 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:27:28 +0000 http://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/28/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65682 In the great state of WA, your renewal is for two years. TWO.

Here, after the first eight months (wtf?) you renew for two years as well.

I so loathe the government today.

]]> By: grampa https://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65671 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:46:46 +0000 http://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/28/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65671 By the way, no state that I’ve ever lived in had car registration that lasted more than one year. I don’t think that there are any, either. No way a state would give up the right to fuck you in the ass, and make you pay for, on an every year basis. It just doesn’t make financial sense. And then, if you don’t re-up your registration, they get to give you tickets, thus increasing the revenue stream.

It really is brilliant, in a demonic money making sort of way, true, but brilliant nonetheless.

]]> By: grampa https://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65590 Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:24:08 +0000 http://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/28/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65590 Nope, there are taxes on the islands. Like a 6.8 percent state income tax and a 4.167 percent excise tax (that’s a tax on EVERY transaction).

]]> By: the insider https://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65549 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:44:10 +0000 http://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/28/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65549 Wen.. ohmygosh, thank you, that was the ONLY time I smiled today, LOL. Frozen pizza? Is it because it’s just so bad that the government feels bad taxing it? Like, damn, you’re so hard up you’re buying frozen pizza? Here, just keep the tax, we feel too bad.

Their taxes suck.. definitely move back here, but ignore the NE and CA. Go somewhere where taxes don’t exist. Your own island, perhaps.

]]> By: wendykat https://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65538 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:48:55 +0000 http://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/28/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65538 oh, there are more. the hubby is still explaining more to me. i am so glad we’re going back to the US in three years.

oh god. we’re laughing… apparently vat is 17% on pretty much everything… EXCEPT… get this. FROZEN PIZZA. oh. my. god.

]]> By: wendykat https://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65536 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:45:58 +0000 http://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/28/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65536 wow. you should take a gander at the taxes here in the UK. lame. did you just buy a tv? well now you get to pay a tv tax (it pays for the bbc). there is a road tax (literally so you drive on the road). motor insurance tax. council taxes (based on what your house was thought to be worth in the 90’s even if your house was built after then [apparently the first one was based on how many windows you had on your house, more windows=larger house=more tax]). national insurance tax (it can be like 5% of your income). VAT (value added tax, sort of like sales tax, but not). don’t forget income tax (4k-39k is roughly 20%, anything over 39k is 50% tax)…

yea. i think this explains why the brits are so stiff, they have the entire arm of the government up their asses.

]]> By: the insider https://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65524 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:08:01 +0000 http://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/28/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65524 Kinda MA, but yeah similar. Here she called them personal property car taxes. Or as I prefer to call them, up your ass taxes.

I mean seriously.

]]> By: Jen https://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65521 Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:22:23 +0000 http://theinsideofmylife.com/2007/08/28/i-hate-the-dmv-the-town-the-tax-people-and-reggie-hates-the-cone/#comment-65521 You live in Mass., right? The joy of excise taxes, which are ostensibly used to pay for road repairs, maintenance, etc. Which I find amusing, considering the abhorrent conditions of most roads in this state.

Ah, the joys of Taxachusetts. How I love thee, and yet how I loathe thee.

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