You must have paid it too. I just looked it up (Section 152.023 of the Tax Code if anyone is curious) because I had never heard of it. When I moved to Texas, the law as I understood it was to pay the 6% sales tax if the car was less than a year old, but if it was older than that there was no sales tax on it. The assumption was that the older car was clearly not bought to evade paying Texas sales tax.sjfcontrol wrote:Is this new? I don't remember any newcomer taxes when we moved here in 2004. Though coming from California (don't tell anybody!), the registration fees plus that tax would have still been less than we were paying for registration in that foreign country.
Apparently the law went into effect back in 1982 and my understanding of the old law may be a myth (I moved in 79). The law was in this form at least in 1999 (based on the amendment date) and was amended in 2005 to lower the fee if the car is allowed parade plates.
You can learn something new here every day, and it is not all firearms related. I am amazed at this law.