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[theinevitable]

I don't even know who I would ask for a reference at this point. Beyond the professor who loves me.

So apparently I owe the city of St Louis 270$ for property taxes on my car. Is this normal?



I just called into The Best Show on WFMU. Acted like a horrible dork on air. Awesome.

[theinevitable]

yeah, totally moving to someplace with lower taxes IMMEDIATELY.

I wonder how they establish how much I owe them? I officially bought it from my dad for 10$.


And of course I get this on a week where I nearly overdrew my checking account. Luckily I have some savings from a large graduation present. I AM THE 1%.

[smick]

Go take ALL the TP from City Hall.

[Nabubrush]

yeah, totally moving to someplace with lower taxes IMMEDIATELY.

I wonder how they establish how much I owe them? I officially bought it from my dad for 10$.


And of course I get this on a week where I nearly overdrew my checking account. Luckily I have some savings from a large graduation present. I AM THE 1%.

Odd. Everywhere I've lived based it on value on bill of sale.

[lprkn]

Go take ALL the TP from City Hall.

In my experience municipial buildings only stock one-ply for the (m)asses. Bastards.

[CortJstr]

In Virginia you pay personal property taxes every year based on blue-book. Cars worth under $25K get a discount and cars worth under $3K are free. Boats, planes, and such have similar taxes.

Also, I know around here you can gift a car to an immediate family member with no taxes at all to avoid the whole "I'm selling it for $1" bullshit that people try to go through.

[Nabubrush]

With bogus bills of sale prevalent, The Man has found, especially in cash strapped locales, that it pays having some flunky to review those that stand out (really, $10 car!?!) and assessing them at a fair market value instead of using your lies.

This is gov't job creation. Make sure you pay that property tax to keep the wheels of industry greased.

Well, of course. I'm not completely sold on mankind's overwelling milk of human kindness. I just thought it was weird Dan's situation played out as it did, given my comment.

[Nabubrush]

Today I am going to take a bath.

[JorgeFabregas]

yeah, totally moving to someplace with lower taxes IMMEDIATELY.

I wonder how they establish how much I owe them? I officially bought it from my dad for 10$.


And of course I get this on a week where I nearly overdrew my checking account. Luckily I have some savings from a large graduation present. I AM THE 1%.

Has to do with the year and/or maybe the engine size/body style. Many places don't have property taxes on cars, but MO has relatively low license/registration fees at least.

Another thing that Saint Louis has that most places don't have is a city income tax.

We also have relatively low property tax for homes and an awful school system. But the zoos and stuff are free. High five!

[jay-ell]

We have county vehicle tax, it's a percentage of the assessed value, levied annually. It's usually about $50 - 100, depending on the blue book value of the vehicle. So our cars, which are nice but older, usually cost us $65 - 80/yr. That's on top of the $35 title registration fee and the $35 inspection fee, but it's not bad, compared to a lot of places.

[AugustWest]

I am very excited to go try some of this food. My friend raves about it and has been bugging me for a long time to eat some with him. Also, this section of town is generally very cool. In the middle of a big intersection is a big windmill apparently built by Adolphus Busch (of Anheuser-Busch) back when this land was all his private grounds. It was in decline until tons of Bosnian refugees moved there in the 90s. Awesome.

We had brunch at Bevo Mill a couple years ago.  It was good, but I guess the restaurant is closed now.

[pmcd9]

So if this tax in addition to the annual registration fee?  We don't have that in Texas.

[Arachno-capitalist]

I recently approached HR at my campus about something they thought I was kidding about but I really wasn't. They've been making some space accommodations for the bikers, with some neat areas with lock up boxes and such. I asked them about maybe slopping in a 16'x12' paddock with a hose and I'd supply the bucket and feed bin. It's only 9 miles on hossback and trails into work instead of  19 using the roads and I'd be fine with riding into work each day it wasn't raining instead of driving the car.

They said the nice things about checking into it but they still looked at me like I was growing a third eye out of my forehead.

Darn

Tell them its for religious reasons. I used to do business with a pallet company that was populated by some kind of amish and the ones who didn't want to take a van to work had their hosss tied to the side of the factory.

[wombat]

Please try that, Ash, it is too funny to pass up.

[theinevitable]

so, I guess my roommates and I are officially forming an LLC for this "put out recordings of our friends' bands" venture. Business-school roommate is taking the business side of this very seriously, even though we all agree that it is basically a hobby, and we hope to break even at best.

I am unhappy with the dumb name we picked for our hobby record label. I guess I only own a 22.6% share, which is about to be diluted anyway. It feels weird to be even thinking about these things.

Business-school roommate already confided to me that third roommate is thinking about this in too much of a DIY, unprofessional way. Trouble is on the horizon for our record label, currently valued at ~250$.