Recent comments in /f/ColumbiaMD

ovowave t1_j3v5jjc wrote

Why is it so much? I, too, will need to transfer my registration to Maryland (coming from Ohio) and when I looked into it the cost was a little under $300. My girlfriend got the same number when looking into transferring her registration from North Carolina to Maryland.

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JonFaul t1_j3u6ncd wrote

Maryland used to (apparently still does) charge a sales tax difference between the rate where it was registered and what the current MD rate is. It's an effort to avoid having people but cars in low tax neighbor States, but it seems rather petty to me. It sounds like that's what they're hitting you for

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saegiru t1_j3u5tj3 wrote

This is around what I had to deal with when I moved from Indiana and brought my cars over. I sadly had 3 cars to register and it was around $900 per vehicle. Luckily though, after that I haven't had anything near that bad and it's about $200 every 2 years which is much more manageable.

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gravybang t1_j3tcejl wrote

Back in the day, I would have suggested the Palace 9.

Now, depending on your career path, it's never a bad time to start a path to waiting tables and bartendering by getting some experience busing tables and being a bar back. Waiting tables in your teens and early 20s is way better than hourly minimum-wage employment

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