Cost of State Registration?

Enacted July 7, 2005. Went into effect Jan 1.

"john smith" wrote in message
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"Michael Ware" wrote:

Ohio - $15 per seat annually (down from a proposed $100/yr)

Has that been passed?

When does it take effect?

It has been discussed for the past several years, but the legislature
had not acted on it.

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"Michael Ware" wrote:

Enacted July 7, 2005. Went into effect Jan 1.

Thanks. I stopped registering the plane when the price went from $12 to
$100. I have been waiting for it to come back down.

"john smith" wrote:

Thanks. I stopped registering the plane when the price went from
$12 to $100. I have been waiting for it to come back down.

I like lower taxes like anybody, but in Ohio as referenced here, if you
live in smog-check County, and a County with auto-registration add-on
tax, your dinky little compact truck costs you $75 to register. Have a
pilot-specific vanity plate it's then $95. Airplane was to be $100, but
that money was by new law to go to a dedicated airport improvement fund.

AOPA I think shot itself in the foot bitchin' about this tax. Made us
look like a bunch of cheapskates before State legislators and the Office
of Aviation. Flying in to talk to latter people in AOPA's CitationJet,
as the Office is located on an airport.

Agree or not, I thought it was comical. AOPA wrote letters to Gov. Bob
Taft pleading for relief on our behalf. Yes, a [slightly competent]
member of the prestigious Taft family, but who at the time was under
criminal investigation. For not reporting a constituent gift of a set
of freakin' golf balls. Pure politics. Taft recently pleaded no
contest to the misdemeanor; no jail time.

I get the image of Taft barking at his Chief of Staff, "Who's this guy
named Boyer? Find out what the First Lady pays to register her car.
And get my criminal defense att'y on the phone!" :-)

Fred F.

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"TaxSrv" wrote:

"john smith" wrote:

Thanks. I stopped registering the plane when the price went from
$12 to $100. I have been waiting for it to come back down.

I like lower taxes like anybody, but in Ohio as referenced here, if you
live in smog-check County, and a County with auto-registration add-on
tax, your dinky little compact truck costs you $75 to register. Have a
pilot-specific vanity plate it's then $95. Airplane was to be $100, but
that money was by new law to go to a dedicated airport improvement fund.

AOPA I think shot itself in the foot bitchin' about this tax. Made us
look like a bunch of cheapskates before State legislators and the Office
of Aviation. Flying in to talk to latter people in AOPA's CitationJet,
as the Office is located on an airport.

Rudy is much of a voice for aviation in Ohio.

Agree or not, I thought it was comical. AOPA wrote letters to Gov. Bob
Taft pleading for relief on our behalf. Yes, a [slightly competent]
member of the prestigious Taft family, but who at the time was under
criminal investigation. For not reporting a constituent gift of a set
of freakin' golf balls. Pure politics. Taft recently pleaded no
contest to the misdemeanor; no jail time.

Taft's former Chief of Staff is still under indictment for actions in
his previous employ. Access to the Governor was so very tightly
controlled by the former Chief of Staff that many in the state wonder
what Taft actually knew. His staff is so afraid of his volatile temper
that they would not tell the Governor bad news.

I get the image of Taft barking at his Chief of Staff, "Who's this guy
named Boyer? Find out what the First Lady pays to register her car.
And get my criminal defense att'y on the phone!" :-)

Mr Meeks?

"john smith" wrote:
AOPA I think shot itself in the foot bitchin' about this tax. Made
us
look like a bunch of cheapskates before State legislators and the
Office
of Aviation. Flying in to talk to latter people in AOPA's
CitationJet,
as the Office is located on an airport.

Rudy is much of a voice for aviation in Ohio.


Rudy _was_ the voice for aviation in Ohio. He's moved on to Port
Authority Director out in a big city in the Northwest. He meekly told
media out there that he was "just an airplane guy." We in our airport
association had met him. A pilot himself in the state's little twin,
but on around 60K salary didn't fly his own plane AFAIK. He probably
had perspective on AOPA lobbying, but I still criticize AOPA for telling
any official in my Ohio that I can't afford $100, for the pure purpose
of telling members in the other 49 that AOPA is working for you. The
"onerous tax" per AOPA's mag.

Fred F.

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john smith wrote:

Rudy is much of a voice for aviation in Ohio.

OOPS!
Should read: Rudy is not much of a voice for aviation in Ohio.

"TaxSrv" wrote in message

AOPA I think shot itself in the foot bitchin' about this tax. Made us
look like a bunch of cheapskates before State legislators and the Office
of Aviation.

Kinda like those guys who threw the tea in the harbor, huh?

Here's the link.

http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Aviation/.../06Reg4Web.pdf


"john smith" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Michael Ware" wrote:

Enacted July 7, 2005. Went into effect Jan 1.

Thanks. I stopped registering the plane when the price went from $12 to
$100. I have been waiting for it to come back down.