Oops: 3.20% fee to pay Somerville excise tax online? Yikes!

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

Correction: the fee is 3.20% of the car's value excise tax with a $3. minimum.

Guess I've never paid my Somerville excise tax on-line.
Went through the steps to do that just now and discovered right near the end (through an alert - thank you!) that the fee is $3 3.20% of the car's value excise tax, with a $3 minimum. That seems kind of high – has it been that for a while? The city does it through an enity name Kelly & Ryan Associates

I pay all my monthlies on-line and only RCN charges a fee – that's a $1 and I'm lazy but $3 seemed a bit much, so it was back to my "forever" stamps. .  .

Comments

[serious-noir.livejournal.com]

True – though one wonders: (as someone pointed out, since RCN waives the fee for automatic CC payment) what savings they see from CC autopay compared to one-time CC payments.

[cravereality.livejournal.com]

They get the money faster and it's more a sure thing. People who don't have autopay are probably more likely to be late or completely flake out.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

In which case they get a late fee, and eventually they will have the renew their registration which they can't do until they are paid up.