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Oops: 3.20% fee to pay Somerville excise tax online? Yikes!
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. . .
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
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. . .
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Fwiw - I wasn't saying there shouldn't be a charge for the "convenience" – I was just surprised at the amount – and now even more surprised that it is percent-based. I have an old car with $41 excise tax – with a newer car @ $25. per $1000 – that fee can add up.
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Is this right = (so a car valued at $10,000 would have an excise tax due of $250 (@ $25/1000) @ 3.2% = $8.)?
A. is high
B. Why should a "convenience fee" be percentage-based?
Anyway. . . I'm sticking with stamps and buying more "convenience fee" ice cream.
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(And I'd still pay with my bank's online payment system, which doesn't cost me anything.)
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