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

[spettacolo.livejournal.com]

I was not trying to pay with a credit card. The $3 was being added to my e-check/local bank transfer.

[kelkyag]

It sounds like the percentage vs. flat $.50 has been sorted out. I'll guess that surcharge goes straight to the entity you mentioned above that's handling electronic payment for the city, but don't know.