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

[mattdm.livejournal.com]

And why can they? Because, this thread, basically. No one is complaining about the credit card companies, they're suggesting the vendor (in this case, the city) should suck it up.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I think it's been very unclear what people were complaining about, actually. My initial impression was that people were complaining about the City, but then at least one follow-up suggested one person was complaining about the system as a whole. If the question of why the fee is percentage-based referred to the actual banks as opposed to the processors, I didn't read it that way.