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Re: Paying Sales Tax on New Car at the Registry

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From: ellen c siever
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 20:41
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In article <1992Aug03.164107.26493@kronos.com> richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun) writes:
>kvk@questor.sw.stratus.com (Ken Koellner) writes:
>>Does anyone know what for of payment the RMV will take for sales tax
>>when registering a new car?  Will they take a first-party personal
>>check or just cash/cashiers-check?
>
>The Registry accepts personal checks for anything *but* sales tax.  For
>that you must pay cash.  I have no real idea what the rationale behind
>this is (yeah, I know they'd get a lot of bad checks:  but they get a
>lot of bad checks for other things too, no doubt); I've found the policy
>inconvenient on more than one occasion.
>
>-rich

In addition to cash they also take cashier's checks, bank checks (I don't
know what the difference is between these but they were listed separately
on the form I got from the car dealer) and money orders.

Ellen
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From: esiever@world.std.com (ellen c siever)
Subject: Re: Paying Sales Tax on New Car at the Registry
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