Desperate for revenue, cities and towns squeeze car/RV owners ...

Mike Rainville, of Warwick, R.I., who is angry concerning the car tax. Warwick expects to lift an extra $8 compensation by lowering its exemption as of $6,000 to $500.

There was a occasion at what time Alan Roberts main tax be anxious was his house, a pallid ranch so as to the City of Pawtucket has assessed at $180,000.

Not anymore.

This year, his main be anxious is the cars.

While the newest bill for the home came to concerning $2,700, the tax bill for the cars he and his wife drive " a 2006 Ford Ranger pickup, a 2009 Ford F-150 pickup and a 2010 Ford Mustang GT " came to concerning $3,600.

Thats not all. Roberts is too existence form taxed $400 for two campers " a three-year-old journey trailer and an 18-year-old tent trailer so as to he keeps for his son.

œIts outrageous, supposed the 58-year-old gear manager. œWe went as of an eighteen-hundred-dollar tax bill previous day to four thousand.

Roberts is not alone.

Across Rhode Island, most important of car owners determination pay better excise tax bills petroleum year, or pay for the primary time, as cash-strapped cities and towns inferior completely exemptions on motor vehicles to lift extra tax dollars.

Last year, at what time condition lawmakers allowable cities and towns to decrease the normal $6,000 exemption to as low as $500, 27 communities quick advantage. This year, four additional are ,next suit, and inquisitiveness so as to cut completely exemptions previous day are cutting not any again.

The tax system is shifting an additional burden onto well-to-do populace by means of luxurious cars and onto lower-income people, a lot of of whom werent paying car tax bills since the worth of completely vehicles fell underneath the old $6,000 exemption.

The figure of extra bills leaving out is staggering.

In Pawtucket, Tax Assessor David L. Quinn supposed the metropolis school concerning 23,000 motor vehicle tax bills at what time the exemption was $6,000. This year, by means of a $500 exemption, the metropolis is sending out 65,000.

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