Is the car dealership trying to cheat me? HELP PLEASE!!
I really need some help here, please finish reading this and tell me if I am reasonable or not.
I brought this car last week, i negotiated with the salesperson and I mentioned that "I want to pay this much for this car and that will include everything I need to pay." OK, the salesperson agreed and they sell me the car for 28,000 dollars, which is the price I asked for and that should include everything, documents,taxes, destination and handling, all that, right?
Then, I went to register my car and get a tag. The lady works at the DMV told me that I haven't paid for the city sales tax, she show me the recipt of my car and under the city sales tax, it says "N/A" and I need to pay for it, the original price of the tag was $20 and now it goes up to $400 because of the tax. I decided not to pay at that time.
So then I asked some of my friends who brought cars from them, and they tell me that they never paid that much for a new tag. And the DMV lady told me that the car dealership usually collect all the taxes (city, county, state) when people buy a car.
Then I found on my county's website that says, "The dealer is required to collect sales tax due at their location." But, in my case, they didn't do it.
What do you guys think? Shouldn't the city sales tax be included in the $28,000 while county and state tax is already inclued? Now I am thinking they might try to let me pay that $400 so that they can make profit? Please tell me what do you guys think.
In Buying & Selling > Car Buying > Taxes
6 answers - 479 days ago
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