gsrthomas

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I dont know if its illegal or not.

I have a friend that was living in Cali all his life. Got married bought a house in NV, a year later got sick of NV and bought a new house in TX.

So he has TX, NV, and CA drivers license. I do not think no one in their right mind would sitation him or arrest him for having multiple drivers licenses.

Plus when I was in college lots of people that were out of state students were getting CA drivers licenses.

I highly doubt its illegal.

TimboIS

You seem to have a lot of less that upstanding friends.

It's like having multiple OFFICIAL ID's, i.e. you cannot be a resident of more than one state, therefor you cannot legally have a drivers license fro more than one state at a time (just like you cannot have multiple passports). The DMV ALWAYS asks when applying for a license if you already have a license from another state, and requires you to surrender the old one. From the department of motor vehicle act...

No driver's license may be issued to a person who has a driver's license issued by any other state unless the person first surrenders the driver's license issued by the other state, which license shall be returned to the issuing state.

lighthalo

im not totally sure if i can help you here but what my dad does with every car hes bought (through a private party like someone on ebay), he'll pay for the car but make the previous owner say he paid less for it, he did this with his M3, he paid 45g for it but made the guy sign that he paid 35g so he'd could pay less tax to regester it, but he had to have a notary watch them sign it. otherwise they will look up the value and make you pay what it says

TedxGS

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haha exactly!

RA40

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While there will be ways to skirt around these issues, I feel the potential risk and headaches if caught are not worth it. Then you have to look over your shoulder wondering if you covered it up. Buy it right.

Lexkost

Mike, we can thank all our Democrats in California for those taxes.

FLIPPU

Although I hate the fact that if I buy a car (Specially used car) that I have to pay TAXES again even though the person that originally bought it ALREADY paid taxes on it...

In any case, if you buy a car from a "DEALER"..be it here in CALI or OUT OF SATE, you WILL pay taxes to CA DMV for the amount of sale.

I bought my LS430 in IL and drove it back...the Dealer in IL charged me taxes @ 6.25%..and a TEMP TAG for 7 DAYS...that means, I had to get out of that state within 7 DAYS or the tag is noooo good...I got home and I had 30 DAYS to SMOG, INSURE, and provide Emmision Stickers (which is already under the hood on some cars) for the DMV so they can CHECK and RECORD the car in CALI..then I paid the additional 2% Taxes since it's 8.25% here.

When I bought my other car from a private party here in SoCal..we agreed that he will input a different "selling price" on the bill of sale so I can potentially save on taxes...The price will still need to be within the ballpark value of the car because the DMV employee will "sometimes" check or want to SEE the vehicle in person...Although "MY" DMV person said...."you paid THIS much for this car?? Thats a lot of taxes!"..I replied, should I have written down a smaller amount??..She then replied..."I don't really care, it's too bad you already wrote it down on the transcript"...


Do it right...do it Legal....or KARMA comes back 10FOLD!

Mike

RA40

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As 1SILVERGS3 just posted, it's experiences like this that make it easier to find one in-state when possible.

I paid $2,577 in taxes for our LS4 at the time. It hurt but I reasoned the ease of the transaction was worth it and the $$ also support the city.