[john hall]

Just curious as to how other areas place property tax values on vehicles. Specifically old cars and trucks. Not gripes about your house valuation, or on your boat and RV---just older cars.

In a nutshell, the issue I am running into at the moment is the tax value on a 38 year old 1 ton farm truck. It has a wood stake body--and I mean wood as in wood floor, runners, sides, you get the idea. It has an automatic trans, broken AC, no dents, some rust. The county thinks its worth over $13,000. The county thinks ANY old vehicle is a collectors item. Around here, that truck would sell for $1,500-3,000. Where they get the crazy values I don't know. A few years back the tax value on my 66 Mustang shot up to $16,000. I raised heck with the tax office to the point they realized I wasn't just going to "go away". Since the car was not a daily driver, they finally told me that if I paid an extra $10 a year to get antique auto tags, the most they could tax the car at would be $500. So I did and now the county gets WAY less in tax revenue for the car than they did before--the savings even offset the extra cost of the antique auto tags. I'm going to check, but I don't think I can get a "weighted" antique auto tag. So looks like I'll probably be arguing with the tax office.

Anyone else live in a county that just assumes because a vehicle is old that it is restored and worth a small fortune?