Motorhome Tag Costs - NW Arkansas?
 

We are contemplating moving to NW Arkansas next year to be closer to family. If anyone has a 40' diesel motorhome that lives in that area how much are you paying for your tag each year? Just trying to work up a preliminary budget. I am paying $1,500 a year here in Alabama. I don't know what County we would move to yet, but it would be around Rogers, AR.

Tags are not expensive in Arkansas....I think mine is like $25 or something like that.
What will kill you is the Personal Property tax that the county will charge you. It more than makes up for the low tag cost. I have older cars, a motorcycle and a 38' Fleetwood 2008 model. My PPT bill due every Oct is $1400. :banghead:

wow in ND i pay $105 for my 40" and no taxes.

And to transfer the title to Arkansas you will have to pay Sales Tax. That's going to be the big expense.

Right....almost forgot that lovely 6%.

6% of what?

I believe that the State goes by purchase price....at least they did for me. But then I wasn't bringing in a vehicle. Not sure how they value vehicles already in possession...but I'm guessing they have a book of value or something.
You may want to get on the AR web sites for vehicles fees. Oh...and sorry...it's 6.5% not 6%.

I believe they go by book value also but I have lived here 54 years so not sure. and yes it's 6.5%.

Do all states do this? This could be $10,000.

I want to clarify what I am reading here.

If I move from Alabama to Arkansas I would have to pay 6.5% sales tax on my motorhome that I bought three years ago? I am assuming this has to be done in order to get Arkansas tags. Plus I would have to pay personal property ("ad valorem) fees each year when I renew my tags on top of the tag fees. This is how Alabama is.

In normal times all of these questions could be answered by stopping by a DMV office, but this is not normal times. Everything has switched to online, which does not give you much info.

Google the phone number of a county where you might want to live and call.

State of Arkansas DMV offices etc:

(501) 682-8381 for titles etc. (501) 682-4692 DMV main office.

I checked my tag breakdown for Alabama which is actually $1407.77 for 2020.

License Fee - $502.25
State - $178.36
County - $260.68
City - $137.20
School - $369.28

I just renewed the tags on my class C. Because it’s a motorized vehicle it requires yearly renewal. If it had been a travel trailer, it is a one time license fee (why? I haven’t figured that out)
The yearly registration fee was $30 + $2.50 (listed a a “special fee”) + .39 for postage = $32.89
The fees are based on gross weight and/or number of axels.
Sales tax is Only charged on a new or used vehicle that is purchased and brought into Arkansas while you are already a Arkansas resident.
Moving to Arkansas with a vehicle already registered in another state will require a license tag fee and a title transfer fee, but not sales tax.