You will pay sales tax where you register the vehicle. Last time I checked Florida has sales tax...
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Last time I checked, you did not have to pay sales tax in Florida if you gave someone a car. You had to pay a title transfer tax. That may have changed. It has changed a number of times.
you pay the tax of the state that you bought it in
You should not have to pay sales taxes in Florida if it was a gift. Cloud Chaserz
The answer is - it depends, but the answer is somewhat complicated. If you have the car shipped directly from the dealer to your home state, then no Florida sales tax applies. Let's presume you are driving the car off the lot yourself. Florida will charge you sales tax on this purchase, but if the right paperwork is filled out (Form DR-123), then the sales tax rate will only be as high your home state sale tax rate (with a ceiling of the Florida sales tax rate). So if you live in a state with a 3% sales tax, the Florida dealer should only charge you a 3% sales tax if you sign the right forms. Any sales tax you pay in Florida can be credited to the taxes that are due when you get your tag in your home state. Worthy of note, if your state has a zero sales tax rate on cars (such as Montana or Georgia), then the dealer does not have to charge you Florida sales tax. I'm a Florida CPA & Attorney that does almost nothing but Florida sales and use tax controversy. I hope this answer helps. James Sutton, CPA, Esq. WWW FLORIDASALESTAX COM
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Florida is going to want you to pay the sales tax in Florida (and, of course, Illinois is going to want you to pay the sales tax in Illinois). If you immediately register the car in Florida, you are going to have to pay sales tax there (and can probably get out of paying it in Illinois). If you register it in Illinois first, then you'll probably have to pay tax in both locations. The only state I definitively know the rules for is Massachusetts, where you must pay sales tax on any car you have owned for less than a year when you first register it there. They tried to make me pay sales tax on my car in MA when I moved there since I was registering it in February 1992 and had purchased it in February 1991, but fortunately the specific dates of purchase showed I'd owned it for 367 days, and I got out of paying the sales tax.
You have to pay taxes on the car where you register it.
miami, miami dade, florida
The Florida resident would normally pay use tax on the purchase price of the auto to the state of Florida. The Alabama car dealer would only collect Florida sales tax on the purchase price IF the dealer had nexus in the state of Florida.