How To Register An Rv Trailer In Utsh

MURRAY, Utah – With travel restricted by the pandemic, thousands of Utahns are turning to the RV market for family adventures. Just the KSL Investigators establish a recent police force alter has some experiencing sticker stupor when they annals their motor home.

"Information technology's simply – it's insane," Lynne O'Donnell said about the nib she got from the state of Utah to register her motor dwelling house. "In 2018, information technology was $142.75. In 2019, it was $488.25."

That 350 percent jump in registration fees in but ane year kept O'Donnell's RV plans parked.

She called the state, thinking there had been some sort of fault.

"They said they tin't do anything," she said.

That'southward when she reached out to the KSL Investigators.

PRICED OFF THE ROAD: A Utah law change decreased registration fees for some while sending the fees skyrocketing from some folks with modest-motor homes. Tonight on @KSL5TV news at 10PM, I'll investigate the reasons behind the modify and how Utah compares to our neighbors. pic.twitter.com/LvIkFOmFSV

— Matt Gephardt KSL (@KslMatt) July 27, 2020

Motor Abode Registration Fee Change

In our search for answers, nosotros found a law change sponsored by Country Senator Brusk Brier, R-Provo, in 2018. S.B. 169 – Motor Home Statewide Fee Amendments changed how registration fees were calculated.

"What this bill does, is it has an age-based fee schedule for motor homes," Brier explained during a Utah Senate commission hearing.

Instead of owners paying a percentage based on the value of their motor habitation, the registration fee would exist based on their vehicle'southward age, and practical uniformly across the state. The older the motor home, the less a person must pay.

New vacation vehicles cost $690 to register, while those fifteen years and older drib to $90.

At the hearing, Bramble said the nib, "puts motor homes in the same category every bit cars, boats, motorcycles, etc."

For someone who is driving a new $250,000 motor home, their fees went style downwards. For people like O'Donnell, whose 2012 motor home is much more small, it has meant a huge fasten in her registration fees.

Bramble best-selling this possibility at the committee hearing.

"At that place will be a handful of folks who are losers on this bill," he said at the fourth dimension.

Driving Change: A Tax Loophole?

The KSL Investigators reached out to Bramble, who referred the states to the Utah RV Dealers Association. Brier said they did all the research for the beak he sponsored.

The association president told us the goal of the pecker was to bring the fees down for people who own very big, very expensive RVs, and in doing so, hopefully, close a tricky taxation loophole.

They merits some Utahns with expensive motor homes were gaming the system by registering their coaches in other states to avoid paying Utah fees.

The KSL Investigators found websites based in Montana offering RV owners help in registering a business in the Big Sky State, and so they could register their pricey motor domicile there and save a lot of money.

Co-ordinate to records we obtained from the Utah State Tax Commission, 15,419 motor abode registrations brought $3,794,995 into the state coffers concluding year.

Fifty-fifty with the law change, the KSL Investigators found Utah can still be more expensive than registering in other nearby states.

While Utah charged O'Donnell $488.25 to annals her 2012 motor dwelling house, if she registered in Nevada, information technology would but price her $196. In Wyoming, the fee is $162; in Montana — $131. And in Idaho, registering a 2012 motor home comes to a mere $88.

O'Donnell said this new police force has priced her right off the road.

"I haven't been able to come up with the extra money to have it registered yet," she said. "I'm hoping the legislator will, or whoever it takes to change this, will have a more serious look at what they've done and contrary it."

After nosotros shared O'Donnell's story with Bramble, he told the states, "If adjustments demand to be made, I'm more willing to look at it."

That said, Utah's constabulary does appear to be working as designed.