The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-12-07

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Fees Are Due Now
Cost on Larger Cars Will Be
Lower Than Last Year, Be-
cause of Price Drop.
Minnesota autoists will pay
from 10 to 20 per cent less for
their 1922 auto license tags than
they did this year, according to
Secretary of State Mike Holm,
who said the drop was due to
reduction in prices of all motor
vehicles. Autoists commenced
paying their 1922 state motor
tax Dec. l, new number plates
being available on that date.
Car owners throughout the
state will pay 1922 taxes on q
basis of the factory list price for
Nov. 1, 1921, as compared with
1921 taxes on basis of Nov. /,
1919, two years earlier and a
date before most of the motor
car price reductions had been
put into, effect.
Practically the only taxes that
will not be lowered will be those
on Fords, which carry a $12
charge for pleasure vehicles and
Sis tax for trucks. These
figures are set by law as the
minimum payable on any car us
ing Minnesota highways and cam
not be changed except by the leg
islature.
Taxes in 1921 were based on a
rate book, which was practically
a reproduction of the 1920 Iowa
rate book, taken over because it
had proven satisfactory in that
state and because an immediate
rate announcemnt was ready for
prompt distribution this year,
obviating much of the delay in
Cured last year because of the
lateness of the laws passage and
enforcement.
Car owners were given until
midsummer last year to pay the
new state motor tax, because it
was put into effect so late in the
year. The law will be in effect
to the letter this year, and it re-
quires payment of taxes by Jan.
81. After that date a penalty Of
25 cents a day becomes effective
and continues until it has reach
ed a total Of $3.50. After that
point owners, attempting to use
the roads with the old 1921 lie
ense plates, will be subject to ar
rest.
Hundreds Of individuals, who
received their certificates of
ownership by mail last year did
not realize their Importance and
threw them away or treated
them so carelessly that they
were mislaid. The law requires,
however, that these must be
necessary after the legislature
passed the motor tax law last
spring. The new rate book is the
first strictly Minnesota rate book
issued.
Applications for licenses are
being opened a month before the
expiration of the current year
because the limit for payment
before penalty begins is Jan. 81,
1922, instead of July /, as it was
this year.
Every car owner must present
a certificate Of title, signed by
the secretary of state, before he
can receive his number plates for
1922.
Thousands of car owners have
lost or thrown away their certi-
ficates of title, and a troublesome
delay is indicated in getting
these replaced unless persons
without them apply for subst-
itute certificates Immediately.
ALI grades of license plates, in
cluding the ''T' and 'X plates,
are shown before number plates
are issued. This is a safeguard
against issuance of license to
stolen cars which would cover up
their illegal status and make
their recovery doubly difficult.
Every car owner who has no
such certificate must apply to
the secretary of state for one.
Applications for 1922 licenses
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