The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1925-03-18
AUTO LICENSE FEES
ARE LOWERED Sc.
GOVERNOR MOORE SIGNS MEAS
URE LOWERING REGISTRATION
FEES Sc A CAR

House Dill NO. oZl, establishing a
new scale of registration fees for mo-
tor vehicles, was signed by Governor
c. c. Moore and is now in force. 1t
affects more than 10000 auto and
truck owners in the state, and all
those who will drive through the
state in the next two years And
it makes a decided change in the rev.
enue to be derived by the state and
the counties.
Fees for all lighter cars, weighing
ton or less, are reduced from SIS to
S12, which is the base fee. An addi-
tional charge of 81 a hundredweight
is made for each hundred pounds in
excess of ton. This is for new cars.
For those three years old the fee is
s11 base and 80 cents a hundred adj
ditional. For cars more than four
years old the fees are $40 and 80 cts.
a hundred.
Roughly speaking this makes the
registration fee less than heretofore
on practically all cars except those
less than three years old weighing in
the $500 and 5000 pound classes.
STATE AND COUNTIES LOSE
The new scale will produce a rev.
enue less than the old one averaging
Sc per car, and totaling only sSS0,000
in 1925 as compared with 81, 100000
in 1924, it is estimated by the bureau
of motor vehicle registration and the
department of public works. OF this
the counties will receive $4,000 and
The state sSS,000. the division oeing
so and 10 per cent under the new law
instead of rs and 25 per cent as here
tofore. The counties will lose $751;
90 and the state highway fund 1926,
500
These estimates are based on the
number of cars licensed in 1924 and
are not deemed even approximately
accurate. But the department of pub
lie works, basing its conclusions on
estimates of both the registration and
motor fuels bureaus, doubts whether
the increased revenue from the gaso-
line tax will Offset the loss in vehicle
licenses to the state highway fund.
GAS INCREASE
A three cent gasoline tax, it is cal
culated, will produce a gross revenue
in 1925 of 100000 and in 1926 of $3.50,
900. Out of this refunds will be made
under the new gas tax law. for fuel.
not used on the highways. This may
total 100000 year. From the net
new law apportions sums
aggregating more than $4,000 to
certain counties and highway districts
holding old claims against the state
fund. What net gain the state high
way fund may derive is therefore in
doubt.
Expenses of administration in con-
nection with the motor fuels tax are
estimated to be about $4,000 a year.
The total net revenue from gas tax
for the biennium is placed at about
s1,3O5,00O.
BUS TAX NOT COUNTED
No attempt has been made TO esti-
nate the revenue which may be de-
rived from house bill No. 80 If 1t be- /.
comes a law. This is the bill placing !
4 tax of per cent on the gross bust !
ness of auto stage lines. There is alb
Iolutely no data available on which !
o compute the balue of this business /
,r the amount that could be collect (
ID by the tax.
Another problem presented to coun-
y assessors and the state department |
If law enforcement by reason of the
lew vehicle registration law is that |
If rebates for 1925 licenses paid by |
owners before its enactment. Each of /
hese whose fee is less under the new
aw is entitled to return of tn diff
erence between new and old FEE.
TO SETTLE WHOLESALE
BY the terms of house bill No. 327
applications for these refunds must
,e made to the county assessors, on or
,efore April Is. Each assessor will
resent a claim for the total amount ]
epresented by all the applications re
eived, to his county commissioners.
Zach county in turn will present the
lain to the state department. Ad-