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As most of you know, I'm finalizing a move to the DC area. It seems that every move gets more complicated, and more buried in paper, taxes, and bureaucracy.
Here's an example. Buy a house, move cars and airplane to new state from Texas.
1) House purchase (actually went smoothly).
2) Arrange movers (pain in the rear)
3) Movers mis-estimate cost, present bill $5,000 higher than estimate. After long discussion with move coordinator, get bill reduced to 10% over the estimate amount.
4) Deal with incompetant Verizon on phone lines, waste several days waiting for them to no-show. Call Cox for cable internet (very good), call and cancel Verizon
5) Move airplane
6) Get lucky, arrange hangar. Trip #1 to airport to make sure plane fits.
7) Trip #2 to airport to pick up hangar keys and apply for gate pass
8) Trip #3 to airport to pick up gate pass
9) State requires aircraft registration, but aircraft registration can't be issued until you prove that sales/use tax is paid.
10) Sales/Use tax form assesses any aircraft moving into state, unless you can prove that you paid sales tax elsewhere. Find 8 year old use tax form for Ohio. Then file sales/use tax form. Pay accountant to get copy of original tax form.
11) finally aircraft registration form. Submit proof-of-insurance details
11) Virginia has personal property tax in its counties on aircraft. Now go to county to get form for personal property tax and file that.
12) Go to DMV for driver license. Must take existing license, proof of social security number, proof of legal residency (utility bill at new house), proof of citizenship (passport or birth certificate), and one or two other items. Then take written exam.
13) Must have car inspection and emissions inspection done prior to car registration. Off to the local service station.
14) Take inspection information, old title, etc. and apply for new title and registration. Pay use tax unless you can prove it's already paid (2 states ago).
15) Personal property tax on car. Go to county office building, file local registration, pay personal property tax. This is different county then where the airplane is based, so it requires going to a different place.
16) We won't even talk about income tax next year.
17) Realize that US Post Office has ignored the forwarding request for mail. Schedule weekend trip back to Texas to recover mail in old house and speak with Post office. Submit Second request for forwarding, and scramble to try and ensure that bills have new address applied.
18) 2 weeks later, mail still not being forwarded. Speak to postmaster.
19) A couple of automatic payments billed to credit cards bounce because you changed address with credit card companies but had not yet done so with vendor. Scramble to make good and get addresses changed.
20) try and find time to work.
It's a full time job for some period of time just to move. Administrative burden gets worse and worse. Last move to Virginia (15 years ago) wasn't nearly this bad.
Here's an example. Buy a house, move cars and airplane to new state from Texas.
1) House purchase (actually went smoothly).
2) Arrange movers (pain in the rear)
3) Movers mis-estimate cost, present bill $5,000 higher than estimate. After long discussion with move coordinator, get bill reduced to 10% over the estimate amount.
4) Deal with incompetant Verizon on phone lines, waste several days waiting for them to no-show. Call Cox for cable internet (very good), call and cancel Verizon
5) Move airplane
6) Get lucky, arrange hangar. Trip #1 to airport to make sure plane fits.
7) Trip #2 to airport to pick up hangar keys and apply for gate pass
8) Trip #3 to airport to pick up gate pass
9) State requires aircraft registration, but aircraft registration can't be issued until you prove that sales/use tax is paid.
10) Sales/Use tax form assesses any aircraft moving into state, unless you can prove that you paid sales tax elsewhere. Find 8 year old use tax form for Ohio. Then file sales/use tax form. Pay accountant to get copy of original tax form.
11) finally aircraft registration form. Submit proof-of-insurance details
11) Virginia has personal property tax in its counties on aircraft. Now go to county to get form for personal property tax and file that.
12) Go to DMV for driver license. Must take existing license, proof of social security number, proof of legal residency (utility bill at new house), proof of citizenship (passport or birth certificate), and one or two other items. Then take written exam.
13) Must have car inspection and emissions inspection done prior to car registration. Off to the local service station.
14) Take inspection information, old title, etc. and apply for new title and registration. Pay use tax unless you can prove it's already paid (2 states ago).
15) Personal property tax on car. Go to county office building, file local registration, pay personal property tax. This is different county then where the airplane is based, so it requires going to a different place.
16) We won't even talk about income tax next year.
17) Realize that US Post Office has ignored the forwarding request for mail. Schedule weekend trip back to Texas to recover mail in old house and speak with Post office. Submit Second request for forwarding, and scramble to try and ensure that bills have new address applied.
18) 2 weeks later, mail still not being forwarded. Speak to postmaster.
19) A couple of automatic payments billed to credit cards bounce because you changed address with credit card companies but had not yet done so with vendor. Scramble to make good and get addresses changed.
20) try and find time to work.
It's a full time job for some period of time just to move. Administrative burden gets worse and worse. Last move to Virginia (15 years ago) wasn't nearly this bad.
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