No longer need the use tax sticker in Illinois

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I am not sure how many have heard this but no more use tax sticker needed in Illinois for those of us living here.
 
We still have to wait for the round tuit to make the fee $200 a year instead of $10.
 
MN eliminated the stickers a number of years ago, but not the tax. No one ever looked at the sticker anyway.
 
1600vw said:
I am not sure how many have heard this but no more use tax sticker needed in Illinois for those of us living here.
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I am unaware of any 'use tax' sticker for Illinois. There is a bi-annual registration sticker. If you are referring to that, then yes, effective in August of this year that came into effect. You still have to pay the registration fee every two years and the IDOT website now allows you to do that online.

The use tax is still payable at the time of purchase and you need the proper IDOR forms to submit that before you are allowed to register the airplane. Use tax is only required once and is based on the sales cost or 'blue book' cost of the airplane (whichever is higher).

This was announced in this newsletter
http://www.dot.il.gov/aero/PDF/ILaviation 3Q 13_web.pdf
 
1600vw said:
Not the yearly use tax. You must still pay taxes on a purchase but after this from what I was told no more yearly use tax.
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I misunderstoid what you were referring to. I was referring to the use tax on purchase which is what is referred to as the use tax.
 
This is how all this came to be.

A few weeks ago I get this e-mail from the state of Illinois about the Taxes on my newly purchased airplane. I say newly purchased, I purchased it in 2010.

I am told I owe taxes on this, The lady whom helped me was very helpful and friendly.

After I gave her all my info and she told me what I owe in taxes, she tells me to make sure I go and pay my 5 dollars, she thought it was 5 dollars, for my use tax sticker that s applied to the tail of every airplane that is hangared in Illinois. She said this was a tax for using airports in Illinois and such.

Then I get another e-mail about my registration and how its coming up for renewal a week or so later. In this e-mail it stated this sticker has been done away with and no longer needed in the state of Illinois. It did not say I still need to pay this tax. This just stated what was owed in registration fee's.

My registration comes up in 2014, the FAA or whomever is allowing us to go ahead and process this info and get this done now so no lapse in coverage or something like that.
 
1600vw said:
This is how all this came to be.

A few weeks ago I get this e-mail from the state of Illinois about the Taxes on my newly purchased airplane. I say newly purchased, I purchased it in 2010.

I am told I owe taxes on this, The lady whom helped me was very helpful and friendly.

After I gave her all my info and she told me what I owe in taxes, she tells me to make sure I go and pay my 5 dollars, she thought it was 5 dollars, for my use tax sticker that s applied to the tail of every airplane that is hangared in Illinois. She said this was a tax for using airports in Illinois and such.

Then I get another e-mail about my registration and how its coming up for renewal a week or so later. In this e-mail it stated this sticker has been done away with and no longer needed in the state of Illinois. It did not say I still need to pay this tax. This just stated what was owed in registration fee's.

My registration comes up in 2014, the FAA or whomever is allowing us to go ahead and process this info and get this done now so no lapse in coverage or something like that.
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FAA has nothing to do with this at all. I think you are mixing up several things.

FAA handles your registration of your N-number, regardless that is separate from what happens in Illinois in addition to the FAA registration process.

In Illinois we have airplane use tax: paid once upon purchase

Once over other year registration aka the sticker. Although the sticker will no longer be issued.

When you first purchase an airplane you cannot register it IN ILLINOIS with IDOT until you pay the use tax. That could be why you are confusing the sticker with the use tax.
 
Yea I have not gone back and looked at all these e-mails. But you are right I am sure. I have just enough correct to be dangerous...lol

I wonder why they did away with this sticker if they, the state, was making or taking or money for it.

Is this just an Illinois thing or do other states make people pay this?
 
1600vw said:
Yea I have not gone back and looked at all these e-mails. But you are right I am sure. I have just enough correct to be dangerous...lol

I wonder why they did away with this sticker if they, the state, was making or taking or money for it.

Is this just an Illinois thing or do other states make people pay this?
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They tried raising the registration fee a couple of years ago and failed. By eliminating the sticker but leaving the registration fee in place they get their raise. So they will still make money on registration. Just because the sticker is gone does NOT mean you do not pay them every two years. YOU DO! Remember as a pilot you have to register in Illinois every two years and pay for that too! It costs a lot to send those gubernatorial pension checks to the big house in Colorado you know!

As for other state YMMV. Some have a yearly property tax that is far more onerous that what we have. Some states have nothing.
 
ScottM said:
They tried raising the registration fee a couple of years ago and failed. By eliminating the sticker but leaving the registration fee in place they get their raise. So they will still make money on registration. Just because the sticker is gone does NOT mean you do not pay them every two years. YOU DO! Remember as a pilot you have to register in Illinois every two years and pay for that too! It costs a lot to send those gubernatorial pension checks to the big house in Colorado you know!

As for other state YMMV. Some have a yearly property tax that is far more onerous that what we have. Some states have nothing.
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Well, the IL IDOT spends more money sending out the newsletters than than they make on the $10 fee. It was worse when they had to buy a sticker, too.
 
Virginia still does the stupid sticker thing. Like the Department of Aviation has sticker police that go around looking to see if you have one. I frequently have mine stuck in my flight bag and forget to put it on the plane. At least they gave up that ruse on cars now that they can just block your state tag renewal if you don't pay the taxes.
 
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