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My car's tax is an annual bill, as you describe.

That's not what the tags are for though, the tags are registration tags indicating your plate is active. In Massachusetts, it's $30/yr for active registration and the plate cannot be renewed without active insurance, etc.

So, if you fail to renew your insurance then you won't get a new registration sticker and your plate will eventually be easily identified as lapsed. The automated systems will see it immediately – and they do! But we still apply the sticker for manual identification.



> In Massachusetts, it's $30/yr for active registration

… plus the excise tax. (A variable-rate tax rather loosely based on the value of the vehicle.)




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