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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
Except for road trips, home charge is adequate, particularly 240 volt. Not taxed currently. Don't know they figure out your useage, but expect they will eventually. Gotta get them tax monies somehow
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In Texas, the prerequisite for the mandatory, annual vehicle registration, at a minimum, involves an annual certified safety inspection, at which time odometer readings are recorded.
This information is electronically transferred to each county tax office, where the vehicle title and registration is handled.
The county 'knows' the actual annual mileage, GVWR, from which they might have some mathematical relationship to ascertain each vehicle's real impact on the roads an highways, from which The Highway Trust Fund would receive an appropriate revenue to cover annual maintenance.
If I drive 2,000-miles a year, as I typically have, I'm 'taxed' as if I've consumed 1,000-gallons of gasoline, and driven 12,000 miles.
It's completely arbitrary and capricious, even though they're in possession of enough information to make a 'scientific' attribution to the vehicle's impact.