Maddening new laws when you renew your driver's license

[Daisy and Delilah]

No state tax in Florida either. Come on down Pam!!

I have edited this to change it to state tax from sales tax. We do have sales tax here. What was I thinking? I wish we didn't have sales tax

[JenBKR]

Wow what differences in sales tax! It's 6% here.

[ramanth]

MI has encouraged renewing by mail and online for a few years now too.

My license expired this June, a week before I got married. I could of gone the week with an expired license, but I didn't want to risk it.

So I paid the $12 renewal fee, filled out all the appropriate paperwork to have my address changed on my license (which is free), and mailed it in early June.

Weeks later it still hadn't show up. Where was it? At my parents house. They had completely ignored the paperwork and my license had my old address. What was even the point?

So a week later, I went in with my marriage certificate and had my name changed (a $9 charge) and address changed. They never asked for proof of the new address. It's good until 2010.

I was in and out in an hour.


I can't believe the hassle some of you have to go through.

And for the record, MI has a 6% sales tax.

[cyber-sibes]

Ya just never know...when we moved from Illinois back to Ohio (in 2002), we went in to get new liscenses. I got mine in about 5 minutes. Then they came out & told my husband his was being held up for non payment of a citation....ok, he doesn't remember getting a ticket.....just when & where was the citation from?
HE GOT A TICKET IN NEW YORK STATE IN 1970!!!!!!! Ohio & NY must be getting desperate. I'm sure the cost of doing the government paperwork far far exceeded the cost of the ticket & late fees.