Topic: Automobile Registration Fees

[BradT]

In Montreal, it will cost $305 (yes thats right!) and change to register a personal vehicle each year.

And how much a year do you pay for auto insurance?

[dougjp]

In Montreal, it will cost $305 (yes thats right!) and change to register a personal vehicle each year.

Wow, that's about triple what the Ontario government report was the cost in the link above.

[blur911]

In Montreal, it will cost $305 (yes thats right!) and change to register a personal vehicle each year.

Doesn't that include some of your insurance costs?

[Arthur Dent]

High isn't the word for it. Usurious is more like it. Here's a current comparison by Province.

http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/graphics/english/news/vehicle-fees.jpg

The current Ontario plan is to increase from $ 74- to $ 82-, then $ 90- in 2013 and $ 98- in 2014.

How old is that? I was pretty sure I paid in the eighty dollar range to register my Mazda for a year.

[Cord]

Also, doesn't "registration" refer to something different depending on where you are? Didn't I read in another thread that registration in Ontario is basically just notifying the government that you own a particular car car and that licensing the car is a different process? In Alberta "registration" is what you do to get license plates to make your car legal to drive.

[kenm]

$90 here, in the land of the bright red mud, but it was just announced in the budget that it would increase and evolve into a sliding scale. All other user fees will also be increased.

[Blue01]

Here in the land of Oz, as well as far right and far left politics with not much in between, the socialist inspired and heavily milked ICBC is really socking it to us.
I just registered my Gold Wing today for 6 months.  No collision, no comprehensive, and no under-insured.  Whatever registration costs are, I don't know, but this is what they hit me for:

Short term premium                   $536
Short term licence fee                   17
Short term licence surcharge        10
Short term ins. surcharge              27
Personalized plate fee                   20
Total amount sucked out of me  $610


That is basic coverage with $2,000,000 third party liability.

I declined the under-insured which would have cost me an additional $93.  So since I don't have that, then what the heck do I have?  Who and what am I insured against?
Why do I have to purchase additional insurance to cover me for under- and un-insured drivers as well as impaired drivers?
Oh that's right, it's a tax grab.

[Ex-airbalancer]

If you did wipe out, $630 would not even cover the cost of police, tow truck or paramedic that would come out to pick you up 

[Blue01]

If you did wipe out, $630 would not even cover the cost of police, tow truck or paramedic that would come out to pick you up 

Need not worry. 
I have provincial medical coverage, this is not the USA.  I have coverage similar to CAA, good anywhere in Canada or the US.  And I do have 12 month coverage for collision, fire, theft, vandalism, etc. through a private company for about $350.  ICBC would be at well over double that.

And it's still a tax grab.

[Ex-airbalancer]

does any profit from BC insurance go to the province ?