Am I ripped off?! Dealer asking for sales tax 1 month after signing off lease

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Last month I signed my lease for a Bolt at $182/mo. While driving with a temp tag and waiting for the perm tag/registration, dealer finance guy forwarded me an email from their partner asking them for additional tax (here is what it says)

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My understanding is dealer carry the responsibility for tax/fees after the lease contract signed off. I do see on the lease contract “Official Taxes and Fees” is calculated insufficient to pay tax. Here is the contract.

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Please advise! I am fairly new to leasing.

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What state was this purchased from and what state are you in? I see an ‘out of state’ fee.

What is the explanation from the finance guy of the $1750.53?

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Tell the Finance guy to eat it.

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That “Action Required” letter sounds like a scam. Did you verify that the address is legit? lol

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I don’t worry it a scam. the letter is sent by dealer’s their partner, and it was sent to dealer. They forwarded to me just to explain what is going on.

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I think the sales mistook the calculation when proposing the price, if not intended to hide the tax/fee. Now the title process is suspended without the fund. My temp tag has only 3 weeks left.

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I am in DE, purchased in PA. My state taxes 4.25% of the sales price ($40519), ~ $1722. Even they calculated the tax wrong from the beginning, on the contract it is already taxed $517.63 (Item 13). Should be $1200 gap.

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Let them pick up the car.

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4.25% “document fee” + 2% “usage” on the monthly payment

$1,722.06 doc fee
$3.64 per month (36 months = $131.04)

I can’t find quickly if the CCR is taxable.

It is bizarre that they have $3.56 in 7-J.

If you knew the tax was wrong, why did you let them write it incorrectly? This is now a titling/registration issue.

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Thanks for going thru the numbers. I did not know it was wrong back then (just googled). I am new to leasing and they have so many numbers on the contract I can not understand. When sitting down with them, the only number I checked is the monthly payment is what they proposed.

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It’s not like you’re off by $100. It’s over $1k… if I was in your shoes, I’d tell them to come pickup the car or eat the difference.

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But I’m pretty sure that the tax owed to DE is valid. Regardless of how or where he gets a vehicle from, he will owe this “tax”.

If he somehow unwinds this, he’s going to be in the exact same situation but now he’s out his cost of shipping it across the country and has to find another equivalent deal.

LOL at the next person whining because a dealer won’t do their out of state deal…this is why…

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I would love to return it if GMF can close the loan on me. I had better options, would have chosen differently if they told me about the tax due.

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He purchased it from PA and he is in DE…

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True, don’t think there’s any malice involved and it does seem like a mistake on the dealer’s side.

Just tough from a consumer’s perspective that your total cost of ownership is very different now and you may have evaluated your options differently if you knew in the beginning

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Thread was tagged ca-socal, for no apparent reason.

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i could not find the tag for DE. my bad

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fixed by typing in DE.

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exactly.

This is so unprofessional. I should be more alert when they told me one pay makes no difference when I asked about. But they are not a small dealership…

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Yea at this point if your having buyers remorse you just go with the Eat it or pick it up. You signed the contract in good faith and not your fault they botched the tax Calc.

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