Audi at lease end - dealing with Audi FS and DMV to pay no use tax

[mister209]

Also, found this write up about another method for lease buyout in California, without paying sales tax.

Third Party Lease Buyout

OK, thanks. Your checklist was pretty helpful. I’ll share my experience as well, hopefully it is helpful. I was ~19mos and ~9500 miles into my 24/7.5k e-Golf lease at the beginning of August and discovered that Vroom was willing to give me $21.3k for the car. My buyout at the time was $15.3k, so I immediately started the process. I had Vroom pull my 3rd party dealer buyout, but I wasn’t expecting VW to be quite as greedy as they were - they wanted $19.5k from Vroom. So I mailed a check off to …