Sales tax/registration new lease Az to Ca

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Items such as lease incentives are taxed in full at the time the lease is entered into. However, negotiated discounts from MSRP are not taxed.

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You do not pay tax on a dealer discount

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Is there a company someone in California can hire to get through the DMV mess instead of DIY?

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You can use a third party registration company or AAA (just check Yelp for your area), but it’s pretty east: smog check, VIN scan, registration at DMV.

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I think I would go to AAA.

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AAA…They will send you to go to DMV if registering from out of state

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If AAA won’t do it, will a third party registration company do the work for me so I don’t have to hassle with DMV myself?

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Yes-there’s plenty that will do it… Just google search and will show nearest services

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Thank you to everyone for your help! We did not need to pay tax on the full car value. I called the DMV several times and the tax board- both gave me incorrect information and said that we were responsible.
If anyone else is struggling with this my advice is to call around and find a private DMV place that knows what to do. We paid $75 for a company to process the paperwork and they got us our $$ back that the DMV charged us.
The only fees we were responsible for were the registration fees which was about $5-600ish.

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Which company did you use?