Washington vehicle use tax law
A few weeks ago, I moved to Seattle, Washington, where I now work a full-time job as a software engineer. This was the first time I ever moved somewhere permanently. Sure, I had technically moved to California in order to attend college, but while I was there, all of my important identity-related documents still had my Ohio address on file: my driver license, my vehicle registrations, my bank accounts, my credit cards, my voter registration. For the first time, I am now in the process of switching all of that between two different states. My experience has not been smooth. Although I didn't know it at the time, the trouble began on June 23, 2021—about six weeks before my arrival in Seattle. My parents had decided that they would gift me one of their cars, a gray 2016 Nissan Rogue, to use in Seattle. In order to reduce costs for my parents, they would split me off their auto insurance policy so that I could get my own, and we would transfer the car's title under my name, giving ...