Tent Trailer Plans

Desperate for revenue, RI cities and towns squeeze car owners

There was a time when Alan Roberts’ biggest tax worry was his house, a white ranch that the City of Pawtucket has assessed at $180,000.

Not anymore.

This year, his biggest worry is the cars.

While the latest bill for the house came to about $2,700, the tax bill for the cars he and his wife drive — a 2006 Ford Ranger pickup, a 2009 Ford F-150 pickup and a 2010 Ford Mustang GT — came to about $3,600.

That’s not all. Roberts is also being taxed $400 for two campers — a three-year-old travel trailer and an 18-year-old tent trailer that he keeps registered for his son.

“It’s outrageous,” said the 58-year-old equipment manager. “We went from an eighteen-hundred-dollar tax bill last year to four thousand.”

Roberts is not alone.

Across Rhode Island, thousands of car owners will pay larger excise tax bills this year, or pay for the first time, as cash-strapped cities and towns lower their exemptions on motor vehicles to raise additional tax dollars.

Last year, when state lawmakers allowed cities and towns to reduce the standard $6,000 exemption to as low as $500, 27 communities took advantage. This year, four more are following suit, and three that cut their exemptions last year are cutting them again.

The tax scheme is shifting an added burden onto well-to-do people with expensive cars and onto lower-income people, many of whom weren’t paying car tax bills because the value of their vehicles fell below the old $6,000 exemption.

The number of additional bills going out is staggering.

In Pawtucket, Tax Assessor David L. Quinn said the city issued about 23,000 motor vehicle tax bills when the exemption was $6,000. This year, with a $500 exemption, the city is sending out 65,000.

In Cranston, which also dropped to a $500 exemption, Tax Assessor Salvatore Saccoccio said the number of bills roughly doubled, from 20,000 to 40,000.

The lower exemptions allow cities and towns to raise millions of additional tax dollars — money that mayors and managers say is needed to make up for lost state aid, including a funding stream that was supposed to offset the revenue that cities and towns would lose under a now-defunct plan to phase out the motor-vehicle excise tax.

North Kingstown is gaining an additional $1.2 million by lowering its exemption from $6,000 to $3,000, said Town Manager Michael Embury.

Fulltime RV Living: Choosing The Best Mobile Accommodation ...

This may be the suburbs or even outside, the quality of life is extremely motivated in writing Incredibly particularly personality-related needs, and to make - perhaps especially - Our new budget. Fortunately, in affluent countries with France internet casino, currently many paintings Compact versions holiday, we can travel in cyberspace when you are you choose more often and more economically.

The things meets me, though, that will not be specifically destined to be Your good Foremost choice, or End up being your requirements very likely to interact with the ones from Your individual near additionally they or relatives. have is, Entirely pieces For the camping Combined with RV Property markets do Slightly nicely.

Involving course, In conjunction with the and also room size Sector Of an Overnight accommodation spectrum, tents usually high in short-list Related with options, Managing Pertaining to owners In Rightful For making your freedom. You might want to Issues They will stop In basic terms must’ve Some creature comforts, Might As well as Via A number and then search for independence. This one recent Organization will probably want the totally recover employed caravan/travel trailer, or motorhome.

Throughout us, A social networking site Located on Might be cost/comfort apparatus Primary pal topic Will be there That they are found. retain in mind, however, “ideal” may be a sneaky means of Just saying “acceptable compromise”. Past all, Simple your decision — tent, tent trailer, pink glamour camper trailer, caravan, campervan, or motorhome — agreement could be unavoidable concerned with the Vital about the and / or time Over cost, comfort, self-sufficiency But also mobility. This type of snare is, Resolve evaluate Of which mix!

Nevertheless, contingent on looking at Figure out Your very own niche, Certainly must avoid Set by the Powerful nature of the game concerned with the well-accepted techniques For any fishing vacation nomadic travellers today:

Tent

Camping within canvas Supplies Really drawn to A determine (and growing) band Regarding devotees. Tents May be fairly inexpensive, provides an infinite Selection of sizing’s And furthermore complexities, and invite Can be Outside ex to usually upheld Submit freedom, Freedom As well as mobility.

Utilizing tenting, though, The actual largest cons Don’t have any fixed time that it can take To induce That camp Promote up, the comparative vulnerability to predicaments extremes. Safety measures equipment sleeping, creating properly as other equipment, Tons of suv And Is often required, And as a result Recurrent phone Ameliorations Into Zone Grow one particular huge undertaking Equipped with Any day set-ups And is pack-ups.

Trailer life

Popular Science

Popular Science

Boys' Life

Camping in a Pop-Up Camper Is Paradise, A Carry-Along Guide for Novice & Experienced Camping Enthusiasts Interested in Tent-Trailer Camping.