ICBC Bull S**T

demon seed said

I got one for you. If I were to move to BC from alta. and then go to register my wifes new Honda Accord the BC registry will charge me the provincial sales tax on the original purchase price of that car. The car has to be 2 yrs old or older to get out of it. Just another reason why it'll be cold day in hell before I'll be moving further west.

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That's the provinces way of protecting their cash grab from new car purchases. If they didn't have rules like this, everyone here would go to Alberta to buy new cars to save on the PST. You'd be a fool to buy locally when you could hop on a plane and buy a car in a province without a provicial sales tax. Saving several thousand dollars would certainly motivate me!

A friend of mine fell into this trap recently. He lived in Calgary and he and his wife bought a new car while there. She got transferred to Victoria and they had to fight tooth and nail to not have to cough up the BC PST on the car they'd bought in Alberta years before. Yes, it's BS. No, you can't do anything about it.