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Fee Cuts on Every Agenda

December 12th, 2013 by flanews

Governor Rick Scott outlined a partial rollback of 2009 fee hikes on most vehicle transactions.  (3:30 in Tampa). State lawmakers appear ready to agree.

In 2009, the cost of renewing your driver’s license went from twenty seven dollars to forty eight. getting a title for your car went from twenty to 70 bucks. A mid size car tag went up eight dollars to thirty dollars and fifty cents.

In October, A State Senate Committee voted to cut the fees by a total of 233 million dollars. “It reduces that increase by- right around 50 percent,” says Sen. Joe Negron, Bill Sponsor,   R-Stwart.

Now Rick Scott is upping the ante suggesting an even bigger cut.

We ran into Chuck Pollock, he was registering a new trailer. He knows any saving will be modest. “That would be more money in my pocket, we could of ate lunch I guess,” says Chuck Pollock, Motorist.

In 2009 perhaps the biggest increase was the cost for adding a new car for your teenager or a new car to your business fleet. It went from 100 dollars to 225.

Cutting the fee for newly registered vehicles is on the top of the Senate President’s list. “If the funds were there, if the dollars were there, you could take a whack at that origination fee too,” says Sen. Don Gaetz, Senate President.

Florida will have at least one point two billion more than it did last year. House Speaker Will Weatherford says rolling fees back isn’t something usually done by Government. “Tag and title fees are too high,” says Rep. Will Weatherford, House Speaker, R-Pasco County.

If approved, the fees would drop July first, which is just fine with Ray Williams. “There is reason to celebrate then,” says Ray Williams, Motorist.

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