New York registration fee calculator

Calculate the supported renewal

Two different weight boundaries

The DMV registration schedule uses many weight bands. A car weighing 3,500 pounds falls in the $56.50 two-year band, while a 4,000-pound car falls in the $69 band. County use tax has its own 3,500-pound boundary, so moving from 3,500 to 3,501 pounds can change county tax even when the base registration band is unchanged.

An electric vehicle or a vehicle with at least six cylinders has a $32.50 minimum two-year registration amount. If its weight already produces a $69 fee, the result remains $69. Adding another $32.50 would be incorrect. Only a weight-table amount below that floor is raised.

The renewal calculation does not add the $25 original plate or $50 title amount described for initial registrations. Original registrations, transfers and sales tax need their own transaction review.

Choose the residence county group

New York City’s five counties and Nassau use a $30 two-year vehicle use tax for all passenger weights. Suffolk and Westchester use $30 at 3,500 pounds or less and $60 above that boundary. These counties also have the $50 two-year MCTD fee.

Dutchess, Putnam and Rockland use $10 or $20 by the same weight boundary, plus the $50 MCTD fee. Orange has the $50 MCTD fee but is not listed for passenger county use tax in the DMV chart.

The other counties with $10/$20 use tax are Albany, Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Chenango, Clinton, Cortland, Erie, Franklin, Genesee, Livingston, Madison, Monroe, Montgomery, Niagara, Oneida, Onondaga, Orleans, Oswego, Rensselaer, Schenectady, Schuyler, Steuben, Sullivan, Tioga, Tompkins, Ulster, Warren, Washington, Wyoming and Yates. Choose the ordinary listed-county option for these names.

For a county absent from that complete chart, select the no-county-use-tax group. A documented city/county use-tax exemption requires the appropriate DMV form; it does not automatically erase the separate MCTD fee in this calculator.

A 4,000-pound car in Suffolk has $69 registration + $60 county use tax + $50 MCTD = $179 for two years. At the same weight in Orange, the supported amount is $119. In New York City it is $149. These examples exclude specialty plates and other transaction-specific amounts.

Official fee references

• NY DMV passenger fee guide: current weight table, county chart and minimum rule.
• MV-202 passenger fee schedule: two-year fees, county groups and use-tax exemption forms.

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