About Car Fee Ledger
Radif Partners keeps one data file per state and for DC, read from each DMV or revenue department fee schedule and statute: the sales and use tax with county rates, title and plate fees, the registration formula (flat, weight, value, age or horsepower), value taxes, EV and hybrid surcharges, inspections and capped dealer fees. Each file records its source, the date it was read and a quotation, and the engine tests are replayed before any change goes live.
Why this site exists
Search for a DMV fee calculator and the first result is usually a state's own tool, which knows one state and stops at registration. The independent calculators that follow cover a dozen or fifteen states, or ask you to type a "tax rate" you do not know. This site does better than the first Google result because it computes, in one pass, what buying and registering a car really costs in all 51 jurisdictions: the purchase tax at your county's rate, the title, the registration formula the state actually uses (flat, weight, value, age or horsepower), the yearly tax on value where there is one, the EV or hybrid surcharge, the inspection, and the dealer documentation fee where the law caps it. Every line of the result names the state source it comes from.
Who publishes it
The site is published by Radif Partners, a company that builds calculators from official schedules. It is not a DMV, a dealer, a lender, an insurer or a title service, and it has no commercial link with any of them. No page asks for your name, your VIN or your phone number, and there is no advertising on the site today.
Radif Partners
49 rue du Ressort
63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France
contact@carfeeledger.com
What we read, and what we refuse
We read the fee pages and fee charts of the motor vehicle agencies, the motor vehicle tax pages of the departments of revenue, the statutes and regulations behind them, the county rate tables they point to, and the emissions program pages of the environmental agencies: 435 official documents across the 51 data files, each saved with the date it was read and a short quotation of the passage used. We refuse figures from other calculators, from dealers, from insurers' blogs and from "average registration cost" rankings, because none of them shows its source. When a state does not publish enough to compute a line exactly, the calculator says so and shows the official range instead of a guess: that is the case for at least one line in 50 of the 51 jurisdictions, and each state page lists what it cannot know.
How it is checked
Each jurisdiction has its own data file and its own tested engine. Before each release the test suite runs every engine on a new car, a used electric car from a private seller, a renewal a year later and the brackets where a fee jumps, and compares the results with the examples the states publish when they publish one. The method page explains the arithmetic and the editorial policy says how corrections are made.
Contact
A fee that changed, a county rate we missed, a better official source: contact@carfeeledger.com or the contact page. We cannot look up a specific vehicle record or a DMV case, but we check every report against the state's own page.