The Vision Automotive Group, which is a
Rochester-based car dealership, sets up a used car lot at the St. Lawrence
Centre. By doing this, Vision Automotive Croup becomes a “transient car
dealerships”, which are out of area dealer setting up a car lot in Massena. The
controversy about this is that people are thinking that the taxes are not
staying in the county.
According to the St. Lawrence County Treasurer Kevin Felt,
“when someone buys a car at a dealership in NYS, the dealer collects the sales
tax and passes it on to the state. On a quarterly basis, the dealer reports
what county the customers were registering the vehicles in (where they live)”.
Also, “The state uses this information to know how much tax money needs to go
to the respective counties. So, the sales tax ends up in the county where the
customer lives, it doesn’t stay in Rochester.”
Yet even though that the taxes
do make their back to the county, transient car dealership were still discussed
amongst the Massena Town Council member on Wednesday night. The members are
looking in how to make restrictions on how the transient car dealership “can do
business in the town” (from News article Massena Town Council looks at restrictions for “transient car
dealerships”
). But worried about how to go about it without violating
constitutional rights. The news article doesn’t go into which rights and how
and why these local restrictions might violate constitutional rights.
Sources:
Link to news article County treasurer says Massena
officials’ worries about auto sales tax leaving county are moot,
Link to news article news article Massena looking to regulate transient
vendors, rather than ban them, http://www.mpcourier.com/dco/massena-looking-to-regulate-transient-vendors-rather-than-ban-them-20150226
Link to news article Massena Town Council looks at restrictions for “transient car dealerships”, http://northcountrynow.com/news/massena-town-council-looks-restrictions-transient-car-dealerships-0137557
Link to news article Vision Automotive Group selling cars at
St. Lawrence Centre,
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