Questions about Oregon Highway $2000 Surety bond

Unless it has changed, it wasn't the bond that I didn't want, it was the fact that you have to file oregon fuel taxes monthly instead of quarterly like every other state if you put up the bond. I literally tried to run the absolute fewest miles in oregon as possible.

 

Used to be once you posted the bond and turned your miles in on time for a certain period you’d get your bond money back. It’s going to cost you about 20 cents per mile to run there.

 

HEre is a very stupid question.

FFE gave us a red tag for Oregon.

That good or bad?

 

Good for you, again, the office had to now file fuel taxes monthly instead of quarterly, just more bs for them to do.

 

I think you file/pay monthly when you first post the bond. We file quarterly, have for 20+ years.

 

It’s not a fuel tax. It’s a weight-distance tax similar to New Mexico.

 

Yep stupid highway use tax last I checked it was somewhere in the neighborhood of .21 cents per mile. I usually have to pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $700 - $800 a month because I run up and down the 5.

 

In other words, It's cheaper to buy trip permit if you only occasionally visit.

Otherwise, Account is better if you're a frequent flyer??

Oregon and NM usually tried to get us to setup a account. Instead of trip permits.

 

The only problem is that they only allow 5 temp permits per year, so after 5 you have to get the permanent account.

 

You pay the bond once, and it gets reimbursed eventually. You still have to pay mileage tax every month, but it's online and pretty easy. After a certain period of time, you can apply to file quarterly with them instead of monthly. You still have to file a report, even for 0 miles for the period.