{
 "state": "Maine",
 "code": "ME",
 "url": "https://cartaxhq.com/maine/",
 "summary": "Maine charges an excise tax every year when you register a car, and you pay it to your town office before the state registration. The tax is a mill rate on the manufacturer's list price that drops over the car's first six model years. The rates are set statewide, so the same car costs the same in every town.",
 "annual": {
  "kind": "msrpSchedule",
  "per": 1000,
  "byAge": [
   {
    "age": 0,
    "mills": 24
   },
   {
    "age": 1,
    "mills": 17.5
   },
   {
    "age": 2,
    "mills": 13.5
   },
   {
    "age": 3,
    "mills": 10
   },
   {
    "age": 4,
    "mills": 6.5
   },
   {
    "age": 5,
    "mills": 4
   }
  ],
  "flat": 0,
  "note": "36 M.R.S. §1482(1)(C). The rate is 24 mills in the first or current model year, then 17.5, 13.5, 10 and 6.5, and 4 mills from the sixth year on. The minimum is $5."
 },
 "purchase": {
  "rate": 5.5,
  "name": "Maine sales/use tax on motor vehicles",
  "localAdds": false,
  "tradeInCredit": true
 },
 "registration": "State registration for a passenger car is $35 a year. Title costs $33, and municipal agent fees are a few dollars.",
 "due": "Paid at your town office on each yearly registration renewal (and when you first register the car).",
 "sources": [
  {
   "title": "36 M.R.S. §1482 Excise tax rates",
   "url": "https://legislature.maine.gov/statutes/36/title36sec1482.html"
  },
  {
   "title": "Maine BMV",
   "url": "https://www.maine.gov/sos/bmv/"
  }
 ],
 "verified": "2026-10-14",
 "places": []
}