Sparks Resident Robert Marr owns a well kept, white 20 year old Ford Pickup. Last year it cost home $43 to get his vehicle registered here in Nevada, this year is jumped to $62.

“It increased 33% my registration fee. I don't believe its right,” says Marr.

Marr lives on a fixed income and dependent on oxygen and medications to get by. While a 19 dollar increase in fees may not seem much to you, it makes a lot of difference to him, especially since he can't afford another car.

“After awhile, the only place it can depreciate to is the junk yard,” say Marr.

Marr says he doesn't remember voting for an increase in taxes, and he didn't. It happened here in Carson City 2009 when law makers passed Senate Bill 429 which changed the year depreciation used to calculate vehicle taxes.

Enacted last September the new calibrations are based on a ten percent increase from what you were paying before September 2009.

If you're car is three years old you'll pay 85% of assessed valuation instead of 75%, 5 years old 65% instead of 55% and so on. That is until your car hits ten years old. Instead of 5% you're now paying 15%.

“It costs $33 to register your car in Nevada that is less than 6000 pounds, and that can come as a surprise to a lot of motorists because they are writing checks and hitting their credit cards for hundreds of dollars. That's because what is attached to the vehicle registration is a government services tax,” says Tom Jacobs from Nevada’s Department of Motor Vehicles.

Jacobs says the money raised goes to local schools and counties depending upon where the driver lives. However the percentage increase on the car registration goes into the states general fund.

Since September, when that increase in the governmental tax increase went into effect, $45-million dollars has been put in the general fund.