Arizona Vehicle Registration Fee Calculator

Arizona's registration fee itself is trivially small — $8.00 under ARS §28-2003, plus a $4.00 title. Virtually the entire bill is the Vehicle License Tax. Under ARS §28-5801 the VLT assessed value starts at 60% of the vehicle's MSRP when new and drops 16.25% for every year of age; that assessed value is then taxed at $2.80 per $100 in the first year and $2.89 per $100 in later years, with a $10 annual minimum. Because it is tied to the original sticker price rather than what you paid, buying a late-model car cheaply does not reduce your Arizona VLT. One correction worth noting: the $32 highway safety fee that many older guides still list was REPEALED and may not be collected for periods after June 30, 2021 (ARS §28-2007(B)) — this calculator does not charge it. TRANSPARENCY LIMITATION: we could not retrieve Arizona's Transaction Privilege Tax rate or its trade-in rule from an official Department of Revenue source this pass, so rather than publish an unverified percentage we leave the sales-tax rate blank for you to fill in from your dealer paperwork. Emissions testing applies only in the Phoenix and Tucson metro areas, and the air-quality fee amount is set by the ADEQ director rather than fixed in statute.