Nebraska Vehicle Registration Fee Calculator

Nebraska's flat registration fee is only $15.00 and a title is $10.00 — but those are a small part of the bill. The dominant charge is the motor vehicle tax under Neb. Rev. Stat. §60-3,187, calculated from the vehicle's MSRP WHEN NEW (not what you paid) using a bracket table: $25 up to $3,999 of MSRP, rising through $35, $45 and $60, then $100 at $10,000 and increasing $40 for every additional $2,000, capping at $1,900 for vehicles at $100,000 and above. That base is then multiplied by a statutory age factor that steps down every year — 1.00, .90, .80, .70, .60, .51, .42, .33, .24, then .15 and .07 — and reaches ZERO once the vehicle is 14 years old, so an old car pays no motor vehicle tax at all. A separate motor vehicle fee (§60-3,190) adds $5, $20 or $30 depending on MSRP, itself depreciating at 5 and 10 years, and counties collect $1.50. Sales tax is 5.5% state plus local, and Nebraska explicitly allows a trade-in deduction. Electric and alternative-fuel vehicles owe $150 a year, plug-in hybrids $75. One figure we deliberately do not show: the plate charge — statute caps it at $8 per plate but the department-set amount was not published, so we exclude it rather than guess.