Pennsylvania Vehicle Registration Fee Calculator

Pennsylvania passenger-vehicle registration is $48/year ($96 for a 2-year registration) and the Certificate of Title fee is $72.00, per PennDOT's current official fee schedule, form MV-70S (revision 4-26) — this is the CURRENT, CPI/legislatively-adjusted administrative figure, and deliberately supersedes the older, unadjusted statutory amounts ($36 registration / $50 title) that some secondary sources still repeat; where the current official schedule and older statute text conflict, this calculator uses the current schedule. Effective April 1, 2025, Act 85 of 2024 (as amended by Act 149) created an EV/PHEV Road User Charge, replacing the fuel taxes those vehicles don't pay: for 2026, a battery-electric vehicle owes $250 for a 1-year registration ($500 for 2 years), and a plug-in hybrid owes $63 for 1 year ($126 for 2 years, defined as 25% of the EV fee rounded to the next dollar) — PennDOT's RUC page confirms this amount is CPI-escalated every January 1st thereafter, so it is not a fixed number in future years. PA sales tax is 6% statewide, 7% in Allegheny County, and 8% in Philadelphia (PA Dept. of Revenue, confirmed) — and a trade-in DOES reduce the taxable base, per 61 Pa. Code §31.44(a) (the regulation implementing 72 P.S. §7201(g)(2)): "tax is computed upon the full amount of the purchase price of a vehicle less the trade-in deduction." MV-70S also lists an optional $5.00/year "Fee for Local Use," collected at initial registration and each renewal in certain participating counties/vehicle classes (a 2-year registration collects $10, a 5-year collects $25) — this calculator exposes it as an explicit opt-in defaulting to $0/not-applicable, since it does not apply everywhere. Registration-fee and title-fee statutory authority is cited to 75 Pa.C.S. §1912 and §1952 respectively, per the task's own citation numbers and MV-70S's stated governing sections; the raw statute text could not be re-rendered from palegis.us (a JavaScript-only site) this session, though every dollar figure above is independently confirmed from the MV-70S PDF and the RUC page directly, not from the statute site. For regular trucks, truck tractors, farm trucks, and farm truck tractors, the calculator uses registered gross weight—not purchase price—to select PennDOT MV-70S revision 4-26 class 1 through 25. The regular one-year fees are: class 1 $82; 2 $111; 3 $214; 4 $278; 4B $278; 5 $423; 6 $501; 7 $618; 8 $705; 9 $822; 10 $988; 11 $1,081; 12 $1,144; 13 $1,215; 14 $1,308; 15 $1,440; 16 $1,535; 17 $1,739; 18 $1,944; 19 $2,028; 20 $2,178; 21 $2,780; 22 $2,841; 23 $2,872; 24 $2,904; and 25 $2,935. Farm one-year fees are: classes 1–5 $143; 6 $167; 7 $206; 8 $235; 9 $274; 10 $329.33; 11 $360.33; 12 $381.33; 13 $405; 14 $436; 15 $480; 16 $511.67; 17 $579.67; 18 $648; 19 $676; 20 $726; 21 $926.67; 22 $947; 23 $957.33; 24 $968; and 25 $978.33. Two-year fees are exactly twice the corresponding one-year fee. Some class 1–3 vehicles may qualify for reduced fees; this calculator does not assert eligibility.