North Carolina has some advantages
1. we pay only 3% sales tax on the Price of the vehicle (if it involves a trade in car, then 3% is applied on the balance only)
2. NC use a method called "property value of the car and normally it goes to the county
when trade in the car to buy new car, there is a option to transfer the plates and also Property value tax. in this case only $77 is collected as service.
if not registration fees is $267 (i think) , will get a temp plate and with in 30 days dmv mail the plate and also will get the property tax bill which will be higher because of new vehicle MSRP rate
Scenario :
if the used car trade in value is 30k, and used car registration is valid til Nov 30th, and existing property value of that used car is $200
So math will be
54000(assume Tesla Y LR MSRP) - 30000 (trade in value) = 24000*.03 = 720 (sales tax)
Registration = $77
No property bill until Nov 30th
Around October, registration renewal notice (what ever the registration fees) + property vehicle tax (based on the value of the car as of Nov 30th) and expect around $500 for a 50k appraised value