At least in CA Tesla does not do anything with taxes. Tesla just quotes you the buyout price with any fees, if applicable. Luckily we took delivery of our lease in March 2019. Tesla added a $350 purchase fee to all leases delivered after April 13, 2019.Any chance you have an update on this? If buying out the lease from Tesla, do you pay the sales tax to Tesla who then handles getting the clear title with your name on it?
Our Credit Union calculated the taxes since we were financing the entire lease purchase. The Credit Union cut one check to Tesla for the buyout amount and another to the CA DMV for taxes and all the other fees to transfer title, registration, etc..
Not sure if it’s done the same way in other states. It was pretty easy, but our credit union deals with Tesla a lot which helped.