CA DMV Fee Calculator

The purchase price or the value the DMV assigns to the vehicle’s class. The licence fee is a percentage of this, depreciated by age.
1 for a vehicle being registered in its first year, 2 in its second, and so on. From year 11 the assessed value stays at 15%.
From the DMV fee chart in effect on your registration date.
A banded fee that depends on the vehicle’s assessed value. Read your band off the current DMV chart.
Smog abatement, plate, title transfer, alternative-fuel or late penalties.
Only for a transfer where the DMV collects use tax. Leave at 0 for a renewal.
Your combined state, county and district rate.
Recorded with the estimate so you can tell later which chart the flat amounts came from.
Estimated total due
195.00
Vehicle Registration Fee Calculator
Percentage of value still assessed
100 %
Depreciated value
30,000.00
Vehicle licence fee
195.00
Base registration fee
0.00
CHP fee
0.00
Transportation Improvement Fee
0.00
County and district fees
0.00
Weight fee
0.00
Other fees
0.00
Flat fees total
0.00
Use tax
0.00
Worked out from California Revenue and Taxation Code section 10752 - vehicle license fee rate of 0.65% of market value and 2 other sources.
No flat fees were entered, so this total is the value-based licence fee alone. The base registration, highway patrol, transportation improvement and county fees all come from the DMV fee chart in effect on your registration date - look them up and enter them.
Record which fee chart and effective date you used. Those amounts change with legislation and annual indexing, so an estimate without a dated chart cannot be checked later.
This is an estimate. The amount actually charged depends on the transaction type, vehicle class and weight, your county and district, and any late-registration penalties.
An estimate, not a bill. The flat fee amounts must be taken from the DMV fee chart in effect on your registration date, and the amount actually charged depends on the transaction type, the vehicle’s class and weight, your county and district, and any late penalties.

How this is worked out

5 steps
  1. Year 1 of the vehicle’s life is assessed at 100% of value (RTC 10753.2): 30000 x 100% = 30000.
  2. Licence fee = 30000 x 0.65% = 195.
  3. Flat fees entered from the fee chart total 0.
  4. No use tax applied.
  5. Estimated total = 195 + 0 + 0 = 195.

Results are general information, not financial, tax, legal, medical or engineering advice.