Fee schedules change and this site has published wrong figures. Every correction we have
made is listed here with the date and what changed, newest first.
This log exists because "we get things right" is not a claim anyone should have to take on
trust. If you find a figure that does not match the agency's published schedule,
tell us and it will be checked and either corrected here or
confirmed as correct.
Figures are estimates for comparison, not fee quotes. Your state's agency is the
authority — the official schedule for each state is linked on that state's page and in
the fee data downloads.
Corrections, newest first
· All states
Every EV, PHEV and hybrid calculation was broken and showed "Error"
Selecting a powertrain other than petrol threw a ReferenceError — the code read a variable named wantFuel that was never declared — so the headline total rendered the literal string "Error" and the alternative-fuel line never appeared. It affected every state with a fuel surcharge. The surcharge figures themselves were fine; the code meant to display them was the code that crashed. Fixed by returning the already-computed surcharge from applyVehicleClassBase instead of reading an undeclared name.
· 11 states
11 states displayed a registration fee that was wrong or incomplete
Arizona showed $40 including a Public Safety Fee terminated in 2021; California showed $74 against an official $76; Washington omitted its $35 weight fee; New Mexico showed $34 against $70 after the SB 2 increase; New York showed the $26 weight-chart floor rather than the $56.50 bracket a normal sedan falls in; North Dakota showed a 9-month prorated figure; Texas and Utah omitted statutory add-ons; Indiana and Maryland omitted mandatory surcharges; New Jersey showed the older-vehicle rate. All now match the official schedule.
· 10 states
10 states charged the wrong title fee
New York charged $50 when the statutory fee has been $5 since 1 April 2026; Oklahoma charged the $11 certificate fee without the $17 transfer fee; Minnesota omitted the filing, technology and local office surcharges; Hawaii showed $0 although every county charges $5-20; Iowa, Connecticut, Florida, Michigan and Texas were also wrong. A verified 50-state title schedule now sits in the data layer and is applied on top of the engine result, so the engine itself stays untouched.
· 20 states
Fee figures verified against all 50 state agency schedules; 20 corrected
Every state's base registration and title fee was checked against the official agency page or the governing statute. 20 figures were wrong and have been corrected — including California's registration fee ($53 published, $76 official since 1 January 2026), Colorado's statutory base fee, New Hampshire's registration ($498 published, which is an unpublished composite of state and municipal fees; the state component alone is $48/yr), New Mexico's registration ($45 published, $70 since 1 July 2026 under SB 2), New York's title fee ($50 published, $5 since 1 April 2026), South Dakota's registration and EV fee, Rhode Island's registration, and Tennessee's registration. The remaining known discrepancies are logged on the verification page.
· Nevada
Nevada first-time title fee was shown as $0.00
The engine defaulted Nevada's title fee to zero, so the FAQ and the published data exports showed no title charge for a first-time Nevada title. Nevada DMV charges $28.25. Corrected in the engine, which flows through to the calculator, the FAQ answers and the data exports.
· 14 states
14 state pages quoted a first-year total the calculator contradicted
The cost FAQ answers were written by hand and had drifted out of sync with the fee engine — 14 of 50 pages stated a first-year total lower than the calculator on the same page, in every case understating what a buyer would owe. Those answers were also published in the FAQPage structured data, which JavaScript cannot correct. Cost answers are now generated from the engine at build time so they cannot drift again.
· 8 states
Eight states claimed a purchase-price sales tax that was not charged
Alaska, Arizona, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming all carried a FAQ answer stating that sales tax on the purchase price adds most of the cost, while the fee engine applied no such tax. The dominant cost driver is now read from the engine result, so each state names the fee that actually applies.
· Indiana
Indiana EV surcharge published as $230 instead of $242
The class fee layer and the state rules layer disagreed on Indiana's electric vehicle supplemental fee. The Indiana BMV fee chart publishes $242, so the $230 figure was wrong. Both layers now agree, and a cross-source consistency check runs as part of the build.
· Site-wide
Homepage canonical pointed at /index.html
The homepage declared its canonical and og:url as https://calculateit.net/index.html while the sitemap listed https://calculateit.net/. Both URLs served identical content at 200, so the most important URL on the site sent a duplicate signal. The canonical is now the root URL and /index.html redirects to it.
· Site-wide
Owner name was inconsistent across the site
The about page, the contact page and llms.txt each named a different owner. All three now say Abhishek Mishra.
· Site-wide
llms.txt pointed AI agents at two URLs that 404 and listed no state pages
The discovery file listed /vehicles.html and /privacy.html, neither of which exists, and omitted all 50 state calculators. Corrected, and every path it now lists has been verified to resolve.
· 36 states
36 of 50 state pages carried no source citation
The about page stated that each state page links the official agency portal behind its numbers. 36 of them linked no agency at all. Every state page now names its responsible agency, links that agency's official fee schedule, and dates the review.
Known discrepancies still outstanding
Verification found these too. They are published here rather than quietly
fixed, because most need structural work in the fee engine — a weight-graded
or MSRP-derived fee cannot be corrected by changing a constant — and the
published FAQ text would otherwise keep contradicting the calculator.
Last reviewed 2026-10-02. 4 items.
Colorado · Base registration · impact: Understated by about $33 per year
We publish $36 (four components: FASTER road safety $19.30, age-of-vehicle fee $12.00, clerk hire $4.00, emissions $0.70); the official figure is Statutory base $9.00 (CRS 42-3-306, weight-graded) plus FASTER road safety $19.30, FASTER bridge safety $18.00, clerk hire $4.00, EMS $2.00, POST $1.00, misc ~$3.28 and the age-of-vehicle fee = roughly $69 all-in for a ~3,500 lb car under 7 years old in a typical county
The engine itemises four of the mandatory non-SOT charges but omits FASTER bridge safety ($18.00), EMS ($2.00), POST ($1.00) and about $3.28 of other mandatory surcharges, and never shows the $9.00 statutory base separately. Colorado's fee is weight-graded and county-dependent, so it cannot be fixed by changing a constant — the Colorado branch of the engine needs the missing components. Until then the Colorado page understates what a driver will actually pay.
Kentucky · EV surcharge 2026 index · impact: Possible understatement from 1 January 2026
We publish $126 EV and $126 PHEV; the official figure is $126 confirmed for 1 January 2025. KRS 138.475 indexes the fee annually by the National Highway Construction Cost Index, capped at +/-5%
Secondary sources disagree on whether a 2026 adjustment has taken effect and no official KY notice was found. Left at the last officially published figure rather than guessed.