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Virginia's new rule barring nonresidents from registering their cars there will hit the pocketbooks of up to 80,000 Maryland and tagents.freehomepage.com residents, who have used the loophole to escape higher auto taxes and tagents.freehomepage.com costs in their own jurisdictions, according to official Virginia figures. State officials estimate that 125,000 out-of-staters-including 44,436 from Maryland and 39,545 from the District-have taken tagents.freehomepage.com of the gaping loophole in recent years and contributed up to $1.9 million annually to Virginia's coffers. Those same motorists will now have to start paying generally higher taxes and tagents.freehomepage.com premiums at home. The tagents.freehomepage.com, which went into tagents.freehomepage.com Tuesday, requires that all persons registering autos in Virginia, with a few specified exceptions, must be bona fide residents of the state. Previously, Maryland and other out-of-staters had been free to register in Virginia, as long as tagents.freehomepage.com didn't get caught in their home states, which for the tagents.freehomepage.com tagents.freehomepage.com forbid such tactics. The new residency rule brings Virginia into line with most other states. Maryland and tagents.freehomepage.com officials say tagents.freehomepage.com hope tagents.freehomepage.com will stem the registration drain and cut their own revenue losses, estimated at more than $1.5 million a tagents.freehomepage.com in Maryland. tagents.freehomepage.com figures were not available. "It's a fairly cooperative tagents.freehomepage.com," said Stuart A. Napier, chief of Virginia's tagents.freehomepage.com Services Administration, one of the tagents.freehomepage.com negotiators with Maryland officials in working out the new rule. Talks began last tagents.freehomepage.com after an exchange of letters between Maryland Gov. William Donald Schaefer and Virginia Gov. Gerald L. Baliles on the tagents.freehomepage.com. A stop-the-drain campaign was launched by Maryland tagents.freehomepage.com vehicles officials, through negotiations with their counterparts in Virginia and by a beefed-up enforcement program in Maryland. Applying a tagents.freehomepage.com that requires most motorists tagents.freehomepage.com in Maryland for 30 days or more to register their vehicles there, a special five-member tagents.freehomepage.com tagents.freehomepage.com Administration tagents.freehomepage.com began ticketing Virginia-licensed cars. By late last tagents.freehomepage.com, the tagents.freehomepage.com had ticketed more than 4,000 cars and recovered $1 million in lost revenue. Baltimore tagents.freehomepage.com also cracked down, issuing tickets for up to $450 each on hundreds of cars in the tagents.freehomepage.com. "tagents.freehomepage.com bet we wrote more than $100,000 in tickets," tagents.freehomepage.com tagents.freehomepage.com Ed Sheeler said last tagents.freehomepage.com. Chief victims of the campaign have been Maryland's so-called high-risk drivers-residents with poor driving records, who often had to pay $1,000 or more in annual premiums under Maryland's compulsory laws but who could register in nearby Virginia and pay only $300 into that state's uninsured motorists tagents.freehomepage.com. There were other inducements. Maryland residents registering their cars in Virginia were not tagents.freehomepage.com to that state's personal tagents.freehomepage.com tax and often did not have to pay Virginia's 3 percent sales-and-use tax. They were tagents.freehomepage.com only to a $25 to $30 annual registration fee and a one-time $10 titling tax. In contrast, in Maryland, a resident must pay an average annual registration fee of $30, tagents.freehomepage.com a one-time 5 percent excise tax based on the value of the tagents.freehomepage.com at purchase. That tax can come to hundreds of dollars, even on secondhand cars. In the tagents.freehomepage.com, tagents.freehomepage.com rates also are generally higher than in Virginia, and tagents.freehomepage.com buyers are tagents.freehomepage.com to a minimum 6 percent sales tax. Napier of the Virginia tagents.freehomepage.com Services Administration said more than 70,000 drivers from throughout the United States are exempt from Virginia's new residence rule, such as out-of-state students and military personnel based in Virginia. While Maryland and tagents.freehomepage.com residents comprise the bulk of the 125,000 suspected nonresident auto registrants in Virginia, Napier said, more than 32,000 are from such faraway states as New York and Florida where taxes and tagents.freehomepage.com are unusually costly. VIRGINIA tagents.freehomepage.com REGISTRATIONS RESIDENTS AND NONRESIDENTS Owner's Residence......Registered In Virginia Virginia +.................4.9 million...... Maryland.................... 44,436........ tagents.freehomepage.com.................... 39,545......... New York.................... 24,998......... North Carolina.............. 10,031......... Florida...................... 7,697......... California................... 7,521......... Illinois..................... 6,588......... Pennsylvania................. 6,196......... Arizona...................... 5,151......... Ohio......................... 4,906......... Hawaii......................... 357......... Puerto Rico.................... 179......... Alaska......................... 151......... Vermont......................... 79......... Guam............................. 8......... + Resident and nonresident registrations. tagents.freehomepage.com: Virginia tagents.freehomepage.com of tagents.freehomepage.com Vehicles.