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take a trip down any arkansas highway
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drive down any street in any city and
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chances are you'll spot at least one
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we're talking out about expired
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temporary tags like this one and they
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are not hard to find in arkansas even
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though they are just that temporary a
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lot of drivers seem to be testing the
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limit of what that means so we dug a
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little deeper and found out these
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expired temp tags are costing the state
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millions of dollars
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whether you're stuck in the early
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morning rush or on your evening commute
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home
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expired temporary tags are an all too
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common sight in arkansas
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past due not just by days but by weeks
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months sometimes years i see them all
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the time and it's almost like they're a
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month late or like even more than that
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we took a drive around little rock one
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afternoon in less than 10 minutes we
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spotted three cars with expired paper
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tags at the dmv on rodney parham cyan
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brown was able to pay for a new id but
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her tags nearly three months past due
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will have to wait it's hard right now
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cover honestly it's cold the mom-to-be
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says simply put she can't afford it but
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knows putting it off means even more
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money twelve hundred
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that's that's what they tell me but by
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time i go inside it's gonna be probably
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more than that
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because the fines
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temp tags are just that temporary after
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you purchase a vehicle in arkansas you
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have 30 days to pay the sales tax and
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get your plates if you don't it'll cost
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you three dollars for every 10 days past
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due plus a 10 percent sales tax penalty
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not to mention you're at risk of being
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pulled over
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you know we do while we're on patrol we
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do look for stuff like that and you know
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when we do come across it beside them in
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2021 the pulaski county sheriff's office
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cited 62 drivers for expired tags
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arkansas state police issued 551
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violations for failure to register or
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improper license tag in conway just
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under 200 drivers were cited and in
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little rock police issued a little more
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than 1200 citations
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it's something brown thinks about every
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time she gets behind the wheel
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are you worried about being pulled over
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yes because that's another that's
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another bill i have to pay for so just
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how many drivers are hitting the roads
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in arkansas with expired temp tags turns
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out it's a question the department of
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finance and administration has never
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gotten before and the answer was
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surprising even for them
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i think i was guessing maybe five six
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seven thousand tops
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when it comes back at 29 400
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even i was shocked 29
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400 cars that's about the population of
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izzard and van buren counties combined
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it's a high number and it's costing the
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state if those 29 thousand 400 vehicles
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paid sales tax today that would be more
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than 25 million dollars scott hardin
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with the dfna says that's being
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conservative the actual amount is likely
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much higher
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it's a number we took to state senator
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bill sample chair of the senate revenue
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and tax committee he says he'd like to
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see that money go towards giving state
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police troopers a raise we want to give
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it to him
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just finding a revenue stream and that
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could be a revenue state trooper
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stop one car a week each state trooper
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that's out there on the road that would
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take him and get it in addition to
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harsher enforcement
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sample says this state needs better
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public transportation
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those people that
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like i say that they're driving
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they might not have the funds to pay it
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but they do need the transportation to
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get to work and so that's a problem all
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in itself now armed with these numbers
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he plans to study what other states are
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doing to fix the problem
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we need to find some ways that we can
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take and not only collect the money but
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get people to work at the same time
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we learned missouri passed a law in 2021
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to crack down on this exact issue
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rather than allowing drivers to take
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possession of cars at dealerships and
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assume they'll pay taxes later the
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government will get a cut at the point
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of sale greg kirkpatrick president of
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the arkansas automobile dealers
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association says it will likely take
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legislative action before that happens
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in arkansas not to mention getting
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everyone on the same page we've had
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conversations with the state
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i'm not sure they're prepared for it yet
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but
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if
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as time goes on this is probably an
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issue that's going to have to be
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addressed back at the dmv brown says she
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hopes to get her permanent plate soon in
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the meantime right now duck and dodge
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the police
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she won't stop glancing in her rear-view
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mirror
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hardin says before the 30 days is up
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you'll get a letter like this one in the
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mail as a reminder if you need an
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extension he says there are a couple
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scenarios where you can request one for
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another 30 days and avoid the fines but
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you still owe that sales tax 30 days
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from the day you purchase the vehicle
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