Time for electronic renewals
Tulsa World
By World's Editorial Writers
Published: 2/12/2010 2:21 AM
Last Modified: 2/12/2010 4:31 AM
It's time for the state to allow vehicle owners to renew their license tags electronically and to do so without having to give business to tag agents.
License tags are a virtual monopoly of the state's 305 tag agents.
The Oklahoma Tax Commission has an online renewal Web site built and ready to go, but had to put it in park after legislative leaders interfered.
House Speaker Chris Benge was at least honest about what happened.
"We have asked for a delay in the implementation of online tag renewal to allow time for negotiations on the tag fee structure and how those fees will be apportioned between the commission and tag agents," Benge said last month.
Since then the whole process has been stalled...
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Fri, February 12, 2010
by Crystal Drwenski