From saint@admsec.wwu.edu Thu Aug 26 09:06:05 1999 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id JAA32726 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:06:04 -0700 Received: from blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu [140.160.248.20]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id JAA32127 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:06:04 -0700 Received: from uis.admsec.wwu.edu (gaea.admsec.wwu.edu [140.160.249.20]) by blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA04348 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:06:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (saint@localhost) by uis.admsec.wwu.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id JAA05176 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:08:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 09:08:19 -0700 (PDT) From: "Joseph M. St.Hilaire" To: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide Subject: Re: Vehicle Registration In-Reply-To: <37C55F64.B968477D@mail.ewu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Carol Hathaway-Pitts wrote: > I am unclear about payment of excise tax if the person is active duty > military. If a spouse of the Active Duty person has done everything to > establish residency but drives a vehicle registered to her/his spouse > that claims military exempt does the spouse have to pay the taxes before > the spouse can be considered a resident for tuition purposes? >******Strictly speaking, each spouse is independent in his or her application for residency, so if the vehicle is registered in the other spouse's name (and I would ask for proof of that), then the spouse who has gone through the domiciling process and done everything else right should be eligible after the 12-months has passed. > If an independent student drives a parent's vehicle that is registered > in another state, will the parent have to register the vehicle in > Washington for the student to be eligible for instate tuition. > ******Similar to the case above, if the student is just *using* the parent's vehicle (again, you need to have proof that it is registered only in the parent's name), then the independent student wouldn't necessarily be disqualified. You have to take into consideration, however, the financial contribution that the use of the vehicle makes to the student's support. If, for example, the student's expenses for one year at Eastern amount to $16,000 and he/she contributed only $7,000 toward those expenses, the use of the vehicle (plus any "gifts" from parents) might indicated that the student really is not independent and self-supporting. Joe St.Hilaire Western .