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Car owners soon to receive "Tax and Tag" bills

North Carolina’s new system of requiring payment for both vehicle property tax and registration renewals at the same time is going into effect. George Olsen has more.

Drivers whose vehicle registration renewal is due in September will be the first to receive tax and tag combined bills. The first notices for September renewals are now being mailed. Under the new system drivers will receive both a vehicle property tax bill as well as registration renewal info in one mailing. The property tax will have to be paid to receive registration renewal. All vehicle owners will be under the program by mid- 2014. The new billing system is the result of a law passed back in 2005 in the state General Assembly. I’m George Olsen.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.