Rich Car Guy Problems: Montana License Plate Tax Dodge Crackdown

[G.Irish]

As some of you may know, there's a tax avoidance/evasion scheme that some car guys have been using for a number of years where they register their car to Montana so they can avoid paying sales tax (or car tax).  
I'm kinda like, if you're gonna use a sketchy tax loophole, don't cry when the tax man comes for dat azz.  

So is it a loophole,  or is it tax evasion scheme?  
One is legal,  one is not legal.  
Its 100% legal from Montana's perspective, and Montana will happily take your ~$200 in registration fees and you can legally be on your carbon-fiber and V8 way.  

So if its not legal in Georgia,  he question is,  what in Georgia law specifically prevents private citizens from conducting legal business in another state?  
Are they making shit up so they can go after all those "rich" people to take their money,  which you appear to be cheering on?   Or is there actually a law on the books that dictates if the vehicle is in the state for X amount of time then it must be registered in state.  (which sure sounds like the sketchy part to me,  since its impossible to prove and cars arent people)

Georgia requires you to register the car in state if it is primarily garaged there.  Apparently the tax cops monitored theses guys at their houses, on instagram and via their toll cameras to get proof of where the cars were.

These guys were not just registering the cars in Montana, they were creating LLC's and registering the cars to those LLC's.  On one hand that might be enough to win in court since technically the car is not registered to the person that lives in Georgia but to the company registered in Montana.  But it appears like a lot of the offenders only set up the company to avoid the tax and not to pursue legitimate business which is what might push it into 'tax evasion' territory.

I think the people that at least made a show of running a business from their Montana LLC might have a chance of prevailing in court.  Apparently a similar thing went down in Louisiana with an RV owner over this issue and the RV owner eventually won.  The RV owner won on the point that the RV was registered to a Montana business.

And under the same rationale,  Servicemembers who register their domicile in Florida because there is no state income tax there yet they dont live (which Florida grants with a smile)  there should similarly be prosecuted for tax fraud and should not "cry when the tax man comes for dat azz" ?

I grew up on bases in the US and overseas typically there are a number of specific affordances offered to service members so that they don't get caught out while they're deployed or stationed elsewhere.

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the tax revenue has to come from somewhere.  

....unless government spending was lower.

Beat me to it

The two of ya'll got so triggered that you didn't even read 5 seconds longer to see that I said :  

some other tax would have to go up unless spending were drastically cut

YOU'RE ONE OF THEM GERALD

A supercar owner?  Not yet.  Personally, I'll dodge taxes by having my Mclaren shipped over in parts as a kit car.  Not much difference in build quality .