What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? ARkansas
We sold my daughter's 1997 Honda Accord to a lady for $3400. She asked us if we would write that she paid $2000 for the car on the Bill of Sale. We instructed her that we could NOT because we the DMV deducts what we sold the car for from what we paid for the new car so that we pay less in taxes when we register the car. Now 5 months later we get a letter from Dept. of Finance & Admin in Arkansas that there is a dicrepancy between what we claimed we sold the Honda for and what the Buyer reported that she paid for it. We definitly know that we put the full sales price of $3400 on the Bill of Sale as well as on the back of the Title when we signed it. So apparantly she either used white out to change the amount or made a new bill of sale and forged our name and put the amount of $2000. Problem is we cannot find the copy of the bill of sale. We do have a copy of the receipt we gave her for paying us $3400 cash, but it isn't signed...it's just a receipt. We don't have a deposit of the cash she paid us as we used that cash along with other cash to purchase my daughter's new car. I hope that DMV can get that old title that we signed and see the sales price that we wrote down. So basically our question is how can we protect ourselves from this person who has defrauded the state from used car sales tax and defrauding us by changing what we wrote on the bill of sale and or forging our name?? The Dept. of Finance & admin says we have 30 days to provide proof of the selling price or we will have taxes, penalties, and interest because they think we only sold the car for $2000 instead of $3400. Hope this make sence to you and hope you can offer guidance. Isn't forgery a felony???What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
We sold my daughter's 1997 Honda Accord to a lady for $3400. She asked us if we would write that she paid $2000 for the car on the Bill of Sale. We instructed her that we could NOT because we the DMV deducts what we sold the car for from what we paid for the new car so that we pay less in taxes when we register the car. Now 5 months later we get a letter from Dept. of Finance & Admin in Arkansas that there is a dicrepancy between what we claimed we sold the Honda for and what the Buyer reported that she paid for it. We definitly know that we put the full sales price of $3400 on the Bill of Sale as well as on the back of the Title when we signed it. So apparantly she either used white out to change the amount or made a new bill of sale and forged our name and put the amount of $2000. Problem is we cannot find the copy of the bill of sale. We do have a copy of the receipt we gave her for paying us $3400 cash, but it isn't signed...it's just a receipt. We don't have a deposit of the cash she paid us as we used that cash along with other cash to purchase my daughter's new car. I hope that DMV can get that old title that we signed and see the sales price that we wrote down. So basically our question is how can we protect ourselves from this person who has defrauded the state from used car sales tax and defrauding us by changing what we wrote on the bill of sale and or forging our name?? The Dept. of Finance & admin says we have 30 days to provide proof of the selling price or we will have taxes, penalties, and interest because they think we only sold the car for $2000 instead of $3400. Hope this make sence to you and hope you can offer guidance. Isn't forgery a felony???What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?