Promotes tag renewal requirements that most AR drivers failed to meet
in 2014
Company Website:
http://www.arkansas.gov/ina/
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- (Business Wire)
The Arkansas Department of Finance & Administration (DFA), in
partnership with the Information Network of Arkansas (INA), today
launched a public awareness campaign with the theme “Due Before You
Renew” to educate citizens about the three things they must do first –
assess, pay property taxes and have car insurance – before they can
renew their vehicle registration. With the statewide property assessment
deadline less than two weeks away, now is the perfect time to remind
drivers that their property assessment is tied to their vehicle
registration renewal status. Put simply: If you don’t assess, you can’t
get new car tags.
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Failure to assess on time is the number one reason why Arkansans are
unable to renew their vehicle registration. According to DFA, drivers
had not assessed nearly 1.4 million vehicles, owed property taxes on
726,604 vehicles and had not insured 400,483 vehicles during their
registration renewal periods in 2014. This means the drivers of more
than 66 percent of all licensed Arkansas vehicles could not immediately
renew their registration and were at risk for expired tags – all because
they missed at least one renewal requirement.
“These vehicle registration renewal statistics point to a public
awareness issue,” DFA Assistant Commissioner Walter Anger said. “Drivers
may not know the law or simply forget about it until they get a renewal
notice and realize they aren’t eligible to renew. Our goal with the Due
Before You Renew campaign is to help Arkansans understand the
relationship between assessment, property taxes and tag renewal. When
drivers take care of their renewal requirements on time, they can enjoy
a fast and stress-free tag renewal process online at ARSTAR.com,
and they won’t have to scramble to do everything at a revenue office on
the day their tags expire.”
Motorists can go to the campaign website www.DueBeforeYouRenew.com
to sign up for assessment and property tax email reminders so they won’t
miss the deadlines. Site visitors can also watch a funny educational video
and view an infographic
to find out how much it could cost if they failed to assess, pay their
property taxes and renew their tags on time.
DFA and INA will jointly promote campaign messages on social media with
the hashtag #DueBeforeYouRenew, and air public service announcements on
Arkansas radio stations. DFA will include information in vehicle
registration renewal notices, and post campaign materials in Revenue
Offices and County Assessor and Collector locations around the state.
About the DFA Office of Motor Vehicle
The Office of Motor Vehicle administers the State of Arkansas vehicle
registration, title and lien laws, and operates 134 State Revenue
Offices serving every county in Arkansas. For more information, visit www.dfa.arkansas.gov/offices/motorVehicle/Pages/default.aspx.
About Information Network of Arkansas
The Information Network of Arkansas (INA) is a public-private
partnership between the state of Arkansas and the Arkansas Information
Consortium (AIC) that helps state government entities Web-enable their
information services. Little Rock-based AIC is part of eGovernment firm
NIC's (EGOV) family of companies. INA operates Arkansas.gov,
the official website of the state of Arkansas, which offers more than
1,100 state and local online services.
About NIC
Founded in 1992, NIC (NASDAQ: EGOV) is the nation's leading provider of official
government websites, online services, and secure
payment processing solutions. The company's innovative eGovernment
services help make government more accessible to everyone through
technology. The family of NIC companies provides eGovernment solutions
for more than 3,500 federal, state, and local agencies in the United
States. Forbes has named NIC as one of the “100 Best Small Companies in
America” five times, most recently ranked at No. 11 (2013), and the
company has been included four times on the Barron’s 400 Index.
Additional information is available at http://www.egov.com.
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Contacts:
Arkansas Department of Finance & Administration
Walter Anger,
501-682-7025
walter.anger@dfa.arkansas.gov
or
Information
Network of Arkansas
Bob Sanders, 501-324-8915
bob@ark.org
Source: Information Network of Arkansas
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