Relax
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I had some old barn finds given to me. When I went to get the ownerships I explained they were given to me and I asked if $0 was going to raise any suspicion. She said it could and suggested $100. $13 in tax seemed like an easy price for piece of mind.
I have also been told by SO that they go by the value on the UVIP and if the UVIP has no value attached it's basically whatever you feel you can get away with. That info has saved big $s.
Whenever I buy a motor vehicle that includes anything that didn't originally come with it, I make one offer for the vehicle and a separate offer for the parts. Then you only pay tax on the vehicle's value. I'm not very good at estimating used prices, so I just deduct the original MSRP of those parts from the asking price.