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While it's completely understandable that people want to pay less tax, rather than more tax, I am not sure why a person with a car worth $5,000 should have to pay half the tax of a person with a car worth $2,500. Both cars use the same roads, and maybe the person with the $2,500 car drives twice as much as the person with the $5,000 car. Neither a $5,000 car nor a $5,000 car is a luxury. I think there should be a flat "per car" tax, and then if we want to add a luxury tax for people who own expensive cars, we can do that. This sort of system would fairly allocate the costs of the road infrastructure, and would save a ton of effort on the very imprecise and manipulable "valuation" process. Another alternative would be a mileage-based system -- the more you use the roads, the more you pay for them, but if you are the "old lady who just drives to church on Sundays" then you pay very little.