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This bill would create a new sales tax exemption for Utahns who buy and sell motor vehicles in separate transactions, exempting the purchase price of whichever vehicle costs less and establishing a process for claiming that exemption from the state — effectively extending a tax benefit similar to the existing trade-in exemption to people who sell one vehicle and buy another through separate, private deals rather than trading in at a dealership. The bill would also add a new monthly late registration penalty, based on the state's uniform traffic fine schedule, for vehicle owners who don't renew their registration within a month after it expires, and would ensure that a renewed registration keeps the same expiration month as the original registration even after a lapse. Separately, the bill would eliminate the current 60-day grace period given to vehicle or vessel owners found out of compliance with registration or tax requirements, raise the minimum penalty for such non-compliance from $500 to $650, and make imposition of that penalty mandatory rather than optional. Finally, all revenue from these non-compliance penalties would be redirected to the state's General Fund instead of being split with the Uninsured Motorist Identification Restricted Account, which currently receives a portion of that penalty money.