Harris County Tax Office

• Automobile appointments are required for vehicle transactions such as title transfers, homemade trailers, new residents (vehicles that have never been registered in Texas). An appointment is NOT required for vehicle registration renewals, special plates, replacement registration/plates, disabled placards, or disabled plates.
• The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles (TxDMV) handles apportioned registrations, lost or destroyed vehicle titles, and oversize/overweight permits. Please visit www.txdmv.gov or call 1(888)-368-4689.
• If you have questions pertaining to commercial procedures/transactions, please visit: www.hctax.net/HarrisCounty/CommercialFL.
• What’s new in 2025, legislative changes affecting Harris County residents!
• webDEALER Access, Use, and Training Deadline: Dealers are required by Texas Administrative Code rules to complete webDEALER training by April 30, 2025, unless they have been active webDEALER users for more than six months and submitted more than 100 transactions as of October 1, 2024. To sign up for webDEALER with Harris County, please e-mail CypressHillDC@tax.hctx.net your dealer name and P number and we will contact you.

Registration Renewal Fee Estimator

Motor Bus Fee

Combination Fee

Truck Fee

Trailer Fee

Passenger Cars, Private Buses and City Buses

Motor Bus registration Renewal Fee Estimator

Motor Buses are over-the-road vehicles that transport persons for hire from a city or town to a destination outside the limits of such city or town or its suburban additions.

* Please note: that these fees are based on 12 months registration.

Combination Registration Renewal Fee Estimator

Any vehicle that is a pulling unit (truck or truck-tractor) with a gross vehicle weight in excess of 10,000 lbs. that is pulling a semitrailer with a gross weight in excess of 6,000 lbs. may be registered with a Combination license plate, if the combined gross weight is more than 18,000 lbs. Texas Transportation Code Section 502.255, applies to those vehicles registered in Combination.

Registration Renewal Fee Estimator for Trucks

* Please note: that these fees are based on 12 months registration.

Registration Renewal Fee Estimator for Trailer, Semi-Trailer and Travel Trailer

"Trailer" means every vehicle designed or used to carry its load on its own structure and to be drawn by a motor vehicle. The gross weight of a trailer or semitrailer is the actual weight of the vehicle, as certified by a public weigher or a license and weight inspector of the Department of Public Safety, plus its net carrying capacity.

* Please note: that these fees are based on 12 months registration.

Registration Renewal Fee Estimator for Passenger Cars, Private bus and City Bus

If your vehicle is 6,000 pounds or less, the fee schedule is $64.25:

* Please note: that these fees are based on 12 months registration.

For any vehicle over 6,000 lbs., regardless of model year, check diesel fuel if applicable, enter the weight and click Enter:

The Harris County Tax Office is pleased to offer estimators for the various fees that residents pay for their passenger cars, buses, trailers, and motor homes.

Just select a category from the links above to access the fee estimator.

Please Note: As the names indicate, the tools located above were created to calculate an estimate of what your fee will be.

Please Note: A $4.75 Processing and Handling Fee is mandated by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles and is added to each registration renewal.

Please Note: New vehicles from the current or previous model year are eligible for a Two-Year Inspection Replacement Fee of $16.75, applicable at the time of initial registration. Vehicle owners are not required to obtain a safety or emissions inspection prior to vehicle registration.

Add Emissions Inspection fee to all Non-diesel vehicles.

Registration Renewal Fee Estimator

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