El Paso, TX -- We're all supposed to have our vehicles registered so the state can collect taxes.

But look around town and you'll find plenty of cars with plates from somewhere else.

Now, you can do something about it with the county's VRAP program.

This is the Chihuahuan desert but you may have noticed more saguaro cacti like the one on the Arizona license plate, along with some others.

El Paso resident Heather Lane says she's noticed plates from, "Alaska, North Carolina, New Mexico a lot."

It's an irritation for some, like Richard Meyer.

"Aren't they using our roads and yet not paying taxes?" He says the solution is simple, "Confiscate the vehicles, they have no right to do that."

As a border town many plates are also foreign.

The county wants to make sure people who live in El Paso have Texas plates, no matter where they moved from, with one exception.

Not only is El Paso a border community, it's also a military community

Even though soldiers and their families use the roads and highway, they are exempt from having to register their vehicles in texas.

A well deserved exemption, says one El Pasoan.

Jill Gaines explains, "They're providing a service for our country...I just think they're doing enough for our country and let's just let them be."

The law requires everyone else to register their vehicle within 30 days of moving here.

"All we want is for them to comply with the law and come in and pay their fair share of the road tax that everybody uses," explains El Paso county tax assessor Victor Flores.

He says his office sends out about 60 letters every month notifying the owner they've been reported.

That person then has 20 days to register their vehicle in the lone star state.

"They are tax-paying citizens and we receive many benefits from our government and I think we should be responsible and pay for them," says El Paso resident Debbi Hester.

Since VRAP began in 2002 county officials say they've made about half a million dollars from people that have been turned in.

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