Are apportioned registration fees prorated?

I am in Texas. The way I understand apportioned registration is that whatever month you first do the registration is the month that your registration will always renew. In my case this is November.

I was not running for the past 15 months and did not renew my registration in November. I went and renewed it this week and as I suspected even though it is June, the tags will expire in November. This didn’t surprise me but what did was there was no proration of the fees. It cost me the exact same to register the truck this week as it would have cost to register it back in November. Is this right? I figured since half the registration period has passed the fees would be reduced.

 

I certainly didn't think they would ever give anyone a refund but I still find them not pro rating odd. My tags expire November 30th. So if by some odd set of circumstances I didn't renew my truck but needed to on November 25th then it would cost me the $1500 to run 5 days and then another $1500 on the 30th.

It certainly appears that is the way it works I am just saying it doesn't seem fair.

Oh yeah and my mileage I reported for July 21 to June 22 was 3,000 miles. July 22 to June 23 likely will be less than 500 miles. I am paying close to $1/mile in registration fees.