Car Tax Exemption
The Workplace of Foreign Missions (OFM) enforces the exemption of eligible foreign missions and their members from payment of any taxes when buying, leasing, registering or titling a automobile. The next procedures are associated with requesting and getting a tax exemption on purchases or leases of official or personal motor vehicles by eligible foreign missions and their members while in the U.s.. A “motor vehicle” is defined as any self-propelled automobile, like but not constrained to vehicles, motorcycles, boats, and aircraft.
The exemption of revenue and use taxes imposed on purchases or leases of motor cars in the U.s. over the basis of the diplomatic or consular status or accreditation of your buying foreign mission or accredited mission member and their dependents is solely authorized by way of the issuance of a Motor Vehicle Tax-Exemption Letter by the Department’s Workplace of Foreign Missions (OFM) on the vendor or lessor of such motor motor vehicle. Note that Diplomatic Tax Exemption Cards are not valid for exemption from taxes imposed on purchases of motor cars.
Hence, before finalizing a obtain or lease of the motor vehicle, all foreign missions and their accredited members will have to instruct the seller/lessor to right get hold of OFM all through usual organization hours to request the issuance of the Motor Car Tax-Exemption Letter.
Motor vehicle sellers/lessors may possibly make such requests by electronic mail or phone.
Sellers/lessors in Maryland, Virginia, or the District of Columbia should really direct requests to [email protected] or (202) 895-3500, x2. Sellers/lessors outside this area will need to direct requests on the nearest OFM Regional Office:
• Chicago: [email protected] or (312) 353-5762
• Houston: [email protected] or (713) 272-2865
• Los Angeles: [email protected] or (310) 235-6292
• Miami: [email protected] or (305) 442-4943
• New York: [email protected] or (646) 282-2825
• San Francisco: [email protected] or (415) 744-2910
Sellers/lessors should give the following data to OFM:
one. The seller/lessor’s title, mailing tackle, and phone and fax numbers;
2. The shade, yr, make, and model of your motor vehicle that the mission or accredited mission member is setting up to get; and
3. For official motor vehicles: the name of your foreign mission that is purchasing or leasing a motor motor vehicle; or
four. For individual motor vehicles: the name (because it seems on their latest “A or G series” visa) from the accredited mission member or their dependent who is acquiring or leasing a motor vehicle, the identify of the foreign mission to which the individual is assigned, plus the individual’s Department-issued Personal Identification Amount (PID). (Note that persons should current evidence of accreditation on the seller/lessor - i.e., legitimate passport which contains their current “A or G series” visa, or Department-issued protocol identification card, or Department-issued driver’s license, or Department-issued Diplomatic Tax Exemption Card.)
OFM strives to transmit Motor Motor vehicle Tax-Exemption Letters on the requesting seller/lessor by both electronic mail or facsimile inside of two hours of acquiring the request.
Sellers/lessors are needed to send all authentic ownership paperwork right to OFM to ensure the motor automobile could be accurately registered and titled. Auto dealerships and state motor motor vehicle administrations ought to treat this transaction as an out of state registration. OFM will challenge a registration card and federal license plates once adequate documentation is acquired. Also, a title shall be sent for the indicated lien holder to safeguard the interest within the lender.
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