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 purchasing, leasing, registering or titling a motor vehicle. The next procedures are connected with requesting and acquiring a tax exemption on purchases or leases of official or personal motor motor vehicles by eligible foreign missions and their members in the United states. A “motor vehicle” is defined as any self-propelled motor vehicle, which includes but not constrained to vehicles, motorcycles, boats, and aircraft.
The exemption of product sales and use taxes imposed on purchases or leases of motor motor vehicles inside the United states to the basis of your diplomatic or consular standing or accreditation of the paying for foreign mission or accredited mission member and their dependents is solely authorized through the issuance of the Motor Automobile Tax-Exemption Letter by the Department’s Workplace of Foreign Missions (OFM) for the vendor or lessor of this kind of motor motor vehicle. Note that Diplomatic Tax Exemption Cards are usually not legitimate for exemption from taxes imposed on purchases of motor cars.
Hence, before finalizing a buy or lease of a motor vehicle, all foreign missions and their accredited members must instruct the seller/lessor to straight get hold of OFM while in normal business enterprise hrs to request the issuance of a Motor Automobile Tax-Exemption Letter.
Motor motor vehicle sellers/lessors may well make such requests by electronic mail or phone.
Sellers/lessors in Maryland, Virginia, or even the District of Columbia need to direct requests to OFMTaxCustoms@state.gov or (202) 895-3500, x2. Sellers/lessors outdoors this place must direct requests to your nearest OFM Regional Workplace:
• Chicago: OFMCGCustomerService@state.gov or (312) 353-5762
• Houston: OFMHOCustomerService@state.gov or (713) 272-2865
• Los Angeles: OFMLACustomerService@state.gov or (310) 235-6292
• Miami: OFMMICustomerService@state.gov or (305) 442-4943
• New York: OFMNYCustomerService@state.gov or (646) 282-2825
• San Francisco: OFMSFCustomerService@state.gov or (415) 744-2910
Sellers/lessors must present the next details to OFM:
1. The seller/lessor’s title, mailing handle, and telephone and fax numbers;
two. The colour, yr, make, and model in the motor vehicle that the mission or accredited mission member is preparing to acquire; and
3. For official motor vehicles: the title in the foreign mission that may be paying for or leasing a motor automobile; or
four. For personal motor cars: the identify (as it appears on their present “A or G series” visa) on the accredited mission member or their dependent who's getting or leasing a motor automobile, the identify within the foreign mission to which the person is assigned, and the individual’s Department-issued Personalized Identification Number (PID). (Note that persons will need to existing proof of accreditation to the seller/lessor - i.e., legitimate passport which incorporates 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 to your requesting seller/lessor by either electronic mail or facsimile within two hrs of obtaining the request.
Sellers/lessors are essential to send all unique ownership documents straight to OFM to ensure that the motor automobile may be appropriately registered and titled. Car dealerships and state motor motor vehicle administrations need to deal with this transaction as an from state registration. OFM will concern a registration card and federal license plates when correct documentation is received. Also, a title are going to be sent to your indicated lien holder to protect the curiosity of the loan provider.
