Automobile Tax Exemption
The Workplace of Foreign Missions (OFM) enforces the exemption of eligible foreign missions and their members from payment of any taxes when getting, leasing, registering or titling a vehicle. The following procedures are linked with requesting and acquiring a tax exemption on purchases or leases of official or personalized motor motor vehicles by eligible foreign missions and their members while in the United states. A “motor vehicle” is defined as any self-propelled automobile, together with but not restricted to vehicles, motorcycles, boats, and aircraft.
The exemption of sales and use taxes imposed on purchases or leases of motor cars in the United states of america within the basis of your diplomatic or consular status or accreditation of the obtaining foreign mission or accredited mission member and their dependents is solely authorized via the issuance of the Motor Motor vehicle Tax-Exemption Letter through the Department’s Workplace of Foreign Missions (OFM) towards 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 vehicles.
For that reason, before finalizing a purchase or lease of the motor car, all foreign missions and their accredited members should instruct the seller/lessor to immediately contact OFM during regular home business hours to request the issuance of the Motor Automobile Tax-Exemption Letter.
Motor automobile sellers/lessors may make such requests by electronic mail or telephone.
Sellers/lessors in Maryland, Virginia, or even the District of Columbia will need to direct requests to [email protected] or (202) 895-3500, x2. Sellers/lessors outside this location ought to direct requests for the nearest OFM Regional Workplace:
• 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 have to offer the next data to OFM:
1. The seller/lessor’s title, mailing address, and phone and fax numbers;
two. The color, 12 months, make, and model with the motor motor vehicle that the mission or accredited mission member is planning to obtain; and
3. For official motor automobiles: the title of the foreign mission that is paying for or leasing a motor vehicle; or
4. For individual motor automobiles: the name (since it appears on their present “A or G series” visa) within the accredited mission member or their dependent who is purchasing or leasing a motor vehicle, the title with the foreign mission to which the individual is assigned, plus the individual’s Department-issued Private Identification Quantity (PID). (Note that individuals need to existing proof of accreditation on the seller/lessor - i.e., legitimate passport which has their recent “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 for the requesting seller/lessor by both electronic mail or facsimile within two hrs of getting the request.
Sellers/lessors are needed to send all authentic ownership documents directly to OFM so that the motor car will be thoroughly registered and titled. Car dealerships and state motor motor vehicle administrations should treat this transaction as an from state registration. OFM will matter a registration card and federal license plates once right documentation is obtained. Also, a title is going to be sent on the indicated lien holder to safeguard the interest from the loan company.
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