AUTO TITLE MANUAL - Franklin County, Ohio
AUTO TITLE MANUAL - Franklin County, Ohio
AUTO TITLE MANUAL - Franklin County, Ohio
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equires a motor vehicle certificate of title. If the implement or construction equipment<br />
dealer is in the business of regularly selling trailers that are required to be titled, they will<br />
be licensed as a motor vehicle dealer by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.<br />
Those that only occasionally sell trailers that are required to be titled will not be licensed<br />
as a motor vehicle dealer by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Nevertheless, the implement<br />
or equipment dealer must have a vendor’s license as they are making retail sales. Under<br />
sales and use tax law, these implement or equipment dealers are entitled to claim the<br />
resale exemption on these trailers, so long as they are being acquired for the purposes of<br />
resale. These implement or equipment dealers MUST submit an exemption certificate<br />
with the application for certificate of title using the term “Resale – implement/equipment<br />
dealer.” (RI)<br />
Special Note: This exemption reason does not apply to trailers that are acquired for use<br />
by the business in transporting other items (tractors, plows, disc harrows, fertilizer<br />
spreaders, combines, bulldozers, backhoes, etc.) that are sold by the dealer or other motor<br />
vehicles (passenger vehicles, trucks, vans, etc.).<br />
44. Can you provide some examples of "consideration" other than money that is<br />
given in exchange for a certificate of title?<br />
The following list is not an all-inclusive listing:<br />
(A) An item of tangible personal property; such as another vehicle, a boat, a horse, etc.,<br />
given in exchange. In each case, a value has to be established for the item being<br />
exchanged and it should be the fair market value of the item that is traded. Where there is<br />
an even trade of motor vehicles between two individuals with no money involved, each<br />
individual would pay tax due based on the value of the motor vehicle, which is<br />
transferred to the other.<br />
(B) A piece of real estate, such as a lot, that is given in exchange. In this instance, a value<br />
has to be established for the real property, which was given towards the acquisition of the<br />
motor vehicle.<br />
(C) An item of tangible personal property, such as shares of corporate stock, whether<br />
transferred to or from a corporation in exchange for a motor vehicle. An example would<br />
be the transfer of a motor vehicle from an individual to a corporation of which the<br />
individual is sole owner or a stockholder constitutes a sale and the fair market value of<br />
the stock or other consideration given in exchange would be the tax base. Where there is<br />
no established market value for the stock or other securities so exchanged, it will be<br />
presumed that they are equivalent to the fair market value of the vehicle or the value as<br />
listed under corporate assets in which case this would be used as the tax base.<br />
(D) Cancellation of an existing debt owed to the purchaser or new titleholder.<br />
(E) The transfer of a motor vehicle resulting from the assumption, by the transferee (new<br />
titleholder), of a mortgage through a “transfer of equity or interest agreement” wherein<br />
the transferor (previous titleholder) is relieved of its original principal liability and