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Form 2290 Exemptions

Heavy highway vehicles must report to the IRS by the end of the 2290 deadline. But some heavy vehicles are exempt from the tax payment report on Form 2290. The 2290 tax exemptions happen when the vehicles meet certain requirements. If the heavy vehicles subject to the below criteria, then they are eligible for IRS Form 2290 Exemption.

• The Federal Government;
• The American National Red Cross;
• A state or local government;
• The District of Columbia;
• A non profit volunteer fire department, rescue squad, or ambulance association,
• An Indian tribal government but only if the vehicles involved in the exercise of an essential tribal government function; or

A mass transportation authority is created under a statute that gives it certain powers normally exercised by the state. Also, there are some reasons for IRS 2290 Tax Form Exemption that the heavy vehicles need not report on Form 2290. They are

• Qualified blood collector vehicles are used by qualified blood collector organizations, and
• Mobile machinery (at certain specifications such as a chassis as described under specially designed mobile machinery for non-transportation functions)

Qualified blood collector vehicle

A qualified blood collector vehicle those are used for qualified blood collector organizations to collect, store, or transportation of blood. The Qualified blood collector vehicles must works under qualified blood collector organizations 80% throughout the tax period. When a heavy vehicle comes to service in a tax year and the qualified blood collector organization certifies that the vehicle 80% service is only for collection, storage, and transportation of the blood, then that vehicle is exempted from 2290 Tax Payment.

Vehicles not considered Highway Motor Vehicles

The below type of vehicles are not treated as heavy vehicles.

1. The vehicles that are specially designed for mobile machinery for non-transportation functions. The mobile machinery vehicles perform operations on manufacturing, construction, drilling, timbering, processing, mining, farming, or similar operations and those are not perform operations on the public highways.
2. When the chassis has been specially designed to serve for mobile carriage and mount.

Vehicles specially designed for off-highway transportation

If any vehicle specially designed for transporting a particular type of load other than over the public highway is not imposed to 2290 Tax. As these vehicles specially designed they are travel with a particular load that is other than the public highway.
These types of vehicles can transport a load more than the public highway. Check out whether the vehicle subject to safety, licensing, or other requirements, and also the vehicle runs at a speed of at least 25 miles per hour.