Your state wants $5,312
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Montana wants none of it. Our partner Zero Tax Tags forms the LLC, registers the vehicle, and handles every step from Whitefish.
on a vehicle in
Montana wants none of it. Our partner Zero Tax Tags forms the LLC, registers the vehicle, and handles every step from Whitefish.
When you buy a vehicle, the state it gets registered in charges the sales tax. Register it in Florida, Florida sends the bill.
Montana has no sales tax on vehicles at all. Not a lower rate. Zero. The catch is that a vehicle can only be registered where its owner is based.
An LLC is a small company. Zero Tax Tags sets one up for you in Montana, and you own it completely. The LLC is listed as the vehicle's owner, so it registers in Montana. No sales tax.
You don't move. The vehicle doesn't move. You insure it, park it, and drive it where you live. The LLC's only job is to be the name on the title, and Zero Tax Tags keeps it in good standing every year.
You're not moving to Montana. Your vehicle's owner is.
Not stock photography. Real cars, real Montana registrations, done the same way Zero Tax Tags would do yours.
Ferrari SF90 and 296
Urus, straight off the Palm Beach lot
Huracán Spyder
Huracán TecnicaYou can be driving in about a day. Plates follow inside about two weeks. You sign electronically, Zero Tax Tags does the rest.
Filed with the Montana Secretary of State with you as the sole member. You get the articles, the operating agreement, and an EIN if you want one. You own the company outright.
You send the title or MSO and sign a power of attorney. They handle the county, the fees, and the paperwork. No sales tax is assessed.
Once the LLC is formed they can have you legally on the road with a temp tag in about a day. Permanent Montana plates and registration follow by mail, and Zero Tax Tags stays on as your registered agent from then on.
Montana issues permanent registration on most vehicles eleven years and older. Pay once, and that plate is done for as long as you own the car. The 928 in the photo will never see a renewal notice.
It isn't only exotics. Cars, trucks, SUVs, RVs and motorhomes, fifth wheels, trailers, motorcycles, boats and jet skis, side-by-sides, and heavy trucks all register the same way. If it has a VIN or a hull number, it can usually be done.
Exotics, collector cars, and anything over six figures, where a single percentage point is real money. Classics with lost or missing paperwork can be handled too, through title recovery.
Class A coaches and fifth wheels, especially for full-timers who aren't tied to one state anyway.
Multiple vehicles under one entity, one renewal date, one point of contact.
Some of the simplest and cheapest registrations there are. Often permanent.
A Montana LLC is a real company that you own, and it can own property, including vehicles. Montana does not charge sales tax on a vehicle purchase and does not require you to live there to register one. Thousands of people register vehicles this way every year, and Zero Tax Tags has done it for a lot of them.
It is not a way around your own state's use tax rules if you keep and drive the vehicle at home year round. Some states enforce this harder than others. Zero Tax Tags will tell you honestly whether your situation is a good fit before you pay anything, and they would rather turn the work down than set you up to fail.
Talk to your own attorney or CPA. This site explains the process and Zero Tax Tags handles the Montana filings. Neither of us gives legal or tax advice about your home state, and you should get that advice before you buy.
If yours isn't here, ask. A real person at Zero Tax Tags answers the phone during business hours, Mountain time.
No. You never set foot in the state. Everything is signed electronically or mailed. Zero Tax Tags is your registered agent, so their Whitefish office is the LLC's Montana address.
Absolutely. You receive an operating agreement that documents your complete ownership of the company. Zero Tax Tags files it as a manager-managed LLC with privacy in mind, which keeps your personal information off the public record. They are the registered agent, nothing more, and if you ever want to move on, the LLC goes with you.
There is a state filing fee, a registration and title fee that varies by vehicle age and weight, and Zero Tax Tags' service fee. Tell them the vehicle and you get the full number in writing before you pay anything. No surprise line items.
The LLC is usually filed within a day or two, and once it exists Zero Tax Tags can issue a temp tag that has you legally on the road in about a day. Permanent plates depend on how fast they get your title or MSO and how the county is running, but most people have them in hand in about two weeks.
Coverage is available to owners in all fifty states through most major carriers, and Zero Tax Tags will point you toward the ones that have taken good care of their clients. They are not insurance experts, but they will help you get it sorted.
Absolutely. The title gets transferred into the LLC. If the vehicle is financed in your personal name, you will need the lienholder's permission to retitle it under the company, and Zero Tax Tags can walk you through that request. The reason any of this works is that the LLC is what satisfies Montana's residency requirement. You don't have to live there. Your company does, and it does that through their office.
Usually. Zero Tax Tags offers title recovery for vehicles with lost, missing, or never-issued paperwork, which is common with barn finds, inherited cars, and older collector vehicles. Montana does it through a bonded title, and vehicles thirty years or older need no bond at all. Expect three to four weeks instead of two, because a VIN verification is part of the process. Tell them what paperwork you do have and they'll say whether it qualifies.
Most will. You hand them the LLC paperwork and they title the vehicle to the company the same way they would for any business purchase. If a dealer gives you a hard time, call Zero Tax Tags before you walk away from the car. They work with some of the largest auto brokers in the country and will make sure you end up with the vehicle you actually want.
Tell us about the vehicle and a registration expert at Zero Tax Tags will come back with a straight answer: whether it works for your situation, what it costs, and how long it takes. No cost, no obligation.