When is a vehicle Considered Taxable or Suspended.

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IRS  form 2290 is used to pay Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax (HVUT). IRS form 2290 payment is set up to help provide funding to federal states to repair the roads damaged due to running of Heavy highway vehicles. Extensive running of Heavy highway vehicles weighing more than 55,000 pounds can cause repairs on the road. Thus the taxes collected through IRS Form 2290 helps for the maintenance and repair as well as a variety of other programs to keep the roads to function properly.


Any vehicle that has a gross weight of 55,000 pounds requires a form 2290 to be filed but there are two major categories they are classified under.They are Taxable and Suspended.


TAXABLE VEHICLE:


Highway motor vehicles that have a taxable gross weight of 55,000 pounds or more and runs over 5000 miles  (7,500 miles or more for agricultural vehicles) are taxable. 

A Highway Motor Vehicle includes any self-propelled vehicle designed to carry a load over public highways, whether or not also designed to perform other functions. Examples of vehicles that are designed to carry a load over public highways include trucks, truck tractors, and buses. Generally, vans, pickup trucks, panel trucks, and similar trucks are not subject to this tax because they have a taxable gross weight less than 55,000 pounds. 

A vehicle consists of a chassis, or a chassis and body, but does not include the load. It does not matter if the vehicle is designed to perform a highway transportation function for only a particular type of load, such as passengers, furnishings, and personal effects (as in a house, office, or utility trailer), or a special kind of cargo, goods, supplies, or materials. It does not matter if machinery or equipment is specially designed (and permanently mounted) to perform some off-highway task unrelated to Highway Transportation.

Use means the use of a vehicle with power from its own motor on any public highway in the United States.

A public highway is any road in the United States that is not a private roadway. This includes federal, state, county, and city roads. 


SUSPENDED VEHICLE:

A highway motor vehicle which runs 5,000 miles or less (7,500 miles or less for agricultural vehicles) is exempt from tax but still requires a Form 2290 filed on it. 

Mileage use limit means the use of a vehicle on public highways 5,000 miles or less (7,500 miles or less for agricultural vehicles). The mileage use limit applies to the total mileage a vehicle is used during the Tax year, regardless of the number of owners.
An agricultural vehicle is any Highway Motor Vehicle that is: 

1. Used (or expected to be used) primarily for farming purposes.
2. Registered (under state laws) as a Highway Motor Vehicle used for farming purposes for the entire period. A special tag or license plate identifying the vehicle as used for farming is not required for it to be considered an agricultural vehicle. 
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