Heavy  Use Tax (HUT)

Heavy use tax is an annual fee you are required to pay if you operate a vehicle with a taxable gross weight of over 55,000 pounds on public highways. You must file Form 2290, Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax Return and pay the Heavy Highway Vehicle Use Tax due.

The 2017-2018 tax year for Form 2290 filers is July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2018.

For vehicles first used on a public highway in July, file Form 2290 between July 1 and August 31.

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Taxable Vehicles

Highway motor vehicles that have a taxable gross weight of 55,000 pounds or more are taxable.

A highway motor vehicle includes any self-propelled vehicle designed to carry a load over public highways. Examples of that vehicles include trucks, truck tractors, and buses. Generally, vans, pickup trucks, panel trucks, and similar trucks aren’t 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 doesn’t include the load. It doesn’t matter if machinery or equipment is specially designed to perform some off-highway task unrelated to highway transportation except to the extent discussed later under Vehicles not considered highway motor vehicles.

There are also a number of vehicles that are exempted from the HVUT:

• Commercial vehicles traveling fewer than 5,000 miles annually
• Agriculture vehicles traveling fewer than 7,500 miles annually
• Vehicle not considered highway motor vehicles — e.g., mobile machinery for non-transportation functions, vehicles specifically designed for off-highway transportation, and non-transportation trailers and semi-trailers
• Qualified blood collector vehicles used by qualified blood collector organizations

Also, there are groups that receive exemptions from the HUT, they are: 

• The Federal Government
• Mass transportation authorities
• The American Red Cross
• Nonprofit volunteer fire departments, ambulance associations or rescue squads
• Indian tribal governments (for vehicles used in essential tribal government functions)

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