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Registration opens for 2024 NTEA Commercial Vehicle Upfitting Summit

This annual event provides an important opportunity for the technical community to preview commercial vehicle updates and engage with OEM engineers on critical upfitting issues.

June 18, 2024

Excise Tax Enquirer

When is a chassis cab an FET-taxable tractor?

We sell incomplete chassis cabs to an upfitter that completes them into trucks and sells them at retail. Is it correct that if the Manufacturer’s Statement of Origin/Certificate of Origin identifies the incomplete...

August 30, 2018

Tech Connections

What's the difference between manufacturer's certification, certificates and statements?

We are a truck equipment distributor and recently have received more customer requests for copies of certification labels for titling vehicles in their respective states. Isn’t this the purpose of the manufacturer’s...

November 1, 2021

Vehicle Certification

Excise Tax Enquirer

Further manufacture: Tractor to wrecker after Jan. 1, 1998?

We understood that after Jan. 1, 1998, chassis modifications that did not exceed 75% of the cost of purchasing a similar new chassis would not be considered further manufacturing. However, in Technical Advice Memorandum...

April 1, 1999

Federal Excise Tax (FET) Implications

H & W Marketing Inc

May 15, 2025

Excise Tax Enquirer

Taxable articles: Trucks sold to United States military

We are a truck dealership that sells new, customized trucks to the United States military for use in the U.S. Are trucks that are sold to the U. S. government exempt from the excise tax imposed on retail sales under IRC...

December 1, 1999

Federal Excise Tax (FET) Implications

Member News

Havis introduces new power management inverter bundles for mobile environments

Havis launched its Power Management Inverter Bundles. Designed to enhance efficiency, reliability, and seamless integration in mobile environments, these new bundles provide a complete power management solution featuring...

April 16, 2025

Tech Trends

FET exclusion for tire tax

FET is the subject of many member questions. With FET composing 12% of the retail sales price on a taxable item, it is important for the seller to correctly calculate the tax. A key concern involves how to handle the...

May 10, 2016

Federal Excise Tax (FET) Implications

Tech Connections

Elements of vehicle certification

We’re opening a new truck equipment distribution business. Does certification of the trucks we build mean just labeling the vehicles when we’re finished building? Also, we’re considering building vehicles for customers...

February 29, 2024

Vehicle Certification

Tech Connections

Vehicle upfitters, alterers and dealers — You may be a manufacturer

There are lots of rules to follow when selling or upfitting trucks, so it may be hard to keep track of them. You need to be familiar with tax laws, financing and warranty policies, motor vehicle safety standards...

March 22, 2021

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