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Ohio Transfer on Death (TOD) Law: Transfer on Death of Vehicles

Introduction

The Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles provides an easy way to add a Transfer of Death designation to your car title. See the links below.picture of car

Book

Ohio Revised Code

Forms

Links

If you were the Transfer on Death Beneficiary listed on the reverse side of the title, no tax is due.  When the vehicle is titled, use exemption code TD. If you received the vehicle without giving any consideration for the vehicle, no sales tax is due.  When the vehicle is titled, use exemption code IH.