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Registration Tax, Plate and Filing Fees Waived — Two Vehicles

A veteran with a total service-connected disability registers up to two vehicles at once with no registration tax, no administrative fee, no filing fee and no plate or sticker fees — and pays no motor vehicle sales tax on a purchase. Joint registration with a spouse or domestic partner keeps the exemption.

Verified August 22, 2026

What this benefit is

A veteran with a total service-connected disability registers up to two vehicles at once with no registration tax, no administrative fee, no filing fee and no plate or sticker fees — and pays no motor vehicle sales tax on a purchase. Joint registration with a spouse or domestic partner keeps the exemption.

What it's worth: No registration tax, administrative fee, filing fee, plate or validation sticker fees — up to two vehicles at once; no sales tax on a vehicle purchase

  • Personalized plate fees and special-plate contributions are the two charges the exemption does not touch.

Who is entitled to it

  • The VA has certified a 100% total and permanent service-connected rating.
  • You live in Minnesota.

Not sure whether that describes you?

Answer a few questions about this benefit specifically — we only ask what this one actually depends on, and we stop as soon as we know.

How to claim it

  1. 1Bring VA evidence of the 100% total and permanent service-connected rating to any deputy registrar — the statute's definition of total service-connected disability lives in §171.01, subd. 51.
  2. 2The exemption covers a passenger automobile, one-ton pickup truck, motorcycle or recreational vehicle — up to two registered with the exemption at the same time, including vehicles registered jointly with a spouse or domestic partner.
  3. 3A vehicle purchase by a qualifying veteran is also exempt from the motor vehicle sales tax under §297B.03.
  4. 4Expect to still pay personalized-plate fees or a special plate's required contribution if you choose those plates — those are the exemption's stated carve-outs.
Form
Registration with VA evidence of the total rating
File with
Driver and Vehicle Services — any deputy registrar office
Documents you will need
va benefit summary letter
Annual
Claimed once a year.
CorrectionSummaries file this as a free plate. The statute waives the registration tax itself plus the administrative, filing, plate and sticker fees — on up to two vehicles at once — and a separate section takes the sales tax off a purchase. The recurring registration tax is where the money is.
Known gapThe public-safety department's exemption page was unreachable this session, so the operational fine print (which office codes the exemption, wheelage-tax handling) is not restated here — both citations are the statutes read directly.

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