One page that removes the excise tax from a vehicle given to close family. It applies to transfers between husband and wife, or between a parent or step-parent and a child or step-child, and only where the vehicle is genuinely gifted - the form's own warning is that if the vehicle was purchased, or exchanged for anything of value, the referenced exemption does not apply and this affidavit is NOT to be completed. It is sworn before a notary and it may only be completed by the registered owner.
Written against 794 (Rev 01/2023), issued under 68 O.S. 2103.
A gift is a gift. If money, a trade, or forgiveness of a debt is involved, the exemption is gone and the honest route is a declared price and the tax that follows it. Service Oklahoma's own summary of the exemption ends with one sentence: the vehicle being transferred must be gifted, cannot be sold.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank 794 from the oklahoma.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual 794, rendered from the PDF the Service Oklahoma, Motor Vehicle Services publishes and completed end to end: letterhead, every field, and the blocks at the foot.
Amber — you write it
Grey — not yours to fill
Numbered — explained below
A parent giving a car to an adult child, which is one of the four relationships the form recognises. The three other tick boxes are washed grey. Below them the signature rule and the acknowledgment are printed lines rather than fields, which is why they are blank - and why the trip to the notary is a separate errand.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
You fill this in
State of Oklahoma, County of
The county where the affidavit is being sworn.
Watch out: The county here and the county in the notary block should match, because they are describing the same event.
2
You fill this in
Model Year, Make, and OK Title or VIN/Serial Number
The vehicle being given away.
Watch out: Either identifier is accepted, but the title number is the one that ties the affidavit to a specific record rather than to a specific vehicle.
3
You fill this in
I (transferor) hereby affirm that I am the registered owner
Your name written into the affirmation.
Watch out: The registered owner means the person the certificate of title names. A spouse who is not on the title cannot make this affirmation for the one who is.
4
You fill this in
is being transferred without consideration to
The name of the person receiving the vehicle.
Watch out: Without consideration is the whole test. A dollar changing hands to make it look like a sale is exactly the thing that voids the exemption.
5
You fill this in
who is my: Husband, Wife, Parent/Step Parent, Child/Step Child
One tick, and only one.
Watch out: Four boxes and no others. If the relationship is not one of these four, the transfer is taxable and this sheet does not help.
6
You fill this in
Signature of Record Owner, and the notary block
Your signature, sworn in front of a notary public with a seal.
Watch out: Take the certificate of title with you. The affirmation you are swearing to says you have provided it.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
State of Oklahoma, County of
The jurisdiction line at the head of the sheet.
Model Year and Make
Two boxes identifying the vehicle.
OK Title or VIN/Serial Number
One field taking either the Oklahoma title number or the identification number.
I (transferor) hereby affirm that I am the registered owner
The affirmation, with the transferor's name written into it and the certificate of title provided in support.
is being transferred without consideration to the following
The recipient's name, in a long box inside the sentence.
who is my: Husband / Wife / Parent/Step Parent / Child/Step Child
Four tick boxes on one rule. There is no fifth.
Signature of Record Owner
One rule, for the registered owner and nobody else.
State of, County of, and Subscribed and sworn to before me
The notary block, with commission expiry and seal.
What gets this one rejected
•Any relationship other than the four printed. Siblings and grandparents are outside it, and Service Oklahoma names both as examples of who does not qualify.
•A sale dressed as a gift. Without consideration means nothing of value changed hands, and the form warns that false or fraudulent information may result in revocation of the certificate of title in addition to civil or criminal penalties.
•Anyone but the registered owner completing it. The form says twice that if you are not the owner of the vehicle, this affidavit is NOT to be completed.
•Filing it without the title. The affirmation says in support of it the owner has provided the certificate of title for the vehicle.
•Using it alongside the lost-assigned-title affidavit. The form states that it may NOT be used in conjunction with the affidavit for transfer of ownership following loss of an assigned Oklahoma title.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•It removes the excise tax, not the transfer. The vehicle still has to be signed over and the certificate still has to be applied for. This affidavit only changes what is owed at the counter.
•Step relationships count and in-laws do not. The printed boxes name step-parents and step-children in terms. Everything outside those four boxes pays.
Every line here was read off 794 (Rev 01/2023) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Service Oklahoma, Motor Vehicle Services pages.
This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ,
theirs governs.
