How to fill out Tennessee RV-F1301201

The form that explains a price. Tennessee taxes the buyer on what changed hands, so a transfer that is a gift, a transfer to a close relative, or a sale at 75 per cent or less of book value needs this affidavit going in with the application - sworn under penalty of perjury, by both of you. It is the only tax document in a private Tennessee sale that a seller signs.

Written against RV-F1301201 (Rev 5-22), issued under Tenn. Code Ann. 67-6-102 and the Department's County Clerk Sales and Use Tax Manual. This is a sales-tax document, not a transfer document. It goes in with the assigned title and the buyer's application; on its own it moves nothing and proves nothing about ownership.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank RV-F1301201 from the tn.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.

Step 1 · the form itself Blank RV-F1301201 — Affidavit of Non-dealer Transfers of Motor Vehicles and Boats PDF at tn.gov · new tab

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is the actual RV-F1301201, rendered from the PDF the Tennessee Department of Revenue 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

Tennessee form RV-F1301201 filled in as a relative transfer: the top box for a relative transfer is ticked, Loretta J. Bramblett of Maryville transfers a 2011 Honda Fit, vehicle identification number JHMGE8H55BC034187, with a fair market value of 4,150 dollars and no lien, to Marisol B. Ledford of Knoxville on 5 September 2026, the relationship line reads grandmother and granddaughter, and both parties have signed and dated it. — Filled in for a lineal-relative transfer, which is the version that needs no money on it at all. The considerations grid and the trade-in row are greyed because they belong to the other box at the top - a gift or a low price to somebody who is not on the printed list of relatives.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
You fill this in
Which of the two boxes
Relative transfer, or gift transfer or low selling price to a person other than a tax-exempt relative.
Watch out: Read the printed list of relatives before you tick the first one. Siblings are on it, cousins are not, and a step-parent is not named anywhere on the form.
2
You fill this in
The seller column
Your name, address, phone and driver licence or federal employer number.
Watch out: Print, do not sign, in this block. The signature line is at the foot and the perjury clause sits directly above it.
3
You fill this in
The purchaser column
The same details for the person receiving the vehicle.
Watch out: Their address decides the local tax rate the clerk applies, so an out-of-date one costs the buyer money even when the transfer itself is exempt.
4
You fill this in
Fair market value
What the vehicle would actually sell for, referenced to an authoritative pricing manual.
Watch out: This is not the price. On a gift the price is nothing and the value is still whatever the guide says, and the clerk uses the value to decide whether the exemption is plausible.
5
You fill this in
The relationship line
One line stating how the two of you are related, where a relative transfer is being claimed.
Watch out: Write the relationship in the words the form's own list uses. Grandmother to granddaughter is on it; family friend is not a relationship.
6
You fill this in
Both signatures, under the perjury clause
Signed and dated by the transferor and the transferee.
Watch out: Read the sentence above the line before you sign it. It says this document correctly states the total amount of consideration for the transfer, and it is the sentence the Department relies on if it later disagrees.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
The two boxes at the top	Relative transfer, whose printed list is spouses, siblings, lineal relatives - children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, parents, grandparents and great-grandparents - and the spouses of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Or gift transfer or low selling price to a person other than a tax-exempt relative.
Seller or transferor column	Name, address, city, state and ZIP, phone, and a federal employer number or driver licence number.
Purchaser or transferee column	The same five lines again, for the other side.
Vehicle or boat information	Year, make and vehicle identification number, filled in by the seller.
Date of sale and fair market value	The day it changed hands, and what the vehicle is actually worth - which the form ties to the most recent issue of an authoritative pricing manual such as the N.A.D.A. Official Used Car Guide, SE Edition.
Lien questions	Is there a lien, yes or no; the amount outstanding; and the lienholder's name.
Relationship	One line for the relationship between the two parties, which is what carries a relative transfer.
The considerations box	Only for a gift or low selling price: money involved, loan assumption or pay-off, services or labour performed and their value, an other line to explain, and a trade-in with its own value and description.
Total sales price	With the definition printed beside it - the total amount of consideration paid by the purchaser, including any money paid to a third party such as a lienholder, and $0 where none was given.
Reason for a low price	A free line, used where the sales price is below the average value.
Both signatures	The perjury clause runs above them and both parties sign and date.

What gets this one rejected

•Neither box at the top ticked. The form does two different jobs and the clerk cannot guess which one you are asking for.
•A relationship the printed list does not cover. A cousin, a nephew, an in-law who is not the spouse of a child or grandchild - none of them is on it, and the transfer is taxable however close the family is.
•A fair market value invented for the occasion. The form names the pricing manual it expects the number to come from.
•$0 in the total sales price on a transfer where a debt was assumed. Paying off somebody's loan is consideration, and the form lists loan assumption as its own line.
•A gift ticked where the recipient did something in return. The form's own definition of a gift excludes payment, a swap of merchandise, a favour, work performed in exchange and forgiveness of a debt.
•One signature. Both the transferor and the transferee swear to it.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•Seventy-five per cent is the line. The form defines a low selling price as 75 per cent or less of the fair market value. Above that, an ordinary bargain needs no affidavit at all.
•The penalty lands on the buyer. The perjury paragraph says failure to report proper consideration may result in assessment of applicable sales tax, penalty and interest against the purchaser - so an obliging low number is a bill posted to the person you sold it to.

Every line here was read off RV-F1301201 (Rev 5-22) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Tennessee Department of Revenue pages. This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ, theirs governs.

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How to fill out Tennessee RV-F1301201

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

Which of the two boxes

The seller column

The purchaser column

Fair market value

The relationship line

Both signatures, under the perjury clause

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

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