Ohio veterans rated 100% disabled who paid for a specialty military license plate on or after Oct. 17, 2019 have until Dec. 2 to claim a refund of the plate price and the sales tax. The refund comes from a class action settlement with the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and it covers veterans who bought the plate at a Deputy Registrar office and were never repaid. The case is Kacin v. Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, No. 2023-00204JD, in the Court of Claims of Ohio, and the claim runs through the settlement website.
State law says veterans with a 100% service-connected disability should not have paid registration taxes and fees on those plates. A 2018 law, House Bill 194, required the BMV to waive them, and the BMV kept charging the full price anyway, WSYX reported. The BMV denies the allegations and settled to avoid more litigation, according to ClaimDepot…