Oklahoma Code § 68-3202

§ 68-3202.

Exemptions.

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 68. Revenue and Taxation

The tax imposed by Section 3201 of this title shall not apply

to:

1. Deeds recorded prior to the effective date of Sections 3201

through 3206 of this title;

2. Deeds which secure a debt or other obligation;

3. Deeds which, without additional consideration, confirm,

correct, modify or supplement a deed previously recorded;

4. Deeds between husband and wife, or parent and child, or any

persons related within the second degree of consanguinity, without

actual consideration therefor, deeds between any person and an

express revocable trust created by such person or such person’s

spouse or deeds pursuant to which property is transferred from a

person to a partnership, limited liability company or corporation of

which the transferor or the transferor’s spouse, parent, child, or

other person related within the second degree of consanguinity to

the transferor, or trust for primary benefit of such persons, are

the only owners of the partnership, limited liability company or

corporation. However, if any interest in the partnership, limited

liability company or corporation is transferred within one (1) year

to any person other than the transferor or the transferor’s spouse,

parent, child, or other person related within the second degree of

consanguinity to the transferor, the seller shall immediately pay

the amount of tax which would have been due had this exemption not

been granted;

5. Tax deeds;

6. Deeds of release of property which is security for a debt or

other obligation;

7. Deeds executed by American Indians in approval proceedings

of the district courts or by the Secretary of the Interior;

8. Deeds of partition, unless, for consideration, some of the

parties take shares greater in value than their undivided interests,

in which event a tax attaches to each deed conveying such greater

share computed upon the consideration for the excess;

9. Deeds made pursuant to mergers of partnerships, limited

liability companies or corporations;

10. Deeds made by a subsidiary corporation to its parent

corporation for no consideration other than the cancellation or

surrender of the subsidiary's stock;

11. Deeds or instruments to which the State of Oklahoma or any

of its instrumentalities, agencies or subdivisions is a party,

whether as grantee or as grantor or in any other capacity;

12. Deeds or instruments to which the United States or any of

its agencies or departments is a party, whether as grantor or as

grantee or in any other capacity, provided that this shall not

exempt transfers to or from national banks or federal savings and

loan associations;

Oklahoma Statutes - Title 68. Revenue and Taxation

13. Any deed executed pursuant to a foreclosure proceeding in

which the grantee is the holder of a mortgage on the property being

foreclosed, or any deed executed pursuant to a power of sale in

which the grantee is the party exercising such power of sale or any

deed executed in favor of the holder of a mortgage on the property

in consideration for the release of the borrower from liability on

the indebtedness secured by such mortgage except as to cash

consideration paid; provided, however, the tax shall apply to deeds

in other foreclosure actions, unless otherwise hereinabove exempted,

and shall be paid by the purchaser in such foreclosure actions;

14. Deeds and other instruments to which the Oklahoma Space

Industry Development Authority or a spaceport user, as defined in

the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Act, is a party; or

15. Declarations to remove discriminatory restrictive covenants

pursuant to Section 2 of this act.

Added by Laws 1967, c. 259, § 2. Amended by Laws 1968, c. 186, § 1,

emerg. eff. April 15, 1968; Laws 1971, c. 315, § 2, operative July

1, 1971; Laws 1988, c. 24, § 1, operative July 1, 1988. Renumbered

from § 5102 of this title by Laws 1988, c. 162, § 160, eff. Jan. 1,

1992. Amended by Laws 1991, c. 338, § 3, eff. Jan. 1, 1992; Laws

1993, c. 366, § 48, eff. Sept. 1, 1993; Laws 1999, c. 164, § 41,

eff. July 1, 1999; Laws 1999, c. 340, § 2, eff. July 1, 1999; Laws

2001, c. 405, § 48, eff. Nov. 1, 2001; Laws 2023, c. 267, § 3, eff.

Nov. 1, 2023.