GA trying to make me pay sales tax!?

I just refinanced my truck and the Barrow County, GA tag office is insisting that I will have to pay sales tax if I don’t have a “sales tax exemption number”. They said the GA Dept of revenue can provide that for me but they have been no help. There is a GA DOR form called the ST-5 that specifically states “according to such and such law this truck will be used in interstate commerce and is exempt from sales tax”, but the county tag office still says I have to have the proof of exemption.

Has anyone registered a title in GA recently who knows how to get around paying the sales tax?

 

Yes but they aren’t accepting that as a valid exemption.

 

I was lease purchasing from Prime. I refinanced the truck with a new company. Now I will be listed as the owner with the finance company as a lien holder. So I’m transferring the title into GA when it was held in MO before.

 

They are saying I have to have a sales tax exemption number, which there is a spot for in the ST-5 form. I just don’t know how to get one of those. One lady told me the title had to match the name of the company I’m leasing to, so that may be a technicality that ends up screwing the little guy.