The whole vin tag thing is a grey area. The law talks about being illegal to remove it but what about cases like this when it's attached to a dash that's being restored or replaced, or the vehicles where it's attached to the drivers door and the door needs to be replaced. Doing a quick search online it seems like for newer cars car manufacturers provide a service that you can get a replacement vin tag from them, some of the forms to request it are even on the nhtsa website.

One thing that comes to play is with a replacement there's always going to be people out there to criticize it and rightly so. If you're looking at buying a car and one has a vin that's never been touched and another one has been replaced or looks questionable you know what car has a higher chance of getting picked.

I also ran across this website which has vin tags and the various other labels. Which might be a handy source for restoration purposes.

https://www.alumaphoto-plateco.com/products/vin-tag-replacement/vin-tags.html
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They only do sticker version. Posted on their site main page: "NOTE: WE WILL NOT REPLICATE ANY ID TAGS OR PLATES FOR LATE MODEL VEHICLES AS ALL THE INFORMATION WILL BE SENT TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. NOTE: WE DO NOT DO ANY "STAMPING" OR "EMBOSSING", ONLY PERMANENTLY PRINTED COPY".