diff --git a/tap/tap.py b/tap/tap.py
index b4417c1..06ac096 100644
--- a/tap/tap.py
+++ b/tap/tap.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 import sys
 import time
 from types import MethodType
-from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Sequence, Set, Tuple, TypeVar, Union, get_type_hints
+from typing import Any, Callable, ClassVar, Dict, List, Optional, Sequence, Set, Tuple, TypeVar, Union, get_type_hints
 from typing_inspect import is_literal_type
 from warnings import warn
 
@@ -169,13 +169,21 @@ def _add_argument(self, *name_or_flags, **kwargs) -> None:
 
             # Description
             if variable in self.class_variables:
-                kwargs['help'] += ' ' + self.class_variables[variable]['comment']
+                comment = self.class_variables[variable]['comment']
+                # Ignore attributes with comment starting with "tap: ignore"
+                if comment.startswith('tap: ignore'):
+                    return
+                kwargs['help'] += ' ' + comment
 
         # Set other kwargs where not provided
         if variable in self._annotations:
             # Get type annotation
             var_type = self._annotations[variable]
 
+            # Ignore attributes with type ClassVar
+            if get_origin(var_type) == ClassVar:
+                return
+
             # If type is not explicitly provided, set it if it's one of our supported default types
             if 'type' not in kwargs:
                 # Unbox Union[type] (Optional[type]) and set var_type = type
diff --git a/tap/utils.py b/tap/utils.py
index c5d3f10..4ecf2b2 100644
--- a/tap/utils.py
+++ b/tap/utils.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 from typing import (
     Any,
     Callable,
+    ClassVar,
     Dict,
     Generator,
     Iterator,
@@ -495,6 +496,10 @@ def get_origin(tp: Any) -> Any:
     if origin is None:
         origin = tp
 
+    # fix typing_inspect not supporting ClassVar
+    if hasattr(tp, '__origin__') and tp.__origin__ == ClassVar:
+        origin = ClassVar
+
     if sys.version_info >= (3, 10) and isinstance(origin, UnionType):
         origin = UnionType
 
diff --git a/tests/test_integration.py b/tests/test_integration.py
index 3f2ae3a..5cffadb 100644
--- a/tests/test_integration.py
+++ b/tests/test_integration.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 from re import L
 import sys
 from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory
-from typing import Any, Iterable, List, Optional, Set, Tuple, Union
+from typing import Any, ClassVar, Iterable, List, Optional, Set, Tuple, Union
 from typing_extensions import Literal
 import unittest
 from unittest import TestCase
@@ -328,6 +328,8 @@ class IntegrationDefaultTap(Tap):
     # TODO: move these elsewhere since we don't support them as defaults
     # arg_other_type_required: Person
     # arg_other_type_default: Person = Person('tap')
+    arg_classvar: ClassVar[str]
+    arg_ignore: str  # tap: ignore
 
 
 class SubclassTests(TestCase):
@@ -401,6 +403,9 @@ def test_get_default_args(self) -> None:
         self.assertEqual(args.arg_tuple_bool, (True, True, True, False))
         self.assertEqual(args.arg_tuple_multi, (1.2, 1, 'hi', True, 1.3))
 
+        self.assertEqual(hasattr(args, 'arg_classvar'), False)
+        self.assertEqual(hasattr(args, 'arg_ignore'), False)
+
     def test_set_default_args(self) -> None:
         arg_untyped = 'yes'
         arg_str = 'goodbye'