In this note we investigate Liouville type theorems for the steady three dimensional MHD and Hall-MHD equations, and show that the velocity field u and the magnetic field B are vanishing provided that u, B ∈ L 6 (R 3 ) and u ∈ BM O −1 (R 3 ), which state that the velocity field plays an important role. Moreover, the similar result holds in the case of partial viscosity or diffusivity for the three dimensional MHD equations. R 3 |∇u| 2 dx is finite, which dates back to Leray's celebrated paper [20] and is explicitly written in Galdi's book ([12], Remark X. 9.4, pp.729; see also Tsai's book