[Effective 7/1/2024]

(a) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, this part applies in determining whether a transaction is sourced to this state under this chapter. This part applies regardless of the characterization of a product as tangible personal property, a digital good, a service, or other taxable product and applies only to determine a seller’s obligation to pay or collect and remit a sales or use tax with respect to the seller’s retail sale of a product. This part does not affect the obligation of a purchaser or lessee to remit tax on the use of the product to the taxing jurisdiction of that use.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 67-6-901

  • Ancillary services: means services that are associated with, or incidental to, the provision of telecommunications services, including, but not limited to, detailed telecommunications billing service, directory assistance service, vertical service, and voice mail service. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Commissioner: means and includes the commissioner of revenue or the commissioner's duly authorized assistants. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Marketplace: means a physical or electronic place, platform, or forum, including, but not limited to, a store, booth, internet website, catalog, or dedicated sales software application, where tangible personal property or any of the things or services taxable under this chapter are offered for sale. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Sale: includes the furnishing of any of the things or services taxable under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Use: means and includes the exercise of any right or power over tangible personal property incident to the ownership thereof, except that it does not include the sale at retail of that property in the regular course of business. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Use tax: includes the "use" "consumption" "distribution" and "storage" as defined in this section. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
(b) This part does not impose tax on a transaction if that tax is prohibited by the United States Constitution or the Constitution of Tennessee.
(c) Florist retail sales where orders taken by a florist are sent to a receiving florist for delivery to the purchaser’s designee must be sourced in accordance with rules promulgated by the commissioner in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.
(d) Sales made through a marketplace facilitator’s marketplace must be sourced in accordance with § 67-6-902.
(e) Telecommunications services and ancillary services, as set out in § 67-6-905, must be sourced in accordance with that section.
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