Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 67 > Chapter 6 > Part 9 - Transactions Subject to Sales and Use Taxes

• 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
• Business: includes occasional and isolated sales or transactions of aircraft, vessels, or motor vehicles between corporations and their members or stockholders and also includes such transactions caused by the merger, consolidation, or reorganization of corporations. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Code: includes the Tennessee Code and all amendments and revisions to the code and all additions and supplements to the code. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Commissioner: means and includes the commissioner of revenue or the commissioner's duly authorized assistants. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Computer: means an electronic device that accepts information in digital or similar form and manipulates it for a result based on a sequence of instructions. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Computer software: means a set of coded instructions designed to cause a computer or automatic data processing equipment to perform a task. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Delivered electronically: means delivered to the purchaser by means other than tangible storage media. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Detailed telecommunications billing service: means an ancillary service of separately stating information pertaining to individual calls on a customer's billing statement. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Direct mail: includes tangible personal property supplied directly or indirectly by the purchaser to the direct mail seller for inclusion in the package containing the printed material. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Directory assistance: means an ancillary service of providing telephone number information, and address information. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Donee: The recipient of a gift.
• 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.
• Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
• Lease or rental: includes agreements covering motor vehicles and trailers where the amount of consideration may be increased or decreased by reference to the amount realized upon sale or disposition of the property as defined in 26 U. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• 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
• Mobile telecommunications service: means the same as that term is defined in the Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act, Public Law 106-252(4 U. 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.
• Person: includes any individual, firm, co-partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, syndicate, any governmental agency whose services are essentially a private commercial concern, or other group or combination acting as a unit, in the plural as well as the singular number. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Place of primary use: means the street address representative of where the customer's use of the telecommunications service primarily occurs, which must be the residential street address or the primary business street address of the customer. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Prepaid calling service: means the right to access exclusively telecommunications services that must be paid for in advance and that enable the origination of calls using an access number or authorization code, whether manually or electronically dialed, and that is sold in predetermined units or dollars of which the number declines with use in a known amount. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Prepaid wireless calling service: means a telecommunications service that provides the right to utilize mobile wireless service, as well as other nontelecommunications services, including the download of digital products delivered electronically, content and ancillary services that must be paid for in advance that is sold in predetermined units of dollars of which the number declines with use in a known amount. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Private communication service: means a telecommunications service that entitles the customer to exclusive or priority use of a communications channel or group of channels between or among termination points, regardless of the manner in which such channel or channels are connected, and includes switching capacity, extension lines, stations, and any other associated services that are provided in connection with the use of such channel or channels. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Sale: includes the furnishing of any of the things or services taxable under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Sales price: includes consideration received by the seller from third parties, if:
  (i) The seller actually receives consideration from a party other than the purchaser, and the consideration is directly related to a price reduction or discount on the sale. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Service address: means the location of the telecommunications equipment to which a customer's call is charged and from which the call originates or terminates, regardless of where the call is billed or paid. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Software: means computer software. 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
• Tangible personal property: includes electricity, water, gas, steam, and prewritten computer software. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Telecommunications service: includes such transmission, conveyance, or routing in which computer processing applications are used to act on the form, code or protocol of the content for purposes of transmission, conveyance or routing, without regard to whether such service is referred to as voice over internet protocol services or is classified by the federal communications commission as enhanced or value added. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• 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
• Vertical service: means an ancillary service that is offered in connection with one (1) or more telecommunications services, that offers advanced calling features that allow customers to identify callers and to manage multiple calls and call connections, including conference bridging services. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Voice mail service: means an ancillary service that enables the customer to store, send or receive recorded messages. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102