[Effective 7/1/2024]

(a) A tax is levied at the rate of the tax levied on the sale of tangible personal property at retail by § 67-6-202 of the purchase price of each item or article of tangible personal property when the tangible personal property is not sold, but is used, consumed, distributed, or stored for use or consumption in this state; provided, that there shall be no duplication of the tax.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 67-6-203 v2

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. 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
  • 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
  • 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) A tax, which shall be paid by the distributor, is also levied at the rate set out in subsection (a) on the value of catalogues, advertising fliers, or other advertising publications distributed to residents of Tennessee; provided, that this tax shall not be duplicative of a sales or use tax otherwise collected on such publications. “Distributor” does not include the commercial printer or mailer of any such catalogues, advertising fliers, or other advertising publications; nor shall nexus to a taxpayer be established through a relationship with a commercial printer or mailer having a presence in Tennessee; nor shall the commercial printer or mailer have the obligation of collecting any such tax.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the one-half percent (0.5%) increase in the rate of the sales tax from five and one-half percent (5.5%) to six percent (6%) imposed by chapter 529 of the Public Acts of 1992 in this section and §§ 67-6-202, 67-6-204, 67-6-205, and 67-6-221 shall remain in effect until changed by the general assembly. All revenue generated from such increases shall be deposited in the state general fund and earmarked for education purposes as provided in § 67-6-103(c)(2).
(d) A tax is levied at the rate of the tax levied on the sale of tangible personal property at retail by § 67-6-202 on the repairing of tangible personal property or computer software, the laundering or dry cleaning of tangible personal property, the installing of tangible personal property that remains tangible personal property after installation, and the installing of computer software, when such repair, cleaning, or installation occurs at a place of business outside this state and the serviced tangible personal property or computer software is delivered by the seller to the purchaser or the purchaser’s designee within the physical limits of this state or to a carrier for delivery to a place inside the physical limits of this state for use or consumption in this state.
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