[Effective Until 7/1/2024]

(a) The sale at retail, the use, the consumption, the distribution and the storage for use or consumption in this state of the following tangible personal property is specifically exempted from the tax imposed by this chapter:

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 67-6-329

  • 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
  • Coin-operated telephone service: means a telecommunications service paid for by inserting money into a telephone accepting direct deposits of money to operate. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Common carrier: means every person holding a certificate of public convenience and necessity as a common carrier from the interstate commerce commission or the United States department of transportation or its predecessor agency of the federal government. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Food and food ingredients: means substances, whether in liquid, concentrated, solid, frozen, dried, or dehydrated form, that are sold for ingestion or chewing by humans and are consumed for their taste or nutritional value. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
  • 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
  • Micro market: means an unattended food establishment that:
    (A) Includes one (1) or more micro market displays. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • OEM headquarters company: means an original equipment manufacturer that is engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicles and qualifies to receive the credit provided in §. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • 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
  • pollution control facilities: means any system, method, improvement, structure, device or appliance appurtenant thereto used or intended for the primary purpose of eliminating, preventing or reducing air or water pollution, or for the primary purpose of treating, pretreating, recycling or disposing of any hazardous or toxic waste, solid or liquid, when such pollutants are created as a result of fabricating or processing by one who engages in fabricating or processing as such person's principal business activity, which, if released without such treatment, pretreatment, modification or disposal, might be harmful, detrimental or offensive to the public and the public interest. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Prepared food: means :
    (i) Food sold in a heated state or heated by the seller. 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
  • Resale: means a subsequent, bona fide sale of the property, services, or taxable item by the purchaser. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Sale: includes the furnishing of any of the things or services taxable under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • sale at retail: means any sale, lease, or rental for any purpose other than for resale, sublease, or subrent. 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
  • Storage: means and includes any keeping or retention in this state of tangible personal property for use or consumption in this state, or for any purpose other than sale at retail in the regular course of business. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Tangible personal property: includes electricity, water, gas, steam, and prewritten computer software. 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
(1) “Gasoline” upon which a privilege tax per gallon is paid, and not refunded; except that premixed engine fuel containing gasoline and oil, produced for use in two-cycle engines and not for use in the propulsion of an aircraft, vessel or any other vehicle, that is sold in containers of one gallon (1 gal.) or less, is not exempt from the tax imposed by this chapter;
(2) Motor fuel taxed per gallon by chapter 3, part 2 of this title;
(3) Textbooks and workbooks;
(4) All sales made to the state or any county or municipality within the state;
(5) Liquified gas and compressed natural gas taxed by chapter 3, part 11 of this title;
(6) Magazines and books that are distributed and sold to consumers by United States mail or common carrier, where the only activities of the seller or distributor in this state are those activities having to do with the printing, storage, labeling and/or delivery to the United States mail or common carrier of the magazines or books, or the maintenance of raw materials with respect to those activities, notwithstanding that the seller or distributor maintains employees in the state solely in connection with the production and quality control of the printing, storage, labeling and/or delivery, or in connection with news gathering and reporting;
(7) Parking privileges sold by colleges, universities, technical institutes or state colleges of applied technology to students at those institutions;
(8) Materials used for the lining or protective coating of railroad tank cars and any charges made for the installation or repair of the linings or protective coatings;
(9) Chemicals and supplies used in air or water pollution control facilities for pollution control purposes;
(10) Periodicals printed entirely on newsprint or bond paper and distributed no less frequently than monthly and advertising supplements or other printed matter distributed with the periodicals;
(11) The sale of United States and Tennessee flags sold by a nonprofit organization;
(12) Industrial materials and explosives for future processing, manufacture or conversion into articles of tangible personal property for resale where the industrial materials and explosives become a component part of the finished product or are used directly in fabricating, dislodging, or sizing;
(13) Materials, containers, labels, sacks, bags or bottles used for packaging tangible personal property when the property is either sold in the containers, sacks, bags or bottles directly to the consumer or when such use is incidental to the sale of the property for resale;
(14) Film, including negatives, used in the business of printing, or provided to a business of printing to obtain the services of the business; or typesetting used in the business of printing and materials necessary for the typesetting, or typesetting, or materials necessary for typesetting provided to a business of printing to obtain the services of the business;
(15) Home communication terminals, remote control devices, and other similar equipment purchased on or after January 1, 2000, by a video programming service provider and held for sale or lease to its subscribers;
(16) Utility poles, anchors, guys, and conduits;
(17) Aircraft used for and owned by a person providing flight training;
(18) Prepared food, as defined in § 67-6-102, when sold pursuant to programs authorized by a federal, state or local government entity or by the school governing body, that provide meals for public or private school students in grades kindergarten through twelve (K-12). This subdivision (a)(18) shall not be interpreted to exempt a public or private school or school support group from paying sales or use taxes on the purchase price of prepared food or food and food ingredients, as defined by § 67-6-102, purchased for resale by the school or a school support group at fund raisers, sports events and the like pursuant to § 67-6-229, or to exempt sales from any micro market or vending machine, including micro markets and vending machines located on the premises of public or private schools, from the sales tax;
(19) Copies of hospital records, as defined in § 68-11-302, sold or otherwise provided to an attorney, agent or other authorized representative acting in a lawsuit on behalf of any hospital that has received a determination of exemption as provided in § 67-6-322(e);
(20) OEM headquarters company vehicles; and
(21) Online access to continuing education courses that meet regulatory requirements for licensed individuals and that are offered by organizations that have received a determination of exemption from the internal revenue service, pursuant to 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3) or (c)(6).
(b) Charges for the following services are exempt from the tax imposed by this chapter:

(1) Coin-operated telephone service;
(2) Automatic teller machine (ATM) service. The seller of the ATM service shall be deemed the user and consumer of telecommunication services necessary to deliver the ATM service; and
(3) Wire transfer or other services provided by any corporation defined as a financial institution under § 67-4-2004. The seller of the wire transfer or other services shall be deemed the user and consumer of telecommunication services necessary to deliver the wire transfer service.
(c) No provision of this section shall be construed to amend or repeal § 67-6-301.
(d) The sale at retail, use, consumption, distribution and storage for use or consumption in this state of the following specified digital goods is specifically exempted from the tax imposed by this chapter:

(1) Any specified digital good, if the sale, lease, licensing and use of the equivalent in a tangible form is exempt from taxation under this chapter; and
(2) Specified digital goods provided without charge for less than permanent use.
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