Terms Used In Tennessee Code 67-6-511

  • 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
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • 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

When any person to whom a certificate of registration has been issued under this chapter leases certain departments in such person’s place of business to other persons for the purpose of making sales at retail of tangible personal property or taxable services to consumers, and keeps the records and makes and accounts for the collection of the leased department’s sales, the person may include the sales made by such leased departments in the person’s own tax return and remit the tax due thereon. In such instances, a lessor shall be deemed to be an agent of the lessee and the lessee shall not be relieved of any liabilities under this chapter if the lessor defaults therein.