Bill Text: IN HB1119 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Use tax nexus and collection.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-09 - First reading: referred to Committee on Ways and Means [HB1119 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2012-HB1119-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 6-2.5.
Synopsis: Use tax nexus and collection. Provides that for purposes of
the Indiana sales and use tax law, a "retail merchant engaged in
business in Indiana" includes any retail merchant who: (1) makes retail
transactions in which a person acquires personal property or taxable
services for use, storage, or consumption in Indiana; and (2) enters into
an arrangement with any person, other than a common carrier, to
facilitate the retail merchant's delivery of property to customers in
Indiana by allowing customers to pick up property sold by the retail
merchant at a place of business maintained by the person in Indiana.
Specifies that a retail merchant may be required to collect and remit
sales or use taxes if the retail merchant conducts activities in Indiana
on behalf of the retail merchant that are significantly associated with
the retail merchant's ability to establish and maintain a market in
Indiana. Provides that a retail merchant is presumed to be engaged in
business in Indiana if an affiliate of the retail merchant has substantial
nexus in Indiana and certain additional conditions are satisfied.
Provides that a retail merchant is presumed to be engaged in business
in Indiana if the retail merchant enters into an agreement with one or
more residents of Indiana under which the resident directly or
indirectly refers potential customers to the retail merchant, if the
cumulative gross receipts from the sales by the retail merchant to
customers in Indiana who are referred to the retail merchant by all
residents is greater than $10,000 during the preceding 12 months.
Specifies that the presumptions may be rebutted. Provides that the use
tax nexus provisions are effective on the earlier of January 1, 2014, or
the third month after the budget agency certifies that a requirement for
Effective: July 1, 2012.
January 6, 2012, read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.
Digest Continued
sellers to collect use tax on remote sales has been enacted into law by
the United States Congress. Requires the department of state revenue
to include a use tax liability lookup table for a typical person to cover
items with a purchase price of not more than $1,000. Permits a person
to use the lookup table for these purchases if the table reasonably
represents the amount of these purchases made by the person. Requires
the department to provide a section on the income tax return for a
taxpayer to affirm the amount of use tax owed.
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(b) The person who acquires property in a retail transaction is liable for the tax on the transaction and, except as otherwise provided in this chapter, shall pay the tax to the retail merchant as a separate added amount to the consideration in the transaction.
(a) "Use" means the exercise of any right or power of ownership
over tangible personal property.
(b) "Storage" means the keeping or retention of tangible personal
property in Indiana for any purpose except the subsequent use of that
property solely outside Indiana.
(c) "A retail merchant engaged in business in Indiana" includes any
retail merchant who makes retail transactions in which a person
acquires personal property or services for use, storage, or consumption
in Indiana and who:
(1) maintains an office, place of distribution, sales location,
sample location, warehouse, storage place, or other place of
business which is located in Indiana and which the retail
merchant maintains, occupies, or uses, either permanently or
temporarily, either directly or indirectly, and either by the retail
merchant or through a representative, agent, or subsidiary, or
affiliate;
(2) maintains a representative, agent, salesman, canvasser, or
solicitor who, while operating in Indiana under the authority of
and on behalf of the retail merchant or a subsidiary or an affiliate
of the retail merchant, sells, delivers, installs, repairs, assembles,
sets up, accepts returns of, bills, invoices, or takes orders for sales
of tangible personal property or services to be used, stored, or
consumed in Indiana;
(3) enters into an arrangement with any person, other than a
common carrier, to facilitate the retail merchant's delivery of
property to customers in Indiana by allowing the retail
merchant's customers to pick up property sold by the retail
merchant at an office, distribution facility, warehouse, storage
place, or similar place of business maintained by the person
in Indiana;
(3) (4) is otherwise required to register as a retail merchant under
IC 6-2.5-8-1; or
(4) (5) may be required by the state to collect tax under this article
to the extent allowed under the Constitution of the United States
and federal law.
(d) Notwithstanding any other law, a person may be required to
collect and remit gross retail tax or use tax as a retail merchant
engaged in business in Indiana under subsection (c) if the activities
conducted by the person in Indiana on behalf of a retail merchant
are significantly associated with the retail merchant's ability to
establish and maintain a market in Indiana.
(d) (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, tangible
or intangible property that is:
(1) owned or leased by a person that has contracted with a commercial printer for printing; and
(2) located at the premises of the commercial printer;
shall not be considered to be, or to create, an office, a place of distribution, a sales location, a sample location, a warehouse, a storage place, or other place of business maintained, occupied, or used in any way by the person. A commercial printer with which a person has contracted for printing shall not be considered to be in any way a representative, an agent, a salesman, a canvasser, or a solicitor for the person.
(f) A retail merchant is presumed to be engaged in business in Indiana if an affiliate of the retail merchant has substantial nexus in Indiana and:
(1) the retail merchant sells a line of products similar to a line of products sold by the affiliate, and the retail merchant does so under a business name that is the same as or is similar to the affiliate's business name;
(2) the affiliate uses its Indiana employees or its Indiana facilities to advertise, promote, or facilitate sales by the retail merchant to customers; or
(3) the affiliate uses trademarks, service marks, or trade names in Indiana that are the same as or substantially similar to those used by the retail merchant.
(g) The presumption under subsection (f) may be rebutted by demonstrating that the affiliate's activities in Indiana are not significantly associated with the retail merchant's ability to establish or maintain a market in Indiana for the retail merchant's sales.
(h) A retail merchant is presumed to be engaged in business in Indiana if the retail merchant enters into an agreement with one (1) or more residents of Indiana under which the resident, for a commission or other consideration, directly or indirectly refers potential customers, whether by a link on an Internet web site, an in-person oral presentation, or otherwise, to the retail merchant, if the cumulative gross receipts from the sales by the retail merchant to customers in Indiana who are referred to the retail merchant by all residents with this type of an agreement with the retail merchant are greater than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) during the preceding twelve (12) months.
(i) The presumption under subsection (h) may be rebutted by submitting proof that the residents with whom the retail merchant has an agreement did not engage in any activity within Indiana
that was significantly associated with the retail merchant's ability
to establish or maintain the retail merchant's market in Indiana
during the preceding twelve (12) months. This proof may consist of
sworn written statements that:
(1) are from all the Indiana residents with whom the retail
merchant has an agreement described in subsection (h);
(2) are provided and obtained in good faith; and
(3) state that the Indiana residents did not engage in any
solicitation in Indiana on behalf of the retail merchant during
the preceding twelve (12) months.
(j) For purposes of this section, "affiliate" means any:
(1) person that is a member of the same controlled group of
corporations (as defined in 26 U.S.C. 1563(a)) as the retail
merchant; or
(2) other entity that, notwithstanding its form of organization,
bears the same ownership relationship to the retail merchant
as a corporation that is a member of the same controlled
group of corporations (as defined in 26 U.S.C. 1563(a)).
(k) The amendments to this section made by this act in 2012 that
concern collecting use tax on remote sales apply on and after the
earlier of:
(1) January 1, 2014; or
(2) the first day of the third month that follows the month that
the budget agency certifies under IC 6-2.5-3-12 that a
requirement for sellers to collect use tax on remote sales has
been enacted into law by the United States Congress.
(1) A table that provides by taxpayer type and adjusted gross income category the following information:
(A) For items of tangible personal property with a purchase price of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), an amount that indicates the value of the tangible personal property used, stored, or consumed in Indiana and purchased from a retail merchant in remote purchases.
(B) The amount of remote purchases identified under clause (A) for which sales or use tax was paid.
(C) The amount of remote purchases identified under clause (A) for which sales or use tax was not paid.
(D) The amount of use tax due from the typical person based on the amount of remote purchases for which sales or use tax was not paid.
For items of tangible personal property with a purchase price of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), a person may use the table amount as the amount owed by the person if the amount represents a reasonable estimate of the true and accurate amount the person actually owes in use tax for items of tangible personal property with a purchase price of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
(2) A conspicuous section on the return or a separate schedule that includes the following:
(A) For items of tangible personal property with a purchase price of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), the value of the tangible personal property used, stored , or consumed by a person for which use tax has not been paid and whether this amount is based on the table or the person's records.
(B) The amount of use tax owed by the person with respect to the tangible personal property covered by clause (A).
(C) For items of tangible personal property with a purchase price of at least one thousand dollars ($1,000), the value of the tangible personal property used, stored, or consumed by a person for which use tax has not been paid and the amount of use tax owed on these purchases.
(D) The total amount of use tax owed under clauses (B) and (C).
(E) A line for the person to affirm by signature or initials, under penalties for falsifying a tax return, that the amount of use tax owed is true and accurate.
