North Dakota Code 57-40.2-02.1 – Use tax imposed
1. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this chapter, an excise tax is imposed on the storage, use, or consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased at retail for storage, use, or consumption in this state, at the rate of five percent of the purchase price of the property. Except as provided in section 57-40.2-11, an excise tax is imposed on the storage, use, or consumption in this state of tangible personal property not originally purchased for storage, use, or consumption in this state at the rate of five percent of the fair market value of the property at the time it was brought into this state.
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 57-40.2-02.1
- Fair market value: The price at which an asset would change hands in a transaction between a willing, informed buyer and a willing, informed seller.
- Person: means an individual, organization, government, political subdivision, or government agency or instrumentality. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
2. For purposes of manufactured homes, as defined in section 41-09-02, an excise tax is imposed on the storage, use, or consumption in this state of manufactured homes used for residential or business purposes, except as provided in subsection 18 of section 57-40.2-04 purchased at retail for storage, use, or consumption in this state at the rate of three percent of the purchase price thereof. Except as provided in section 57-40.2-11, and except as provided in subsection 35 of section 57-39.2-04, an excise tax is imposed on the storage, use, or consumption in this state of a manufactured home used for residential or business purposes at the rate of three percent of the fair market value of a manufactured home used for residential or business purposes at the time it was brought into this state. A manufactured home removed from North Dakota for installation in another state is not stored, used, or consumed in this state. Installation of a manufactured home includes any method established under section 54-21.3-08.
3. Repealed by S.L. 2007, ch. 529, § 7.
4. An excise tax is imposed on the fair market value of sand or gravel severed when sand or gravel is not sold at retail as tangible personal property by the person severing the sand or gravel. If the sand or gravel is not sold at retail by the person severing the sand or gravel, it must be presumed until the contrary is shown by the commissioner or by the person severing the sand or gravel that the fair market value is eight cents per ton of two thousand pounds [907.18 kilograms]. If records are not kept as to the tonnage of sand or gravel severed from the soil, it must be presumed for the purpose of this chapter that one cubic yard [764.55 liters] of sand or gravel is equal to one and one-half tons [1360.78 kilograms] of sand or gravel.