(a) The minimum business tax payable under this part by any person subject to the tax levied in this part shall be as follows:
Terms Used In Tennessee Code 67-4-714
Business: includes any activity engaged in by any person, or caused to be engaged in by the person, with the object of gain, benefit, or advantage, either direct or indirect. See Tennessee Code 67-4-702
Person: includes any individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, syndicate, or other group or combination acting as a unit, and the plural as well as the singular number. See Tennessee Code 67-4-702
State: means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any territory or possession of the United States and any foreign country or political subdivision thereof. See Tennessee Code 67-4-2004
(1) Notwithstanding § 67-4-709(1)-(4) for taxpayers included in classifications (1)-(4) in § 67-4-708, the minimum business tax shall be twenty-two dollars ($22.00) per annum per location after applying all deductions and credits set forth in §§ 67-4-711 and 67-4-713. Any person subject to tax under this part that has no established physical location, outlet, or other place of business in the state shall be subject to a single minimum tax as provided in this subdivision (a)(1) for all activity within the state. In the case of coin-operated machines, only the principal place of business shall be subject to the minimum tax;(2) Notwithstanding § 67-4-709(5)(A) for taxpayers included in classification (5)(A) in § 67-4-708, the minimum tax payable shall be four hundred fifty dollars ($450) per annum after applying all deductions and credits set forth in §§ 67-4-711 and 67-4-713; however, under no circumstances shall the tax payable under § 67-4-709(5)(A) be more than one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum after applying all deductions and credits set forth in §§ 67-4-711 and 67-4-713.(b) A taxable entity that is incorporated, domesticated, qualified or otherwise registered to do business in this state, but is, or has become, inactive in this state, or whose charter, domestication, qualification or other registration is forfeited, revoked or suspended without the entity being properly dissolved, surrendered, withdrawn, cancelled or otherwise properly terminated, shall not be relieved from filing a return and paying the business tax, which shall be no less than the minimum tax established in subsection (a).
