Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 67 > Chapter 6 > Part 5 - Collection and Enforcement Generally

• Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
• Ancillary services: means services that are associated with, or incidental to, the provision of telecommunications services, including, but not limited to, detailed telecommunications billing service, directory assistance service, vertical service, and voice mail service. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
• 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
• Certified automated system: means software certified under the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA) to calculate the tax imposed by each jurisdiction on a transaction, determine the amount of tax to remit to the appropriate state, and maintain a record of the transaction. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Certified service provider: means an agent certified under the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement to perform all of the seller's sales and use tax functions, other than the seller's obligation to remit tax on its own purchases. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Code: includes the Tennessee Code and all amendments and revisions to the code and all additions and supplements to the code. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Commissioner: means and includes the commissioner of revenue or the commissioner's duly authorized assistants. 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
• Computer: means an electronic device that accepts information in digital or similar form and manipulates it for a result based on a sequence of instructions. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Computer software: means a set of coded instructions designed to cause a computer or automatic data processing equipment to perform a task. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Dealer: means every person, as used in this chapter, including Model 1, Model 2, and Model 3 sellers, where the context requires, who:
  (A) Manufactures or produces tangible personal property for sale at retail, for use, consumption, distribution, or for storage to be used or consumed in this state. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Direct pay permit: means special written permission granted to a taxpayer by the commissioner to make all purchases free of the sales or use tax and report all sales or use tax due directly to the department. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Electronic: means relating to technology having electrical, digital, magnetic, wireless, optical, electromagnetic, or similar capabilities. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Electronic funds transfer: The transfer of money between accounts by consumer electronic systems-such as automated teller machines (ATMs) and electronic payment of bills-rather than by check or cash. (Wire transfers, checks, drafts, and paper instruments do not fall into this category.) ^{Source: OCC}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Gross sales: means the sum total of all retail sales of tangible personal property and all proceeds of services taxable under this chapter as defined in this section, without any deduction whatsoever of any kind or character, except as provided in this chapter. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Interrogatories: Written questions asked by one party of an opposing party, who must answer them in writing under oath; a discovery device in a lawsuit.
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• 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}
• Lease or rental: includes agreements covering motor vehicles and trailers where the amount of consideration may be increased or decreased by reference to the amount realized upon sale or disposition of the property as defined in 26 U. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Marketplace: means a physical or electronic place, platform, or forum, including, but not limited to, a store, booth, internet website, catalog, or dedicated sales software application, where tangible personal property or any of the things or services taxable under this chapter are offered for sale. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Marketplace seller: means a person who makes sales through any marketplace operated, owned, or controlled by a marketplace facilitator. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• 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: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Place of primary use: means the street address representative of where the customer's use of the telecommunications service primarily occurs, which must be the residential street address or the primary business street address of the customer. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
• Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. 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
• Retailer: means and includes every person engaged in the business of making sales at retail, or for distribution, use, consumption, storage to be used or consumed in this state or furnishing any of the things or services taxable under this chapter and every marketplace facilitator. 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
• Sales price: includes consideration received by the seller from third parties, if:
  (i) The seller actually receives consideration from a party other than the purchaser, and the consideration is directly related to a price reduction or discount on the sale. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Service address: means the location of the telecommunications equipment to which a customer's call is charged and from which the call originates or terminates, regardless of where the call is billed or paid. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Software: means computer software. 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
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Statute of limitations: A law that sets the time within which parties must take action to enforce their rights.
• 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
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• 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
• Use tax: includes the "use" "consumption" "distribution" and "storage" as defined in this section. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• Video programming services: means programming provided by or generally considered comparable to programming provided by a television broadcast station and shall include cable television services sold by a provider authorized pursuant to title 7, chapter 59, wireless cable television services (multipoint distribution service/multichannel multipoint distribution service) and video services provided through wireline facilities located at least in part in the public rights-of-way without regard to delivery technology, including internet protocol technology. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
• written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
• Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105