Arizona Laws 42-5155. Levy of tax; tax rate; purchaser’s liability
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 42-5155
- Business: includes all activities or acts, personal or corporate, that are engaged in or caused to be engaged in with the object of gain, benefit or advantage, either directly or indirectly, but does not include either:
(a) Casual activities or sales. See Arizona Laws 42-5001
- Department: means the department of revenue. See Arizona Laws 42-1001
- Person: means an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, corporation, estate, trust, receiver or syndicate, this state or a county, city, municipality, district or other political subdivision or agency thereof. See Arizona Laws 42-5151
- Personal property: includes property of every kind, both tangible and intangible, that is not included as real estate. See Arizona Laws 42-11001
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Property: includes both real and personal property. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Retailer: includes :
(a) Every person engaged in the business of making sales of tangible personal property for storage, use or other consumption or in the business of making sales at auction of tangible personal property owned by that person or others for storage, use or other consumption. See Arizona Laws 42-5151
- sales price: means the total amount for which tangible personal property is sold, including any services that are a part of the sale, valued in money, whether paid in money or otherwise, and any amount for which credit is given to the purchaser by the seller without any deduction on account of the cost of the property sold, materials used, labor or services performed, interest charged, losses or other expenses, but does not include:
(a) Discounts allowed and taken. See Arizona Laws 42-5151
- Storage: means keeping or retaining tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for any purpose except sale in the regular course of business or subsequent use solely outside this state. See Arizona Laws 42-5151
- Tangible personal property: means personal property that may be seen, weighed, measured, felt or touched or that is in any other manner perceptible to the senses. See Arizona Laws 42-5001
- Taxpayer: means any retailer or person storing, using or consuming tangible personal property, the storage, use or consumption of which is subject to the tax imposed by this article when such tax was not paid to a retailer. See Arizona Laws 42-5151
- Use or consumption: means the exercise of any right or power over tangible personal property incidental to owning the property except holding for sale or selling the property in the regular course of business. See Arizona Laws 42-5151
- Utility business: means a person that is engaged in the business of providing electric utility services to retail electric customers or natural gas utility services to retail natural gas customers. See Arizona Laws 42-5151
(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies)
A. There is levied and imposed an excise tax on the storage, use or consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer or utility business, as a percentage of the sales price. A manufactured building purchased outside this state and set up in this state is subject to tax under this section and in this case the rate is a percentage of sixty-five percent of the sales price.
B. The tax imposed by this section applies to any purchaser that purchased tangible personal property for resale but subsequently uses or consumes the property.
C. The tax rate shall equal the rate of tax prescribed by section 42-5010, subsection A as applied to retailers and utility businesses according to the respective classification under articles 1 and 2 of this chapter for the same type of transaction or business activity.
D. In addition to the rate prescribed by subsection C of this section, if approved by the qualified electors voting at a statewide general election, an additional rate increment of six-tenths of one per cent is imposed and shall be collected through June 30, 2021. The taxpayer shall pay taxes pursuant to this subsection at the same time and in the same manner as under subsection C of this section. The department shall separately account for the revenues collected with respect to the rate imposed pursuant to this subsection, and the state treasurer shall pay all of those revenues in the manner prescribed by section 42-5029, subsection E.
E. From and after June 30, 2021 through June 30, 2041, in addition to the rate prescribed by subsection C of this section, an additional rate increment of six-tenths of one percent is imposed and shall be collected. The taxpayer shall pay taxes pursuant to this subsection at the same time and in the same manner as under subsection C of this section. The department shall separately account for the revenues collected with respect to the rate imposed pursuant to this subsection, and the state treasurer shall pay all of those revenues in the manner prescribed by Section 42-5029.02, subsection A.
F. Every person storing, using or consuming in this state tangible personal property purchased from a retailer or utility business is liable for the tax. The person’s liability is not extinguished until the tax has been paid to this state.
G. A receipt from a retailer or utility business that maintains a place of business in this state or from a retailer or utility business that is authorized by the department to collect the tax, under such rules as it may prescribe, and that is for the purposes of this article regarded as a retailer or utility business maintaining a place of business in this state, given to the purchaser as provided in section 42-5161 is sufficient to relieve the purchaser from further liability for the tax to which the receipt refers.