Any person who uses, stores or consumes any tangible personal property upon which a tax is imposed by this article and upon which the tax has not been collected by a registered retailer or utility business shall pay the tax as provided by this article, but every retailer and utility business maintaining a place of business in this state and making sales of tangible personal property for storage, use or other consumption in this state shall collect the tax from the purchaser or user unless the property is exempt under this article or the purchaser or user pays the tax directly to the department as provided by section 42-5167. In the case of a manufactured building that is purchased from a dealer outside this state and brought into this state, any person who is hired to set up the manufactured building and who is licensed pursuant to Title 41, Chapter 37, Article 4 shall collect the tax from the owner and remit the tax with any tax that is due under the prime contracting classification.

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 42-5160

  • 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

  • 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
  • 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

 

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