(1) furnishes or sells an intrastate telecommunication service; and

(2) receives gross retail income from billings or statements rendered to customers.

     (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), a person is not a retail merchant making a retail transaction when:

(1) the person furnishes or sells telecommunication services to another person described in this section or in section 5 of this chapter;

(2) the person furnishes telecommunications services to another person who is providing prepaid calling services or prepaid wireless calling services in a retail transaction to customers who access the services described in section 13 of this chapter;

(3) the person furnishes intrastate mobile telecommunications service (as defined in IC 6-8.1-15-7) to a customer with a place of primary use that is not located in Indiana (as determined under IC 6-8.1-15); or

(4) the person furnishes or sells value added nonvoice data services in a retail transaction to a customer.

     (c) Subject to IC 6-2.5-12 and IC 6-8.1-15, and notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), if charges for telecommunication services, ancillary services, Internet access, audio services, or video services that are not taxable under this article are aggregated with and not separately stated from charges subject to taxation under this article, the charges for nontaxable telecommunication services, ancillary services, Internet access, audio services, or video services are subject to taxation unless the service provider can reasonably identify the charges not subject to the tax from the service provider’s books and records kept in the regular course of business.

As added by Acts 1980, P.L.52, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.71-1993, SEC.5; P.L.8-1996, SEC.3; P.L.8-1998, SEC.1; P.L.104-2002, SEC.1; P.L.5-2004, SEC.1; P.L.145-2007, SEC.7; P.L.84-2011, SEC.1.