Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 82-A:1

  • Communications services: means services for transmitting, emitting, or receiving signs, signals, writing, images, sounds or intelligence of any nature by any electromagnetic system capable of 2-way communication and includes, without limitation, messages or information transmitted through use of local, toll and wide area telephone service; private line services and networks, whether leased, rented or owned; channel services; telegraph services; teletypewriter services; cable television; computer exchange services; mobile telecommunications services; prepaid wireless telecommunications services; VoIP; facsimile services; specialized mobile radio; stationary 2-way radio; paging services; or any other form, whether stationary, portable or mobile, of 2-way communications; or any other transmission of messages or information by electronic or similar means, between or among points by wire, cable, fiber-optics, laser, microwave, radio, satellite or similar facilities. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 82-A:2
  • Internet: means collectively the myriad of computer and telecommunications facilities, including equipment and operating software, which comprises the interconnected world-wide network of networks that employ the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, or any predecessor or successor protocols to such protocol, to communicate information of all kinds by wire or radio. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 82-A:2
  • Place of primary use: means the street address representative of where the taxpayer's use of the telecommunications service primarily occurs, which must be:
    (a) Either the residential street address or the primary business street address of the taxpayer; and
    (b) In the case of mobile telecommunications services, within the licensed service area of the home service provider. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 82-A:2
It is the intent of the general court to impose a tax on those who use 2-way communications services and to source mobile telecommunications services to the place of primary use. It is also the intent of the general court that Internet access service shall not be subject to the tax imposed by this chapter.