For the privilege of using services in South Dakota, except those types of services exempted by § 10-46-17.3, there is imposed on the person using the service an excise tax equal to four and two-tenths percent of the value of the services at the time they are rendered. However, this tax may not be imposed on any service rendered by a related corporation, as defined in subdivision 10-43-1(11), for use by a financial institution, as defined in subdivision 10-43-1(4); or on any service rendered by a financial institution, as defined in subdivision 10-43-1(4), for use by a related corporation as defined in subdivision 10-43-1(11). For the purposes of this section, the term, related corporation, includes a corporation, which together with the financial institution, is part of a controlled group of corporations, as defined in 26 U.S.C. § 1563 as in effect on January 1, 1989, except that the eighty percent ownership requirements set forth in 26 U.S.C. § 563(a)(2)(A) for a brother-sister controlled group are reduced to fifty-one percent. For the purpose of this chapter, services rendered by an employee for the use of the employer are not taxable.

Source: SL 1979, ch 84, § 6D; SL 1980, ch 325, § 21; SL 1983, ch 97, § 2; SL 1987, ch 98, § 10; SL 1988, ch 106, § 1; SL 1989, ch 110, § 2; SL 2016, ch 65, § 9, eff. June 1, 2016; SL 2023, ch 32, § 9.