(a) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, pharmacies and home health care providers engaged in the business of rendering outpatient health care services to human beings are the consumers or users of all tangible personal property or taxable services purchased for use, consumption or rental in providing the health care service. The sellers of taxable services or of tangible personal property not otherwise exempt from tax must collect from the pharmacy or home health care provider the appropriate tax, unless the pharmacy or home health care provider is exempt from paying the sales or use tax under § 67-6-322.

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 67-6-352

  • Business: includes occasional and isolated sales or transactions of aircraft, vessels, or motor vehicles between corporations and their members or stockholders and also includes such transactions caused by the merger, consolidation, or reorganization of corporations. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Durable medical equipment: includes repair and replacement parts for the equipment. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Mobility enhancing equipment: means equipment, including repair and replacement parts to the equipment, but does not include durable medical equipment that:
    (A) Is primarily and customarily used to provide or increase the ability to move from one place to another and that is appropriate for use either in a home or a motor vehicle. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • Tangible personal property: includes electricity, water, gas, steam, and prewritten computer software. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Use: means and includes the exercise of any right or power over tangible personal property incident to the ownership thereof, except that it does not include the sale at retail of that property in the regular course of business. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
  • Use tax: includes the "use" "consumption" "distribution" and "storage" as defined in this section. See Tennessee Code 67-6-102
(b) For purposes of this section, the tangible personal property subject to tax when purchased for use in rendering outpatient health care services in the home or residence of a patient shall include, but not be limited to, mobility enhancing equipment and all durable medical equipment other than oxygen delivery equipment, kidney dialysis equipment and enteral feeding systems.
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