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| | | Sec. D-1. 36 MRSA §1752, sub-§1-H is enacted to read: |
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| | | 1-H.__Construction services.__"Construction services" means | | services provided in this State to the general public by a | | person engaged in the activity of building.__The activity of | | building pertains to any building, highway, road, railroad, | | excavation, manufactured building or other structure and | | involves any act of construction, alteration, repair, | | substantial maintenance, addition to, subtraction from, | | improvement, movement or demolition, or the construction of | | scaffolding or other structures or work related to the | | activity of building.__"Construction services" includes, but | | is not limited to, the services typically provided by building | | contractors, road and driveway contractors, concrete | | contractors, excavators, carpenters, masons, electricians, | | plumbers, roofers, siding applicators and house painters. |
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| | | Sec. D-2. 36 MRSA §1752, sub-§5-C is enacted to read: |
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| | | 5-C.__Legal services.__"Legal services" means professional | | services provided by an attorney-at-law and that attorney's | | support staff. |
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| | | Sec. D-3. 36 MRSA §1752, sub-§11, ķA, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 871, | | §5, is amended to read: |
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| | | A. "Retail sale" includes: |
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| | | (1) Conditional sales, installment lease sales and | | any other transfer of tangible personal property when | | the title is retained as security for the payment of | | the purchase price and is intended to be transferred | later; and |
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| | | (2) Sale of products for internal human consumption | | to a person for resale through coin-operated vending | | machines when sold to a retailer whose gross receipts | | from the retail sale of tangible personal property | | derived through sales from vending machines are more | | than 50% of the retailer's gross receipts. The tax | must be paid by the retailer to the State.; and |
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| | | (3)__The provision of a taxable service defined under | | subsection 17-A to the extent the taxable service is | | provided in this State and only if the relationship | | between the provider and the recipient of the taxable | | service is not an employment relationship with | | respect to the provision of the service. |
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