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LR 3203
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1.__Application.__The provisions of this section apply only to
determine a seller's obligation to pay or to collect and remit a
sales or use tax with respect to the seller's retail sale of a
product and do not affect the obligation of a purchaser or lessee
to remit tax on the use of the product.

 
2.__General sourcing rules.__Retail sales of tangible personal
property and taxable services are sourced as provided in this
subsection.__For purposes of this subsection, "retail sale" does
not include a lease or rental, except lease or rental of
transportation equipment.

 
A.__When the product is received by the purchaser at a
business location of the seller, the sale is sourced to that
business location.

 
B.__When the product is not received by the purchaser at a
business location of the seller, the sale is sourced to the
location where the product is received by the purchaser or
by the purchaser's donee, designated as such by the
purchaser, including the location indicated by instructions
for delivery to the purchaser or donee, known to the seller.

 
C.__When paragraphs A and B do not apply, the sale is
sourced to the location indicated by an address for the
purchaser that is available from the business records of the
seller that are maintained in the ordinary course of the
seller's business when use of this address does not
constitute bad faith.

 
D. When paragraphs A, B and C do not apply, the sale is
sourced to the location indicated by an address for the
purchaser obtained during the consummation of the sale,
including the address of a purchaser's payment instrument,
if no other address is available, when use of this address
does not constitute bad faith.

 
E. When paragraphs A, B, C and D do not apply, including the
circumstance in which the seller is without sufficient
information to apply the rules set forth in those
paragraphs, the sale is sourced to the location from which
the tangible personal property was shipped, from which the
digital good or the computer software delivered
electronically was first available for transmission by the
seller or from which the service was provided, disregarding
for these purposes any location that merely provided the
digital transfer of the product sold. In the case of a sale
of prepaid wireless calling service, the sale is sourced to
the location associated with the mobile telephone number.


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