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direct payment permit shall make a determination of the
taxability of each purchase and then report and pay the
applicable tax due directly to the assessor.__The direct payment
permit may be suspended or revoked by the assessor at any time if
the assessor determines that the collection of any tax due from
the permit holder is in jeopardy or that the permit holder has
not complied with the conditions to which the permit is subject.__
Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical
rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

 
§1967.__Direct mail sourcing

 
The State Tax Assessor, by rule, may establish procedures
whereby a purchaser of direct mail that is not a holder of a
direct payment permit shall provide to the seller in conjunction
with the purchase either a direct mail form prescribed by the
assessor or information to show the jurisdictions to which the
direct mail is delivered to recipients. Upon receipt of a direct
mail form, the seller is relieved of its obligation to collect,
pay or remit the applicable tax, and the purchaser is obligated
to pay the applicable tax directly to the assessor. The direct
mail form remains in effect for all future sales of direct mail
by that seller to that purchaser until it is revoked in writing.
Upon receipt of information from the purchaser showing the
jurisdictions to which the direct mail is delivered to
recipients, the seller shall collect the tax according to the
delivery information provided by the purchaser. In the absence of
bad faith, the seller is relieved of any further obligation for
tax on any transaction for which the seller has collected tax in
accordance with the delivery information provided by the
purchaser. If the purchaser of direct mail is not a holder of a
direct payment permit under section 1966 and does not provide the
seller with either a direct mail form or delivery information,
the seller shall collect the tax in accordance with section 1817,
subsection 2, paragraph E.__Rules adopted pursuant to this
section are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5,
chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.

 
§1968.__Multiple points of use

 
1.__Certificate of exemption.__The State Tax Assessor, by
rule, shall establish procedures whereby a business purchaser
that is not a holder of a direct payment permit under section
1966 that knows at the time of its purchase of a digital good,
computer software or taxable service that the digital good,
computer software or taxable service will be concurrently
available for use in more than one jurisdiction provides to the
seller an exemption certificate claiming multiple points of use
in a form prescribed by the assessor. Upon receipt of the
exemption certificate, the seller is relieved of its obligation


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