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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2026

Sales And Use Tax Law

Revenue and Taxation Code

Division 2. Other Taxes
Part 1. Sales and Use Taxes
Index

A    B    C    D    E    F    G    H    I    J    L    M    N    O    P    Q    R    S    T    U    V    W    X    Y    Z



A


Abstract of judgment for tax6738

Accommodation loans

sales tax … 6094

use tax … 6244

Accounts, worthless

sales tax … 6055

use tax … 6203.5

Acquisition sale and leaseback 6010.65

Acquisitions of endangered animal and plant species 6202.5

Actions

refunds, for, and to recover erroneous, see refund and credit of overpayments

tax, to collect

attachment … 6713

Attorney General to prosecute … 6712

delinquency, certificate of, as prima facie evidence in … 6714

jurisdiction … 6711

name of plaintiff … 6711

service of process, use tax … 6715

time to bring … 6711

Address, change of 6068

Administration of law

Board, enforcement by … 7051

Browsing … 7056.5

collections, report of, to Controller … 6826

confidential information, prohibition against disclosure, see confidential information

employees, hiring of … 7052

hearings by representatives … 7052

information returns, jet fuel … 6452.05

information returns, use tax … 7055

records of sellers and purchasers, examination of … 7054

requirement that records be kept … 7053

rules and regulations … 7051

representatives prescribing … 7052

unauthorized inspection of records … 7056.5

Admission charge, food consumed in place having 6359

Advanced manufacturing, exclusion 6010.8

Advertising, assuming or absorbing tax

use tax … 6205

Advocate, Taxpayers' Rights 7083

Agents

consumer, agent for delivery to, as making retail sale … 6007

forwarding, see forwarding agents

retailers, agents not considered as … 6015

service of process on, in action relating to use tax … 6715

Air carriers

food products, hot prepared … 6359.1

fuel and petroleum products … 6357.5

parts exemption … 6366

Aircraft

defined … 6274

exemptions

family … 6285

ground control stations … 6366

leased to common carriers, foreign governments, nonresident … 6366.1

ownership similar after transfer with entire business … 6281

parts … 6366

presumption of use for purchases outside California … 6248

rate increase … 6051.6, 6201.6

retailer not required to hold permit … 6283

revocable trust … 6285

sold to common carriers, foreign governments, nonresidents … 6366

jet fuel, exclusion from motor vehicle fuel exemption … 6357

jet fuel, information return … 6452.05

occasional sale exemption inapplicable to certain … 6367

permit requirement of seller … 6284

retailer of, who is … 6275

use tax, due date … 6291

Allocation of local use tax 7051.3

Alternative energy and advanced transportation project 6010.8

American National Red Cross, sales to, exemption 6381

Amnesty, tax penalty 7070–7078

Animal life, exemption 6358(a)

feed for, exemption … 6358(b)

drugs and medicines … 6358(e)

Animals

endangered and threatened … 6010.50, 6202.5, 6366.5

pet adoptions … 6010.40

racehorse breeding stock … 6358.5

Annual plants, exemption 6358(c)

Armed forces, purchase of vehicle by member of 6249

Art works 6010.30, 6365

"Assembly", fabrication or transfer as sale or purchase 6010.3

Assignee for benefit of creditors, as person 6005

Assignee, no judgment for 6937

Assignees of accounts receivables 6055, 6203.5

Association, as person 6005

Assuming of absorbing tax, advertising re

use tax … 6205

Attachment, in action for tax 6713

Audit, managed 7076.1 7076.5

Auction sales of vehicles: presumption: resale certificates 6092.5

Auction

exemption for nonprofit organizations … 6363.2

sale at, included in definition of "sale" … 6006.6

seized property, sale by board at public … 6796

Automobiles, see vehicles



B


Bad debts

sales tax … 6055

use tax … 6203.5

Bank charges, reimbursement of 7096

Bankruptcy, trustee in, as person 6005

Banks, service of notice to creditors on 6702

Barter, as sale or purchase 6006(a), 6010(a)

Beverages, what included in food exemption 6359

Bill of Rights (see Taxpayers' Bill of Rights)

Blind persons, operating certain restaurants and vending stands, exemption 6363

Blood collection, blood pack units 6364.5

Board of Governance, Streamlined Sales Tax Project 6027

Boat trailers, see vehicles

Boats, see vessels; watercraft

Boundaries, State 6017

Bracelets commemorating American prisoners of war 6360

Breast pumps and accessories 6370.2

Brokers, see customs brokers

Buddy Poppy exemption 6360.1

Bullion, "monetized " … 6355

Burden of proof

retail, that sale is not at … 6091

use in state, that sale of property delivered in state is not sold for … 6241

Business

affairs of retailer, confidentiality of … 7056

defined … 6013

engaged in, in state, definition … 6203

purchaser of, withholding of purchase price by … 6811, 6812

sale of, exemption, see occasional sale

Business trust, as person 6005


C


California, State of, as person 6005

medicine used or furnished for treatment, exemption … 6369

Cancellations of liability 6981

Candy and confectionery (see Food Products)

Cannabis donations 6414.1

Cannabis; medicinal and medicinal products 6369.6

Carbon dioxide exemption 6359.8

Car Buyer's Bill of Rights; used vehicles 6012.3

Carriers (see also common carriers)

delivery to, for shipment out of state, sales tax exemption … 6396

Cash discounts, see discounts

Catering trucks, operators of, sales to 6074

Certificates (see also exemption certificates; resale certificates)

amount due, recording or filing of notice of state tax lien … 6757

delinquency, certificate of, as prima facie evidence in suit for tax … 6714

judgment for tax, certificate of amount due in request for … 6736

payment, certificates of … 6813

sale of business, certificate of nonliability upon … 6811, 6812

State tax lien, recording or filing of notice of … 6757

vehicles, exemption and tax clearance certificates … 6422.1

Charitable organizations 6359.45, 6375

Chemical toilets, lease of, as sale or purchase 6010.7

Children’s diapers 6363.9

Chiropractors 6018.4

City or city and county, as person 6005

Civil Code Section 1656.16051

Civil proceedings, Taxpayers' Bill of Rights 7156

Claims for refund or credit, see refund and credit of overpayments

Clinic, see medical facility or clinic

Clothes cleaning or dyeing establishment

retailers, when not … 6018.6

Clubs, see social clubs

Coins 6355

Collection cost recovery fee 6833

Collection of restitution orders 6835

Collection of taxes by board (see also actions; determinations; judgment for tax; liens; returns and payments; security for tax; seizure and sale; successor's liability; warrant for tax)

Department of Motor Vehicles acting for and on behalf of board in collecting use tax on certain vehicles, private party … 6292,

Department of Motor Vehicles acting for and on behalf of board in collecting use tax on certain vehicles, used motor vehicle dealers … 6295

enjoining collection prohibited … 6931

erroneous refunds, action to recover, see refund and credit of overpayments

Internal Revenue Service and other states' debts … 6835

people, board acts on behalf of … 6828

remedies cumulative … 6827

report of collections to Controller … 6826

Collection of taxes by private collection

entity … 6830

Collection of taxes by retailer

sales tax, reimbursement for, see reimbursement for sales tax

use tax, see use tax

Common carriers

aircraft sold or leased to, exemptions … 6366, 6366.1

parts purchased by air common carriers … 6366

parts purchased by rail carriers … 6411

sales to, sales tax exemption … 6385

vessel for hire in interstate or foreign commerce as common carrier … 6385

Composed type, fabrication or transfer of, as sale or purchase 6010.3

Computers

industry, computer: notice re application of sales and use tax laws … 7059

programs, custom: sale or purchase … 6010.9

Conditional sale, included in definition of

sale … 6006(e)

purchase … 6010(c)

Confidential information

prohibition against disclosure … 7056

return preparers … 7056.6

taxpayer communications … 7099.1

exceptions

authorization by Governor and local legislative bodies … 7056

information protected … 7056

sellers' permits, information on excepted … 7056

persons subject to prohibition … 7056

return preparers … 7056.6

successors and other persons directly interested … 7056

sales and use tax records … 7056

Constitutional exemptions 6352

Constitutional provision, sales and use tax rate 35, 36

Construction contracts

out-of-state, sales tax exemption … 6386

United States, with … 6384

Construction of law 6002, 6271

Contact lenses 6018

Containers

blood collection and pack units … 6364.5

exemption … 6364

food containers … 6364(d)

returnable and nonreturnable, defined … 6364(c)

waterproof cargo containers

rental of, not a use … 6009.1

Continuing purchase, defined 6010.1

Continuing sale, defined 6006.1

"Contractor inventory", see United States

Contractors (see also construction contracts)

United States contractors … 6384

Controller

collections, reports of, to … 6826

refunds (see also refund and credit of overpayments)

action to recover erroneous, brought by … 6961

payment on order of … 7102

"Convicted purchaser" 6009.2

"Convicted seller" 6007

Copartnership, as person 6005

Corporation, as person 6005

"Cost price", definition of 6244.5

Cost recovery fee 6833

Costs, deductibility from:

gross receipts … 6012

sales price … 6011

Counterfeit goods and labels: retail sale, storage and use 6007, 6009.2

County, as person 6005

Credit (see also refund and credit of overpayments)

action to recover erroneous … 6961–63

allowed purchaser, inclusion in:

gross receipts … 6012

sales price … 6011

prepayment, credit for … 6473

use tax, against, for out-of-state tax on purchase … 6406

Creditors, notice to

persons subject to … 6702

service of … 6702

banks, service on … 6702

time for … 6702

state officers or agencies … 6702

transfer or disposition of property by creditor … 6702

consent by board to transfer … 6702

liability for failure to withhold … 6702

Crutches, prescribed, exemption 6369.2

Customs brokers, delivery to, for shipment out of state, sales tax exemption 6396



D


Debt, use tax as, owed by retailer to State 6204

Debts, bad

prepayments on motor vehicle fuel … 6480.6

sales tax … 6055

use tax … 6203.5

Deficiency determinations, see determinations: deficiency

definitions … 6003–24

(See also specific terms)

Delay, excusable 6592, 6596

Delinquencies, public disclosure of 7063

Delivery charges, costs of and charges for transportation, when included in

gross receipts … 6012

sales price … 6011

Demonstration and display

sales tax … 6094

use tax … 6244

Dentist, prescribing or furnishing medicines for treatment, exemption 6369

Determinations: deficiency

cancellation of … 6981

discontinuance of business, time for making determination … 6481

due and payable, when … 6565

final, when, if no petition filed … 6561

interest … 6482

notice of … 6486

limitations time for mailing notice … 6487

decedent, against person liable for tax of … 6487.1

general partners … 6487.2

unregistered California purchasers … 6487.06

unregistered out-of-state retailers … 6487.05

waiver of … 6488

number allowable … 6481

offsetting overpayments against underpayments … 6483

penalties

fraud or intent to evade … 6485, 6485.1, 6514.1

negligence or intentional disregard … 6484

nonpayment … 6565

Determinations: no return made

cancellation of … 6981

discontinuance of business, time for making determination … 6511

due and payable, when … 6565

estimate of tax measure … 6511

final, when, if no petition filed … 6561

interest … 6513

notice of … 6515

limitations time for mailing notice … 6487

number allowable … 6511

offsetting overpayments against underpayments … 6512

penalties

failure to file return … 6511

fraud or intent to evade … 6514

nonpayment … 6565

Determinations: jeopardy

administrative hearing … 6538.5

due date … 6536

interest and penalty … 6537

notice of … 6537, 6539

petition for redetermination … 6538

security … 6538

Determinations: petitions for redetermination

amendment of petition … 6561.5

form and content of petition … 6561.5

hearing on petition … 6562

continuance of hearing … 6562

notice of hearing … . 6562

increase or decrease before determination final … 6563

claim for increase, time to assert … 6563

order or decision on petition, when final notice of … 6564

penalty for nonpayment when final … 6565

persons entitled to file petition … 6561

service of notices … 6566

Diesel

fuel used in transporting farm products … 6357.1

prepayment exemption … 6480.9

rate increase … 6051.8, 6201.8

rate increase exemption … 6357.3

sales and use tax exemption … 6357.4

Dietary supplements 6359

Disclosure of tax delinquencies 7063

to state licensing entities …7057, 7057.5

Discontinuance of business (see also determinations; successor's liability)

seller's permit, surrender upon business becoming inactive … 6072

Discounts, cash, exclusion from

gross receipts … 6012

sales price … 6011

Dismantlers, resale certificates; presumption 6092.5

Dispensing opticians, when not retailers 6018

Display, see demonstration and display

Distribution lines, electrical, not personalty 6016.5

District, as person 6005

Donation of property by retailers 6403

Drinks, serving as sale 6006(d)

"Drive ins", parking facilities for consuming food in cars 6359

Drugs and medicines, definition and exemption 6018.1, 6358

Drugs, prescription medicine exemption 6369

Due date of taxes 6451

(see also determinations; prepayment of taxes)

vehicles, vessels, aircraft; use tax … 6291



E


Earnings withholds: employer's liability 6704

Electronic earnings withholding orders 6834

Education and information program, Taxpayers' Bill of Rights 7084

Educational institutions, see loans; schools and school districts

Electric power generation, storage, and distribution equipment, partial exemption 6377.1

Electrical transmission and distribution lines, not personalty 6016.5

Electricity, exemption 6353

Electronic payments, one day late relief 6591.6

Employees, hiring by board 7052

Employer's liability: withheld earnings 6704

Endangered and threatened animal and plant species 6366.5

"Engaged in business in this State", definition 6203

commonly controlled group … 6203(c)(4)

conventions and trade shows … 6203(d)

Estate, as person 6005

Exchange, as sale or purchase 6006(a), 6010(a)

Execution, upon judgment for tax 6739

Exemption certificate 6421

(see also resale certificates)

federal excise tax on diesel fuel … 6423

fuel purchases: amount of excise taxes … 6245.5

prepayment of diesel fuel tax … 6480.3

vehicles, use tax … 6422.1

Exemptions

general … 6351–6380

sales tax … 6381–6396

use tax … 6401–6422.1

of particular property or transactions, see the specific title

Expenses (see also warrants for collection)

gross receipts, not deductible from … 6012

sales price, not deductible from … 6011

Export (see also interstate and foreign commerce)

packers, delivery to, for export, sales tax exemption … 6387

Extension of time for making return or payment 6459

disaster … 6459

interest on … 6592.5

state budget not adopted … 6459

state of emergency … 6459.5



F


Fabricating, as sale or purchase 6006(b), 6010(b)

Factor delivering to consumer, as retailer 6007

Factory-built housing 6012.7

Factory-built school building 6012.6

Farm equipment and machinery 6356.5

Feed for animal life, exemption 6358(b), 6358.4

Feed sellers, exemption from permit 6075

Fees, see collection cost recovery, permits: vehicles; warrants for collection

Felony 7153.5

Fertilizer, exemption 6358(d)

Films, motion picture, leases of 6006(g), 6010(e)

Financially disabled persons, defined 6902.4

Fiscal Recovery Fund 6051.5

Fishing

deep sea fishing, commercial: diesel fuel exemption … 6368.2

Fixed price contracts 6376, 6376.1, 6376.2

Flags of United States, certain nonprofit veterans organizations not retailers of 6359.3

Flea markets 6073

form requirement … 6073.1

Florists, mobile retail 6077

Food, furnishing, preparing or serving for consideration as sale 6006(d)

Food products (meals)

admission charge, food consumed in place having … 6359

blind operators of certain vending stands selling, exemption … 6363

definition and exemption … 6359

parking facilities, for consuming food in cars … 6359

school organizations serving to students, exemption … 6363

vending machines … 6359

Food stamp coupons 6373

Foreign commerce, see interstate and foreign commerce

Foreign countries, property purchased from 6405

Foreign governments, aircraft sold or leased to, exemptions 6366, 6366.1

Forwarding agents, delivery to, for shipment out of state, sales tax exemption 6387, 6396

Fraternal organizations

furnishing and distributing property by, as sale … 6006(c)

person, as … 6005

Fraud penalty 6485, 6485.1, 6514, 7155

Freight cars, see rail freight cars

Fuel

air common carriers, foreign destination … 6357.5

diesel: transporting farm products … 6357.1

excise tax on, exemption certificate … 6011, 6012, 6245.5

exemptions, see aircraft

gasohol … 6357.5

organic products and waste byproducts … 6358.1

tax swap … 6051.8, 6201.8, 6357.3, 6357.7

Fungible goods, see resale certificates



G


Garment cleaning or dyeing establishment

retailers, when not … 6018.6

Gas, delivered through mains, lines or pipes, exemption 6353

Gasohol 6357.5

General fund, transfer of money in retail sales tax fund to 7102

Geothermal steam, brines, and heat 6353

Gold: "California Gold" medallions 6354

Governor, order of, authorizing examination of records 7056

Grocers, rules and regulations respecting 7051.5

Gross receipts

defined … 6012

particular items included or excluded, see the specific titles

presumed taxable … 6091

Group or combination, as person 6005



H


Handcrafted items 6361.1

Hay sellers, exemption from permit 6075, 6076

Health and safety materials 6409

Hearing aid dispensers

retailer, when not … 6018.7

Hearings (see also determinations; petitions for redetermination)

application for (jeopardy determination) 6538.5

permits, on revocation of … 6070

representatives, by … 7052

Hemodialysis products 6369.1

Historic Venue Restoration and Resiliency Fund 7103

Hospitals

medicines, furnished by, or sold to, for treatment, exemption … 6369

patients' meal, exemption … 6363.6

Hot prepared food products 6359, 6359.1

Household furnishings, lease of 6006(g), 6010(e)

Humane societies, transfers of pets exclusions 6010.40



I


Ice or dry ice: use in packing, shipping, transporting 6359.7

Illicit labels 6007, 6009.2

Imposition of tax

constitutional provision (see Chpts. 2 and 3)

sales tax … 6051, 6051.2, 6051.3, 6051.5, 6051.6

use tax … 6201, 6201.2, 6201.3, 6201.5, 6201.6

Impressed mats, fabrication or transfer as sale or purchase 6010.3

Imprinting as sale or purchase 6006(b), 6010(b)

Income tax credit, refund of 6902.2

Income tax return: reporting use tax 6451.5

deficiency determinations … 6487.3

Indian tribal tax exclusion 6011, 6012

"In this State", meaning of 6017

Information returns, use tax 7055

In-home Support Services tax 6150-6172

Injunction, to prevent tax collection, prohibited 6931

Innocent spouse, relief for 6456

Installation charges, exclusion from

gross receipts … 6012

sales price … 6011

Installment payment agreements 6832

annual statements … 6832.5

notice to consumers … 6832.6

Institutions, patients' meals, exemption 6363.6

Interest

amnesty penalty … 7074

daily computation of … 6591.6

determinations

deficiency … 6482

failure to file return … 6513

jeopardy … 6537

erroneous refunds … 6964

disaster … 6593

payment one day late … 6591.6

relief of … 6593.5, 6591.6

gross receipts or sales price, interest charged or paid as part of … 6011, 6012

leases to the United States government … 6594

managed audits … 7076.5

on late prepayments … 6592.5

refunds, see refund and credit of overpayments

tax payments, delinquent … 6591, 6591.5

vehicles, vessels and aircraft, delinquent use tax payments … 6291, 6292

Interstate and foreign commerce (see also carriers; common carriers; forwarding agents)

customs brokers, delivery to, for shipment out of state … 6396

rail freight cars for use in, exemption … 6368.5

vessel engaged in, for hire, as common carrier … 6385

watercraft for hire, use in, exemption … 6368 (sale), 6368.1 (lease)

Itinerant veteran vendor 6018.3



J


Jeopardy determinations, see determinations; jeopardy

Joint venture, as person 6005

Judgment for tax

abstract of, recording … 6738

actions to collect tax, see actions

certificate of amount due, filing … 6736

entry and filing … 6737

execution upon … 6739

lien, duration and extension of … 6738

lien, effect of judgment as … 6738

lien, release of … 6740

request for judgment … 6736

time to file … 6736

Judicial proceedings, see actions

Jurisdiction

erroneous refund, action to recover … 6961

refund, action for … 6933

tax, action for … 6711



L


Labor, cost as part of

gross receipts … 6012

sales price … 6011

Lease (see also rentals)

aircraft, leased to common carriers, foreign governments, nonresidents … 6366.1

chemical toilets … 6010.7

defined … 6006.3

fixed term, government … 6006.3

household furnishings … 6006(g), 6010(e)

lessor as retailer required to collect use tax … 6203(c)

linen supplies … 6006(g), 6010(e)

mobile transportation equipment … 6006(g), 6010(e)

motion picture and television films and tapes … 6006(g), 6010(e)

occasional sale, election of lessor to pay use tax on property acquired in … 6094.1

purchase, lease as … 6010(e)

prior leases, exemption when lease amount fixed prior to law imposing tax

sales tax … 6391

use tax … 6407

property situated outside state, exemption from sales tax when … 6390

sale, lease as … 6006(g)

substantially same form, property leased in … 6010(e)

use tax, time for collection from lessee … 6203

video cassettes, tapes, and discs … 6006(g), 6010(e)

watercraft, leased for interstate use or commercial fishing, exemption … 6368.1

waterproof cargo containers, rental of, not a use … 6009.1

Leased fixtures, as tangible personal property 6016.3

Levy

exemptions, Taxpayers' Bill of Rights … 7095

notice of … 6703

release of, Taxpayers' Bill of Rights … 7094

return of property … 7094.1

Liability

accommodation loans, of purchaser for … 6094, 6244

corporate officer … 6829

failure to withhold purchase price, of purchaser for … 6812

purchase of property certified exempt, of purchaser when … 6421

sales tax, of retailer for … 6051

use tax, of purchaser for … 6202

Liens

judgment for tax, lien of … 6738

perfection and enforceability of … 6757

preliminary notice of, Taxpayers' Bill of Rights … 7097, 7098

recorded lien, no preference of tax lien over prior attaching … 6756

release of … 7097

subordination of … 7097

tax lien of

certificate of liability, recordation of, as creating lien for amount due … 6757

duration and extension of … 6757

effect and priority of … 6757

time for filing … 6757

warrant for enforcement of liens … 6776

Limitations, statutes of

determinations

asserting increase … 6563

deficiency … 6487

mailing notice … 6487–88

judgment for tax, request for … 6736

lien for tax, certificate … 6757

notice to creditor … 6702

refund or credit

action for refund … 6933

claim for … 6902

overpayments of erroneous levies or liens … 6902.3

waiver of, financially disabled persons … 6902.4

seizure and sale … 6796

unregistered California purchasers … 6487.06

unregistered out-of-state retailers … 6487.05

violations of penal provisions … 7154

warrant for tax … 6776

Limited liability company, as person 6005

Linen supplies, leases of 6006(g), 6010(e)

Liquefied petroleum gas

exclusion from motor vehicle fuel exemption … 6357

exemption for residential and agricultural uses … 6353

Litter, poultry 6358.2

Loans

accommodation

sales tax … 6094

use tax … 6244

educational programs, use tax exemption

motor vehicles loaned for driver education programs to

motor vehicles loaned to university officials … 6202.7

motor vehicles loaned to veterans' facility for instruction in operation of specially equipped vehicles … 6404(d)

private or parochial secondary schools … 6404(c)

property loaned to school districts for … 6404(a)

use of property for other purposes, liability of purchaser making … 6404(e)

Local Revenue Fund 2011 6051.15, 6201.15

Losses (see also Bad debts)

not deductible from

gross receipts … 6012

sales price … 6011

Low-emission vehicles 6356.5, 6368.2



M


Mailing lists 6379.8

Mains, water or gas delivered through, exemption 6353

Managed audit program 7076.1 7076.5

Manufacturing, Power Generation, and Research and Development equipment partial exemption 6377.1

Market Facilitators Act 6040, 6041, 6041.1, 6041.2, 6041.5, 6041.6, 6042, 6043, 6043.1, 6044, 6045, 6046, 6047, 6049.5

Master tapes or master records, exemption 6362.5

Materials used, cost of, deductibility from

gross receipts … 6012

sales price … 6011

Mats, see Impressed mats

Meals (see also food products)

blind operators of certain vending stands serving, exemption … 6363

delivered to elderly and disabled … 6363.7

religious organizations serving, exemption … 6363.5

residents or patients of certain institutions, meals served to, exemptions … 6363.6

school organizations serving to students, exemption … 6363

served to elderly condominium residents … 6376.5

served to low-income elderly persons … 6374

serving as sale … 6006(d)

"Mechanical" fabrication or transfer as sale or purchase 6010.3

Medical identification tags 6371

Medical facility or clinic, exemption of medicine furnished by, for treatment 6369

Medical health information 6408

Medi-Cal managed care plan tax … 6174-6189

Medical oxygen delivery

systems, exemption … 6369.5

Medicated feed and drinking water 6358.4

Medicinal cannabis; medicinal cannabis products 6369.6

Medicines

definition and exemption … 6369

food exemption, excluded from … 6359

samples … 6369

Mexico, reciprocal agreement with 7056

Military welfare society 6363.4

Misdemeanors (see also penalties)

advertising reassuming or absorbing tax

use tax … 6205

permit, engaging in business without … 6071

resale certificate, improper use of … 6094.5

return, making false or fraudulent … 7152

failure or refusal to file … 6452

making false or fraudulent … 7152

use tax, failure of retailer to collect and display separately … 6207

vehicle use tax exemption certificates, improper use of … 6422.1

violation of law as … 7153

Mobilehomes

current value … 6012.2, 6276.1

exclusions … 6012.2, 6276.1

installed as residences … 6012.8, 6012.9

sale of used … 6379

Mobile transportation equipment

defined … 6023

leases of … 6006(g), 6010(e), 6092.1, 6243.1

Monetized bullion 6355

Motion picture films and tapes, leases of 6006(g), 6010(e)

Motion picture production partnerships 6010.4

Motion pictures and motion picture property 6010.6

Motion picture tax credit 6902.5

Motor vehicle fuel

aviation gasoline exemption … 6357

exemption from General Fund … 6357.7

fuel tax refunds, collection of sales and use taxes by Controller deducting from … 6357

exemption certificate for amount of excise taxes … 6245.5

prepayment for distributors … 6480–6480.7

exemption for diesel fuel used for agricultural purposes … 6480.9

exemption for state contracted fuel … 6480.1

refunds of taxes … 6357.2

taxes, collection of, by Controller … 6357.1

Motor vehicles, see Vehicles

Multiagency task force Chapter 8, Uncodified Sections

Municipality

medicine used or furnished for treatment, exemption … 6369

person, municipality as … 6005

Museums 6366.3, 6366.4, 6370.5



N


Natural disaster 6593

Negligence penalty 6484

Newspapers, and periodicals

free distributions … 6362.7

nonprofit organizations … 6362.8

periodical, exemption … 6362.7

subscription sales of periodicals … 6362.7

Nonmonetized bullion 6355

Nonprofit organizations 6018.9, 6359.3, 6359.45, 6361, 6363.2, 6363.3, 6363.4, 6375.5

Nonprofit zoological society, defined 6010.50

Nonresidents

aircraft sold or leased to, exemptions … 6366, 6366.1

trucks and trailers, affidavit of nonresident of purchaser from out-of-state dealer … 6388

Nonreturnable containers, see containers

Notices (see also Creditors, Notice to; Determinations)

certificate of … 7058

installment payment agreements … 6832.6

levy … 6703

permits

change of address … 6068

revocation … 6070

refunds, action on claims for … 6906

security, notice of sale … 6701

seized property, notice of sale of … 6797

Numismatic coins 6355



O


Occasional sale

definition … 6006.5

exemption … 6367

lessor, election to pay use tax on property acquired in … 6094.1

vehicles, vessels, aircraft, exclusion of certain, from exemption … 6367

Oculists, when not retailers 6018

Offenses, see misdemeanors; penalties

Offers in compromise 7093.6

Offsets, see determinations

One-way rental trucks 6024

Ophthalmic materials, oculists, optometrists, and dispensing opticians, when not retailers of 6018

Opticians, dispensing, when not retailers 6018

Optometrists, when not retailers 6018

Out-of-state delivery, presumption of use 6247

Out-of-state contractors, see construction contracts

Overpayments, (see Refund and credit of overpayments)

Oxygen, exemption for 6358



P


Parent-teacher associations 6370

Parking facilities, for consuming food, in cars 6359

Partnerships; written partnership agreement 6831

"Pasteup", fabrication or transfer as sale or purchase 6010.3

Pawnbroker 6010.15

Payments, see returns and payments

Penalties (see also misdemeanors)

Penalties

accuracy penalty … 6591.3

determinations

failure to file return … 6511

failure to timely remit tax reimbursement … 6597

intent to evade … 6485, 6485.1, 6514, 6514.1, 7155

jeopardy determination … 6537

leases to the United States government … 6593

nonpayment … 6565

negligence … 6484

relief from, for reasonable cause … 6592

direct pay permit, improper allocation of local sales and use tax … 7051.2

efficient process to relieve … 6592

failure to timely remit tax reimbursement … 6597

improper use of resale certificate … 6094.5

inactive permit … 6072

limitations … 6591

natural disaster … 6593

relief from, for reasonable cause … 6596

tax payments, delinquent … 6591

prepayments, late … 6476, 6477

negligence or intentional disregard … 6478

vehicles, vessels and aircraft, delinquent use tax payments … 6291, 6292

waivers … 7072

Periodical, exemption 6362.7

Permits

application for … 6066

assignability of … 6067

change of address, reissuance upon … 6068

cities and counties, collection of information for … 6066.3

direct payment permits … 7051.1, 7051.2, 7051.3

exemption from requirement to hold … 6075, 6076

inactive permit, surrender of … 6072

information on not confidential … 7056

issuance and display … 6067

in-home support services … 6156

misdemeanors … 6071

notice to applicant … 6066.5

refuse issuance: outstanding tax liability …6070.5

renewal after suspension or revocation fee … 6069

revocation or suspension … 6070, 6072

fee for renewal after … 6069

hearing on … 6070

sellers' … 6066–6072

surrender of … 6071.1

use tax direct payment … 7051.3

vehicles, vessels and aircraft … 6284

Person, definition 6005

Personal Care IHSS Quality Assurance Revenue Fund 6168

Personal property, tangible, defined 6016

Pet adoptions, exclusion 6010.40

Petitions for redetermination, see determinations: petitions for redetermination

Pharmacists

dispensing medicines on prescription, exemption … 6369

dispensing replacement contact lenses … 6018

Physicians, medicines, prescribing or furnishing for treatment, exemption 6369

Photographs, reproduction in newspaper, exemption … 6362(b)

Place of sale 6010.5

Plants, exemption of annual 6358(c)

endangered and threatened … 6010.50, 6202.5, 6366.5

Podiatrists

medicines, prescribing and furnishing for treatment, exemption … 6369

retailers, when not … 6018.5

Political subdivision

medicine, used or furnished for treatment, exemption … 6369

person, as … 6005

Pollution control facility: sale or purchase 6010.10

Possession, transfer of, as sale or purchase 6006(a), 6010(a)

Poultry litter 6358.2

Power generation, storage, and distribution equipment, partial exemption 6377.1

Prepayment of taxes 6470–6479

amount of prepayment … 6471

credit for prepayment … 6473

estimated tax liability … 6471

exceptions … 6471.4, 6471.6

verification of … 6474

interest when extension granted … 6592.5

motor vehicle fuel distributions … 6480–6480.7

notification that prepayment required … 6471

service of … 6479

penalty for late prepayment … 6476, 6477, 6479.3

penalty for negligence … 6478

persons required to prepay … 6471

report of prepayment, form and when made … 6472

successors … 6471

time for prepayment … 6471

Prescription medicines, exemption 6369, 6369.1, 6369.2

Presumptions

gross receipts, taxability of … 6091

retailer, that property shipped or brought to State is purchased from … 6246

use in State, that property delivered in State is sold for … 6241

use in State, that property delivered outside State to known resident was purchased for … 6247

vehicles, vessels, and aircraft brought into State, presumption of purchase for use … 6248

exclusion from presumption of servicemen … 6249

vehicles, sales price as market value for use tax computation … 6276

Printed sales messages for goods and services printed to the special order of the purchaser 6379.5

Printing, as sale or purchase 6006(b), 6010(b)

Printing materials, exclusion of certain, from definition of sale and purchase 6010.3

Priority of tax 6756

(See also Liens)

Proceeds, disposition of 7101, 7102

Process, service of, in action relating to use tax 6715

Processing

as sale or purchase … 6006(b), 6010(b)

Producing, as sale or purchase 6006(b), 6010(b)

Promotional items sold at cost 6018.9

Proofs, see reproduction proofs

Property purchased in a foreign country 6405

Property sold, cost of, deductibility from

gross receipts … 6012

sales price … 6011

Protections: taxpayer communications 7099.1

Publications, transfer of, as sale or purchase 6006(f), 6010(d)

Public Transportation Account

transfers to … 7103.1

Public transportation equipment: option to purchase 6368.9

Publicizing amnesty program 7077

Publicizing largest tax delinquencies 7063

Purchase

continuing purchase … 6010.1

definition … 6010

from foreign country … 6405

Purchaser affidavit forms 6388.3

Purchase price (see also gross receipts; sales price)

withholding by successor, see successor's liability—withholding of purchase price



Q


Quad cane, prescribed, exemption 6369.2



R


Racehorse breeding stock 6358.5

Rail freight cars, for use in interstate or foreign commerce, exemption 6368.5

Rate of tax

sales tax … 6051, 6051.1, 6051.2, 6051.3, 6051.5,

use tax … 6201, 6201.1, 6201.2, 6201.3, 6201.5, 6201.7

"Real or ultimate ownership", defined 6006.5

Realty, leased fixtures, as tangible personal property 6016.3

Receipts from retailer for use tax collected 6202

Receiver, as person 6005

Reciprocal agreement, defined 7056

Records, see Administration of law; confidential information

Red Cross, see American National Red Cross

Redeterminations, see determinations, petitions for redetermination

Refund and credit of overpayments

action to recover

assignee not entitled to judgment … 6937

claim for refund, necessity for … 6932

disposition of judgment … 6935

grounds, limitation to those set forth in claim … 6933

injunction or other process to prevent collection prohibited in … 6931

interest in judgment … 6936

jurisdiction … 6933

person entitled to bring … 6933, 6937

time to bring … 6933

failure of board to act on refund claim … 6934

waiver, failure to bring timely action as … 6933

authority of board … 6901

claim for—time to file … 6902

class claim … 6904

failure to file as waiver … 6905

form and content … 6904

notice of action on claim … 6906

service, manner of … 6906

single claim; determination payments … 6902.6

waiver of, financially disabled persons … 6902.4

Controller brings … 6961

erroneous refunds and credits, action to recover

Attorney General prosecutes … 6963

jurisdiction and place of trial … 6961, 6962

procedure, law governing … 6963

waiver of interest … 6964

income tax credit for manufacturing property … 6902.2

interest amount and period covered … 6907

disallowance for intentional or careless overpayment … 6908

waiver when claimant requests deferment of action on claim … 6908

nontaxable amounts or amounts in excess of taxable amounts … 6901.5

offsets … 6512

persons entitled to receive refunds or credits … 6902

use tax, person to whom overpayment credited … 6901

sales tax reimbursement, when payment to vendor required as condition … 6903

vehicle smog impact fee … 6909

veterans: repayment … 6018.2

Registration

retailers (use tax) … 6226

use tax … 6225

vehicles, certificates of use tax clearance to allow completion of … 6422.1

Regulations, see rules and regulations

Reimbursement Civil Code 1656.1

Reliance, written advice 6596

Relief for innocent spouse 6456

Religious organizations, sales of meals and food products by 6363.5

Rental value, as measure of use tax for property purchased under resale certificate and used for

accommodation loans … 6094(b), 6244(b)

demonstration and other purposes … 6094(c), 6244(c)

Rentals (see also lease)

gross receipts, inclusion in … 6012

sales price, inclusion in … 6011

video cassettes, tapes, and discs … 6006(g), 6010(e)

Repayment: qualified veterans 6018.2

Replacement contact lenses 6018

Reproduction proofs, fabrication or transfer of, as sale or purchase 6010.3

Res judicata, applicability of rule of 7176

Resale certificates

sales tax … 6091–95

use tax … 6241–45

effect of:

sales tax … 6092

use tax … 6242

form and content:

sales tax … 6093

use tax … 6243

fungible goods:

sales tax … 6095

use tax … 6245

liability of purchaser issuing:

sales tax … 6094, 6094.5

use tax … 6244

Residents (see also Nonresidents)

presumption that property delivered out of state to known resident was purchased for use in state … 6247

Restaurants (see also Meals)

blind operators of certain … 6363

Restitution orders, collection of 6835

Restocking costs, see returned merchandise

Retail sale, defined 6007

Retail sales tax fund

deposit of tax payments in … 7101

transfer of money in, to general fund … 7102

Retailer

defined … 6015, 6019, 6275

permits, direct payment … 7051.1, 7051.2

registration of, use tax … 6226

"retailer engaged in business in this State", meaning of … 6203

lessor as … 6203(c)

Retrofit devices 6356.5

Returnable containers, see containers

Returned merchandise 6011, 6012

Return preparers; disclosure prohibited 7056.6

Returns and payments

cancellation of liability determined by person filing returns … 6981

due date of taxes … 6451

extension of time for payment … 6459

payment, certificates of … 6813

payments, how made … 7101

prepayment, see Prepayment of taxes returns content … 6453

returns

content … 6453

lessor and lessee … 6457

electronic filing authorization … 6452

filing … 6452, 6454

form … 6452

information, use tax … 7055

misdemeanor

false or fraudulent return as … 7152

period covered by return … 6452

authority to prescribe special periods … 6455

persons required to file … 6452

vehicles, exception for purchaser of … 6292

signature … 6452

time for filing … 6452

extension of time … 6459

verification of accuracy of … 7054

vehicles, payment of use tax by purchaser to Department of Motor Vehicles … 6292

vehicles, payment of use tax by used motor vehicle dealer to Department of Motor Vehicles … 6295

Rules and regulations

authority of board to prescribe, adopt, and enforce … 7051

representatives of board, authority to prescribe … 7052

retroactive effect, authority to apply without … 7051



S


Sale

and leaseback … 6010.65

tangible personal property … 6010.65

auction … 6006.6

business, sale of, obligation of purchaser to withhold purchase price … 6811, 6812

conditional, see conditional sale

continuing … 6006.1

definition … 6006

occasional sale, definition … 6006.5

exemption … 6367

place of … 6010.5

property, sale of, to collect tax, see seizure and sale

retail … 6007

"Sale price"

defined … 6011

particular items included or excluded, see the specific titles

Sales suppression devices and software 7153.6

Sales tax

collection of other states' … 6850

imposition and rate … 6051, 6051.2, 6051.3, 6051.5, 6051.8

meaning of … 6003

reimbursement, see reimbursement for sales tax

transfer of revenues, Local Revenue Fund 2011 … 6051.15, 6201.15

use tax, exemption when sales tax applicable … 6401

Schools and school districts

catalogs, exemption … 6361.5

loans to, for educational programs and driver training, see loans

sponsored youth groups … 6361

students' meals, exemption … 6363

yearbooks, exemption … 6361.5

Security for tax

authority to require … 6701

amount and kind … 6701

discontinuance of business, security held as payment on account upon … 6815

increase or decrease of … 6701

jeopardy determinations … 6538

notice to persons other than creditor … 6703

sale of … 6701

disposition of surplus … 6701

notice of sale, service … 6701

Seeds, exemption 6358(c)

Seizure and sale

authority for … 6796

bill of sale … 6798

deed … 6798

disposition of proceeds … 6799

manner of … 6796

notice of sale … 6797

property subject to … 6796

time for … 6796

Seller defined 6014

Sellers' permits, see Permits, sellers'

Semitrailers and trailers 6410

Servicemen, use tax, see presumptions

Services

costs of, or charges for, as part of

    gross receipts … 6012

   sales price … 6011

in-home support services … 6150-6172

Small business hiring credit I 6902.7

application … 6902.8

Small business hiring credit II 6902.9

application … 6902.10

Social clubs

furnishing and distributing property by, as sale … 6006(c)

person, as … 6005

Social gatherings, artwork transferred 6010.30

Space flight property 6380

Special event 6073

form requirement … 6073.1

Special order, transfer of property made to, as

sale … 6006(f)

purchase … 6010(d)

Special reserve account 6051.8

Sportsmanship organizations, Youth 6361

Spouse, innocent 6456

State of California

person, state as … 6005

medicine used or furnished for treatment, exemption … 6369

State Highway Account 7104.4

Statute of Limitations, see Limitations, Statutes of

Steam 6353

Stock of goods, sale of, withholding of purchase price by purchaser 6811, 6812

Storage, defined 6008, 6009.1

Storage and use: counterfeit goods 6009.2

Storage and use exclusion 6009.1

Streamlined Sales Tax Project 6025–6031

Subscriptions

periodicals … 6362.7

"Substantially same form", property leased in 6006(g), 6010(e)

Successor's liability withholding of purchase price

amount to be withheld … 6811

certificate of nonliability of seller … 6811, 6812

failure to withhold, liability for … 6812

notice of … 6814

notice of amount due

failure of board to mail, effect of … 6812

time to make request for … 6812

time to enforce obligation of successor … 6812

Successors

confidential information, furnishing to … 7056

prepayments by … 6471

refunds to … 6901

Suits, see actions

Suppression devices 7153.6

"Surplus Property", see United States

Surrender of permit 6071.1

Swap meets 6073

form requirement … 6073.1

Syndicate, as person 6005



T


Tableware, use in food consumption 6359

"Take-out" or "to go" orders 6359

Tangible personal property

definition … 6014, 6016

leased fixtures … 6016.3

telephone, telegraph, and electrical transmission and distribution lines excluded … 6016.5

Tapes, motion picture, leases of 6006(g), 6010(e)

Tax, imposition and rate of

sales tax … 6051, 6051.2, 6051.3, 6051.5, 6051.7, 6051.8

use tax … 6201, 6201.2, 6201.3, 6201.5, 6051.7, 6051.8

Tax penalty amnesty 7070–7078

Tax returns, see returns and payments

Taxes (see also returns and payments)

collection of, see Collection of taxes by Board; collection of taxes by retailer

due date … 6451

inclusion in:

sales price … 6011

gross receipts … 6012

prepayment, see prepayment of taxes

reimbursement, sales tax, see reimbursement for sales tax

unreported tax information: reward program … 7060

vehicle, see vehicles

Taxpayers' Bill of Rights 7080 through 7099.1

bank charges … 7096

civil proceedings … 7156

claims for refund, plan to resolve … 7089

evaluation of employees … 7088

identification of areas of taxpayer noncompliance … 7085

levy … 7094, 7095

lien, notice of … 7097, 7098

petitions, plan to resolve … 7089

preparation of statements by board … 7086

protest hearings … 7090

revenue collected or assessed … 7087

settlement authority . . 7093.5

taxpayer communications: protection of … 7099.1

Taxpayers' Rights Advocate … 7083

Telephone and telegraph lines, not personalty 6016.5

Teleproduction and postproduction equipment 6378

Television films and tapes, leases of 6006(g), 6010(e)

Termination of business, see successor's liability—withholding of purchase price

Thrift stores exemption

AIDS … 6363.3

military welfare society …6363.4

Timber harvesting equipment 6356.6

Title, transfer of as

purchase … 6010(a)

sale … 6006(a)

Title of Law 6001

Trades, endangered and threatened plants and animals 6010.50

Trade shows 6073.2, 6203

Trailers

and semitrailers … 6410

boat, see vehicles

new, purchased from out-of-state dealer, delivered in state for use outside state, exemption … 6388

"Transferor", defined 6006(g), 6010(e)

Transmission lines, electrical, not personalty 6016.5

Transportation, cost of, and charges for, when included in

gross receipts … 6012

sales price … 6011

Transportation Deferred Investment Fund 7104.3, 7105, 7106

Transportation, Department of

retailer, when not … 6018.8

Transportation Investment Fund 7104, 7104.1, 7104.2, 7107

successor to … 7104.4

Trucks, one-way rental 6024

Trucks, catering 6074

Trust, trustee, or trustee in bankruptcy as person 6005



U


United States

flags, see Flags of United States

leases to, interest and penalties … 6594

person, United States as … 6005

sales to, sales tax exemption … 6381

"surplus property" and "contractor inventory", exclusion from use tax exemption of purchases from unincorporated U.S. agencies … 6402

unincorporated agencies, purchases from, use tax exemption … 6402

United States Contractors 6384

Unlawful acts, see misdemeanors

"Use", defined 6009, 6009.1, 6421(b)

Use tax

accommodation loans, measure of tax … 6094(b), 6244(b)

collection by retailer … 6203

credit against, for out-of-state tax paid on purchase … 6406

debt owed by retailer to state, tax as … 6204

demonstration and other purposes, measure of tax … 6094(c), 6244(c)

direct payment permit … 7051.3

donation of property by retailer … 6403

endangered and threatened animal and plant species … 6202.5

exception vehicles … 6292

exemption: service personnel: purchases outside this state … 6412

imposition and rate … 6201, 6201.2, 6201.3, 6201.5, 6201.7 , 6201.8

information returns … 7055

income tax return reporting on … 6452.1 , 6487.3

lessor's election to pay on property acquired in occasional sale … 6094.1

loans for educational or instructional purposes, exemption … 6404

meaning of … 6004

persons liable for … 6202

property purchased for resale, liability of purchaser using … 6094(a), 6244(a)

railroad equipment component parts, exemption from … 6411

receipts from retailer for … 6202

registration of purchasers … 6225

registration of retailers … 6226

sales tax applicable, exemption from use tax when … 6401

separate statement of … 6206

service of process in actions to collect (actions generally, see actions) … 6715

vehicles, exemption and other tax clearance certificates … 6422.1

vehicles, vessels and aircraft, due date of tax … 6291



V


Vehicles

Car Buyer's Bill of Rights; used vehicles … 6012.3

credit for out-of-state taxes generally … 6406

defined … 6022, 6272

driver training or instruction, loans for, see loans

emission control label … 6263

presumption for purchases outside California … 6248

exemptions

family … 6285

ownership similar after transfer with entire business … 6281

physically handicapped persons … 6369.4

retailer unlicensed as manufacturer, dealer or dismantler … 6282

fees and taxes, inclusion in

gross receipts … 6012

sales price … 6011

identification by Department of Motor Vehicles … 6293

loans to university officials … 6202.7

low-emission vehicles … 6356.5, 6368.2

mass commuting vehicles, qualified: sale or purchase … 6010.11

new, purchased from out-of-state dealer, delivered in state for use outside state, exemption … 6388, 6388.5

occasional sale exemption not applicable to certain … 6367

passenger transportation vehicles, exemption … 6368.7

permit requirement of seller … 6284

presumption of purchase for use … 6248

servicemen, exception … 6249

presumption on sale to lessee … 6277

retailer of, who is … 6275

use tax, payment by used motor vehicle dealer to Department of Motor Vehicles … 6292

use tax, payment by purchaser to Department of Motor Vehicles … 6295

use tax exemption and tax clearance certificates to allow registration of … 6422.1

Vending machine operators

Army, Navy, or Air Force installations, operators upon … 6021

consumer of food products … 6359.4

nonprofit, charitable, or educational organization … 6359.45

Vending machines

food products … 6359, 6359.4

Vending stands, blind operators selling meals or food from certain, exemption 6363

Vessels (see also watercraft)

common carrier, vessel operating in interstate or foreign commerce for hire as … 6385

defined … 6273

presumption of use for purchases outside California … 6248

exemptions

family … 6285

ownership similar after transfer with entire business … 6281

retailer not required to hold permit … 6283

occasional sale exemption inapplicable to certain … 6367

over 1,000 tons burden, conditional … 6356

permit requirement of seller … 6284

retailer of, who is … 6275

undocumented: identification by Department of Motor Vehicles … 6294

Veteran, disabled, itinerant 6018.3

Veterans' organizations, certain, not retailers of flags of the United States 6359.3

Veterans' organizations, meals and food products exemption 6363.8

Veterinarians, when not retailers 6018.1

Video cassettes, tapes, and discs

rentals or leases … 6006(g), 6010(e)

Violation of law (see also misdemeanor; felony)

as felony … 7153.5

as misdemeanor … 7153

statute of limitations … 7154

Volunteer fire departments 6018.10



W


Waiver

amnesty … 7072

determination, time for mailing notice of … 6488

interest on refunds … 6908

timely action for refund, failure to bring as … 6933

Walker, prescribed, exemption 6369.2

Warrants for collection

authority to issue … 6776

effect of … 6776

fees and expenses

collection from party liable for tax … 6778

officer levying … 6777

publication, approval for … 6777

levy, manner of … 6776

officer to whom issued … 6776

penalties, amnesty … 7072

sale pursuant to … 6776

time to issue … 6776

Water, delivered through mains, lines or pipes, exemption 6353

bottle water excluded from food exemption … 6359

Watercraft (see also Vessels)

exemptions

deep sea fishing, commercial: diesel fuel use … 6368.2

interstate use, commercial fishing … 6368

leased watercraft … 6368.1

Waterproof cargo containers, see containers

Wheelchair, prescribed, exemption 6369.2

Withholding, purchase price, by successor, see successor's liability withholding of purchase price

Withholding, earnings: liability of employer 6704

Worthless accounts:

sales tax … 6055

use tax … 6203.5



X


X-ray films, producers as consumers 6020



Y


Youth organization

definition … 6361



Z


Zappers 7153.6