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295.0000 Gross Receipts

Annotation 295.1590

(g) Service Charges Generally

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295.1590 Monthly Rental Fees—Video Cassettes. A machine based video library is implemented at large residential apartment complexes. Residents pay a monthly fee to be a member of the library on a month-to-month basis, without being required to be a member for additional months. For this fee, they receive unlimited borrowing privileges from the library. To prevent hoarding of video cassettes, a penalty fee is imposed on overdue items.

This program is an arrangement to lease video cassettes and is considered a sale and purchase. The membership fees are rentals payable from the lease of the video cassettes and are subject to tax. The only exception would be when a member borrows no cassettes for the month to which the membership fee relates. Penalty fees which are required to be paid relate directly to the lease of video cassettes and are also subject to use tax. 7/9/90.