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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2024
Sales and Use Tax Annotations
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325.0000 Interstate and Foreign Commerce—Regulation 1620
Annotation 325.0160
(a) In General—Shipments Into California from Points Outside State
325.0160 Testing as Only Use in State. An out-of-state bank has subsidiaries in California and other states. It institutes a plan to upgrade the computer systems used in the branches of all of its subsidiaries. It purchases the equipment which it will resell to the subsidiaries. It arranges for all of the equipment which it buys for the upgrade plan to be shipped to a service center in California which is owned and operated by another party. The other party unpacks the hardware, loads software and arranges packages as they will be used at specific branches in order to test the system. Once tested, equipment is repackaged by the other party and shipped at the bank's direction to specific branches inside and outside California. The equipment will not be functionally used until it is installed at the individual branch.
Tax will apply to the equipment sold to and used by California branches. Tax does not apply to equipment sold and shipped to and used by out-of-state branches. 2/24/94.