139.105 Sourcing of retail sales -- Communications services and digital property. - Kentucky Statutes

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Page 1 of 2 139.105 Sourcing of retail sales -- Communications services and digital property. (1) For purposes of the retailer's obligation to pay or collect and remit the taxes imposed by KRS 139.200 and 139.310, the retailer shall source the retail sale,
excluding sales of communications services and digital property as follows:
(a) Over the counter. When the purchaser receives tangible personal property or service at a business location of the retailer, the sale is sourced to that business
location; (b) Delivery to a specified address. When a purchaser or purchaser's donee receives tangible personal property or service at a location specified by the
purchaser, the sale is sourced to that location; or (c) Delivery address unknown. When the retailer of a product does not know the address where the tangible personal property or service is received, the sale is
sourced to the first address listed in this paragraph that is known to the
retailer:
1. The address of the purchaser; 2. The billing address of the purchaser; or 3. The address from which the tangible personal property was shipped;
from which the computer software was delivered electronically or was
first available for transmission by the retailer; or from which the service
was provided. (2) The retailer shall source communications services as follows: (a) A sale of mobile telecommunications services, other than air-ground radiotelephone service and prepaid wireless calling service, shall be sourced to
the customer's or other purchaser's place of primary use; (b) A sale of postpaid calling service shall be sourced to the origination point of the telecommunications signal as first identified by either the retailer's
telecommunications system or information received by the retailer from its
service provider, where the system used to transport the signals is not that of
the retailer; (c) A sale of prepaid calling service or a sale of a prepaid wireless calling service shall be sourced according to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section.
If the sale is of a prepaid wireless calling service and the retailer does not
know the address where the service is received, the sale shall be sourced to the
first of the following that is known by the retailer:
1. The address of the customer available from the business records of the
retailer; 2. The billing address of the customer; 3. The address from which the service was provided; or 4. The location associated with the mobile telephone number; (d) A sale of a private communications service shall be sourced as follows: Page 2 of 2 1. Service for a separate charge related to a customer channel termination
point shall be sourced to each level of jurisdiction in which the customer
channel termination point is located. 2. Service where all customer termination points are located entirely within
one (1) jurisdiction or levels of jurisdiction is sourced in the jurisdiction
in which the customer channel termination points are located. 3. Service for segments of a channel between two (2) customer channel
termination points located in different jurisdictions and which segments
of channel are separately charged shall be sourced fifty percent (50%) in
each level of jurisdiction in which the customer channel termination
points are located. 4. Service for segments of a channel located in more than one (1)
jurisdiction or levels of jurisdiction and which segments are not
separately billed shall be sourced in each jurisdiction based on the
percentage determined by dividing the number of customer channel
termination points in the jurisdiction by the total number of customer
channel termination points; (e) A sale of an ancillary service is sourced to the customer's place of primary use; and (f) A sale of other communications services: 1. Sold on a call-by-call basis shall be sourced based on the taxing
jurisdiction where the call either originates or terminates and in which
the service address is also located; or 2. Sold on a basis other than a call-by-call basis shall be sourced to the
customer's or other purchaser's place of primary use. (3) The retailer shall source the sale of digital property to the place of primary use. For purposes of this subsection, "place of primary use" means the street address where
the end user receives the digital property or from where the end user primarily
accesses the digital property. (4) Nothing included in subsection (1), (2), or (3) of this section shall affect the obligation of a purchaser to remit use tax pursuant to KRS 139.310. Effective: July 1, 2009
History: Amended 2009 Ky. Acts ch. 73, sec. 2, effective July 1, 2009. -- Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 141, sec. 2, effective July 1, 2007. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts
ch. 154, sec. 1, effective June 20, 2005. -- Created 2003 Ky. Acts ch. 124, sec. 23,
effective July 1, 2004. Legislative Research Commission Note (6/20/2005). Under KRS 7.136(1)(h), the Reviser of Statutes has corrected the capitalization and punctuation of an amendment
that was made to subsection (2)(c) of this statute in 2005 Ky. Acts ch. 154, sec. 1.