Section 11-201 - Agricultural purposes and products. - Maryland Statutes

§ 11-201. Agricultural purposes and products.
 

(a)  Agricultural purposes.- The sales and use tax does not apply to a sale of the following items for an agricultural purpose: 

(1) livestock; 

(2) feed or bedding for livestock; 

(3) seed, fertilizer, fungicide, herbicide, or insecticide; 

(4) baler twine or wire; 

(5) fuel for use in farm equipment or a farm tractor, as defined in §§ 11-120 and 11-121 of the Transportation Article; and 

(6) if bought by a farmer: 

(i) a container to transport farm products that the farmer raises to market; 

(ii) a farm vehicle, as defined in § 13-911(c) of the Transportation Article, when used in farming; 

(iii) a milking machine, when used in farming; 

(iv) fabrication, processing, or service, by a sawmill, of wood products for farm use in which the farmer retains title; and 

(v) farm equipment when used to: 

1. raise livestock; 

2. prepare, irrigate, or tend the soil; or 

3. plant, service, harvest, store, clean, dry, or transport seeds or crops. 

(b)  Agricultural products.- Except for flowers, sod, decorative trees and shrubs, and any other product that usually is sold by a nursery or horticulturist, the sales and use tax does not apply to a sale of an agricultural product by a farmer. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 81, §§ 326, 375; 1988, ch. 2, § 1; 2005, ch. 25, § 13.]