Decisions
These decisions come from the Arizona Department of Revenue Hearing Office and the Director’s Office and are posted here as required by A.R.S. § 42-2077
| Document Type | Category | Document ID | Description | Tags | Decision Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decisions | Transaction Privilege and Use Taxes | 200900056-S | Restaurant classification, definition of delicatessen business, sales of food for consumption off the premises, separate lines of business. | Director | 05/17/2010 |
| Decisions | Transaction Privilege and Use Taxes | 200800211-S | Receipts from software support, updates and new releases for combined fee were taxable under the retail classification and were not exempt under the machinery and equipment exemption. Editing software used by newspaper publisher did not qualify as machinery and equipment used directly in manufacturing, processing, fabricating or job printing. | Director | 01/22/2010 |
| Decisions | Transaction Privilege and Use Taxes | 200700222‑S | RV Dealership failed to prove out-of- state residency and residency on reservations for Native Americans for various sales of RVs and therefore was not entitled to exemptions. In some cases there was no Form 5000, in other cases there was a Form 5000, but the contradictory evidence held by the Dealership demonstrated the Dealership did not accept the Forms in good faith. | Director | 06/15/2009 |
| Decisions | Transaction Privilege and Use Taxes | 200800088-S | Use tax is due on watercraft (boat) bought with the intent to use in Arizona and then brought into and used Arizona. Taxpayer’s test driving watercraft was not a first use out of state. | Director | 04/24/2009 |
| Decisions | Transaction Privilege and Use Taxes | 200700085-S | Taxpayer was a prime contractor subject to the transaction privilege tax on his entire fees where he was hired as a “construction manager” or “advisor” to use his contracting knowledge to supervise or coordinate several construction projects, as well as doing some construction himself. Where Taxpayer was one of the persons on the title of the property on which he oversaw construction, he was liable for use tax on the items he purchased from retailers who knew him to be a contractor and did not include a charge for tax on the purchases. | Director | 10/08/2008 |
| Decisions | Transaction Privilege and Use Taxes | 200700045-S | Contracting. Taxpayers assumed the prime contracting transaction privilege tax liabilities of the Off-site Contractors, who were not exempt subcontractors, by issuing Form 5005 exemption certificates to the Off-site Contractors. | Director | 09/08/2008 |
| Decisions | Transaction Privilege and Use Taxes | 200700120-S | Contracting. Where a Contractor had dominion over sales proceeds, assigning them to another party does not exclude the proceeds from being subject to the transaction privilege tax. | Hearing | 03/14/2008 |
| Decisions | Transaction Privilege and Use Taxes | 200500180-S | The installation of security systems is taxable as prime contracting. | Director | 07/09/2007 |
| Decisions | Transaction Privilege and Use Taxes | 200500019-S | Taxpayer argues that it is entitled to additional exemptions for the installation of exempt manufacturing machinery or equipment and for purchases of exempt pollution control equipment. | Director | 03/26/2007 |
| Decisions | Transaction Privilege and Use Taxes | 200500065-S | Whether certain transactions were retail sales or investments. | Director | 03/23/2007 |