Tax 11.68(9)(9) Property, items, and goods purchased to fulfill a contract with an exempt entity. Tax 11.68(9)(a)(a) Except as provided in s. 77.54 (9m), Stats., the sales tax exemption provided to governmental units and other exempt entities, such as churches and nonprofit hospitals, does not apply to building materials purchased by a contractor for use under a construction contract to alter, repair, or improve real property for the exempt entity. The sales price received from sales of these building materials to a contractor is subject to the tax if the building materials become part of real property after construction or installation. Tax 11.68 NoteExample: A contractor shall pay the tax to its supplier of tangible personal property and items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., purchased to construct a bridge or road, since the property, item, or good becomes a part of realty after installation. Tax 11.68(9)(b)(b) A contractor may purchase without tax for resale tangible personal property and items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., which retain their character as personal property after installation as described in sub. (7), and taxable services, even though the resale of the property, item, good, or taxable service by the contractor is exempt when sold to a governmental unit or other exempt entity having a Wisconsin certificate of exempt status. This property includes furniture; processing machinery or equipment used in a municipal sewerage or water treatment plant; classroom laboratory sinks, tables, and other equipment; and seating for an auditorium. Taxable services include landscaping services. This exemption does not apply to property, items, goods, or taxable services which become a part of real property as described in sub. (6) and par. (a). Tax 11.68(10)(10) Use of property, items, and goods purchased outside Wisconsin. Tax 11.68(10)(a)(a) If a construction contractor, when the contractor acts as a consumer, purchases property, items, or goods outside Wisconsin for use in Wisconsin, the contractor shall pay the Wisconsin use tax, but may claim a credit against this use tax for any sales or use tax legally due and paid in the state where the purchase was made. Tax 11.68(10)(b)(b) If a construction contractor purchases property, items, or goods outside Wisconsin which will be stored in Wisconsin and subsequently used in real property construction activities outside Wisconsin, the contractor shall pay the Wisconsin use tax on those purchases, but may claim a credit against this use tax for any sales or use tax legally due and paid in the state where the purchase was made or where the property, item, or good was used prior to being stored in Wisconsin. Tax 11.68(10)(c)(c) If Wisconsin has jurisdiction over the out-of-state supplier, the supplier shall collect the use tax and remit it to the department. If the supplier fails to collect the tax, the contractor shall report and pay the tax to Wisconsin. Tax 11.68 NoteNote: The use tax as provided for in sub. (10) does not apply prior to August 12, 1993, to raw materials purchased outside Wisconsin that are, prior to being stored, used or consumed in Wisconsin, manufactured into tangible personal property by that contractor outside Wisconsin, or that are fabricated or altered outside Wisconsin by that contractor so as to become different or distinct items of tangible personal property from the constituent materials pursuant to the Circuit Court of Dane County decision in Morton Buildings, Inc. vs. Wisconsin Department of Revenue (2/10/92).
Tax 11.68(11)(a)(a) A contractor who performs real property construction activities may not add tax to any charge for labor or material, since the sales price received from these activities is not taxable. The tax which a contractor pays on its purchases of materials consumed in real property construction increases its cost of the materials and becomes a cost of doing business. Tax 11.68(11)(b)(b) A contractor’s charges for the repair, service, alteration, fitting, cleaning, painting, coating, towing, inspection, and maintenance of all tangible personal property and items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., are taxable. Solely for the purpose of imposing the tax on these services, numerous items that in other circumstances and for other purposes are deemed part of real property are deemed to retain their character as tangible personal property. Accordingly, any construction contractor who is engaged in the repair, service, alteration, fitting, cleaning, painting, coating, towing, inspection, and maintenance of any items listed in par. (c) or other items of tangible personal property or items, property, or goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), or (d), Stats., shall register as a retailer and pay the tax on the sales price received from the performance of these services except that the tax does not apply to the original installation or complete replacement of an item listed in par. (c), if that installation or replacement is a real property construction activity under s. 77.51 (2), Stats. Tax 11.68(11)(c)(c) Section 77.52 (2) (ag), Stats., provides in part that the following items shall be considered to have retained their character as tangible personal property for purposes of repair, service, alteration, fitting, cleaning, painting, coating, towing, inspection, and maintenance, regardless of the extent to which the item is fastened to, connected with or built into real property: Tax 11.68(11)(c)38.38. Recreational, sporting, gymnasium, and athletic goods and equipment including the following: Tax 11.68(11)(c)39.39. Equipment in offices, business facilities, schools, and hospitals but not in residential facilities including personal residences, apartments, long-term care facilities, as defined under s. 16.009 (1) (em), Stats., state institutions, as defined under s. 101.123 (1) (i), Stats., Type 1 juvenile correctional facilities, as defined in s. 938.02 (19), Stats., or similar facilities including the following: Tax 11.68(11)(d)(d) Charges for tangible personal property and items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., such as a repair part, incorporated into property listed in par. (c) being repaired are taxable. Because the item repaired is deemed personal property, any tangible personal property or item, property, or good under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), or (d), Stats., incorporated into it may be purchased by the contractor without tax for resale. Tax 11.68 NoteExample: If a contractor is engaged to repair a refrigerator, whether free-standing personal property or built-in so as to be a part of real property, in a home, the repair service and any charge for parts are taxable.
Tax 11.68(12)(12) Repair services contrasted with replacement services. Section 77.52 (2) (a) 10., Stats., provides that the sales price received for the repair, service, alteration, fitting, cleaning, painting, coating, towing, inspection, and maintenance of all items of tangible personal property or items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., is taxable, except that the tax does not apply to the original installation or complete replacement of an item listed in s. 77.52 (2) (ag), Stats., if that installation or replacement is a real property construction activity under s. 77.51 (2), Stats. When a contractor performs an original installation or complete replacement of an item listed in s. 77.52 (2) (ag), Stats., and that activity is a real property construction activity, the contractor’s charges for the installation of the item is not subject to tax imposed under s. 77.52 (2) (a) 10., Stats., and the contractor must pay tax on its purchase of the materials used in making the real property improvement, as described in sub. (4) (a), unless an exemption applies. Tax 11.68 NoteExample: A contractor furnishes and installs a new furnace as part of a contract to build a new home for an individual. The installation of the furnace is a real property construction activity. The contractor is the consumer of the furnace, and is liable for tax on its purchase of the furnace. The tax imposed under s. 77.52 (2) (a) 10., Stats., does not apply to the contractor’s charges for installing the furnace. Tax 11.68(13)(a)(a) Section 77.71 (3), Stats., imposes excise taxes upon a contractor engaged in construction activities, which includes constructing, altering, repairing, or improving real property within any county that has adopted the county sales and use tax. The taxes are measured by the purchase price of the tangible personal property and items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., used in constructing, altering, repairing, or improving real property which becomes a component part of real property in that county, unless the contractor has paid the county tax of a county in Wisconsin or a similar local sales tax in another state on the purchase of that property, item, or good. Tax 11.68(13)(b)(b) Building materials which become a component part of real property are used and consumed at the job site. Tax 11.68(13)(c)(c) In providing the services to property subject to taxation under s. 77.52 (2) (a) 10., Stats., a contractor may purchase without county tax for resale tangible personal property and items and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b) and (d), Stats., physically or electronically transferred to the customer in conjunction with providing such services. Tax 11.68(13)(d)(d) Section 77.77 (3), Stats., provides that the sales tax under s. 77.71 (1), Stats., and the county tax under s. 77.71 (3), Stats., on the sale of building materials to contractors engaged in the business of constructing, altering, repairing, or improving real estate for others are not imposed, if the materials are affixed and made a structural part of real estate and the amount payable to the contractor is fixed without regard to the costs incurred in performing a written contract that was irrevocably entered into prior to the effective date of the county ordinance or special district resolution, or that resulted from the acceptance of a formal written bid accompanied by a bond or other performance guaranty that was irrevocably submitted before that date. Tax 11.68(13)(e)(e) The county tax under s. 77.71 (3), Stats., on building materials used in real property construction activities are not imposed if the contractor purchased the building materials before the effective date of the county tax of that county or has paid the sales tax of another county in Wisconsin in purchasing the building materials. Tax 11.68 NoteNote: Section Tax 11.68 interprets ss. 77.51 (2), (12m) (b) 7., (12t), (14) (intro.), (15a) (b) 1. and 4., (15b) (b) 7., 77.52 (2) (a) 10., 11., and 20. and (2m), 77.53 (1), 77.54 (5) (d), (6) (am) 1., 4., and 5., (9m), (26), (26m), (31), (41), (60), (62m), and (65), 77.71 (3), and 77.77 (3), Stats. Tax 11.68 NoteNote: The interpretations in s. Tax 11.68 are effective under the general sales and use tax law on and after September 1, 1969, except: (a) Vault doors were not considered personal property until August 1, 1975; (b) Service station equipment such as underground tanks, gasoline pumps and hoists installed in or securely attached to their owner’s land was real property, but the property was personal property if the personal property and land were owned by different persons prior to August 1, 1975; (c) Advertising signs were real property if erected on and securely attached to the owner’s land prior to August 1, 1975; (d) Landscaping services became taxable effective May 1, 1982, pursuant to Chapter 317, Laws of 1981; (e) The exemption for waste reduction and recycling machinery and equipment became effective July 1, 1984, pursuant to 1983 Wis. Act 426; (f) The exemption for mobile units used for mixing and processing became effective July 20, 1985, pursuant to 1985 Wis. Act 29; (g) The credit for local sales taxes paid to other states became effective April 1, 1986, pursuant to 1987 Wis. Act 27; (h) The exemption for safety attachments for manufacturing machines became effective June 1, 1986, pursuant to 1985 Wis. Act 149; (i) The exemption of 35% of the selling price of new mobile homes and 100% of the selling price of used mobile homes became effective January 1, 1987, pursuant to 1985 Wis. Act 29; (j) The exemption for property used in constructing professional sports and home entertainment stadiums became effective October 1, 1991, pursuant to 1991 Wis. Act 37; (k) The 35% reduction in gross receipts for new mobile homes transported in 2 unattached sections became effective October 1, 1991, pursuant to 1991 Wis. Act 39; (L) Tangible personal property purchased outside Wisconsin, stored in Wisconsin and subsequently used outside Wisconsin became taxable October 1, 1991, pursuant to 1991 Wis. Act 39; (m) Raw materials purchased outside Wisconsin, manufactured, fabricated or otherwise altered by the contractor outside Wisconsin and used in real property construction by the contractor in Wisconsin became subject to use tax effective August 12, 1993, pursuant to 1993 Wis. Act 16; (n) In Tom Kuehne Landscape Contractor, Inc. vs. Wisconsin Department of Revenue, Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District IV, No. 86-1813, October 29, 1987 (CCH 202-919), highway signs, sign bridges, delineator posts and guardrails were found to remain tangible personal property after installation; (o) The stadium tax on building materials became effective January 1, 1996, pursuant to 1995 Wis. Act 56; (p) The change to the definition of ”real property construction activities” to include only those activities that take place at a site where tangible personal property is affixed to real property became effective for sales of property pursuant to contracts entered into on or after December 1, 1997, pursuant to 1997 Wis. Act 27; (q) The clarification of the tax treatment of the original installation or complete replacement of certain deemed items became effective on October 1, 2001, pursuant to 2001 Wis. Act 16; (r) The changes in the use of the terms mobile homes and manufactured homes became effective January 1, 2008, pursuant to 2007 Wis. Act 11; (s) The change of the term ”gross receipts” to ”sales price” and the separate impositions of tax on coins and stamps sold above face value under s. 77.52 (1) (b), Stats., certain leased property affixed to real property under s. 77.52 (1) (c), Stats., and digital goods under s. 77.52 (1) (d), Stats., became effective October 1, 2009, pursuant to 2009 Wis. Act 2; (t) The exemption for modular homes and manufactured homes used in real property construction activities outside Wisconsin became effective September 1, 2011 pursuant to 2011 Wis. Act 32; and (u) The exemption for lump sum contracts first applied to contracts entered into on or after October 1, 2013, pursuant to 2013 Wis. Act 20; (v) The exemption for building materials acquired solely for holding structures used in a fertilizer blending, feed milling, or grain drying operation became effective April 19, 2014, pursuant to 2013 Wis. Act 324; (w) The exemption for building materials, supplies, and equipment used in the construction or development of sports and entertainment arena facilities became effective August 14, 2015, pursuant to 2015 Wis. Act 20; (x) The exemption for building materials that become a part of a facility owned by a local government or exempt nonprofit organization first applies to contracts entered into January 1, 2016, pursuant to 2015 Wis. Act 126; (y) The exemption for products used in constructing or developing a facility in the electronics and information technology manufacturing zone became effective September 20, 2017, pursuant to 2017 Wis. Act 58; (z) The exemption for building materials that become a part of a facility owned by certain title holding companies described in s. 501 (c) (2) of the Internal Revenue Code became effective for contracts entered into on or after September 1, 2017, pursuant to 2017 Wis. Act 231, and to technical colleges and the UW System, and state veterans organization for contracts entered into on or after July 1, 2018, pursuant to 2017 Wis. Acts 59 and 190, respectively; and (za) The exemption for lump sum contracts was amended to apply to time and materials construction contracts and to subcontractors for construction contracts entered into or extended, modified, or renewed on or after December 1, 2017.
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