AB68-SSA1,735,2017 77.51 (11d) For purposes of subs. (1ag), (1f), (3pf), (7j), and (9p), and (17g) and
18ss. 77.52 (20) and (21), 77.522, 77.54 (9g), (51), (52), and (60), and 77.59 (5r), “product"
19includes tangible personal property, and items, property, and goods under s. 77.52
20(1) (b), (c), and (d), and services.
AB68-SSA1,1460 21Section 1460. 77.51 (17g) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68-SSA1,735,2322 77.51 (17g) “Separate and optional fee” means a fee charged to receive a
23distinct and identifiable product if either of the following applies:
AB68-SSA1,736,324 (a) The fee is in addition to fees that the seller charges for other distinct and
25identifiable products sold to the same buyer, the fee is separately set forth on the

1invoice given by the seller to the buyer, and the seller does not require the buyer to
2pay the fee if the buyer chooses not to receive the additional distinct and identifiable
3product for which the fee applies.
AB68-SSA1,736,104 (b) The seller charges a single amount for multiple distinct and identifiable
5products and offers the buyer the option of paying a lower amount if the buyer
6chooses not to receive one or more of the distinct and identifiable products. For
7purposes of this paragraph, the separate and optional fee is the single amount the
8seller charges for the multiple distinct and identifiable products less the reduced
9amount the seller charges to the buyer because the buyer chooses not to receive one
10or more of the products.
AB68-SSA1,1461 11Section 1461. 77.52 (2) (a) 20. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,736,1912 77.52 (2) (a) 20. The sale of landscaping and lawn maintenance services
13including landscape planning and counseling, lawn and garden services such as
14planting, mowing, spraying and fertilizing, and shrub and tree services. For
15purposes of this subdivision, landscaping and lawn maintenance services do not
16include planning and counseling services for the restoration, reclamation, or
17revitalization of prairie, savanna, or wetlands to improve biodiversity, the quality of
18land, soils, or water, or other ecosystem functions if the planning and counseling
19services are provided for a separate and optional fee from any other services.
AB68-SSA1,1462 20Section 1462. 77.52 (2) (ag) 39. (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,737,221 77.52 (2) (ag) 39. (intro.) Equipment in offices, business facilities, schools, and
22hospitals but not in residential facilities including personal residences, apartments,
23long-term care facilities, as defined under s. 16.009 (1) (em), prisons, mental health
24institutes, as defined in s. 51.01 (12), centers for the developmentally disabled, as
25defined in s. 51.01 (3), Type 1 juvenile correctional facilities, as defined in s. 938.02

1(19) (10p), or similar facilities including, by way of illustration but not of limitation,
2all of the following:
AB68-SSA1,1463 3Section 1463. 77.52 (2m) (c) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68-SSA1,737,114 77.52 (2m) (c) With respect to services subject to tax under sub. (2) (a) 7., 10.,
511., and 20. that are provided for a separate and optional fee from the planning and
6counseling services described under sub. (2) (a) 20., all tangible personal property or
7items, property, or goods under sub. (1) (b), (c), or (d) physically transferred, or
8transferred electronically, to the customer in conjunction with the provision of the
9services subject to tax under sub. (2) (a) 7., 10., 11., and 20. is a sale of tangible
10personal property or items, property, or goods separate from the selling, performing,
11or furnishing of the services.
AB68-SSA1,1464 12Section 1464. 77.52 (13) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,737,2413 77.52 (13) For the purpose of the proper administration of this section and to
14prevent evasion of the sales tax it shall be presumed that all receipts are subject to
15the tax until the contrary is established. The burden of proving that a sale of tangible
16personal property, or items, property, or goods under sub. (1) (b), (c), or (d), or services
17is not a taxable sale at retail is upon the person who makes the sale unless that
18person takes from the purchaser an electronic or a paper certificate, in a manner
19prescribed by the department, to the effect that the property, item, good, or service
20is purchased for resale or is otherwise exempt, except that no certificate is required
21for the sale of tangible personal property, or items, property, or goods under sub. (1)
22(b), (c), or (d), or services that are exempt under s. 77.54 (5) (a) 3., (7), (7m), (8), (10),
23(11), (14), (15), (17), (20n), (21), (22b), (31), (32), (35), (36), (37), (42), (44), (45), (46),
24(51), (52), (66), and (67), and (70).
AB68-SSA1,1465 25Section 1465. 77.53 (10) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,738,13
177.53 (10) For the purpose of the proper administration of this section and to
2prevent evasion of the use tax and the duty to collect the use tax, it is presumed that
3tangible personal property, or items, property, or goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), or
4(d), or taxable services sold by any person for delivery in this state is sold for storage,
5use, or other consumption in this state until the contrary is established. The burden
6of proving the contrary is upon the person who makes the sale unless that person
7takes from the purchaser an electronic or paper certificate, in a manner prescribed
8by the department, to the effect that the property, or items, property, or goods under
9s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), or (d), or taxable service is purchased for resale, or otherwise
10exempt from the tax, except that no certificate is required for the sale of tangible
11personal property, or items, property, or goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), or (d), or
12services that are exempt under s. 77.54 (7), (7m), (8), (10), (11), (14), (15), (17), (20n),
13(21), (22b), (31), (32), (35), (36), (37), (42), (44), (45), (46), (51), (52), and (67), and (70).
AB68-SSA1,1466 14Section 1466 . 77.54 (7) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,738,1815 77.54 (7) (b) 1. The item is transferred to a child, spouse, parent, father-in-law,
16mother-in-law
parent-in-law, daughter-in-law , or son-in-law of the transferor or,
17if the item is a motor vehicle, from the transferor to a corporation owned solely by the
18transferor or by the transferor's spouse.
AB68-SSA1,1467 19Section 1467. 77.54 (47) of the statutes is repealed.
AB68-SSA1,1468 20Section 1468. 77.54 (56) (a) of the statutes is repealed.
AB68-SSA1,1469 21Section 1469. 77.54 (56) (ad) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68-SSA1,739,722 77.54 (56) (ad) 1. The sales price from the sale of and the storage, use, or other
23consumption of a solar power system or wind energy system that produces usable
24electrical or heat energy directly from the sun or wind, if the system is capable of
25continuously producing at least 200 watts of alternating current or 600 British

1thermal units. A solar power system or wind energy system described under this
2subdivision includes tangible personal property sold with the system that is used
3primarily to store or facilitate the storage of the electrical or heat energy produced
4by the system, but does not include an uninterruptible power source that is designed
5primarily for computers. The exemption under this subdivision does not apply to
6tangible personal property designed for any use other than for a solar power system
7or wind energy system.
AB68-SSA1,739,188 2. The sales price from the sale of and the storage, use, or other consumption
9of a waste energy system that produces usable electrical or heat energy directly from
10gas generated from anaerobic digestion of animal manure and other agricultural
11waste if the system is capable of continuously producing at least 200 watts of
12alternating current or 600 British thermal units. A system described under this
13subdivision includes tangible personal property sold with the system that is used
14primarily to store or facilitate the storage of the electrical or heat energy produced
15by the system, but does not include an uninterruptible power source that is designed
16primarily for computers. The exemption under this subdivision does not apply to
17tangible personal property designed for any use other than for the waste energy
18system described in this subdivision.
AB68-SSA1,1470 19Section 1470. 77.54 (56) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB68-SSA1,739,2320 77.54 (56) (b) Except for the sale of electricity or energy that is exempt from
21taxation under sub. (30), beginning on July 1, 2011, the sales price from the sale of
22and the storage, use, or other consumption of electricity or heat energy produced by
23a product system described under par. (a) (ad).
AB68-SSA1,1471 24Section 1471. 77.54 (62) of the statutes is repealed.
AB68-SSA1,1472 25Section 1472. 77.54 (70) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68-SSA1,740,2
177.54 (70) The sales price from sale of and the storage, use, or other
2consumption of diapers for children and adults, including disposable diapers.
AB68-SSA1,1473 3Section 1473 . 77.54 (71) of the statutes is created to read:
AB68-SSA1,740,64 77.54 (71) The sales price from the sale of and the storage, use, or other
5consumption of usable marijuana, as defined in s. 139.97 (13), purchased by an
6individual who holds a valid certificate issued under s. 73.17 (4).