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b. Trucks and truck tractors that have a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,001
15pounds or greater, trailers, semitrailers, and passenger buses, if such vehicles are
16registered under the international registration plan under s. 341.405 and operated
17under the authority of a carrier that is authorized by the federal government to carry
18persons or property in interstate commerce.
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c. Aircraft that is operated by air carriers that are authorized by the federal
20government or a foreign authority to carry persons or property in interstate or
21foreign commerce.
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d. Containers that are designed for use on the vehicles described in subd. 2. a.
23to c. and component parts attached to or secured on such vehicles.
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(b) Except as provided in par. (c) and subs. (2), (3), (4), and (5), the location of
25a sale is determined as follows:
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11. If a purchaser receives the product at a seller's business location, the sale
2is sourced to that business location.
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2. If a purchaser does not receive the product at a seller's business location, the
4sale is sourced to the location where the purchaser, or the purchaser's designated
5donee, receives the product, including the location indicated by the instructions
6known to the seller for delivery to the purchaser or the purchaser's designated donee.
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3. If the location of a sale of a product cannot be determined under subds. 1. and
82., the sale is sourced to the purchaser's address as indicated by the seller's business
9records, if the records are maintained in the ordinary course of the seller's business
10and if using that address to establish the location of a sale is not in bad faith.
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4. If the location of a sale of a product cannot be determined under subds. 1. to
123., the sale is sourced to the purchaser's address as obtained during the
13consummation of the sale, including the address indicated on the purchaser's
14payment instrument, if no other address is available and if using that address is not
15in bad faith.
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5. If the location of a sale of a product cannot be determined under subds. 1. to
174., including the circumstance in which the seller has insufficient information to
18determine the locations under subds. 1. to 4., the location of the sale is determined
19as follows:
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a. If the item sold is tangible personal property or an item or property under
21s. 77.52 (1) (b) or (c), the sale is sourced to the location from which the tangible
22personal property or item or property under s. 77.52 (1) (b) or (c) is shipped.
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b. If the item sold is a digital good or computer software delivered electronically,
24the sale is sourced to the location from which the computer software was first
1available for transmission by the seller, not including any location that merely
2provided the digital transfer of the product sold.
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c. If a service is sold, the sale is sourced to the location from which the service
4was provided.
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(c) The sale of direct mail is sourced to the location from which the direct mail
6is shipped, if the purchaser does not provide to the seller a direct pay permit, an
7exemption certificate claiming direct mail, or other information that indicates the
8appropriate taxing jurisdiction to which the direct mail is delivered to the ultimate
9recipients. If the purchaser provides an exemption certificate claiming direct mail
10or direct pay permit to the seller, the purchaser shall pay or remit, as appropriate,
11to the department the tax imposed under s. 77.53 on all purchases for which the tax
12is due and the seller is relieved from liability for collecting such tax. If the purchaser
13provides delivery information indicating the jurisdictions to which the direct mail is
14delivered to the recipients, the seller shall collect the tax according to the delivery
15information provided by the purchaser and, in the absence of bad faith, the seller
16shall be relieved of any further obligation to collect tax on any transaction for which
17the seller has collected tax pursuant to the delivery information provided by the
18purchaser. An exemption certificate claiming direct mail provided to a seller under
19this paragraph shall remain effective for all sales by the seller who received the
20exemption certificate to the purchaser who provided the exemption certificate,
21unless the purchaser revokes the exemption certificate in writing and provides such
22revocation to the seller.
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23(2) Digital goods. (a) If the location of a sale of the digital good under s. 77.52
24(1) (d) cannot be determined under sub. (1) (b), including the circumstance in which
25the seller has insufficient information to determine the location under sub. (1) (b),
1the sale is sourced to the location from which the digital good was first available for
2transmission by the seller, not including any location from which the digital good was
3merely transferred electronically.
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(b) The location of a license of a digital good under s. 77.52 (1) (d) is determined
5as follows:
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1. With regard to the first or only payment on the license of the digital good,
7the license is sourced to the location determined under par. (a).
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2. If the digital good is moved from the place where the digital good was initially
9delivered, the subsequent periodic payments on the license are sourced to the digital
10good's primary location as indicated by an address for the digital good that is
11provided by the licensee and that is available to the licensor in records that the
12licensor maintains in the ordinary course of the licensor's business, if the use of such
13an address does not constitute bad faith. The location of a license as determined
14under this paragraph shall not be altered by any intermittent use of the digital good
15at different locations.
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16(3) Lease or rental. (a) Except as provided in pars. (b) and (c), with regard
17to the first or only payment on the lease or rental, the lease or rental of tangible
18personal property or items, property, or goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), or (d) is
19sourced to the location determined under sub. (1) (b). If the property, item, or good
20is moved from the place where the property, item, or good was initially delivered, the
21subsequent periodic payments on the lease or rental are sourced to the property's,
22item's, or good's primary location as indicated by an address for the property, item,
23or good that is provided by the lessee and that is available to the lessor in records that
24the lessor maintains in the ordinary course of the lessor's business, if the use of such
25an address does not constitute bad faith. The location of a lease or rental as
1determined under this paragraph shall not be altered by any intermittent use of the
2property, item, or good at different locations.
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(b) The lease or rental of motor vehicles, trailers, semitrailers, and aircraft,
4that are not transportation equipment, is sourced to the primary location of such
5motor vehicles, trailers, semitrailers, or aircraft as indicated by an address for the
6property that is provided by the lessee and that is available to the lessor in records
7that the lessor maintains in the ordinary course of the lessor's business, if the use
8of such an address does not constitute bad faith, except that a lease or rental under
9this paragraph that requires only one payment is sourced to the location determined
10under sub. (1) (b). The location of a lease or rental as determined under this
11paragraph shall not be altered by any intermittent use of the property at different
12locations.
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(c) The lease or rental of transportation equipment is sourced to the location
14determined under sub. (1) (b).
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(d) A license of tangible personal property or items or property under s. 77.52
16(1) (b), or (c) shall be treated as a lease or rental of tangible personal property under
17this subsection.
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18(4) Telecommunications. (a) In this subsection:
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1. "Air-to-ground radiotelephone service" means a radio service in which
20common carriers are authorized to offer and provide radio telecommunications
21service for hire to subscribers in aircraft.
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2. "Call-by-call basis" means any method of charging for telecommunications
23services by which the price of such services is measured by individual calls.
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13. "Communications channel" means a physical or virtual path of
2communications over which signals are transmitted between or among customer
3channel termination points.
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4. "Customer" means a person who enters into a contract with a seller of
5telecommunications services or, in any transaction for which the end user is not the
6person who entered into a contract with the seller of telecommunications services,
7the end user of the telecommunications services. "Customer" does not include a
8person who resells telecommunications services or, for mobile telecommunications
9services, a serving carrier under an agreement to serve a customer outside the home
10service provider's licensed service area.
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5. "Customer channel termination point" means the location where a customer
12inputs or receives communications.
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6. "End user" means the person who uses a telecommunications service. In the
14case of an entity, "end user" means the individual who uses the telecommunications
15service on the entity's behalf.
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7. "Home service provider" means a home service provider under section 124
17(5) of P.L.
106-252.