Do
I qualify for
a state sales tax exemption and refund
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Below you will find a sample of the requirements from the different
Departments of Revenue. They vary state to state and this is
a small example of what each one separately specifies as a must..
There are many factors in determining
if your business qualifies for a State Sales Tax Exemption and
a refund on your electric and natural gas services.
Your facility must be making
a physical or chemical change to tangible personal property
for sale, or assembling or fabricating products for sale. Contact
us for further details. If you are growing agriculture then
the electricity and/or gas used to grow or change your product,
including the watering system and any type of ripening room,
is exempt.
Anything pumped, mined or otherwise
extracted from the Earth qualifies for exemption. For example,
if you use electricity to pump well water to wet your crops
or to drill for oil then your usage qualifies to be audited
to show where the use is. The different states say that, that
sort of use is exemptable. Another example is if a golf club
pumped water from a creek to water their greens, that energy
used to pump the water is exemptable. The energy used at the
clubhouse is not exemptable. If the sprinkler pump is separately
metered, that meter can be exempted by law as an agricultural
process. If it is tied to a meter that has other use on it,
a Predominant Use Study can be done as long as you believe it
is using more than 50% of the energy to pull something from
the Earth.
It can not be a business that
sells product for immediate consumption. This means all restaurants
still have to pay the state sales tax. Some restaurants may
still qualify if they sell in bulk to other retailers for sale.
Contact for more details. One
example would be Crispy Cream Donuts. They manufacture a large
amount that is sold to grocers and other vendors. Those facilities
would qualify based on percentages of sold on site as opposed
to sold in bulk for resale. We are experienced in issues like
these and are still able to expedite the process with the correct
procedures.
In some states the square footage
of the production areas has to be a certain percent larger than
office, shipping and storage areas. There are other areas that
fill in small percentages of the facility.
You can be a "rebuild
shop" as long as the rebuilt equipment is bought by your
company and sold as re-manufactured equipment. For instance,
you can rebuild motors and transmissions as long as you sell
them to new clients as rebuilt merchandise. You can not offer
a service to rebuild a motor and return it to the same person.
We are highly trained in each
of the states that have state sales tax exemption laws for manufacturers,
fabricators and processors. The specifics differ from state
to state. We are always training our people and we always
have a state specific review before we visit your location.
Contact
one of our energy management consultants for a free assessment
of your situation in your state.
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