Source: http://dccode.elaws.us/code?no=47-2201
Timestamp: 2019-11-12 23:23:51
Document Index: 602237180

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 47', '§ 1504', '§ 201', '§ 1306', '§ 205', '§ 306', '§ 108', '§ 201', '§ 302', '§ 404', '§ 217', '§ 5', '§ 4', '§ 112', '§ 47', '§ 204', '§ 105', '§ 14', '§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 2702', '§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 7114', '§ 47', '§ 47', '§ 112', '§ 3', '§ 2', '§ 2', '§ 2702', '§ 3', '§ 10', '§ 7114', '§ 7114', '§ 11702', '§ 14']

§ 47-2201. Definitions.
(a)(1) "Retail sale", "sale at retail", and "sold at retail" mean all sales in any quantity or quantities of tangible personal property, whether made within or without the District, and services, to any person for the purpose of use, storage, or consumption, within the District, taxable under the terms of this chapter. These terms shall mean all sales of tangible personal property to any person for any purpose other than those in which the purpose of the purchaser is to resell the property so transferred in the form in which the same is, or is to be, received by him, or to use or incorporate the property so transferred as a material or part of other tangible personal property to be produced for sale by manufacturing, assembling, processing, or refining. For the purpose of the tax imposed by this chapter, these terms shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following:
(i) For the purposes of this subparagraph, the term "real property maintenance" means any activity that keeps the land or the premises of a building clean, orderly, and functional, including the performance of minor adjustments, maintenance, or repairs, which include: floor, wall, and ceiling cleaning; pest control; window cleaning; servicing inground and in building swimming pools; exterior building cleaning; parking lot, garage, and recreation area maintenance; exterior and interior trash removal; restroom cleaning and stocking; lighting maintenance; chimney and duct cleaning; or ground maintenance; but does not include; painting; wallpapering, or other services performed as part of construction or major repairs; or services performed under an employee-employer relationship; and
(ii) For the purposes of this subparagraph, the term "landscaping" means the activity of arranging or modifying areas of land and natural scenery for an improved or aesthetic effect; the addition, removal, or arrangement of natural forms, features, and plantings; the addition, removal, or modification of retaining walls, ponds, sprinkler systems, or other landscape construction services; and other services provided by landscape designers or landscape architects such as consultation, research; preparation of general or specific design or detail plans, studies; specifications or supervision, or any other professional services or functions associated with landscaping;
(i) For the purposes of this subparagraph, the term "data processing service" means the processing of information for the compilation and production of records of transactions; the maintenance, input, and retrieval of information; the provision of direct access to computer equipment to process, examine, or acquire information stored in or accessible to the computer equipment; the specification of computer hardware configurations; the evaluation of technical processing characteristics, computer programming or software, provided in conjunction with and to support the sale, lease; operation, or application of computer equipment or systems; work processing; payroll and business accounting, computerized data and information storage and manipulation; the input of inventory control data for a company; the maintenance of records of employee work time; filing payroll tax returns; the preparation of W-2 forms; the computation and preparation of payroll checks; and any system or application programming or software. The term "data processing services" does not include a service provided by a member of an affiliated group of corporations to other corporate members of the group. Data processing services shall be exempt from use tax if the service is rendered by a member of the affiliated group of corporations, has not been purchased with a certificate of resale or exemption to the corporation providing the service, is rendered for the purpose of expense allocation; and is not for the profit of the corporation providing the service. For the purposes of this sub-subparagraph, the term "affiliated group" shall have the same meaning as defined in 26 U.S.C. § 1504(a); and
(ii) For the purposes of this subparagraph, the term "information service" means the furnishing of general or specialized news or current information, including financial information, by printed, mimeographed, electronic, or electrical transmission, or by wire, cable, radio waves, microwaves, satellite, fiber optics, or any other method in existence or which may be devised; electronic data retrieval or research, including newsletters, real estate listings, or financial, investment, circulation, credit, stock market, or bond rating reports; mailing lists; abstracts of title; news clipping services; wire services; scouting reports; surveys; bad check lists; and broadcast rating services; but does not include: information sold to a newspaper or a radio or television station licensed by the Federal Communication Commission, if the information is gathered or purchased for direct use in newspapers or radio or television broadcasts; charges to a person by a financial institution for account balance information; or information gathered or compiled on behalf of a particular client, if the information is of a proprietary nature to that client and may not be sold to others by the person who compiled the information, except for a subsequent sale of the information by the client for whom the information was gathered or compiled;
(ii) The sale of or charges for "900", "976", "915", and other "900"-type telecommunication services;
(2) The terms "retail sale," "sale at retail," and "sold at retail" shall not include the following:
(C) Sales of tangible personal property which property was purchased or acquired by a nonresident prior to coming into the District and establishing or maintaining a temporary or permanent residence in the District. As used in this subsection, the word "residence" means a place in which to reside and does not mean "domicile";
(i) For the purposes of this subparagraph, the term "Internet access service" means a service that enables users to access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the Internet and may also include access to proprietary content, information, and other services as part of a package of Internet access services offered to consumers.
(ii) "Internet access service" shall not include the sale of or charges for data processing and information services as defined in paragraph (1)(K)(i) and (ii) of this subsection that do not enable users to access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the Internet.
(iii) "Internet access service" shall not include telecommunication services as defined in paragraph (1)(M) of this subsection or Chapter 39 of this title.
(b) "Purchase" and "purchased" mean and include:
(c) "Purchaser" means any person who shall have purchased tangible personal property or services sold at retail.
(d) "In the District" and "within the District" mean within the exterior limits of the District of Columbia and include all territory within such limits owned by the United States of America.
(e) "Store" and "storage" mean any keeping or the retention of possession in the District for any purpose, other than for the purpose of subsequently transporting the property outside the District for use solely outside the District, of tangible personal property purchased at retail sale.
(f) "Use" means the exercise by any person within the District of any right or power over tangible personal property and services sold at retail, whether purchased within or without the District by a purchaser from a vendor.
(g) "Vendor" includes every person or retailer engaging in business in the District and making sales at retail as defined herein, whether for immediate or future delivery of the tangible personal property or performance of the services. When in the opinion of the Mayor it is necessary for the efficient administration of this chapter to regard any salesman, representative, peddler, or canvasser, as the agent of the dealer, distributor, supervisor, or employer, under whom he operates or from whom he obtains the tangible personal property sold or furnishes services, the Mayor may, in his discretion, treat and regard such agent as the vendor jointly responsible with his principal, employer, or supervisor, for the assessment and payment or collection of the tax imposed by this chapter.
(h) "Engaging in business in the District" includes the selling, delivering, or furnishing in the District, or any activity in the District in connection with the selling, delivering, or furnishing in the District, of tangible personal property or services sold at retail as defined herein. This term shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following acts or methods of transacting business:
(i) "Retailer" includes every person engaged in the business of making sales at retail.
(j) The definitions of "additional charges," "business," "District," "food or drink," "gross receipts," "Mayor," "net charges," "person," "purchaser's certificate," "retail establishment," "return," "room remarketer," "sale" and "selling," "sales price," "semipublic institution," "tangible personal property," "tax," "tax year," "taxpayer," and "transient" as defined in Chapter 20 of this title, are incorporated in and made applicable to this chapter.
(May 27, 1949, 63 Stat. 124, ch. 146, title II, §§ 201-211; May 18, 1954, 68 Stat. 118, ch. 218, title XIII, § 1306; Mar. 31, 1956, 70 Stat. 81, ch. 154, § 205; Aug. 2, 1968, 82 Stat. 615, Pub. L. 90-450, title III, § 306; Oct. 31, 1969, 83 Stat. 171, Pub. L. 91-106, title I, §§ 108, 109; Jan. 5, 1971, 84 Stat. 1932, Pub. L. 91-650, title II, § 201(c)(1); Oct. 21, 1975, D.C. Law 1-23, title III, § 302(1), (3)-(5), 22 DCR 2101-2103; June 15, 1976, D.C. Law 1-70, title IV, §§ 404, 405, 23 DCR 540; July 24, 1982, D.C. Law 4- 131, §§ 217, 218, 223, 29 DCR 2418; July 26, 1989, D.C. Law 8-17, § 5(a), 36 DCR 4160; May 4, 1990, D.C. Law 8-119, § 4, 37 DCR 1738; Sept. 30, 1993, D.C. Law 10-25, § 112(a)-(c), 40 DCR 5489; Feb. 5, 1994, D.C. Law 10-68, §§ 47, 50, 40 DCR 6311; Apr. 30, 1994, D.C. Law 10-115, § 204(a), 41 DCR 1216; June 14, 1994, D.C. Law 10-128, § 105(a), 41 DCR 2096; Mar. 21, 1995, D.C. Law 10-242, § 14(b), 42 DCR 86; enacted, Apr. 9, 1997, D.C. Law 11-254, § 2, 44 DCR 1575; Apr. 30, 1998, D.C. Law 12-100, § 2(d), 45 DCR 1533; Oct. 20, 1999, D.C. Law 13-38, § 2702(l), 46 DCR 6373; May 23, 2000, D.C. Law 13-118, § 2(a), 47 DCR 2002; Sept. 23, 2009, D.C. Law 18-48, § 2(b), 56 DCR 5482; Sept. 20, 2012, D.C. Law 19-168, § 7114, 59 DCR 8025.)
1981 Ed., § 47-2201.
1973 Ed., § 47-2701.
D.C. Law 13-118 in subsec. (e) substituted ", any purpose other than for the purpose of subsequently transporting the property outside the District for use solely outside the District," for "any purpose".
D.C. Law 18-48, in subsec. (a)(1)(B), deleted ", when made to any purchaser for purposes other than resale or for use in manufacturing, assembling, processing, or refining" following "steam".
D.C. Law 19-168 rewrote subsec. (j), which formerly read:
"(j) The definitions of 'business,' 'food or drink,' 'gross receipts,' 'person,' 'purchaser's certificate,' 'retail establishment,' 'return,' 'sale' and 'selling,' 'sales price,' 'semipublic institution,' 'tangible personal property,' 'tax,' 'tax year,' 'taxpayer,' 'Mayor,' and 'District,' as defined in Chapter 20 of this title, are hereby incorporated in and made applicable to this chapter."
For temporary (225 day) amendment of section, see § 112(a)-(c) of Omnibus Budget Support Temporary Act of 1993 (D.C. Law 10-11, August 6, 1993, law notification 40 DCR 6213).
For temporary (225 day) amendment of section, see § 3 of Sales and Use Tax on Newspapers Temporary Amendment Act of 1993 (D.C. Law 10-32, October 15, 1993, law notification 40 DCR 7475).
For temporary (225 day) prohibition of increase of certain taxes, see § 2 of Economic Recovery Conformity Temporary Act of 1996 (D.C. Law 11-216, April 9, 1998, law notification 44 DCR 2574).
Section 10 of D.C. Law 19-53 amended subsec. (a-1) to read as follows:
"(j) The definitions of 'additional charges,' 'business,' 'District,' 'food or drink,' 'gross receipts,' 'Mayor,' 'net charges,' 'person,' 'purchaser's certificate,' 'retail establishment,' 'return,' 'room remarketer,' 'sale' and 'selling,' 'sales price,' 'semipublic institution,' 'tangible personal property,' 'tax,' 'tax year,' 'taxpayer,' and 'transient' as defined in Chapter 20 of this title, are hereby incorporated in and made applicable to this chapter.".
For temporary prohibition, on an emergency basis, of the increase in the individual income tax, the sales and use tax, and real property tax rates contingent on the enactment of an act of Congress which would reduce the percentage of federal income tax applicable solely to residents of D.C. under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, see § 2 of the Economic Recovery Conformity Emergency Act of 1996 (D.C. Act 11-377, August 28, 1996, 43 DCR 4797).
For temporary (90-day) amendment of section, see § 2702(l) of the Service Improvement and Fiscal Year 2000 Budget Support Emergency Act of 1999 (D.C. Act 13-110, July 28, 1999, 46 DCR 6320).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 3 of Simplified Sales and Use Tax District of Columbia Participation Emergency Act of 2001 (D.C. Act 14- 168, November 19, 2001, 48 DCR 11026).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 10 of Revised Fiscal Year 2012 Budget Support Technical Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2011 (D.C. Act 19-157, October 4, 2011, 58 DCR 8688).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 7114 of Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Support Emergency Act of 2012 (D.C. Act 19-383, June 19, 2012, 59 DCR 7764).
For temporary (90 day) amendment of section, see § 7114 of Fiscal Year 2013 Budget Support Congressional Review Emergency Act of 2012 (D.C. Act 19-413, July 25, 2012, 59 DCR 9290).
Law 13-118, the "Compensating-Use Tax Act of 2000," was introduced in Council and assigned Bill No. 13-363, which was referred to the Committee on Finance and Revenue. The Bill was adopted on first and second readings on January 4, 2000, and February 1, 2000, respectively. Signed by the Mayor on February 18, 2000, it was assigned Act No. 13-271 and transmitted to both Houses of Congress for its review. D.C. Law 13-118 became effective on May 23, 2000.
Repeal of D.C. Law 10-242 inapplicable to this section: Section 11702(b) of title XI of Pub. L. 105-33, 111 Stat. 781, the National Capital Revitalization and Self-Government Improvement Act of 1997, provided that § 11702(a), which repealed the Clean Air Compliance Fee Act of 1994, D.C. Law 10-242, shall not apply to § 14 of Law 10-242.