Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 26 - TAXATION (§§ 26-1-101 — 26-82-119) › Subtitle 5 - STATE TAXES (§§ 26-50-101 — 26-65-108) › Chapter 53 - COMPENSATING OR USE TAXES (§§ 26-53-101 — 26-53-303) › Subchapter 1 - ARKANSAS COMPENSATING TAX ACT OF 1949 (§§ 26-53-101 — 26-53-150) › Section 26-53-106 - Imposition and rate of tax generally - Presumptions

(a)
There is levied and there shall be collected from every person in this state a tax or excise for the privilege of storing, using, distributing, or consuming within this state tangible personal property, specified digital products, a digital code, or a taxable service purchased for storage, use, distribution, or consumption in this state at the rate of three percent (3%) of the sales price of the tangible personal property, specified digital products, digital code, or taxable service except for food and food ingredients that are taxed under §
26-53-145
and except for used motor vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers that are taxed under §
26-53-150
.
(b)
This tax does not apply with respect to the storage, use, distribution, or consumption of tangible personal property, specified digital products, or a digital code purchased, produced, or manufactured outside this state until the transportation of the tangible personal property, specified digital products, or digital code has finally come to rest within this state or until the tangible personal property, specified digital products, or digital code has become commingled with the general mass of property of this state.
(c)
This tax applies to use, storage, distribution, or consumption of tangible personal property, specified digital products, a digital code, or taxable service except as provided in this subchapter irrespective of whether the tangible personal property, similar articles of tangible personal property, specified digital products, digital code, or the taxable service is manufactured within the State of Arkansas, is available for purchase within the State of Arkansas, or any other condition.
(d)
(1)
(A)
For the purpose of the proper administration of this subchapter and to prevent evasion of the tax and the duty to collect the tax imposed in this section, it is presumed that tangible personal property, specified digital products, a digital code, or taxable services sold by any vendor for delivery in this state or transportation to this state are sold for storage, use, distribution, or consumption in this state unless the vendor selling the tangible personal property, specified digital products, digital code, or taxable service has taken from the purchaser a resale certificate signed by and bearing the name, address, and sales tax permit number of the purchaser certifying that the property or taxable service was purchased for resale, except that sales made electronically shall not require the purchaser's signature.
(B)
The use by the purchaser of a resale certificate and any resulting liability for, or exemption from, use tax in a transaction involving a resale certificate shall be governed in all respects by the terms of §
26-52-517
.
(2)
It is further presumed that tangible personal property, specified digital products, a digital code, or taxable services shipped, mailed, expressed, transported, or brought to this state by the purchaser were purchased from a vendor for storage, use, distribution, or consumption in this state.
Amended by Act 2021, No. 1013,§ 5, eff. 1/1/2022.
Amended by Act 2017, No. 141,§ 48, eff. for tax years beginning on and after 1/1/2018.
Acts 1949, No. 487, §§ 5, 10; 1957, No. 19, § 2; 1959, No. 260, § 2; 1975 (Extended Sess., 1976), No. 1237, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 84-3105, 84-3110; reen. Acts 1987, No. 772, § 1; Acts 1989, No. 817, § 1; 1995, No. 358, § 2; 2003, No. 1273, §§ 13-16; 2007, No. 110, § 5; 2009, No. 655, §§ 29, 30.