California § 6368.1. 6368.1. (Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 236, Sec. 4.)

California Statutes

§ 6368.1. — 6368.1. (Amended by Stats. 1991, Ch. 236, Sec. 4.)

California § 6368.1.

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Code RTCRevenue and Taxation Code - RTC

Div. 2.DIVISION 2. OTHER TAXES

Part 1.PART 1. SALES AND USE TAXES

Ch. 4.CHAPTER 4. Exemptions

Art. 1.ARTICLE 1. General Exemptions

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(a)There are exempted from the taxes imposed by this part, the gross receipts from the sale of and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of watercraft which are leased, or are sold to persons for the purpose of leasing, and any sales of tangible personal property becoming a component part of such watercraft in the course of constructing, repairing, cleaning, altering, or improving the same, and charges made for labor and services rendered in respect to such constructing, repairing, cleaning, altering, or improving, if any of the following conditions are met:

(1)The lessee uses the watercraft in interstate and foreign commerce involving the transportation of property or persons for hire.

(2)The watercraft is for use in commercial deep sea fishing operations outside t

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(a)
There are exempted from the taxes imposed by this part, the gross receipts from the sale of and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of watercraft which are leased, or are sold to persons for the purpose of leasing, and any sales of tangible personal property becoming a component part of such watercraft in the course of constructing, repairing, cleaning, altering, or improving the same, and charges made for labor and services rendered in respect to such constructing, repairing, cleaning, altering, or improving, if any of the following
conditions are met:
(1)
The lessee uses the watercraft in interstate and foreign commerce involving the transportation of property or persons for hire.
(2)
The watercraft is for use in commercial deep sea fishing operations outside the territorial waters of this state by persons who are regularly engaged in commercial deep sea fishing.
(3)
The lessee functionally uses the watercraft 80 percent or more of the time in the transporting for hire of property or persons to vessels or offshore drilling platforms located outside the territorial waters of this state.
(b)
For purposes of this section, it shall be rebuttably presumed that a person is not regularly engaged in the business of commercial deep sea fishing if the person has gross receipts from
commercial fishing operations of less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) a year.
(c)
For purposes of this section, it shall be rebuttably presumed that the watercraft is not regularly used in the business of transporting for hire property or persons, if the yearly gross receipts of the lessor from the lease of that watercraft to persons using that watercraft in the transportation of property or persons do not exceed 10 percent of the cost of that watercraft to the lessor, or twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), whichever is less.