§ 54:32B-15 — Certificate of registration; streamlined methods.

15. (a) On or before June 20, 1966, or in the case of persons commencing business or opening new places of business after such date, within three days after such commencement or opening, every person required to collect any tax imposed by this act and every person purchasing tangible personal property or a specified digital product for resale shall file with the director a certificate of registration in a form prescribed by the director. In the case of a person commencing business or opening a new place of business on or after the first day of the third month following the enactment of P.L.1993, c.274 (C.40:52-1.3 et al.), the certificate shall be filed at least 15 business days before the commencement or opening. The director shall within five days after such registration issue, without charge, to each registrant a certificate of authority empowering the registrant to collect the tax and a duplicate thereof for each additional place of business of such registrant. Each certificate or duplicate shall state the place of business to which it is applicable. Such certificate of authority shall be prominently displayed in the place of business of the registrant. A registrant who has no regular place of doing business shall attach such certificate to his cart, stand, truck or other merchandising device. Such certificates shall be nonassignable and nontransferable and shall be surrendered to the director immediately upon the registrant's ceasing to do business at the place named. (b) Any person who is not otherwise required to collect any tax imposed by this act and who makes sales to persons within the State of tangible personal property, specified digital products or services, the use of which is subject to tax under this act, may if he so elects file a certificate of registration with the director who may, in his discretion and subject to such conditions as he may impose, issue to him a certificate of authority to collect the compensating use tax imposed by this act. (c) A seller that registers to pay or collect and remit sales or use tax in accordance with the terms of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement may select one of the following methods of remittance or other method allowed by State law to remit the taxes collected, subject to the liabilities and conditions established pursuant to section 10 of P.L.2001, c.431 (C.54:32B-53): (1) a model 1 seller, that selects a certified service provider as an agent to perform all the seller's sales or use tax functions, other than the seller's obligation to remit tax on its own purchases; (2) a model 2 seller, that selects a certified automated system to use which calculates the amount of tax due on a transaction; or (3) a model 3 seller, that uses its own proprietary automated sales tax system that has been certified as a certified automated system. (d) A certified service provider in model 1 shall be allowed a monetary allowance in accordance with the terms of the contract that the states participating in the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement sign with the provider. The director shall prescribe the allowance in accordance with the terms of the contract, which shall be funded entirely from money collected in model 1. A monetary allowance to a certified service provider may be based on one or more of the following incentives: (1) A base rate that applies to taxable transactions processed by the provider. (2) For a period not to exceed 24 months following a voluntary seller's registration through the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement's central registration process, a percentage of tax revenue generated for a member state by the voluntary seller for each member state for which the seller does not have a requirement to register to collect the tax. (e) A model 2 seller shall be allowed a monetary allowance which the director shall prescribe in accordance with the terms arrived at by the member states of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement. The member states initially anticipate that they will provide a monetary allowance to sellers under model 2 based on the following: (1) Each seller shall receive a base rate for a period not to exceed 24 months following the commencement of participation by the seller. (2) For a period not to exceed 24 months following a voluntary seller's registration through the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement's central registration process, a percentage of tax revenue generated for a member state by the voluntary seller for each member state for which the seller does not have a requirement to register to collect the tax. (f) A model 3 seller and all other sellers that are not under model 1 or model 2 shall be allowed a monetary allowance which the director shall prescribe in accordance with the terms arrived at by the member states of the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement. The member states initially anticipate that they will provide a monetary allowance to sellers under model 3 and to all other sellers that are not under model 1 or 2 will be based on the following: for a period not to exceed 24 months following a voluntary seller's registration through the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement's central registration process, a percentage of tax revenue generated for a member state by the voluntary seller for each member state for which the seller does not have a requirement to register to collect the tax. L.1966, c.30, s.15; amended 1989, c.123, s.8; 1993, c.274, s.1; 2005, c.126, s.23; 2006, c.44, s.15; 2011, c.49, s.13.