Tax 11.96Tax 11.96 Delivery of ordinance or resolution; county, stadium, and premier resort area tax. Tax 11.96(1)(1) Purpose. This section clarifies requirements for the timely delivery of county and stadium sales and use tax and premier resort area tax ordinances or resolutions to the secretary of revenue. Tax 11.96(2)(a)(a) Adoption of county tax ordinance. Any Wisconsin county may impose county sales and use taxes by adopting an ordinance. Under s. 77.70, Stats., a certified copy of that ordinance shall be delivered to the secretary of revenue at least 120 days prior to its effective date. The effective date of the ordinance may only be on the first day of January, the first day of April, the first day of July, or the first day of October. Tax 11.96(2)(b)(b) Repeal of county tax ordinance. Under s. 77.70, Stats., a county described in par. (a) may repeal a county sales and use tax by delivering a certified copy of the repeal ordinance to the secretary of revenue at least 120 days before the effective date of the repeal. The effective date of the repeal may only be December 31. Tax 11.96 NoteNote: An ordinance to adopt or repeal a county sales and use tax or a premier resort area tax should be mailed to Wisconsin Department of Revenue, Office of the Secretary, Mail Stop 624A, PO Box 8933, Madison WI 53708-8933 or delivered to 2135 Rimrock Road, Madison, Wisconsin.
Tax 11.96(2)(c)(c) Adoption of premier resort area tax ordinance. Any Wisconsin municipality or county wholly within a premier resort area under s. 66.1113, Stats., may impose a premier resort area tax, by adopting an ordinance. Under s. 77.9941 (1), Stats., a certified copy of that ordinance shall be delivered to the secretary of revenue at least 120 days prior to its effective date. The effective date of the ordinance may only be on the first day of January, the first day of April, the first day of July, or the first day of October. Tax 11.96(2)(d)(d) Repeal of premier resort area tax ordinance. Under s. 77.9941 (3), Stats., a county or municipality described in par. (c) may repeal a premier resort area tax by delivering a certified copy of the repeal ordinance to the secretary of revenue at least 60 days before the effective date of the repeal. The effective date of the repeal may only be December 31. Tax 11.96(2)(e)(e) Adoption of stadium tax resolution. A baseball park district created under subch. III of ch. 229, Stats., or a football stadium district created under subch. IV of ch. 229, Stats., may impose a stadium district sales and use tax, by adopting a resolution. Under ss. 229.68 (15) and 229.824 (15), Stats., a certified copy of that resolution shall be delivered to the secretary of revenue at least 120 days prior to its effective date. The effective date of the ordinance may only be on the first day of January, the first day of April, the first day of July, or the first day of October. Tax 11.96(2)(f)(f) Repeal of stadium tax resolution. A baseball park district and a football stadium district described in par. (e) may repeal a baseball or football stadium district tax by delivering a certified copy of the repeal resolution to the secretary of revenue at least 120 days before the effective date of the repeal. The effective date of the repeal may only be on the first day of January, the first day of April, the first day of July, or the first day of October. Tax 11.96(3)(3) Delivery of ordinance or resolution. An ordinance or resolution referred to in s. 77.70, 77.9941 (1) or (3), 229.68 (15), or 229.824 (15), Stats., is timely delivered to the secretary of revenue if, by the prescribed number of days before the effective date, any of the following occur: Tax 11.96(3)(a)(a) The ordinance or resolution is hand delivered to and received by the secretary of revenue. Tax 11.96(3)(b)(b) The ordinance or resolution is mailed in a properly addressed envelope with the postage duly prepaid, if the envelope is postmarked before midnight and the ordinance or resolution is received by the secretary of revenue within 5 days after the prescribed date. Tax 11.96(3)(c)(c) The ordinance or resolution is delivered by a carrier other than the U.S. postal service and the ordinance is received by the secretary of revenue. Tax 11.96 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, April, 2000, No. 532, eff. 5-1-00; correction in (2) (a) made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 7., Stats., Register July 2002 No. 559; EmR0924: emerg. am. (title) and (1) to (3), cr. (2) (c) to (h), eff. 10-1-09; CR 09-090: am. (title) and (1) to (3), cr. (2) (c) to (h) Register May 2010 No. 653, eff. 6-1-10; CR 12-014: am. (title), (1), r. (2) (g), (h), am. (3) (intro.) Register August 2012 No. 680, eff. 9-1-12. Tax 11.98Tax 11.98 Reduction of delinquent interest rate under s. 77.62, Stats. Tax 11.98(1)(1) Procedures. The secretary may reduce the delinquent interest rate from 18% to 12% per year effective for all determinations, assessments, or other actions for additional tax made by the department on or after August 1, 1981, when the secretary determines the reduction fair and equitable, if the person from whom delinquent taxes are owing: Tax 11.98(1)(a)(a) Requests the reduction in writing, addressed to the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, Delinquent Tax Collection System, P.O. Box 8901, Madison, WI 53708. Tax 11.98(1)(b)(b) Clearly indicates why it is fair and equitable for the rate of interest to be reduced. Information regarding one or more of the factors under sub. (2) may be indicated. Tax 11.98(1)(c)(c) Is current in all return and report filings and tax payments for all matters other than the delinquencies for which interest reduction is being sought. Tax 11.98(1)(d)(d) Pays the sales and use taxes, reduced amount of interest, and any penalties associated with them within 30 days of receiving notice from the department of the reduction. Tax 11.98(2)(2) Factors for secretary’s consideration. In determining whether an interest rate reduction is fair and equitable, the secretary may consider the following factors: Tax 11.98(2)(a)(a) The taxpayer’s prior record of reporting and payment to the department. Tax 11.98(2)(c)(c) If the taxpayer is a natural person, any circumstances which may have prevented payment such as death, imprisonment, hospitalization, or other institutionalization. Tax 11.98(2)(d)(d) Any unusual circumstances which may have caused the taxpayer to incur the delinquency or prevent its payment. Tax 11.98(2)(e)(e) Any other factor which the secretary believes pertinent. Tax 11.98(3)(3) Determination not appealable. The secretary’s determination under this section is not appealable. Tax 11.98 NoteNote: The interpretations in s. Tax 11.98 are effective under the general sales and use tax law on and after September 1, 1969, except that the secretary could reduce the delinquent interest rate from 18% to 9% for determinations made prior to August 1, 1981. Tax 11.98 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, February, 1979, No. 278, eff. 3-1-79; am. (1) (intro.), Register, June, 1983, No. 330, eff. 7-1-83; EmR0924: emerg. am. (1) (intro.), (d), (2) (c) and (3), eff. 10-1-09; CR 09-090: am. (1) (intro.), (d), (2) (c) and (3) Register May 2010 No. 653, eff. 6-1-10. Tax 11.985(1)(a)1.1. “Bundled transaction” means the retail sale of 2 or more products, not including real property and services to real property, if the products are distinct and identifiable products and sold for one nonitemized price. Tax 11.985(1)(a)2.a.a. The sale of any products for which the sales price varies or is negotiable based on the purchaser’s selection of the products included in the transaction. Tax 11.985 NoteExample: Retailer A enters into a contract with Customer B to provide various information technology services. Customer B selects the information technology services it wants from Retailer A. Through negotiation, Retailer A and Customer B agree on a price based on the services selected and Retailer A bills Customer B one nonitemized price for all of the services. Since the price was based on the products selected by Customer B, the transaction is not a bundled transaction.
Tax 11.985(1)(a)2.b.b. The retail sale of tangible personal property and a service, if the tangible personal property is essential to the use of the service, and provided exclusively in connection with the service, and if the true object of the transaction is the service. The Wisconsin sales and use tax treatment of this transaction would follow the tax treatment of the service provided. Tax 11.985(1)(a)2.c.c. The retail sale of a service and items, property, or goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), or (d), Stats., if such items, property, or goods are essential to the use of the service, and provided exclusively in connection with the service, and if the true object of the transaction is the service. The Wisconsin sales and use tax treatment of this transaction would follow the tax treatment of the service provided. Tax 11.985(1)(a)2.d.d. The retail sale of services, if one of the services is essential to the use or receipt of a second service, and provided exclusively in connection with the second service, and if the true object of the transaction is the second service. The Wisconsin sales and use tax treatment of this transaction would follow the tax treatment of the second service. Tax 11.985(1)(a)2.e.e. A transaction that includes taxable and nontaxable products, if the seller’s purchase price or the sales price of the taxable products is no greater than 10 percent of the seller’s total purchase price or sales price of all the bundled products, as determined by the seller using either the seller’s purchase price or sales price, but not a combination of both, or, in the case of a service contract, the full term of the service contract. Tax 11.985(1)(a)2.f.f. The retail sale of taxable tangible personal property, or items, property, or goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), or (d), Stats., and tangible personal property, or items, property, or goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), or (d), Stats., that is exempt from the taxes imposed under this subchapter, if the transaction includes food and food ingredients, drugs, durable medical equipment, mobility-enhancing equipment, prosthetic devices, or medical supplies and if the seller’s purchase price or the sales price of the taxable tangible personal property, or items, property, or goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), or (d), Stats., is no greater than 50 percent of the seller’s total purchase price or sales price of all the tangible personal property, or items, property, or goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), or (d), Stats., included in what would otherwise be a bundled transaction, as determined by the seller using either the seller’s purchase price or the sales price, but not a combination of both. Tax 11.985(1)(b)(b) “Distinct and identifiable product” does not include any of the following: Tax 11.985(1)(b)1.a.a. Packaging, including containers, boxes, sacks, bags, bottles, and envelopes; and other materials, including wrapping, labels, tags, and instruction guides; that accompany, and are incidental or immaterial to, the retail sale of any product. Tax 11.985(1)(b)1.b.b. Packaging that is incidental or immaterial to the retail sale of a product includes grocery sacks, shoeboxes, dry cleaning garment bags, and express delivery envelopes and boxes. Tax 11.985(1)(b)2.a.a. A product that is provided free of charge to the consumer in conjunction with the required purchase of another product, if the sales price of the other product does not vary depending on whether the product provided free of charge is included in the transaction. Tax 11.985(1)(b)2.b.b. Products that are provided free of charge include a free car wash provided by a gas station with the purchase of 15 or more gallons of gas, a free place setting of dinnerware provided by a grocery store with the purchase $50 or more in groceries, and a free cap provided by an auto parts store with the purchase of a case of motor oil. Tax 11.985(1)(b)3.b.b. Items that are specified in the definition of “purchase price” and “sales price” include the cost of the property sold, the cost of materials used, labor or service cost, interest, losses, all costs of transportation to the seller, all taxes imposed on the seller, charges by the seller for any services necessary to complete the sale, delivery charges, and installation charges. Tax 11.985(1)(c)1.a.a. A price that is separately identified by product on a binding sales document, or other sales-related document, that is made available to the customer in paper or electronic form, including an invoice, a bill of sale, a receipt, a contract, a service agreement, a lease agreement, a periodic notice of rates and services, a rate card, or a price list. Tax 11.985(1)(c)1.b.b. A price for which the sales price varies or is negotiable based on the purchaser’s selection of the products included in the transaction even if the seller only provides one price on its invoice to the purchaser. Tax 11.985 NoteExample: Retailer C enters into a contract with Customer D to provide various information technology services. Customer D selects the information technology services it wants from Retailer C. Through negotiation, Retailer C and Customer D agree on a price based on the services selected and Retailer C bills Customer D one price for all of the services, some of which are taxable and some of which are not taxable. Although the invoice from Retailer C to Customer D only contains one price for all of the services, since the price was based on the products selected by Customer D, the price is not “one nonitemized price.”
Tax 11.985(1)(c)1.c.c. A single price that is equal to the total of the individually priced or itemized products contained in the supporting sales related documentation such as a catalog, price list, or service agreement. Tax 11.985(1)(c)2.2. If a transaction includes a bundle of products that are sold for one nonitemized price and also one or more additional products that were individually priced or itemized from the bundled products in a catalog or price list, but the invoice provided to the purchaser only included one price, the additional products that were individually priced in the catalog or price list are not part of the bundled transaction. Tax 11.985(1)(c)3.3. If the products in a transaction are not sold for one nonitemized price as provided in subds. 1. and 2., and the total sales price of the transaction is further discounted, without itemizing the discount for each product, this will not cause the transaction to now be characterized as a bundled transaction. Unless sales related documentation or information is provided to show the allocation of the discount, the discount is to be allocated pro rata among the otherwise separately itemized products. Tax 11.985(1)(d)(d) “Product” includes tangible personal property, and items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., and services. For purposes of this rule, “product” does not include real property or services to real property. Tax 11.985(2)(a)(a) Except as provided in par. (b), the entire sales price of a bundled transaction is subject to Wisconsin sales or use tax. Tax 11.985(2)(b)1.1. At the retailer’s option, if the retailer can identify, by reasonable and verifiable standards from the retailer’s books and records that are kept in the ordinary course of its business for other purposes, including purposes unrelated to taxes, the portion of the price that is attributable to products that are not subject to the tax imposed under this subchapter, that portion of the sales price is not taxable. Tax 11.985(2)(b)2.2. The option provided to the retailer under subd. 1. does not apply to a bundled transaction that contains food and food ingredients as defined in s. 77.51 (3t), Stats., drugs as defined in s. 77.51 (3pj), Stats., durable medical equipment as defined in s. 77.51 (3pm), Stats., mobility-enhancing equipment as defined in s. 77.51 (7m), Stats., prosthetic devices as defined in s. 77.51 (11m), Stats., or medical supplies. Tax 11.985(3)(3) Nontaxable receipts. The receipts from the following types of transactions are not subject to Wisconsin sales or use tax. Although these transactions would generally be thought of as being bundled transactions, since they meet certain specific conditions, they are excluded from the definition of a bundled transaction. Tax 11.985(3)(a)(a) The sales price received from sales of taxable products sold in what would be a bundled transaction, except that the sales price of the taxable products in the transaction are 10 percent or less of the seller’s total sales price of all of the products in the transaction or the seller’s total purchase price of the taxable products in the transaction are 10 percent or less of the seller’s total purchase price of all of the products in the transaction. However, the first person combining the products shall pay the Wisconsin sales or use tax on their purchase price of the taxable items. Tax 11.985(3)(b)(b) If the transaction includes food and food ingredients as defined in s. 77.51 (3t), Stats., drugs as defined in s. 77.51 (3pj), Stats., durable medical equipment as defined in s. 77.51 (3pm), Stats., mobility-enhancing equipment as defined in s. 77.51 (7m), Stats., prosthetic devices as defined in s. 77.51 (11m), Stats., or medical supplies, the sales price received from sales of taxable products sold in what would be a bundled transaction, except that the sales price of the taxable products in the transaction are 50 percent or less of the seller’s total sales price of all of the products in the transaction or the seller’s total purchase price of the taxable products in the transaction are 50 percent or less of the seller’s total purchase price of all of the products in the transaction. This paragraph does not apply if one or more of the products in the transaction is a service. Tax 11.985 NoteNote: Section Tax 11.985 interprets ss. 77.51 (1f), (3pf), and (9p), 77.52 (1), (2), (20), (21), (22), and (23), and 77.54 (51) and (52), Stats. Tax 11.985 HistoryHistory: EmR0924: emerg. cr. eff. 10-1-09; CR 09-090: cr. Register May 2010 No. 653, eff. 6-1-10; CR 10-094: am. (1) (c) 3. Register November 2010 No. 659, eff. 12-1-10; CR 20-018: am. (3) (b) Register July 2021 No. 787, eff. 8-1-21.
