Tax 11.45 NoteNote: The interpretations in s. Tax 11.45 are effective under the general sales and use tax law, on and after September 1, 1969, except: (a) Charges for oxygen equipment became exempt September 1, 1983, pursuant to 1983 Wis. Act 27; (b) Charges for motorized wheelchairs and scooters became exempt September 1, 1985, pursuant to 1985 Wis. Act 29; (c) Charges for apparatus or equipment for the injection of insulin or the treatment of diabetes and supplies used to determine blood sugar level became exempt March 1, 1989, pursuant to 1987 Wis. Act 399; (d) Charges for antiembolism elastic hose and stockings prescribed by a physician became exempt October 1, 1989, pursuant to 1989 Wis. Act 31; (e) Sales of parts and accessories for certain medical items became exempt effective August 15, 1991, pursuant to 1991 Wis. Act 39; (f) The definitions of “drug,” “durable medical equipment,” “mobility-enhancing equipment,” and “prosthetic devices” and the exemptions for these items became effective October 1, 2009, pursuant to 2009 Wis. Act 2; (g) The change of the term “gross receipts” to “sales price” and the separate impositions of tax on coins and stamps sold above face value under s. 77.52 (1) (b), Stats., certain leased property affixed to real property under s. 77.52 (1) (c), Stats., and digital goods under s. 77.52 (1) (d), Stats., became effective October 1, 2009, pursuant to 2009 Wis. Act 2; and (h) The clarification that a “prosthetic device” must be a replacement, corrective, or supportive device became effective July 2, 2013, pursuant to 2013 Wis. Act 20. Tax 11.45 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, October, 1976, No. 250, eff. 11-1-76; r. (2) (c) 5., am. (3) (intro.) and (e), Register, September, 1984, No. 345, eff. 10-1-84; am. (3) (d), Register, July, 1987, No. 379, eff. 8-1-87; am. (3) (a) and (b) and (4), cr. (3) (c), renum. (3) (c) to (3) (d), renum. (3) (d) to (3) (e), renum. (3) (e) to (3) (f) and (g) and am., renum. (3) (f) to (3) (h), Register, March, 1991, No. 423, eff. 4-1-91; am. (1), (2) (a), (b) (intro.), (c) (intro.), (3) (intro.) to (e) and (4), r. and recr. (3) (h), Register, May, 1993, No. 449, eff. 6-1-93; EmR0924: emerg. r. and recr. eff. 10-1-09; CR 09-090: r. and recr. Register May 2010 No. 653, eff. 6-1-10; CR 14-006: am. (3) (a) Register August 2014 No. 704, eff. 9-1-14; CR 19-122: am. (4) (b) 3. Register July 2020 No. 775, eff. 8-1-20. Tax 11.46(1)(a)(a) “Agency camps” means camps operated by corporations or associations organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, or educational purposes when no part of the net earnings inure to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. Tax 11.46 NoteExample: The YMCA and Boy Scouts of America are agency camps.
Tax 11.46(1)(b)(b) “Private camps” means all other camps including those camps organized and operated with the expectation of profit, whether or not profit is actually realized. Tax 11.46(2)(2) Taxable receipts. Receipts from the following are taxable, except as provided in sub. (4) or (5): Tax 11.46(2)(a)(a) Prepared foods, as defined in s. 77.51 (10m), Stats., soft drinks, as defined in s. 77.51 (17w), Stats., candy, as defined in s. 77.51 (1fm), Stats., dietary supplements, as defined in s. 77.51 (3n), Stats., and other tangible personal property and items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., sold by agency camps or private camps. Tax 11.46(2)(b)(b) Lodging provided by private camps for a continuous period of less than one month. Tax 11.46(3)(3) Exempt receipts. Receipts from the following are exempt, except as provided in sub. (5): Tax 11.46(3)(b)(b) Lodging provided by private camps for a continuous period of one month or more. Tax 11.46(3)(c)(c) Food and food ingredients, as defined in s. 77.51 (3t), Stats., excluding candy, soft drinks, dietary supplements, and prepared foods. Tax 11.46(4)(a)(a) The sales price from the sale of tangible personal property, items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c) and (d), Stats., or taxable services by agency camps not engaged in a trade or business and not otherwise required to hold a seller’s permit are exempt from Wisconsin sales tax if entertainment, as defined in s. 77.54 (7m), Stats., is not provided. Tax 11.46(4)(b)(b) An agency camp is not engaged in a trade or business if its sales of otherwise taxable tangible personal property, items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., or services or its events occur on 75 days or less during the calendar year or if its taxable receipts for the calendar year are $50,000 or less. Tax 11.46 NoteNote: See Wisconsin publication 206, sales tax exemption for nonprofit organizations, for more detailed information about when one is engaged in a trade or business or required to hold a seller’s permit.
Tax 11.46(5)(a)(a) A summer camp’s charge for meals, lodging, and program access for one nonitemized price is not subject to tax. The exemption in s. 77.54 (51), Stats., applies. Tax 11.46(5)(b)(b) It is presumed that the price for the lodging, meals, and other taxable products provided by the summer camp is 10 percent or less of the total price of all the products in the transaction. It is also presumed that true object of the transaction is not just one of the items provided. Therefore, the transaction is not a bundled transaction as defined in s. 77.51 (1f), Stats. Tax 11.46 NoteNote: See s. Tax 11.985 for more information on bundled transactions. Tax 11.46(5)(c)(c) Summer camps are the consumers of tangible personal property, items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., and taxable services provided as part of the combined charge. As consumers, summer camps are subject to Wisconsin sales or use tax on their purchases of tangible personal property, items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., or taxable services. Tax 11.46 NoteExample: Summer Camp A provides a 4-week long summer program. The camp costs each participant $4,000. The $4,000 charge is one nonitemized price that includes all camp activities, lessons, meals, lodging, and a tee shirt. The taxable products included in the transaction are the lodging services, the meals, and the tee shirt. Summer Camp A may presume that the taxable products included in the transaction are less than 10 percent of the total sales price or purchase price of all the products included in the transaction and therefore the transaction is not a bundled transaction. Summer Camp A’s $4,000 charge is not subject to Wisconsin sales or use tax, but Summer Camp A is the consumer of the items it purchases and uses or provides to each person attending the camp and is required to pay Wisconsin sales or use tax on its purchases of these items.
Tax 11.46 NoteNote: Section Tax 11.46 interprets ss. 77.51 (1f), (1fm), (3n), (3t), (10m), and (17w), 77.52 (1), (2) (a) 1., and (20), and 77.54 (7m) and (51), Stats. Tax 11.46 NoteNote: The interpretations in s. Tax 11.46 are effective under the general sales and use tax law on and after September 1, 1969, except: (a) The provisions of sub. (4) became effective January 1, 1989, pursuant to 1987 Wis. Act 399; (b) The amount shown in sub. (5) (b) became effective January 1, 1991. From September 15, 1970 to December 31, 1990, the rate was $3 per person per night and prior to September 15, 1970, the rate was $2 per person per night; (c) The $25,000 receipts standard became effective January 1, 2006, pursuant to 2005 Act 25; and (d) The definitions of “bundled transactions,” “candy,” “dietary supplements,” “prepared food,” and “soft drinks” and the change of the term “gross receipts” to “sales price” and the separate impositions of tax on coins and stamps sold above face value under s. 77.52 (1) (b), Stats., certain leased property affixed to real property under s. 77.52 (1) (c), Stats., and digital goods under s. 77.52 (1) (d), Stats., became effective October 1, 2009, pursuant to 2009 Wis. Act 2. Tax 11.46 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, September, 1977, No. 261, eff. 10-1-77; am. (1) (intro.) and (a) and (2) (intro), cr. (4), renum. (4) to be (5) and am., Register, June, 1991, No. 426, eff. 7-1-91; r. and recr. (3) (c) and am. (5) (intro.), Register, December, 1996, No. 492, eff. 1-1-97; EmR0924: emerg. am. (2) (a), (3) (c) and (4), r. and recr. (5, eff. 10-1-09; CR 09-090: am. (2) (a), (3) (c) and (4), r. and recr. (5) Register May 2010 No. 653, eff. 6-1-10; CR 10-094: am. (1) (a), (2) (intro.), (3) (intro.), cr. (2) (c), r. and recr. (5) Register November 2010 No. 659, eff. 12-1-10; CR 20-027: am. (4) (b) Register July 2021 No. 787, eff. 8-1-21. Tax 11.47Tax 11.47 Commercial photographers and photographic services. Tax 11.47(1)(1) Taxable sales. Taxable services and sales of tangible personal property and items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., of commercial photographers and others providing photographic services, including video taping, include charges for: Tax 11.47(1)(a)(a) Taking, reproducing, and selling photographs and videos. Tax 11.47(1)(c)(c) Enlarging, retouching, tinting, or coloring photographs. Tax 11.47(1)(d)(d) Processing exposed film into color transparencies, mounted or unmounted. Tax 11.47(1)(e)(e) Reproducing copies of documents, drawings, photographs, videos, or prints by mechanical and chemical reproduction machines, blue printing and process camera equipment. Tax 11.47(1)(f)(f) Sales of photographs to students through schools, even though school personnel may participate by collecting payments from students. Tax 11.47(2)(a)(a) The sales price subject to the tax includes charges for photographic and video materials, time and talent. Tax 11.47(2)(b)(b) Modeling fees, mileage charges, equipment rental and charges for props or similar items made by photographers shall not be deducted from the sales price subject to the tax, whether or not these charges are separately itemized on the billing to a customer. Tax 11.47(3)(3) Purchases by persons providing photographic services. Tax 11.47(3)(a)(a) Commercial photographers and others providing photographic services, including video services, may purchase, without paying sales or use tax, any tangible personal property or item, property, or good under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), or (d), Stats., which will be resold or which becomes a component part of an article of tangible personal property, or item or property under s. 77.52 (1) (b) or (c), Stats., destined for sale if a properly completed exemption certificate is given the seller. These items include: Tax 11.47(3)(a)1.1. Mounts, frames, and sensitized paper used in the finished photograph and transferred to the customer. Tax 11.47(3)(a)2.2. Videos and film, including colored transparencies and movie film, in which the negative and the positive are the same, and are permanently transferred to a customer as part of the taxable photographic service. Tax 11.47(3)(a)3.3. Containers, labels, or other packaging and shipping materials used to transfer merchandise to customers. Tax 11.47(3)(b)(b) Except as provided in par. (bm), photographers and others providing photographic services, including video services, are required to pay tax when purchasing tangible personal property and items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., which is used, consumed or destroyed in providing photographic services. These items include: Tax 11.47(3)(bm)(bm) The items and property listed in par. (b) are exempt from tax if used by a manufacturer in manufacturing, as defined in s. 77.51 (7h), Stats., and the requirements for the exemptions provided in s. 77.54 (2), (2m), or (6) (am), Stats., are met. Tax 11.47(3)(c)(c) If a photographer or other person providing photographic services, including video taping, gives an exemption certificate for property, items, or goods to a seller and then uses the property, item, or good for a taxable purpose, the photographer or other person providing photographic services shall be liable for use tax at the time the property, item, or good is first used in a taxable manner. Tax 11.47 NoteNote: Section Tax 11.47 interprets ss. 77.51 (7h), (13) (e) and (f), and (15a) (b) 3., 77.52 (2) (a) 7., (2m) (b), and (13), 77.53 (10), and 77.54 (2), (2m), and (6) (am) 1., Stats. Tax 11.47 NoteNote: The interpretations in s. Tax 11.47 are effective under the general sales and use tax law on and after September 1, 1969, except (a) The exemption for property resold by a photographer is effective September 1, 1983, pursuant to 1983 Wis. Act 27 and (b) The change of the term “gross receipts” to “sales price” and the separate impositions of tax on coins and stamps sold above face value under s. 77.52 (1) (b), Stats., certain leased property affixed to real property under s. 77.52 (1) (c), Stats., and digital goods under s. 77.52 (1) (d), Stats., became effective October 1, 2009, pursuant to 2009 Wis. Act 2. Tax 11.47 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, September, 1977, No. 261, eff. 10-1-77; am. (3) (a) (intro.), 2. and (b) 3., cr. (3) (c), Register, March, 1991, No. 423, eff. 4-1-91; am. (1) (intro.), (a) and (e), (2) (a), (3) (a) (intro.), 2., (b) (intro.) and 3. and (c), cr. (3) (b) 8., Register, January, 1992, No. 433, eff. 2-1-92; EmR0924: emerg. am. (1) (title), (intro.) to (c), (e), (2), (3) (a), (b) (intro.) and (c), cr. (3) (bm), eff. 10-1-09; CR 09-090: am. (1) (title), (intro.) to (c), (e), (2), (3) (a), (b) (intro.) and (c), cr. (3) (bm) Register May 2010 No. 653, eff. 6-1-10; correction in (3) (bm) made under s. 13.92 (4) (b) 7., Stats., Register August 2014 No. 704. Tax 11.48Tax 11.48 Landlords, hotels and motels. Tax 11.48(1)(a)(a) Landlords are the consumers of household furniture, furnishings, equipment, appliances, or other items of tangible personal property and items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., purchased by them for use by their tenants in leased or rented living quarters. The sales and use tax applies to a landlord’s purchases of all these items. The sales price from a landlord’s charges to the tenant for use of these items are not subject to the tax even though there may be a separate charge for them. Tax 11.48(1)(b)(b) The sales price from providing parking space for motor vehicles and aircraft and from providing docking and storage space for boats are taxable. If a separate charge is made for the parking, docking, or storage space, the charge is taxable. However, if a separate charge is not made and the price of a rental unit includes a charge for a parking, docking, or storage space, and if similar units are rented at a reduced price if the parking, docking, or storage space is not utilized, the difference between the rental price of the 2 similar units is taxable as a charge for parking, docking, or storage. Tax 11.48(1)(c)1.1. The furnishing of rooms or lodging through the sale of any kind of time-share property is not taxable. Tax 11.48(1)(c)2.2. The sale, furnishing or use of recreational facilities on a periodic basis and of other recreational rights, including membership rights, vacation services and club memberships, with respect to time-share property, is not taxable, if the facilities are not available to persons who have not purchased the time-share property, other than guests. Tax 11.48 NoteExample: If a golf course is available to the general public for a fee, charges for access to the golf course are taxable, even if the charges are made in connection with the sale or use of time-share property.
Tax 11.48(1)(d)(d) The rental for a continuous period of one month or more of a mobile home, as defined in s. 101.91 (10), Stats., or a manufactured home, as defined in s. 101.91 (2), Stats., used as a residence is exempt from the sales and use tax, whether the mobile home or manufactured home is classified as real or personal property. Tax 11.48(2)(2) Hotels and motels. The furnishing of rooms or lodging to transients by hotelkeepers, motel operators, and other persons furnishing accommodations to the public, regardless of whether membership is required for use of the accommodations, is a taxable service. Tax 11.48(2)(a)(a) “Transient” means any person residing at one location for a continuous period of less than one month. A continuing monthly rental of a particular room or rooms by a business, including a trucking company, railway, or airline, to be used by its employees for layover is not taxable. Tax 11.48(2)(b)(b) The rental of space for meetings, conventions, and similar activities that are not amusement, athletic, entertainment, or recreational in nature, is not taxable. However, the rental of hotel or motel rooms generally used as sleeping accommodations is taxable, regardless of the type of use. Tax 11.48 NoteExample: The rental of a motel sleeping room by a salesperson from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. for use as a display room is taxable.
Tax 11.48(2)(c)(c) Sales of lodging by hotels, motels, and inns to governmental agencies and nonprofit organizations described in s. 77.54 (9a), Stats., and the federal government or to their employees are exempt from sales and use tax if the following 3 conditions are met, regardless of whether the agency or the employee pays for the lodging: Tax 11.48(2)(c)1.1. The hotel, motel, or inn issues the invoice or billing document for the lodging in the name of the governmental agency or nonprofit organization. Tax 11.48(2)(c)2.a.a. A purchase order or similar written document from the governmental agency. Tax 11.48(2)(c)2.b.b. The certificate of exempt status, CES, number of the nonprofit organization. The hotel, motel, or inn shall enter the CES number on its copy of the invoice or billing document. Tax 11.48(2)(c)3.3. The hotel, motel, or inn keeps a copy of the documents in subds. 1. and 2. to substantiate that the sale was exempt. Tax 11.48(2)(d)(d) Separately stated charges by hotels, motels, and inns for the rental of tangible personal property or items, property, or goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), or (d), Stats., including televisions and refrigerators, are taxable. Tax 11.48(2)(e)(e) Hotels, motels, and inns are the consumers of all the property, items, and goods used to conduct their business, such as beds, bedding, equipment, advertising materials, supplies, items, and property consumed by the occupants of a room as part of the lodging service. The tax applies to their purchases of all these items. Tax 11.48(2)(f)1.1. Hotels, motels, and other lodging providers are deemed the consumers of telecommunications, ancillary, internet access, and cable TV services used in providing lodging services, even if the service provider charges its customer separately for such services. Tax 11.48(2)(f)2.2. The tax treatment of telecommunications, ancillary, internet access, and cable TV services is as follows: Tax 11.48(2)(f)2.b.b. The lodging provider’s purchases of these services are subject to tax, except internet access services are not taxable beginning July 1, 2020. Tax 11.48(3)(a)(a) The owner of a motel often leases the complete unit, including real and personal property, to a second party who operates the motel. If the lease does not indicate the amount of the lease receipts derived from the tangible personal property and items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., as opposed to the realty and intangible property, the taxable receipts shall be determined by multiplying the total lease receipts of each reporting period by the ratio of the lessor’s purchase price of the tangible personal property and items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., to the lessor’s total gross investment in all real and personal property being leased to that operator, except as provided in par. (c). This ratio shall apply as long as the lease agreement between the lessor and lessee remains unchanged. However, the original ratio and any change in the ratio resulting from changes in the lease, due to additions to or removal of real or personal property leased, are subject to review by the department for reasonableness. Tax 11.48(3)(b)(b) The numerator of the ratio in par. (a) is the purchase price of the tangible personal property and items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., purchased by the lessor, except as provided in par. (c). This includes furniture, furnishings, equipment, or trade fixtures in an office, kitchen, restaurant, lounge, rooms, patio, and other indoor and outdoor areas; beds, bedding, linen, and towels; vending machines; and maintenance equipment. Tax 11.48 NoteExample: If the lessor’s purchase price of the tangible personal property and items, property, and goods under s. 77.52 (1) (b), (c), and (d), Stats., is $100,000, and the lessor’s gross investment is $500,000 for all real and personal property, items, and goods, taxable lease receipts shall be determined by applying a ratio of 20% ($100,000 ¸ $500,000) to the gross lease receipts for each sales tax reporting period.
