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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2024
Sales and Use Tax Annotations
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432.0000 Printed Sales Messages—Regulation 1541.5
Annotation 432.0121.001
432.0121.001 Shopping Guides. A publisher/printer produces printed material which qualifies as a printed sales message in that it is printed for the principal purpose of promoting the sale of goods or services. However, in order to qualify for the exemption, the printed matter must be printed to the special order of the purchaser and mailed or delivered by the seller (i.e., the printer) to someone other than the purchaser as specified in section 6379.5. If the publisher of a shopping guide is merely selling advertising space to advertising customers, the transaction does not involve the sale of printed material to the special order of the purchaser since at no time does the publisher transfer title of the shopping guide to the customer/advertiser. As such, the publisher is the consumer of the shopping guide. Therefore, tax applies to the sale of the materials to the publisher/printer. 4/2/96.