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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2024
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432.0000 Printed Sales Messages—Regulation 1541.5
Annotation 432.0121
432.0121 Shopping Guides. Shopping guides published periodically, which do not qualify as newspapers or periodicals, are distributed free of charge by the publisher who obtains revenue from the sale of advertising space in the shopping guide. Although these shopping guides are used principally to advertise goods and services, they do not meet the test of "printed sales messages" provided in Regulation 1541.5 (a)(2), because they are not "printed to the special order" of the purchaser. Under these circumstances, the publisher is the consumer of these shopping guides and owes tax with respect to the paper and ink used to produce them. 7/28/89.