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Business Taxes Law Guide—Revision 2024
Sales and Use Tax Annotations
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515.0000 Service Enterprises Generally—Regulation 1501
Annotation 515.0027
(a) In General—Service Distinguished from Sale
515.0027 "Special Employees"—Keystroking Services. The performance of keystroking services to enter data from source documents to magnetic computer disks for a customer is taxable fabrication labor unless the services are performed by "special employees" on the customer's premises. The distinction is whether the taxpayer is engaged to produce a finished product, or to provide personnel who will work under the direction and control of the customer. In this instance, the taxpayer's people were involved in handling the overflow of work normally done by the customer's staff and the customer's office manager assigned the tasks to be done. The supervisor provided by the taxpayer was only required when there were six or more temporary employees on a shift, and the contract specified that the work would be done "… as requested and directed by … (the customer)." Under these circumstances, the keystroking services were performed by "special employees" and the charges were not subject to tax. 12/19/79.