Exemptions; certain activities

# (1)

Maintaining or defending an action or suit.

# (2)

Filing, modifying, renewing, extending, or transferring a mortgage, deed of trust, or security interest.

# (3)

Acquiring, foreclosing, or otherwise conveying property in Indiana as a result of a default under the terms of a mortgage, deed

of trust, or other security instrument relating to the property.

# (4)

Selling tangible personal property, if taxation is precluded by 15 U.S.C. 381 through 15 U.S.C. 384.

# (5)

Owning an interest in the following types of property even though activities are conducted within Indiana that are reasonably

required to evaluate and complete the acquisition or disposition of the property, the servicing of the property or the income from the property, the

collection of income from the property, or the acquisition or liquidation of collateral relating to the property:

# (A)

An interest in a real estate mortgage investment conduit, a real estate investment trust, or a regulated investment company (as those

terms are defined in the Internal Revenue Code).

# (B)

An interest in a loan backed security representing ownership or participation in a pool of promissory notes or certificates of interest

that provide for payments in relation to payments or reasonable projections of payments on the notes or certificates.

# (C)

An interest in a loan or other asset from which the interest is attributed in IC 6-5.5-4-4, IC 6-5.5-4-5, and IC

6-5.5-4-6 and in which the payment obligations were solicited and entered into by a person that is independent and not acting on behalf of the

owner.

# (D)

An interest in the right to service or collect income from a loan or other asset from which interest on the loan or other asset is attributed

in IC 6-5.5-4-4 through IC 6-5.5-4-6 and in which the payment obligations were solicited and entered into by a person that is

independent and not acting on behalf of the owner.

# (E)

An amount held in an escrow or a trust account with respect to property described in this subdivision.

# (6)

Acting:

# (A)

as an executor of an estate;

# (B)

as a trustee of a benefit plan;

# (C)

as a trustee of an employees' pension, profit sharing, or other retirement plan;

# (D)

as a trustee of a testamentary or inter vivos trust or corporate indenture; or

# (E)

in any other fiduciary capacity, including holding title to real property in Indiana.

(Department of State Revenue; 45 IAC 17-2-7; filed Jan 22, 1991, 4:55 p.m.: 14 IR 1213)