KRS 139.105 — Sourcing of retail sales -- Communications services, digital property, and florist wire sales

(1) (a) For purposes of the retailer's obligation to pay or collect and remit the taxes
imposed by KRS 65.7634, 139.200, and 139.310, the retailer sh all source
retail sales not addressed in subsections (2), (3), and (4) of this section as
follows:
1. Over the counter. When the purchaser receives tangible personal
property, digital property, or service at a business location of the retailer,
the sale is sourced to that business location;
2. Delivery to a specified address. When a purchaser or purchaser's donee
receives tangible personal property, digital property, or service at a
location specified by the purchaser, the sale is sourced to that location;
or
3. Address unknown. When the retailer of a product does not know the
address where the tangible personal property, digital property, or service
is received, the sale is sourced to the first address listed in this paragraph
that is known to the retailer:
a. The address of the purchaser;
b. The billing address of the purchaser;
c. The address of the purchaser's payment instrument; or
d. The address from which the tangible personal property was
shipped; from which the computer software delivered
electronically or the digital property transferred electronically was
first available for transmission by the retailer; or from which the
service was provided, disregarding for these purposes any location
that merely provided the actual digital transfer of the product sold.
(b) Nothing included in this subsection shall affect the obligation of a purchaser
to remit use tax pursuant to KRS 139.310.
(2) The retailer shall source communications services as follows:
(a) A sale of mobile telecommunications services, other than air -ground
radiotelephone service and prepaid wireless calling service, shall be sourced to
the customer's or other purchaser's place of primary use;
(b) A sale of postpaid calling service shall be s ourced to the origination point of
the telecommunications signal as first identified by either the retailer's
telecommunications system or information received by the retailer from its
service provider, where the system used to transport the signals is not that of
the retailer;
(c) A sale of prepaid calling service or a sale of a prepaid wireless calling service
shall be sourced according to the provisions of subsection (1) of this section.
If the sale is of a prepaid wireless calling service and the retail er does not
know the address where the service is received, the sale shall be sourced to the
first of the following that is known by the retailer:
1. The address of the customer available from the business records of the
retailer;
2. The billing address of the customer;
3. The address from which the service was provided; or
4. The location associated with the mobile telephone number;
(d) A sale of a private communications service shall be sourced as follows:
1. Service for a separate charge related to a cus tomer channel termination
point shall be sourced to each level of jurisdiction in which the customer
channel termination point is located.
2. Service where all customer termination points are located entirely within
one (1) jurisdiction or levels of jurisd iction is sourced in the jurisdiction
in which the customer channel termination points are located.
3. Service for segments of a channel between two (2) customer channel
termination points located in different jurisdictions and which segments
of channel are separately charged shall be sourced fifty percent (50%) in
each level of jurisdiction in which the customer channel termination
points are located.
4. Service for segments of a channel located in more than one (1)
jurisdiction or levels of jurisdiction a nd which segments are not
separately billed shall be sourced in each jurisdiction based on the
percentage determined by dividing the number of customer channel
termination points in the jurisdiction by the total number of customer
channel termination points;
(e) A sale of an ancillary service is sourced to the customer's place of primary
use; and
(f) A sale of other communications services:
1. Sold on a call -by-call basis shall be sourced based on the taxing
jurisdiction where the call either originates or terminates and in which
the service address is also located; or
2. Sold on a basis other than a call -by-call basis shall be sourced to the
customer's or other purchaser's place of primary use.
(3) Florist wire sales shall be sourced in accordance with an a dministrative regulation
promulgated by the department.
(4) Advertising and promotional direct mail and other direct mail shall be sourced as
provided in KRS 139.777.