2024 Indiana Code
Title 6. Taxation
Article 2.5. State Gross Retail and Use Taxes
Chapter 6. Returns, Remittances, and Refunds
6-2.5-6-10. Tax Liability; Merchant's Collection Allowance

Universal Citation:
IN Code § 6-2.5-6-10 (2024)
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Sec. 10. (a) In order to compensate retail merchants and those required to remit gasoline use tax for collecting and timely remitting the state gross retail tax, the state use tax, and the gasoline use tax, every retail merchant or person required to remit the gasoline use tax, except as provided in subsection (c), is entitled to deduct and retain from the amount of those taxes otherwise required to be remitted under IC 6-2.5-3.5 or under this chapter, if timely remitted, a retail merchant's collection allowance.

(b) The allowance equals a percentage of the retail merchant's state gross retail and use tax or the person's gasoline use tax liability accrued during a calendar year, specified as follows:

(1) Seventy-three hundredths percent (0.73%), if the retail merchant's state gross retail and use tax or gasoline use tax liability accrued during the state fiscal year ending on June 30 of the immediately preceding calendar year did not exceed sixty thousand dollars ($60,000).

(2) Fifty-three hundredths percent (0.53%), if the retail merchant's state gross retail and use tax or gasoline use tax liability accrued during the state fiscal year ending on June 30 of the immediately preceding calendar year:

(A) was greater than sixty thousand dollars ($60,000); and

(B) did not exceed six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000).

(3) Twenty-six hundredths percent (0.26%), if the retail merchant's state gross retail and use tax liability or the person's gasoline use tax accrued during the state fiscal year ending on June 30 of the immediately preceding calendar year was greater than six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000).

(c) A retail merchant described in IC 6-2.5-4-5 or IC 6-2.5-4-6 is not entitled to the allowance provided by this section. A retail merchant is not entitled to the allowance provided by this section with respect to gasoline use taxes imposed by IC 6-2.5-3.5.

As added by Acts 1980, P.L.52, SEC.1. Amended by P.L.71-1993, SEC.10; P.L.28-1997, SEC.12; P.L.192-2002(ss), SEC.62; P.L.211-2007, SEC.18; P.L.146-2008, SEC.313; P.L.227-2013, SEC.3; P.L.218-2017, SEC.3.

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