2019 Texas Statutes
Tax Code
Title 2 - State Taxation
Subtitle E - Sales, Excise, and Use Taxes
Chapter 151 - Limited Sales, Excise, and Use Tax
Subchapter A. General Provisions
Section 151.0103. Telecommunications Services

Universal Citation:
TX Tax Code § 151.0103 (2019)
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Sec. 151.0103. TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES. (a) For the purposes of this title only, "telecommunications services" means the electronic or electrical transmission, conveyance, routing, or reception of sounds, signals, data, or information utilizing wires, cable, radio waves, microwaves, satellites, fiber optics, or any other method now in existence or that may be devised, including but not limited to long-distance telephone service. The term does not include:

(1) the storage of data or information for subsequent retrieval or the processing, or reception and processing, of data or information intended to change its form or content;

(2) the sale or use of a telephone prepaid calling card;

(3) Internet access service; or

(4) a pay telephone coin sent-paid telephone call.

(b) The exemption provided by Subsection (a)(4) applies only to the portion of the sales price of the telecommunications service that is paid by coin.

Added by Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 206, Sec. 4, eff. Oct. 1, 1985. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 1040, Sec. 17, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 394, Sec. 3, eff. Oct. 1, 1999.

Amended by:

Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1199 (H.B. 1459), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007.

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