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<section article="gtg" article_name="Tax - General" number="11-216" title_number="11" title_name="Sales and Use Tax" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Exemptions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The sales and use tax does not apply to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a sale for use of tangible personal property, a digital code, or a digital product that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>is bought outside this State;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is intended solely for use in another state; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>is stored in this State pending shipment to another state;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>a sale of tangible personal property to a person obligated under a contract to incorporate that property into real property located in another state where the purchase or use of that property would not be subject to a sales tax, use tax, or similar tax; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>except for that portion of the purchase price allocable to intended viewing in this State, a sale of a series of images stored on video tape or in other optical or digital forms or electronic signals generated from these images to a cable or other nonbroadcast television network, if the images are intended for viewing by television viewers located outside the State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The sales and use tax shall be paid:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>on a sale under subsection (a)(1) of this section, when the tangible personal property is imported or stored in the State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>on a sale under subsection (a)(2) of this section, when the sale is made.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>A person who pays the sales and use tax under subsection (b) of this section may obtain the exemption by:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>filing a claim for refund with the Comptroller when the property is removed from the State; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>providing the Comptroller with the evidence that the Comptroller requires by regulation, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>evidence of use or removal of the property from the State; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>satisfactory proof of entitlement to exemption in another state.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
