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<section article="gtg" article_name="Tax - General" number="11-219" 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 a personal, professional, or insurance service that:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>is not a taxable service; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>involves a sale as an inconsequential element for which no separate charge is made.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The sales and use tax does not apply to the sale of an optional computer software maintenance contract if the buyer does not have a right, as part of the contract, to receive at no additional cost software products that are separately priced and marketed by the vendor.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The sales and use tax does not apply to the use of a taxable service obtained by using a prepaid telephone calling arrangement.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <level label="i">
        <text>In this subsection the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Cloud computing” means a service that enables on–demand, self–service network access to a shared pool of configurable computer resources, including data storage, analytics, commerce, streaming, e–mail, document sharing, and document editing.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>“Qualified cybersecurity business” means an entity organized for profit that is engaged primarily in the development of innovative proprietary cybersecurity technology or the provision of cybersecurity services.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The sales and use tax imposed on a taxable service described under § 11–101(m)(14) or (15) of this title does not apply to a sale of cloud computing to a qualified cybersecurity business.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
