Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - REVENUE, DEPARTMENT OF
Title 316 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
Chapter 1 - SALES AND USE TAX REGULATIONS
Section 316-1-004 - PERMITS

Universal Citation: 316 NE Admin Rules and Regs ch 1 ยง 004

Current through September 17, 2024

004.01 Every person engaging in business as a retailer in Nebraska must obtain a sales tax permit by submitting a Nebraska Tax Application, Form 20, or register through an alternative method as authorized under the Streamlined Sales Tax Agreement.

004.02 Engaging in business in this state means and includes any of the following:

004.02A Maintaining, occupying, or using permanently or temporarily, directly or indirectly, or through an agent, by whatever name called, an office, place of distribution, sales or sample room or place, warehouse or storage place or other place of business in this state;

004.02B Having any representatives, agents, salesmen, canvassers, or solicitors operating in this state under the authority of the retailer or a subsidiary of the retailer for the purposes of selling, delivering, or taking of orders for any property;

004.02C Deriving receipts from the rental or lease of property in this state;

004.02D Soliciting retail sales of property from residents of this state on a continuous, regular, or systematic basis by means of advertising which is broadcast from or relayed from a transmitter within this state or distributed from a location within this state;

004.02E Soliciting orders from residents of this state for property by mail, if the solicitations are continuous, regular, seasonal, or systematic and if the retailer benefits from any banking, financing, debt collection, or marketing activities occurring in this state or benefits from the location in this state of authorized installation, servicing, or repair facilities;

004.02F Being owned or controlled by the same interests which own or control any retailer engaged in business in the same or similar line of business in this state;

004.02G Maintaining or having a franchisee or licensee operating under the retailer's trade name in this state if the franchisee or licensee is required to collect the tax under the Nebraska Revenue Act of 1967; or

004.02H Doing any of the above as a retailer of services or on behalf of a retailer of services enumerated as taxable in Reg-1-007, Gross Receipts.

004.03 A separate application for each Nebraska retail location is required unless applying through the Streamlined Sales Tax Agreement.

004.04 Out-of-state retailers who are not engaged in business as specified in 004.02, are not required to obtain a permit. However, as a service to their Nebraska customers, those retailers are encouraged to obtain a license which allows them to collect and remit the tax in the same manner as a retailer who is engaged in business in this state. This will preclude the purchasers from having to accrue and remit their consumer's use tax liability directly to the Department of Revenue.

004.05 Upon examination and approval of the application, the Department of Revenue shall issue to the retailer the appropriate sales tax permit for each Nebraska business location. The permit is permanent, not transferrable, and valid only for the retailer in whose name it is issued and for the conduct of business at the place designated. The permit must be conspicuously displayed at the place of business.

004.05A Retailers moving their locations may file a Nebraska change request to change the location address shown on their permits. New permits with the new address will be issued.

004.06 Retailers who temporarily will not be making any sales, may cancel their permits. When sales are resumed, the permits may be reinstated without any charge.

004.07 Upon violation of any of the sales tax statutes or regulations, the Department of Revenue may revoke or suspend the permit or permits of the violator. The procedures for revocation hearings are contained in Practice and Procedure Reg-33-008.

004.07A Following the revocation of a sales tax permit, the Department of Revenue will consider issuance of another permit only if all tax liabilities, including interest and penalties, have been paid in full, and sufficient security has been posted with the Department to ensure future compliance.
004.07A(1) The amount of the security required before the Department will reissue a sales tax permit will be no greater than three times the estimated average amount payable for the seller's reporting period or five times the estimated average amount payable for the reporting period in the case of persons habitually delinquent.

004.08 Anyone whose permit has been previously suspended or revoked shall pay the Department of Revenue, in addition to the required security specified in Reg-004.07A(1)(1), a fee of twenty-five dollars ($ 25.00) for the renewal or reissuance of a permit in the event of a first revocation, and fifty dollars ($ 50.00) for each successive revocation. A new permit will not be issued to the same person until the Department of Revenue is satisfied that such person will comply with the sales and use tax statutes and regulations.

004.09 Anyone who engages in business as a retailer in this state without a permit or permits or after a permit has been suspended, and each officer of any corporation which so engages in business, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction thereof, such person and each such officer shall be fined an amount not to exceed five hundred dollars ($ 500.00) per each day of operation.

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