| (ii) Example 2. A law firm with offices in Texas and
Louisiana charges a client a lump sum fee of $5,000 to draft a document.
Attorneys in the Texas office recorded 20 hours on the project, and
attorneys in the Louisiana office recorded 5 hours on the project
at the same billing rate. Texas gross receipts are $4,000. If the
law firm does not record hours worked on a project, other measures
of direct cost may be considered.
(iii) Example 3. A Texas-based landscaper provides
grounds maintenance services at its client's four offices in Texas,
and one office in Oklahoma, for an annual fee of $50,000. The landscape
services at each of the locations are substantially the same. Texas
gross receipts are $40,000. Although the cost of performing the landscaping
maintenance service at the Oklahoma office is higher than the cost
of performing the service at the other locations because of the additional
travel cost, the additional cost is not considered.
(C) Taxable entities that have margin that is derived,
directly or indirectly, from the sale of services to or on behalf
of a regulated investment company should refer to subsection (c)(1)
of this section for information on apportionment of such margin.
(D) Taxable entities that have margin that is derived,
directly or indirectly, from the sale of management, administration,
or investment services to an employee retirement plan should refer
to subsection (c)(2) of this section for information on apportionment
of such margin.
(E) Receipts from services that a defense readjustment
project performs in a defense economic readjustment zone are not Texas
gross receipts.
(27) Single member limited liability company (SMLLC).
For purposes of this section, the sale of a SMLLC by its sole owner
is the sale of a membership interest in the SMLLC. The membership
interest is an intangible asset, and receipts from the sale of a SMLLC
are sourced to the location of payor.
(28) Subsidies or grants. Proceeds of subsidies or
grants that a taxable entity receives from a governmental agency are
gross receipts, except when the funds are required to be expended
dollar-for-dollar (i.e., passed through) to third parties on behalf
of the agency. Receipts from a governmental subsidy or grant are sourced
in the same manner as the item to which the subsidy or grant was attributed.
For example, receipts from a grant to conduct research for the government
are receipts from a service and are sourced to the location where
the research is performed.
(29) Tangible personal property. Examples of transactions
that involve the sale of tangible personal property and result in
Texas gross receipts include, but are not limited to, the following:
(A) the sale of tangible personal property that is
delivered in Texas to a purchaser. Delivery is complete upon transfer
of possession or control of the property to the purchaser, an employee
of the purchaser, or transportation vehicles that the purchaser leases
or owns. FOB point, location of title passage, and other conditions
of the sale are not relevant to the determination of Texas gross receipts;
(B) the sale of tangible personal property that is
delivered in Texas to an employee or transportation agent of an out-of-state
purchaser. A carrier is an employee or agent of the purchaser if the
carrier is under the supervision and control of the purchaser with
respect to the manner in which goods are transported;
(C) the sale and delivery in Texas of tangible personal
property that is loaded into a barge, truck, airplane, vessel, tanker,
or any other means of conveyance that the purchaser of the property
leases and controls or owns. The sale of tangible personal property
that is delivered in Texas to an independent contract carrier, common
carrier, or freight forwarder that a purchaser of the property hires
results only in gross receipts everywhere if the carrier transports
or forwards the property to the purchaser outside this state;
(D) the sale of tangible personal property with delivery
to a common carrier outside Texas, and shipment by that common carrier
to a purchaser in Texas;
(E) the sale of oil or gas to an interstate pipeline
company, with delivery in Texas;
(F) the sale of tangible personal property that is
delivered in Texas to a warehouse or other storage facility that the
purchaser owns or leases;
(G) the sale of tangible personal property that is
delivered to and stored in a warehouse or other storage facility in
Texas at the purchaser's request, as opposed to a necessary delay
in transit, even though the property is subsequently shipped outside
Texas;
(H) the drop shipment of tangible personal property
in Texas. A drop shipment is a shipment of tangible personal property
from a seller directly to a purchaser's customer, at the request of
the purchaser, without passing through the hands of the purchaser.
This results in Texas gross receipts for the seller and the purchaser.
(30) Telecommunication services.
(A) Gross receipts from telephone calls that both originate
and terminate in Texas are sourced to Texas.
(B) Gross receipts from telephone calls that originate
in Texas but terminate outside of Texas or that originate outside
of Texas but terminate in Texas are not sourced to Texas.
(C) Gross receipts from telecommunication services
other than those services in subparagraph (A) or (B) of this paragraph
are sourced to Texas if the services are performed in Texas. For example,
a telephone company that provides a long distance carrier access to
the telephone company's local exchange network in Texas is performing
a service in Texas. Any fee that the telephone company charges the
long distance carrier for access to the local exchange network in
Texas is a Texas receipt regardless of whether the access is related
to an interstate call. A fee that is charged to obtain access to a
local exchange network in Texas and that is based on the duration
of an interstate telephone call are not sourced to Texas.
(31) Television broadcaster licensing income. For reports
originally due on or after January 1, 2018, a broadcaster's gross
receipts from licensing income from broadcasting or otherwise distributing
film programming by any means are sourced to Texas if the legal domicile
of the broadcaster's customer is in this state. In this subparagraph,
the following words and terms shall have the following meaning:
(A) Broadcaster--A taxable entity, not including a
cable service provider or a direct broadcast satellite service, that
is a television station licensed by the Federal Communications Commission,
television broadcast network, cable television network, or television
distribution company.
(B) Customer--A person, including a licensee, who has
a direct connection or contractual relationship with a broadcaster
under which the broadcaster derives revenue.
(C) Film programming--All or part of a live or recorded
performance, event, or production intended to be distributed for visual
and auditory perception by an audience.
(D) Programming--Includes news, entertainment, sporting
events, plays, stories, or other literary, commercial, educational,
or artistic works.
(32) Texas waters. Gross receipts from transactions
that occur in Texas waters are sourced to Texas. Texas waters are
considered to extend to 10.359 statute miles, or nine nautical miles,
from the Texas coastline.
(33) Transportation services. Gross receipts from the
transportation of goods or passengers are sourced to Texas by:
(A) including gross receipts from the transportation
of goods or passengers that both originates and terminates in Texas;
or
(B) the multiplication of total transportation receipts
by the ratio of total compensated mileage in the transportation of
goods and passengers in Texas to total compensated mileage.
(f) Natural gas production.
(1) Gross receipts that a gas producer realizes from
the contract price of gas that the gas producer produces and that
the purchaser takes pursuant to the terms of sales are sourced to
Texas, if the gas is delivered in Texas.
(2) Gross receipts that a gas producer realizes from
a purchaser's payment under a sale or purchase contract for gas to
be produced even if no gas is produced and delivered to the purchaser,
are sourced to the location of the payor.
(3) Gross receipts that a gas producer realizes from
a purchaser's payments to terminate a gas purchase contract are sourced
to the location of the payor.
(4) Gross receipts that a gas producer realizes from
a contract amendment that relates to the price of the gas sold are
treated as gross receipts from the sales of gas and are sourced to
Texas if delivery is made to a location in Texas. Gross receipts that
the gas producer realizes from a contract amendment that relates to
a provision other than the price of gas sold are sourced to the location
of the payor.
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