Chapter 18
Sales and Use Taxes — Liability and Computation

Index of Sections

§ 44-18-1. Short title.

§ 44-18-2. Declaration of necessity.

§ 44-18-3. Applicability of definitions.

§ 44-18-4. “Sales tax” defined.

§ 44-18-5. “Use tax” defined.

§ 44-18-6. Person defined.

§ 44-18-7. Sales defined.

§ 44-18-7.1. Additional definitions.

§ 44-18-7.2. Sales tax holiday definitions.

§ 44-18-7.3. Services defined.

§ 44-18-8. Retail sale or sale at retail defined.

§ 44-18-9. “Storage” defined.

§ 44-18-10. “Use” defined.

§ 44-18-11. Storage or use for export.

§ 44-18-12. “Sale price” defined.

§ 44-18-12.1. “Additional measure subject to tax”.

§ 44-18-13. Gross receipts defined.

§ 44-18-14. “Business” defined.

§ 44-18-15. “Retailer” defined.

§ 44-18-15.1. “Promoter” and “show” defined — Duty of promoter to collect tax.

§ 44-18-15.2. “Remote seller” defined — Collection of sales and use tax by remote seller.

§ 44-18-16. Tangible property defined.

§ 44-18-17. “State” defined.

§ 44-18-18. Sales tax imposed.

§ 44-18-18.1. Local meals and beverage tax.

§ 44-18-19. Collection of sales tax by retailer.

§ 44-18-19.1. Direct Pay Permit.

§ 44-18-20. Use tax imposed.

§ 44-18-21. Liability for use tax.

§ 44-18-22. Collection of use tax by retailer.

§ 44-18-23. “Engaging in business” defined.

§ 44-18-24. Collection by retailer of use tax on interstate sales.

§ 44-18-25. Presumption that sale is for storage, use, or consumption — Resale certificate.

§ 44-18-26. Tax on retailer’s use of merchandise.

§ 44-18-26.1. “Demonstration boat” defined.

§ 44-18-27. Tax on rental income to retailer.

§ 44-18-28. Resale of fungible goods from commingled mass.

§ 44-18-29. Repealed.

§ 44-18-30. Gross receipts exempt from sales and use taxes.

§ 44-18-30A. Exemption or credit where sales or use taxes were paid in other jurisdictions.

§ 44-18-30B. Exemption from sales tax for sales by writers, composers, artists — Findings.

§ 44-18-30C. Exemption from or stabilization of sales and use taxes for municipal economic development zones — West Warwick.

§ 44-18-30D. Repealed.

§ 44-18-30.1. Application for certificate of exemption — Fees. [Effective until January 1, 2025.]44-18-30.1. Application for certificate of exemption. [Effective January 1, 2025.]

§ 44-18-31. Exemption of sales to federal government.

§ 44-18-32. Sales to federal contractors.

§ 44-18-33. Sales to common carrier for use outside state.

§ 44-18-34. Exemption from use tax of property subject to sales tax.

§ 44-18-35. Property purchased from federal government.

§ 44-18-36. Property held prior to 1947 — Property of nonresidents — Extension of sales tax exemptions to use tax.

§ 44-18-36.1. Hotel tax.

§ 44-18-37. Additional to other taxes.

§ 44-18-38. Severability.

§ 44-18-39. Repealed.

§ 44-18-40. Exemption for buses, trucks and trailers in interstate commerce.

§ 44-18-40.1. Exemption for certain energy products.