Title 10, TAXATION

For the purpose of aiding the Department of Revenue in implementing the taxes imposed by this chapter, the Public Utilities Commission shall provide any information requested by the secretary and deemed necessary by the secretary to ensure uniform and fair taxation. Source: SDC 1…

For the purpose of determining the fair market value of the property of any telephone company not subject to the tax imposed by § 10-33-21 , the Department of Revenue shall take into consideration the cost approach, the market approach, and the income approach to appraisal. In th…

After the assessment is made on each company not subject to the tax imposed by § 10-33-21 , the Department of Revenue shall give notice by mail to the officers of each telephone company making return to the department, setting out the assessment and fixing a date at least ten day…

After the date of hearing, and on or before the fourth Monday of August, the Department of Revenue shall finally equalize the assessment of each company not subject to the tax imposed by § 10-33-21 and notify each company by mail. The department shall certify the value finally de…

All telephone property so assessed by the Department of Revenue shall be taxed in the following manner: (1) Property within corporate limits shall be subject to all taxes that other property within the same corporate limits is subject to for the current year; (2) Property without…

The county auditor shall extend the above-mentioned taxes against the assessment certified to him by the Department of Revenue in a book to be called "the telephone tax book," and shall make and deliver a duplicate of such telephone book to the county treasurer and the county tre…

All laws relating to the enforcement of the payment of delinquent taxes are applicable to each company not subject to the tax imposed by § 10-33-21 . Source: SL 1915, ch 100 , § 20; RC 1919, § 6628; SDC 1939, § 57.1807; SL 2011, ch 54 , § 10.

The term, gross receipts, as used in this chapter means all earnings of a telephone company derived from the furnishing of such telephone and exchange service, rental and toll service, excluding receipts for capital stock issued, state sales and use taxes paid, federal excise tax…

When taxes on telephone property located within a municipality are collected, the amount due each municipality, or school district shall be paid over by the county treasurer to the treasurer of such municipality, or school district and the treasurer shall credit the remainder to …

Each telephone company engaged in furnishing and providing telephone and exchange service comprising rental and toll service by means of wired circuits and otherwise shall be taxed on the basis of gross receipts at the rate of four percent. This tax does not apply to any company …

The term, company, means any person, corporation, cooperative, association, or other entity providing telephone and exchange service, rental and toll service. Source: SL 1955, ch 423 , § 1; SDC Supp 1960, § 57.1808; SL 1965, ch 287 , § 2; SL 2004, ch 89 , § 2.

The secretary of revenue shall compute and determine the amount of tax to be paid by each company as provided in § 10-33-21 . The secretary shall on or before July first of each year certify to each school district in the state in which the company operates the amount of the tax …

The tax levied in § 10-33-21 is due and payable to the secretary of revenue by August first of each year following the filing of the report of the gross receipts. The secretary of revenue shall distribute the taxes paid pursuant §§ 10-33-21 and 10-33-24 to each school district by…

The tax imposed by § 10-33-21 shall be in lieu of all taxes levied by the state, counties, municipalities, townships, school districts, or other political subdivisions of the state on the personal and real property of the company which is used or intended for use in the furnishin…

If the tax levied under § 10-33-21 is not paid on the due date a penalty of up to five percent of the amount of the tax may be imposed for each month of delinquency, and if any telephone company fails to report its gross receipts to the secretary of revenue, the company may be pe…

All property of such telephone company, both real and personal, not actually and necessarily used in the operation and maintenance of its lines in this state shall be considered "nonoperating property," and nothing in this chapter shall be so construed as to prevent local assessm…

This chapter shall have no application to a telephone utility owned and operated by a municipality. Source: SL 1955, ch 423 , § 7; SDC Supp 1960, § 57.1814.

The president, secretary, general manager, or superintendent of each telephone company not subject to the tax imposed by § 10-33-21 shall furnish to the Department of Revenue on or before April fifteenth, each year, a report under oath, on the forms furnished and according to the…

With reference to property without the limits of municipalities, exclusive of all exchanges or central office equipment, the statement required by § 10-33-4 shall show the following items: (1) The counties of this state in which the company making the report owns or operates any …

The report required by § 10-33-4 shall give the following items of information concerning any and all exchanges owned or operated by the reporting company: (1) The location of all exchanges in each county, with the names of the municipalities in each county and the counties arran…

The report required by § 10-33-4 shall show the following details concerning the financial organization and operation of the company: (1) The amount of capital stock authorized and the amount issued as preferred stock or as common stock, with the present actual cash value of the …

The statement required by § 10-33-4 shall include such other facts and information as the Department of Revenue may require. Source: SDC 1939, § 57.1802 (4); SL 2003, ch 272 (Ex. Ord. 03-1), § 82; SL 2011, ch 1 (Ex. Ord. 11-1 ), § 161, eff. Apr. 12, 2011.

In case any telephone company fails to make the report required by § 10-33-4 , on or before April fifteenth of each year, the Department of Revenue in its discretion may add twenty-five percent to the assessable value of the property of such company. Source: SDC 1939, § 57.1802; …