PRIA, Government Policy, Made Personal

Summary

Certain vehicles and equipment are not taxed under this rule. The exemption covers ten groups, including camper-coach bodies made to be mounted on truck chassis and used mainly as living or camping space; bodies used for processing, hauling, spreading, loading or unloading feed, seed, or fertilizer on farms; house trailers; ambulances, hearses, or combination ambulance-hearses; concrete mixer bodies mounted on truck or trailer chassis; trash bins or containers made only for trash (not for other freight) and not permanently attached to a truck; chassis or bodies made to work on both highways and railroads (but piggy‑back trailers are excluded); mobile machinery that has permanently mounted equipment on a chassis made only to carry and power that equipment and cannot be turned into a normal transport vehicle without major changes; idling‑reduction devices or systems that give heat, air conditioning, or electricity while a vehicle is parked and that the EPA Administrator approves after consulting the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of Transportation; and insulation with an R value of not less than R35 per inch.

Title 26, §4053

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No tax shall be imposed by section 4051 on any of the following articles:

(1)Camper coaches bodies for self-propelled mobile homes

Any article designed—

(A)to be mounted or placed on automobile trucks, automobile truck chassis, or automobile chassis, and

(B)to be used primarily as living quarters or camping accommodations.

(2)Feed, seed, and fertilizer equipment

Any body primarily designed—

(A)to process or prepare seed, feed, or fertilizer for use on farms,

(B)to haul feed, seed, or fertilizer to and on farms,

(C)to spread feed, seed, or fertilizer on farms,

(D)to load or unload feed, seed, or fertilizer on farms, or

(E)for any combination of the foregoing.

(3)House trailers

Any house trailer.

(4)Ambulances, hearses, etc.

Any ambulance, hearse, or combination ambulance-hearse.

(5)Concrete mixers

Any article designed—

(A)to be placed or mounted on an automobile truck chassis or truck trailer or semitrailer chassis, and

(B)to be used to process or prepare concrete.

(6)Trash containers, etc.

Any box, container, receptacle, bin or other similar article—

(A)which is designed to be used as a trash container and is not designed for the transportation of freight other than trash, and

(B)which is not designed to be permanently mounted on or permanently affixed to an automobile truck chassis or body.

(7)Rail trailers and rail vans

Any chassis or body of a trailer or semitrailer which is designed for use both as a highway vehicle and a railroad car. For purposes of the preceding sentence, piggy-back trailer or semitrailer shall not be treated as designed for use as a railroad car.

(8)Mobile machinery

Any vehicle which consists of a chassis—

(A)to which there has been permanently mounted (by welding, bolting, riveting, or other means) machinery or equipment to perform a construction, manufacturing, processing, farming, mining, drilling, timbering, or similar operation if the operation of the machinery or equipment is unrelated to transportation on or off the public highways,

(B)which has been specially designed to serve only as a mobile carriage and mount (and a power source, where applicable) for the particular machinery or equipment involved, whether or not such machinery or equipment is in operation, and

(C)which, by reason of such special design, could not, without substantial structural modification, be used as a component of a vehicle designed to perform a function of transporting any load other than that particular machinery or equipment or similar machinery or equipment requiring such a specially designed chassis.

(9)Idling reduction device

Any device or system of devices which—

(A)is designed to provide to a vehicle those services (such as heat, air conditioning, or electricity) that would otherwise require the operation of the main drive engine while the vehicle is temporarily parked or remains stationary using one or more devices affixed to a tractor, and

(B)is determined by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of Transportation, to reduce idling of such vehicle at a motor vehicle rest stop or other location where such vehicles are temporarily parked or remain stationary.

(10)Advanced insulation

Any insulation that has an R value of not less than R35 per inch.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 4053, acts Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 479; Sept. 2, 1958, Pub. L. 85–859, title I, § 104, 72 Stat. 1276, made provision for the imposition of the retailers tax on installment sales, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 94–455, title XIX, § 1904(a)(1)(D), Oct. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1811. For provisions of prior sections 4054 to 4058 of this title, see

Prior Provisions

note set out preceding section 4041 of this title.

Amendments

2008—Pars. (9), (10). Pub. L. 110–343 added pars. (9) and (10). 2004—Par. (8). Pub. L. 108–357 added par. (8). 1984—Pub. L. 98–369 amended section generally, substituting provisions listing articles on which no tax under section 4051 shall be imposed for former provisions which stated that no tax be imposed under section 4051 on any article specified in subsection (a) of section 4063 and that the exemptions provided by section 4221(a) extended to the tax imposed by section 4051.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2008 Amendment Pub. L. 110–343, div. B, title II, § 206(b), Oct. 3, 2008, 122 Stat. 3839, provided that: “The amendment made by this section [amending this section] shall apply to sales or installations after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 3, 2008].”

Effective Date

of 2004 Amendment Pub. L. 108–357, title VIII, § 851(a)(2), Oct. 22, 2004, 118 Stat. 1607, provided that: “The amendment made by this subsection [amending this section] shall take effect on the day after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 22, 2004].”

Effective Date

of 1984 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 98–369 effective, except as otherwise provided, as if included in the provisions of the Highway Revenue Act of 1982, title V of Pub. L. 97–424, to which such amendment relates, see section 736 of Pub. L. 98–369, set out as a note under section 4051 of this title.

§4053 Exemptions

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