Excise Tax Enquirer

Mobile machinery vehicles and FET

March 5, 2017
Rose-Michele Nardi
Transport Counsel PC
A customer wants to purchase a standard highway truck chassis and said he will then modify it to satisfy the so-called mobile machinery exception. In this situation, is our sale of the chassis to the customer subject to Section 4051 tax?
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