Excise Tax Enquirer

Truck bodies and truck chassis - Separate tax determinations

February 10, 2015
Rose-Michele Nardi
Transport Counsel PC
​​​​​​​If a customer purchases a new truck body from us and asks us to install it on a used truck chassis, is the body taxable? Similarly, if a customer purchases a new truck chassis from us and asks us to install it on a used truck body, would the chassis be taxable? Does it matter whether the sale and installation of the new article occurs within six months of the purchase of the used article?
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