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A customer would like to purchase one of our new, taxable truck bodies, but wants to pay a portion of the purchase price with a used truck body as a trade-in. Do I need to include the value of the trade-in when...

Are military vehicles exempt from FET under Internal Revenue Code Section 4051? Are sales to the United States Armed Forces exempt?

Does a vehicle’s designation as a truck or a tractor matter for purposes of applying the Section 4051 tax? If yes, how do you determine whether a vehicle is a truck or tractor, if it can be used both for carrying cargo...

We sell new platform truck bodies at retail. Is it true that the Internal Revenue Service has determined the longest platform truck body that is nontaxable under the suitable for use test is 21 feet?

A customer purchased a new chassis three months ago and now wants us to install a winch on it. Unmodified, the chassis has a GVWR in excess of 33,000 pounds Is it correct that the installation of a winch on a used...

​​​​​​​A few months ago, we purchased a new truck body for use in our business. The body was taxable, and we did not purchase it for resale, so our invoice included a charge for FET. Now, we no longer need the body for...

We sell our taxable bodies at retail. Sometimes a customer orders a body from us, and then we arrange (with the customer’s consent) for the body manufacturer to ship the body directly to the customer. When this occurs...

When we install a new taxable body on a customer-owned chassis, we sometimes also install one or more chassis parts or accessories. The customer-owned chassis are more than a year old and were taxable when new. We...

We are a new truck equipment distributorship that purchases bodies from manufacturers and sells them to end-users. Since we are making the retail sale, we assumed that we would be paying the FET, but manufacturers are...

We purchased a 2009 used truck that has a GVWR of 32,900 pounds. We want to add a lift axle to the truck and re-sell it at retail. After the addition of the lift axle, the truck’s GVWR will be more than 33,000 pounds...