Applicability to marketplace facilitators of provisions regarding imposition, collection and remittance of sales and use taxes; construction of terms.

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1. Except as otherwise provided in this section and NRS 374.757, the provisions of this chapter relating to the imposition, collection and remittance of the sales tax, and the collection and remittance of the use tax, apply to a marketplace facilitator during a calendar year in which, or during a calendar year immediately following any calendar year in which:

(a) The cumulative gross receipts from retail sales made or facilitated by the marketplace facilitator on his or her own behalf or for one or more marketplace sellers to customers in this State exceed $100,000; or

(b) The marketplace facilitator makes or facilitates 200 or more separate retail sales transactions on his or her own behalf or for one or more marketplace sellers to customers in this State.

2. The provisions of this chapter relating to the imposition, collection and remittance of the sales tax, and the collection and remittance of the use tax do not apply to a marketplace facilitator described in subsection 1 if:

(a) The marketplace facilitator and the marketplace seller have entered into a written agreement whereby the marketplace seller assumes responsibility for the collection and remittance of the sales tax, and the collection and remittance of the use tax for retail sales made by the marketplace seller through the marketplace facilitator; and

(b) The marketplace seller has obtained a permit pursuant to NRS 374.130 or registered pursuant to NRS 360B.200.

Upon request of the Department, a marketplace facilitator shall provide to the Department a report containing the name of each marketplace seller with whom the marketplace facilitator has entered into an agreement pursuant to this subsection and such other information as the Department determines is necessary to ensure that each marketplace seller with whom the marketplace facilitator has entered into an agreement pursuant to this subsection has obtained a permit pursuant to NRS 374.130 or registered pursuant to NRS 360B.200.

3. Except as otherwise provided in this section and NRS 374.757, the provisions of subsection 1 apply regardless of whether:

(a) The marketplace seller for whom a marketplace facilitator makes or facilitates a retail sale would not have been required to collect and remit the sales tax or use tax had the retail sale not been facilitated by the marketplace facilitator.

(b) The marketplace seller for whom a marketplace facilitator makes or facilitates a retail sale was required to register with the Department pursuant to NRS 360B.200 or obtain a permit pursuant to NRS 374.130.

(c) The amount of the sales price of a retail sale will ultimately accrue to or benefit the marketplace facilitator, the marketplace seller or any other person.

4. In administering the provisions of this chapter, the Department shall construe the terms "seller," "retailer" and "retailer maintaining a place of business in this State" in accordance with the provisions of this section.

(Added to NRS by 2019, 3690)


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