Transfer of License

  1. Law
  2. Tennessee Code
  3. Taxes and Licenses
  4. Privilege and Excise Taxes
  5. Collection and Licenses Generally
  6. Transfer of License

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  1. The right to sell goods or to exercise a privilege in any county for one (1) year, conferred upon the grantee of a license from the county clerk, may be used by the grantee in another county, or by a purchaser of the grantee's stock or trade of the grantee's business, or by a new firm formed by the death, withdrawal, or addition of a member of a licensed firm, in the following manner:
    1. In case of a sale of the stock or business, the person making the sale shall immediately go before the county clerk, and make affidavit of the amount on which the person making the sale is then bound to pay taxes, and pay the tax, and surrender the original license; the purchaser of the stock or business, unless the purchaser is a person already licensed, shall at the same time make a statement, on oath, of the amount, if any, that has been added by the purchaser to the stock or business, and pay the amount due on the stock or business, and take out a license as an original applicant;
    2. In case of removal to another county, the grantee of the license shall go before the clerk who issued the license, and make a statement, on oath, of the amount of taxes the grantee is then bound to pay, and pay the tax, and surrender the original license, and take from the clerk a certificate of the fact. Upon presenting such certificate to the clerk of the county to which the grantee has removed, and making affidavit before the clerk of the amount added to the stock or business, if any, and paying the taxes on the stock or business, a license shall be issued to the grantee as an original applicant; and
    3. In case a member or members die, retire from or are added to a licensed firm, the surviving or remaining partners or new firm shall immediately appear before the county clerk, and surrender the original license, pay the revenue then accrued on the license, and take out a new license as an original applicant.
  2. Whenever the ownership of a business on which a privilege tax is levied shall become changed by sale or otherwise, the purchaser of the business shall be required to notify the county clerk of the county in which such business is located of such transfer and receive a transfer of the privilege tax, if assignable, in the purchaser's name, for which the purchaser shall pay a fee of one dollar ($1.00) to the state and a fee of fifty cents (50¢) to the county clerk for making such transfer.

Code 1858, § 703 (deriv. Acts 1847-1848, ch. 146, §§ 1-3); Shan., § 1002; Code 1932, § 1730; Acts 1945, ch. 7, § 1; C. Supp. 1950, § 1125.1 (Williams, § 1248.142n); impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 67-5308, 67-5309.


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