Software Technology Transfer Agreements • • • • • • • – Amendments to Regulation 1502 and Regulation 1507 • Overview If you hold patent or copyright interests in non-custom software and you make retail sales of the software on tangible media, then a portion of the proceeds from your retail sales of the software may be excluded from your gross receipts subject to sales tax. If you purchase non-custom software on tangible media in a transaction that is subject to use tax from a retailer who holds patent or copyright interests in the software, then a portion of the price you paid for the software may be excluded from the sales price of the software that is subject to use tax.
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In Nortel Networks, Inc. State Board of Equalization (2011) 191 Cal.App.4th 1259, the Court of Appeal determined that an agreement for the sale of non-custom software could qualify as a technology transfer agreement (TTA). As such, an agreement for the sale or purchase of non-custom software on tangible storage media may qualify as a TTA when the agreement for the sale or purchase also assigns or licenses the right to make and sell a product or the right to use a process that is subject to a patent or copyright interest.
Because Revenue and Taxation Code sections and ) require that the retailer also hold the patent or copyright interests being assigned or licensed, most agreements for sales of off-the-shelf software will not qualify as technology transfer agreements, as explained in a BOE issued on May 27, 2011, addressing the Nortel case. Is my agreement for the sale or purchase of software a technology transfer agreement (TTA)? In order to establish that an agreement qualifies as a TTA, the taxpayer must be able to document that the retailer of the non-custom software sold in tangible form held patent or copyright interests in the software, and transferred the patent or copyright interests to the purchaser of the software under the terms of the agreement. The retailer must be able to provide documentation from the United States Patent and Trademark Office documenting that the retailer obtained the patent, or, in the case of a copyright, the retailer must be able to provide a certificate from the U.S Copyright office or other reasonable and satisfactory documentation to establish original ownership or authorship of the copyrighted work.
If the retailer obtained the patent or copyright interests from another party, the retailer must be able to provide written documentation to show that it held the patent or copyright interests at the time of sale. If you are the purchaser of the software seeking a refund, you will still be required to provide written documentation establishing that the retailer held the patent or copyright interests at the time of the sale. Contpaqi Punto De Venta 2012 Crack. If my agreement is a TTA, what is the amount subject to tax? In general, sales tax applies to a retailer's gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property and use tax applies to the sales price of tangible personal property.