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Title 48. REVENUE AND TAXATION · Chapter 5. AD VALOREM TAXATION OF PROPERTY · Article 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS

48-5-5. No situs status for foreign merchandise in transit and property with contract for commercial printing services.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Regular Session of the General Assembly.

  1. (a)

    Foreign merchandise in transit shall acquire no situs so as to become subject to ad valorem taxation by political subdivisions of this state in which the port of original entry or the port of export of such merchandise is located. Such property shall not acquire situs by virtue of the fact that while in the warehouse the property is assembled, bound, joined, processed, disassembled, divided, cut, broken in bulk, relabeled, or repackaged. The grant of “no situs” status shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes of this Code section.#

  2. (b)

    Property which meets all of the following qualifications shall acquire no situs so as to become subject to ad valorem taxation by political subdivisions of this state:#

    1. (1)

      Such property is owned by a person who is not a Georgia resident and does not maintain or operate a place of business in Georgia;#

    2. (2)

      Such person has contracted with a commercial printer located in Georgia for printing services to be performed in Georgia; and#

    3. (3)

      Such property is provided by such person to such printer for the performance of such services.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1969, p. 980, §§ 1, 2; Code 1933, § 91A-1006, enacted by Ga. L. 1978, p. 309, § 2; Ga. L. 1983, p. 716, § 2; Ga. L. 1998, p. 124, § 1.

Editor's notes

Ga. L. 1998, p. 124, § 4, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that the amendment to this Code section is applicable to all taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 1999.

Law reviews

For article discussing tax exemptions and deductions as incentives for establishment of foreign business in Georgia, see 27 Mercer L. Rev. 629 (1976). For article, “Freeport Exemption from Property Taxes for Inventory Stored in Georgia But Destined for Shipment Out-of-State,” see 28 Ga. St. B. J. 108 (1991).

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