Authority: IC 6-8.1-3-3

Affected: IC 6-2.5

Sec. 9. (a) For purposes of the state gross retail and use tax, an "accommodation" is any space, facility, structure, or combination thereof including booths, display spaces and banquet facilities, together with all associated personal or real property (including land), which is intended for occupancy by human beings for a period less than thirty (30) days including:

1. (1) Rooms in hotels, motels, lodges, ranches, villas, apartments or houses.
2. (2) Gymnasiums, coliseums, banquet halls, ballrooms, or arenas, and other similar accommodations reqularly [sic.] offered for rent.
3. (3) Cabins or cottages.
4. (4) Tents or trailers (when situated in place).
5. (5) Spaces in camper parks and trailer parks wherein spaces are regularly offered for rent for periods of less than thirty (30) days.
6. (6) Rooms used for banquets, weddings, meetings, sales displays, conventions or exhibits.
7. (7) Booths or display spaces in a building, coliseum or hall.

(b) The tax does not apply to rental of meeting rooms to charitable or other exempt organizations to be used in the furtherance of the purpose for which they are granted exemption. –EXAMPLE–

1. If a person moves into a room for an indefinite period, but pays weekly, sales tax must be collected until a person has rented the room for longer than 30 consecutive days. __________

(Department of State Revenue; Ch. 4, Reg. 6-2.5-4-4(020); filed Dec 1, 1982, 10:35 am: 6 IR 18)