Section 6368 Of Article 1. General Exemptions From California Revenue And Taxation Code >> Division 2. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 1.
6368
. (a) There are exempted from the taxes imposed by this part
the gross receipts from the sale of and the storage, use, or other
consumption in this state of watercraft and any sales of tangible
personal property becoming a component part of that watercraft in the
course of constructing, repairing, cleaning, altering, or improving
the same, and charges made for labor and services rendered in respect
to that constructing, repairing, cleaning, altering, or improving,
if any of the following conditions are met:
(1) The watercraft is for use in interstate or foreign commerce
involving the transportation of property or persons for hire.
(2) The watercraft is for use in commercial deep sea fishing
operations outside the territorial waters of this state by persons
who are regularly engaged in commercial deep sea fishing.
(3) The watercraft is functionally used 80 percent or more of the
time in the transporting for hire of property or persons to vessels
or offshore drilling platforms located outside the territorial waters
of this state.
(b) For purposes of this section, it shall be rebuttably presumed
that a person is not regularly engaged in the business of commercial
deep sea fishing if the person has gross receipts from commercial
fishing operations of less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) a
year.
(c) For purposes of this section, it shall be rebuttably presumed
that the watercraft is not regularly used in interstate or foreign
commerce involving the transportation for hire of property or
persons, if the yearly gross receipts of the person using that
watercraft in the transportation of property or persons do not exceed
10 percent of the cost of that watercraft to him or her, or
twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), whichever is less.