Section 6368.1 Of Article 1. General Exemptions From California Revenue And Taxation Code >> Division 2. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 1.
6368.1
. (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 which are leased, or are sold
to persons for the purpose of leasing, and any sales of tangible
personal property becoming a component part of such watercraft in the
course of constructing, repairing, cleaning, altering, or improving
the same, and charges made for labor and services rendered in respect
to such constructing, repairing, cleaning, altering, or improving,
if any of the following conditions are met:
(1) The lessee uses the watercraft in interstate and 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 lessee functionally uses the watercraft 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 the business of
transporting for hire property or persons, if the yearly gross
receipts of the lessor from the lease of that watercraft to persons
using that watercraft in the transportation of property or persons do
not exceed 10 percent of the cost of that watercraft to the lessor,
or twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), whichever is less.