(35 ILCS 120/2c) (from Ch. 120, par. 441c)
Sec. 2c.
If the purchaser is not registered with the Department as a
taxpayer, but claims to be a reseller of the tangible personal property in
such a way that such resales are not taxable under this Act or under some
other tax law which the Department may administer, such purchaser (except
in the case of an out-of-State purchaser who will always resell and deliver
the property to his customers outside Illinois) shall apply to the
Department for a resale number. Such applicant shall state facts which will
show the Department why such applicant is not liable for tax under this Act
or under some other tax law which the Department may administer on any of
his resales and shall furnish such additional information as the Department
may reasonably require.
Upon approval of the application, the Department shall assign a resale
number to the applicant and shall certify such number to him. The
Department may cancel any such number which is obtained through
misrepresentation, or which is used to make a purchase tax-free when the
purchase in fact is not a purchase for resale, or which no longer applies
because of the purchaser's having discontinued the making of tax exempt
resales of the property.
The Department may restrict the use of the number to one year at a time
or to some other definite period if the Department finds it impracticable
or otherwise inadvisable to issue such numbers for indefinite periods.
Except as provided hereinabove in this Section, a sale shall be made
tax-free on the ground of being a sale for resale if the purchaser has
an active registration number or resale number from the Department and
furnishes that number to the seller in connection with certifying to the
seller that any sale to such purchaser is nontaxable because of being a
sale for resale.
Failure to present an active registration number or resale number and a
certification to the seller that a sale is for resale creates a presumption
that a sale is not for resale. This presumption may be rebutted by other
evidence that all of the seller's sales are sale for resale, or that a
particular sale is a sale for resale.
(Source: P.A. 83-1463.)
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