The tax rate for deliveries to the UCSB campus is 7.75%. Deliveries to addresses in the City of Santa Barbara are taxed at 8.75%.

Taxable and Non-Taxable Commodities Table

Commodity Taxable Non-Taxable Comments
Tangible Personal Property ("Things") X   Exception: Federal-Title Inventorial (over $5,000) assets.
Gift Cards   X  
Labor - Installation   X  
Labor - Repair   X  
Labor - Fabrication X    
Labor - Assembly X    
Maintenance Contracts - Mandatory X    
Maintenance Contracts - Optional   X If listed and priced separately on invoice.
Printed Sales Messages (Catalogs, Letters, Circulars, Brochures, Pamphlets)   X Non-taxable if all following conditions are met: (1) primary purpose is advertising, (2) printed by special order of the University, (3) mailed/delivered by seller via United States Postal Service or common carrier, and (4) received at no cost to participant.
Printing Services X   All printing of non-advertising materials.
Purchases for Resale   X Only applies when University buys tangible personal property which it in turn resells to another entity (for example, the Bookstore) and collects sales tax at the time of the resale. The University buyer must present the seller with a Resale Certificate in order to have tax waived.
Services   X Except "services that are part of a sale," such as design, fabrication, testing, etc.
Delivery/Courier Services   X  
Employment Services   X  
Software - Boxed X   100% taxable, including license fees, site licensing, and other user-end fees; also, any mandatory maintenance contracts or consulting services. Optional maintenance contracts are 50% taxable.
Software - Downloaded   X Including any mandatory or optional maintenance contracts.
Software - Custom   X Including any mandatory or optional maintenance contracts, and any separately stated modification charges. Boxed software is non-taxable if the customization increases the standard cost by 50% or more.
Subscriptions   X  
Warranties - Mandatory X