A. Exempted from the gross receipts tax and from the governmental gross receipts tax are the receipts from selling livestock and receipts of growers, producers, trappers or nonprofit marketing associations from selling livestock, live poultry, unprocessed agricultural products, hides or pelts. Persons engaged in the business of buying and selling wool or mohair or of buying and selling livestock on their own account are producers for the purposes of this section.
B. Receipts from selling dairy products at retail are not exempted from the gross receipts tax.
C. As used in this section, "livestock" means all domestic or domesticated animals that are used or raised on a farm or ranch, including the carcasses thereof, and also includes horses, asses, mules, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, bison, poultry, ostriches, emus, rheas, camelids and farmed cervidae upon any land in New Mexico; provided that for the purposes of Chapter 77, Article 9 NMSA 1978, "animals" or "livestock" have the meaning defined in that article. "Animals" or "livestock" does not include canine or feline animals. For the purpose of the rules governing meat inspection, wild animals, poultry and birds used for human consumption shall also be included within the meaning of "animals" or "livestock".
History: 1953 Comp., § 72-16A-12.6, enacted by Laws 1969, ch. 144, § 11; 1991, ch. 9, § 27; 1992, ch. 48, § 1; 1993, ch. 31, § 6; 2011, ch. 81, § 1.
The 2011 amendment, effective June 17, 2011, added a definition of "livestock".
The 1993 amendment, effective July 1, 1993, inserted "and governmental gross receipts tax" in the catchline and inserted "and from the governmental gross receipts tax" in the first sentence.
The 1992 amendment, effective July 1, 1992, deleted "or horses" following "livestock" near the beginning of the first sentence, and inserted "or of buying and selling livestock" in the second sentence.
The 1991 amendment, effective July 1, 1991, inserted "from selling livestock or horses and receipts" and deleted "livestock" preceding "live poultry" in the first sentence and, in the second sentence, deleted "or of buying and selling livestock" following "mohair".
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