A taxpayer’s pre-press publishing equipment purchased after July 1, 1997, did not fall within the scope of the manufacturing exemption and was thus subject to Rhode Island sales tax.
(Rhode Island Division of Taxation, Administration hearing #2000-05, released 1/27/00)
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