Operations Center Incentives

Telemarketing Exemptions And Deduction

New Mexico is home to many teleservice centers. Receipts for WATS (wide area telephone service) and private communications services are deducted from gross receipts tax and interstate telecommunications gross receipts tax.

• applies to companies that process phone orders and inquiries
• prevents double taxation of interstate telecommunications by exempting taxes paid to other states or their political subdivisions, saving 4.25%
• WATS service entitles a subscriber to either make or receive large volumes of communications to or from persons in specified geographical areas for a flat rate, which is calculated on the total duration of all such calls and the subscriber's selected geographic area.
  

Receipts from selling interstate telecommunications services that originate or terminate in New Mexico and are thus subject to the interstate telecommunications gross receipts tax, are exempt from the gross receipts tax.

Receipts from “wide area telephone service” and private telecommunications services are deductible from the interstate telecommunications gross receipts tax.

For more information or a free custom analysis of tax incentives for your company, call 800-226-2935 or email us .

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