If your business rents heavy equipment, you’ll need to register and collect a 2.25% heavy equipment rental excise tax. This type of equipment was previously subject to personal property tax, however HEA 1323 (2018) imposes this new tax type effective January 1, 2019.
The heavy equipment rental excise tax is imposed upon the rental of heavy rental equipment from a retail merchant and from a location in Indiana for a period of 365 days or less or for a rental contract with no specified due date.
More details on what types of equipment are subject to heavy vehicle rental tax can be found in General Tax Information Bulletin 211.
How to Register
- To register to collect heavy equipment rental tax visit the INBiz website.
- Existing businesses with a sales tax account already open, should add this new tax type to the existing sales tax location through INBiz.
How to File
The heavy equipment rental excise tax adopts the filing requirements of sales tax.
Tax filing deadlines for early filers is the 20th of each month or the 30th of the month for other monthly filers. A complete list of dates can be found on our tax filing deadlines webpage.
More information on this tax type can be found in General Tax Information Bulletin 211.
You can now file and pay your Heavy Equipment Rental Tax (HRT) and Food and Beverage Tax (FAB) using your INTIME account. The ACH credit payment method is also available. Check out the EFT-100 Program Information Guide to see how.