Effective January 1, 2015, any person or business engaged as a retailer in selling any prepaid wireless service as those terms are defined under ยง10110 of Title 16 of the Delaware Code, must:
- Obtain a State of Delaware E911 Retail Prepaid Wireless License (at no cost) for each location at which prepaid wireless services are sold; and
- Remit to the State of Delaware an E911 Retail Prepaid Wireless Gross Receipts Coupon with the $0.60 E911 Surcharge for each prepaid wireless transaction sold at retail in Delaware. (Filing requirement is quarterly.)
Retail transactions subject to the $0.60 E911 Prepaid Wireless Surcharge are as follows:
- The retail transaction is effected in person by the consumer at a business location of the seller if that location is in Delaware
- The prepaid wireless telecommunication service is physically delivered to consumer at a Delaware address provided to the seller
- The seller records indicate that the consumer’s address is in Delaware
- The consumer gives a Delaware address during the consummation of the retail transaction
- The consumer’s mobile phone telephone number is associated with a Delaware location.
Retail transactions that are exempt from the $0.60 E911 Prepaid Wireless Surcharge are as follows:
- If a minimal amount of prepaid wireless telecommunication is sold. For purposes of the exemption a minimal amount is 10 minutes or less or $5.00 or less.
- The Surcharge shall not apply to prepaid wireless telecommunication service provided to a person through the Lifeline program
To Remit Payment: The Delaware Division of Revenue requires providers to file these forms electronically through the Delaware tax portal at https://tax.delaware.gov
If you have any questions, please contact the Business Tax Section at DOR_BusinessTax@delaware.gov and include (or call) the Assistant Director of Tax Enforcement (Warren Wood at the time of this positing warren.wood@delaware.gov)