TURNER COMMUNICATIONS v. CHILIVIS

32030.

239 Ga. 91 (1977)

236 S.E.2d 251

TURNER COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION v. CHILIVIS.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided April 20, 1977.

Rehearing Denied May 12, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Troutman, Sanders, Lockerman & Ashmore, J. Kirk Quillian, Tench C. Coxe, Ralph H. Greil, for appellant.

Arthur K. Bolton, Attorney General, David A. Runnion, Assistant Attorney General, for appellee.

Huie, Ware, Sterne, Brown & Ide, Tom Watson Brown, Steven B. Kite, King & Spalding, Charles L. Gowen, A. Felton Jenkins, Jr., Robert G. Woodward, Lanny B. Bridgers, Jones, Cork, Miller & Benton, Wallace Miller, Jr., W. Warren Plowden, Jr., Sanders, Hester, Holley, Askin & Dye, J. Carlisle Overstreet, Heyman & Sizemore, Ronald Montalto, Terry P. McKenna, Neal H. Ray, Adams, Adams, Brennan & Gardner, Jay D. Gardner, Julian R. Friedman, amici curiae.


NICHOLS, Chief Justice.

This case is here on a grant of writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals which reversed the lower court by finding that video-taped programs which are leased by television stations for use in television programming are subject to sales tax under the Georgia Retailer's and Consumer's Sales and Use Tax Act. Popular television shows were encoded upon the video tapes and broadcast over the appellant's television station. The lease of these tapes...

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