Tennessee Code Title 7. Consolidated Governments and Local Governmental Functions and Entities § 7-52-404

A municipality providing any of the services authorized by § 7-52-401 shall make tax equivalent payments with respect to such services in the manner established for electric systems under part 3 of this chapter. For purposes of the calculation of such tax equivalent payments only, the system, plant, and equipment used to provide such services, shall be considered an electric plant, and the revenues received from such services shall be considered operating revenues. For regulatory purposes, a municipality shall allocate to the costs of any services authorized by § 7-52-401 an amount equal to a reasonable determination of the state, local, and federal taxes that would be required to be paid for each fiscal year by a nongovernmental corporation that provides the identical services.