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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 542
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 542 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Use Tax Act is amended by changing
5 Section 3-5 as follows:
6 (35 ILCS 105/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.3-5)
7 Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. Use of the following tangible
8 personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
9 (1) Personal property purchased from a corporation,
10 society, association, foundation, institution, or
11 organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
12 organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
13 for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the
14 personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
15 purpose of resale by the enterprise.
16 (2) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
17 Illinois county fair association for use in conducting,
18 operating, or promoting the county fair.
19 (3) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
20 music or dramatic arts organization that establishes, by
21 proof required by the Department by rule, that it has
22 received an exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
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1 Revenue Code and that is organized and operated for the
2 presentation of live public performances of musical or
3 theatrical works on a regular basis.
4 (4) Personal property purchased by a governmental body,
5 by a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
6 institution organized and operated exclusively for
7 charitable, religious, or educational purposes, or by a
8 not-for-profit corporation, society, association, foundation,
9 institution, or organization that has no compensated officers
10 or employees and that is organized and operated primarily for
11 the recreation of persons 55 years of age or older. A limited
12 liability company may qualify for the exemption under this
13 paragraph only if the limited liability company is organized
14 and operated exclusively for educational purposes. On and
15 after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
16 this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
17 active exemption identification number issued by the
18 Department.
19 (5) A passenger car that is a replacement vehicle to the
20 extent that the purchase price of the car is subject to the
21 Replacement Vehicle Tax.
22 (6) Graphic arts machinery and equipment, including
23 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, and
24 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
25 the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
26 production, and including machinery and equipment purchased
27 for lease.
28 (7) Farm chemicals.
29 (8) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
30 silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
31 government of the United States of America, or the government
32 of any foreign country, and bullion.
33 (9) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
34 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
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1 secondary school located in Illinois.
2 (10) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor
3 vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
4 vehicle designed or permanently converted to provide living
5 quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use, with
6 direct walk through to the living quarters from the driver's
7 seat, or a motor vehicle of the second division that is of
8 the van configuration designed for the transportation of not
9 less than 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in
10 Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for
11 automobile renting, as defined in the Automobile Renting
12 Occupation and Use Tax Act.
13 (11) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
14 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
15 the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
16 or State or federal agricultural programs, including
17 individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
18 including machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and
19 including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
20 the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
21 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
22 to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
23 Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
24 registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
25 polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
26 overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
27 equipment under this item (11). Agricultural chemical tender
28 tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
29 a motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold
30 mounted on a motor vehicle required to be licensed if the
31 selling price of the tender is separately stated.
32 Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
33 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
34 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
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1 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters,
2 seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
3 but is not limited to, soil testing sensors, computers,
4 monitors, software, global positioning and mapping systems,
5 and other such equipment.
6 Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
7 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
8 the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
9 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
10 limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
11 animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
12 diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (11) is exempt
13 from the provisions of Section 3-90.
14 (12) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an
15 air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
16 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
17 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
18 or returning from a location or locations outside the United
19 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
20 stopovers.
21 (13) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
22 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
23 of food and beverages purchased at retail from a retailer, to
24 the extent that the proceeds of the service charge are in
25 fact turned over as tips or as a substitute for tips to the
26 employees who participate directly in preparing, serving,
27 hosting or cleaning up the food or beverage function with
28 respect to which the service charge is imposed.
29 (14) Oil field exploration, drilling, and production
30 equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
31 cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
32 goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
33 pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
34 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
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1 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
2 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
3 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
4 (15) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
5 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including
6 that manufactured on special order, certified by the
7 purchaser to be used primarily for photoprocessing, and
8 including photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased
9 for lease.
10 (16) Coal exploration, mining, offhighway hauling,
11 processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
12 replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
13 purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
14 be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
15 (17) Distillation machinery and equipment, sold as a
16 unit or kit, assembled or installed by the retailer,
17 certified by the user to be used only for the production of
18 ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption as motor fuel
19 or as a component of motor fuel for the personal use of the
20 user, and not subject to sale or resale.
21 (18) Manufacturing and assembling machinery and
22 equipment used primarily in the process of manufacturing or
23 assembling tangible personal property for wholesale or retail
24 sale or lease, whether that sale or lease is made directly by
25 the manufacturer or by some other person, whether the
26 materials used in the process are owned by the manufacturer
27 or some other person, or whether that sale or lease is made
28 apart from or as an incident to the seller's engaging in the
29 service occupation of producing machines, tools, dies, jigs,
30 patterns, gauges, or other similar items of no commercial
31 value on special order for a particular purchaser.
32 (19) Personal property delivered to a purchaser or
33 purchaser's donee inside Illinois when the purchase order for
34 that personal property was received by a florist located
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1 outside Illinois who has a florist located inside Illinois
2 deliver the personal property.
3 (20) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
4 for direct agricultural production.
5 (21) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
6 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
7 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
8 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
9 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
10 racing for prizes.
11 (22) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
12 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
13 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients purchased by a
14 lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
15 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
16 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
17 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
18 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
19 the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is
20 leased in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption
21 or is used in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall
22 be liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the Service
23 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based on the fair market
24 value of the property at the time the non-qualifying use
25 occurs. No lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an
26 amount (however designated) that purports to reimburse that
27 lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax
28 Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the
29 lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount from
30 the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
31 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that
32 amount is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the
33 lessor is liable to pay that amount to the Department.
34 (23) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases
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1 the property, under a lease of one year or longer executed
2 or in effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be
3 subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental
4 body that has been issued an active sales tax exemption
5 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
6 the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased
7 in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption or used
8 in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable
9 for the tax imposed under this Act or the Service Use Tax
10 Act, as the case may be, based on the fair market value of
11 the property at the time the non-qualifying use occurs. No
12 lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
13 designated) that purports to reimburse that lessor for the
14 tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
15 case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor. If
16 a lessor improperly collects any such amount from the lessee,
17 the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
18 amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount is not
19 refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is liable
20 to pay that amount to the Department.
21 (24) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
22 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
23 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated
24 for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally
25 declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
26 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to
27 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
28 institution that has been issued a sales tax exemption
29 identification number by the Department that assists victims
30 of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
31 (25) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
32 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
33 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in
34 the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
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1 including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
2 access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
3 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
4 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
5 facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
6 State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
7 Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities
8 located in the declared disaster area within 6 months after
9 the disaster.
10 (26) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
11 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
12 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary
13 school, a group of those schools, or one or more school
14 districts if the events are sponsored by an entity that
15 consists primarily of volunteers and includes parents of the
16 school children. This paragraph does not apply to
17 fundraising events for the benefit of private home
18 instruction. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
19 Section 3-90.
20 (Source: P.A. 89-16, eff. 5-30-95; 89-115, eff. 1-1-96;
21 89-349, eff. 8-17-95; 89-495, eff. 6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
22 6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-552,
23 eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)
24 Section 10. The Service Use Tax Act is amended by
25 changing Section 3-5 as follows:
26 (35 ILCS 110/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5)
27 Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. Use of the following tangible
28 personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
29 (1) Personal property purchased from a corporation,
30 society, association, foundation, institution, or
31 organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
32 organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
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1 for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the
2 personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
3 purpose of resale by the enterprise.
4 (2) Personal property purchased by a non-profit Illinois
5 county fair association for use in conducting, operating, or
6 promoting the county fair.
7 (3) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
8 music or dramatic arts organization that establishes, by
9 proof required by the Department by rule, that it has
10 received an exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
11 Revenue Code and that is organized and operated for the
12 presentation of live public performances of musical or
13 theatrical works on a regular basis.
14 (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
15 silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
16 government of the United States of America, or the government
17 of any foreign country, and bullion.
18 (5) Graphic arts machinery and equipment, including
19 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, and
20 including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
21 lease, certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
22 graphic arts production.
23 (6) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
24 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
25 secondary school located in Illinois.
26 (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
27 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
28 the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
29 or State or federal agricultural programs, including
30 individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
31 including machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and
32 including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
33 the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
34 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
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1 to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
2 Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
3 registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
4 polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
5 overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
6 equipment under this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender
7 tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
8 a motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold
9 mounted on a motor vehicle required to be licensed if the
10 selling price of the tender is separately stated.
11 Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
12 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
13 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
14 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters,
15 seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
16 but is not limited to, soil testing sensors, computers,
17 monitors, software, global positioning and mapping systems,
18 and other such equipment.
19 Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
20 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
21 the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
22 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
23 limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
24 animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
25 diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt
26 from the provisions of Section 3-75.
27 (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an
28 air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
29 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
30 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
31 or returning from a location or locations outside the United
32 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
33 stopovers.
34 (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
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1 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
2 of food and beverages acquired as an incident to the purchase
3 of a service from a serviceman, to the extent that the
4 proceeds of the service charge are in fact turned over as
5 tips or as a substitute for tips to the employees who
6 participate directly in preparing, serving, hosting or
7 cleaning up the food or beverage function with respect to
8 which the service charge is imposed.
9 (10) Oil field exploration, drilling, and production
10 equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
11 cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
12 goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
13 pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
14 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
15 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
16 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
17 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
18 (11) Proceeds from the sale of photoprocessing machinery
19 and equipment, including repair and replacement parts, both
20 new and used, including that manufactured on special order,
21 certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
22 photoprocessing, and including photoprocessing machinery and
23 equipment purchased for lease.
24 (12) Coal exploration, mining, offhighway hauling,
25 processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
26 replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
27 purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
28 be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
29 (13) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
30 for direct agricultural production.
31 (14) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
32 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
33 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
34 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
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1 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
2 racing for prizes.
3 (15) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
4 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
5 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients purchased by a
6 lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
7 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
8 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
9 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
10 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
11 the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased
12 in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is
13 used in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be
14 liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act,
15 as the case may be, based on the fair market value of the
16 property at the time the non-qualifying use occurs. No
17 lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
18 designated) that purports to reimburse that lessor for the
19 tax imposed by this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
20 be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor
21 improperly collects any such amount from the lessee, the
22 lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
23 amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount is not
24 refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is liable
25 to pay that amount to the Department.
26 (16) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases
27 the property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or
28 in effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be subject
29 to the tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that
30 has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
31 by the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers'
32 Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased in a manner
33 that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in any
34 other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
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1 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case
2 may be, based on the fair market value of the property at the
3 time the non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect
4 or attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that
5 purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
6 Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has
7 not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects
8 any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have a
9 legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
10 If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee for
11 any reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
12 Department.
13 (17) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
14 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
15 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated
16 for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally
17 declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
18 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to
19 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
20 institution that has been issued a sales tax exemption
21 identification number by the Department that assists victims
22 of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
23 (18) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
24 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
25 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in
26 the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
27 including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
28 access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
29 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
30 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
31 facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
32 State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
33 Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities
34 located in the declared disaster area within 6 months after
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1 the disaster.
2 (19) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
3 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
4 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary
5 school, a group of those schools, or one or more school
6 districts if the events are sponsored by an entity that
7 consists primarily of volunteers and includes parents of the
8 school children. This paragraph does not apply to
9 fundraising events for the benefit of private home
10 instruction. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
11 Section 3-75.
12 (Source: P.A. 89-16, eff. 5-30-95; 89-115, eff. 1-1-96;
13 89-349, eff. 8-17-95; 89-495, eff. 6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
14 6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-552,
15 eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)
16 Section 15. The Service Occupation Tax Act is amended by
17 changing Section 3-5 as follows:
18 (35 ILCS 115/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5)
19 Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. The following tangible personal
20 property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
21 (1) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
22 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
23 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
24 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the
25 benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal
26 property was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose
27 of resale by the enterprise.
28 (2) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
29 Illinois county fair association for use in conducting,
30 operating, or promoting the county fair.
31 (3) Personal property purchased by any not-for-profit
32 music or dramatic arts organization that establishes, by
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1 proof required by the Department by rule, that it has
2 received an exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the
3 Internal Revenue Code and that is organized and operated for
4 the presentation of live public performances of musical or
5 theatrical works on a regular basis.
6 (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
7 silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
8 government of the United States of America, or the government
9 of any foreign country, and bullion.
10 (5) Graphic arts machinery and equipment, including
11 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, and
12 including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
13 lease, certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
14 graphic arts production.
15 (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored
16 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
17 secondary school located in Illinois.
18 (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
19 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
20 the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
21 or State or federal agricultural programs, including
22 individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
23 including machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and
24 including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
25 the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
26 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
27 to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
28 Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
29 registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
30 polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
31 overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
32 equipment under this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender
33 tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
34 a motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold
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1 mounted on a motor vehicle required to be licensed if the
2 selling price of the tender is separately stated.
3 Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
4 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
5 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
6 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters,
7 seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
8 but is not limited to, soil testing sensors, computers,
9 monitors, software, global positioning and mapping systems,
10 and other such equipment.
11 Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
12 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
13 the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
14 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
15 limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
16 animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
17 diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt
18 from the provisions of Section 3-55 3-75.
19 (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an
20 air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
21 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
22 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
23 or returning from a location or locations outside the United
24 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
25 stopovers.
26 (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
27 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
28 of food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
29 service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
30 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
31 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
32 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
33 imposed.
34 (10) Oil field exploration, drilling, and production
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1 equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
2 cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
3 goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
4 pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
5 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
6 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
7 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
8 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
9 (11) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
10 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including
11 that manufactured on special order, certified by the
12 purchaser to be used primarily for photoprocessing, and
13 including photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased
14 for lease.
15 (12) Coal exploration, mining, offhighway hauling,
16 processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
17 replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
18 purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
19 be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
20 (13) Food for human consumption that is to be consumed
21 off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic
22 beverages, soft drinks and food that has been prepared for
23 immediate consumption) and prescription and non-prescription
24 medicines, drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine
25 testing materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics,
26 for human use, when purchased for use by a person receiving
27 medical assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid
28 Code who resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as
29 defined in the Nursing Home Care Act.
30 (14) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
31 for direct agricultural production.
32 (15) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
33 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
34 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
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1 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
2 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
3 racing for prizes.
4 (16) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
5 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
6 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
7 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
8 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
9 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
10 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
11 the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
12 (17) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
13 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
14 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body
15 that has been issued an active tax exemption identification
16 number by the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers'
17 Occupation Tax Act.
18 (18) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
19 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
20 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated
21 for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally
22 declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
23 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to
24 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
25 institution that has been issued a sales tax exemption
26 identification number by the Department that assists victims
27 of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
28 (19) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
29 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
30 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in
31 the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
32 including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
33 access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
34 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
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1 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
2 facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
3 State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
4 Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities
5 located in the declared disaster area within 6 months after
6 the disaster.
7 (20) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
8 including food, sold through fundraising events for the
9 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary
10 school, a group of those schools, or one or more school
11 districts if the events are sponsored by an entity that
12 consists primarily of volunteers and includes parents of the
13 school children. This paragraph does not apply to
14 fundraising events for the benefit of private home
15 instruction. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
16 Section 3-55.
17 (Source: P.A. 89-16, eff. 5-30-95; 89-115, eff. 1-1-96;
18 89-349, eff. 8-17-95; 89-495, eff. 6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
19 6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-552,
20 eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98; revised 2-10-99.)
21 Section 20. The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended
22 by changing Section 2-5 as follows:
23 (35 ILCS 120/2-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 441-5)
24 Sec. 2-5. Exemptions. Gross receipts from proceeds from
25 the sale of the following tangible personal property are
26 exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
27 (1) Farm chemicals.
28 (2) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
29 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
30 the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
31 or State or federal agricultural programs, including
32 individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
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1 including machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and
2 including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
3 the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
4 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
5 to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
6 Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
7 registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
8 polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
9 overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
10 equipment under this item (2). Agricultural chemical tender
11 tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
12 a motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold
13 mounted on a motor vehicle required to be licensed, if the
14 selling price of the tender is separately stated.
15 Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
16 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
17 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
18 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters,
19 seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
20 but is not limited to, soil testing sensors, computers,
21 monitors, software, global positioning and mapping systems,
22 and other such equipment.
23 Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
24 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
25 the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
26 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
27 limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
28 animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
29 diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt
30 from the provisions of Section 2-70 3-75.
31 (3) Distillation machinery and equipment, sold as a unit
32 or kit, assembled or installed by the retailer, certified by
33 the user to be used only for the production of ethyl alcohol
34 that will be used for consumption as motor fuel or as a
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1 component of motor fuel for the personal use of the user, and
2 not subject to sale or resale.
3 (4) Graphic arts machinery and equipment, including
4 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, and
5 including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
6 lease, certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
7 graphic arts production.
8 (5) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor
9 vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
10 vehicle designed or permanently converted to provide living
11 quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use, with
12 direct walk through access to the living quarters from the
13 driver's seat, or a motor vehicle of the second division that
14 is of the van configuration designed for the transportation
15 of not less than 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in
16 Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for
17 automobile renting, as defined in the Automobile Renting
18 Occupation and Use Tax Act.
19 (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored
20 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
21 secondary school located in Illinois.
22 (7) Proceeds of that portion of the selling price of a
23 passenger car the sale of which is subject to the Replacement
24 Vehicle Tax.
25 (8) Personal property sold to an Illinois county fair
26 association for use in conducting, operating, or promoting
27 the county fair.
28 (9) Personal property sold to a not-for-profit music or
29 dramatic arts organization that establishes, by proof
30 required by the Department by rule, that it has received an
31 exemption under Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue
32 Code and that is organized and operated for the presentation
33 of live public performances of musical or theatrical works on
34 a regular basis.
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1 (10) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
2 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
3 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
4 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the
5 benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal
6 property was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose
7 of resale by the enterprise.
8 (11) Personal property sold to a governmental body, to a
9 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
10 organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious,
11 or educational purposes, or to a not-for-profit corporation,
12 society, association, foundation, institution, or
13 organization that has no compensated officers or employees
14 and that is organized and operated primarily for the
15 recreation of persons 55 years of age or older. A limited
16 liability company may qualify for the exemption under this
17 paragraph only if the limited liability company is organized
18 and operated exclusively for educational purposes. On and
19 after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
20 this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
21 active identification number issued by the Department.
22 (12) Personal property sold to interstate carriers for
23 hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate commerce
24 or to lessors under leases of one year or longer executed or
25 in effect at the time of purchase by interstate carriers for
26 hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate commerce
27 and equipment operated by a telecommunications provider,
28 licensed as a common carrier by the Federal Communications
29 Commission, which is permanently installed in or affixed to
30 aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
31 (13) Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or shippers
32 of tangible personal property that is utilized by interstate
33 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in
34 interstate commerce and equipment operated by a
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1 telecommunications provider, licensed as a common carrier by
2 the Federal Communications Commission, which is permanently
3 installed in or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate
4 commerce.
5 (14) Machinery and equipment that will be used by the
6 purchaser, or a lessee of the purchaser, primarily in the
7 process of manufacturing or assembling tangible personal
8 property for wholesale or retail sale or lease, whether the
9 sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or by some
10 other person, whether the materials used in the process are
11 owned by the manufacturer or some other person, or whether
12 the sale or lease is made apart from or as an incident to the
13 seller's engaging in the service occupation of producing
14 machines, tools, dies, jigs, patterns, gauges, or other
15 similar items of no commercial value on special order for a
16 particular purchaser.
17 (15) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
18 stated on customers' bills for purchase and consumption of
19 food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
20 service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
21 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
22 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
23 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
24 imposed.
25 (16) Petroleum products sold to a purchaser if the
26 seller is prohibited by federal law from charging tax to the
27 purchaser.
28 (17) Tangible personal property sold to a common carrier
29 by rail or motor that receives the physical possession of the
30 property in Illinois and that transports the property, or
31 shares with another common carrier in the transportation of
32 the property, out of Illinois on a standard uniform bill of
33 lading showing the seller of the property as the shipper or
34 consignor of the property to a destination outside Illinois,
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1 for use outside Illinois.
2 (18) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
3 silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
4 government of the United States of America, or the government
5 of any foreign country, and bullion.
6 (19) Oil field exploration, drilling, and production
7 equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
8 cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
9 goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
10 pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
11 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
12 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
13 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
14 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
15 (20) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
16 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including
17 that manufactured on special order, certified by the
18 purchaser to be used primarily for photoprocessing, and
19 including photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased
20 for lease.
21 (21) Coal exploration, mining, offhighway hauling,
22 processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
23 replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
24 purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
25 be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
26 (22) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an
27 air carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
28 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
29 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
30 or returning from a location or locations outside the United
31 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
32 stopovers.
33 (23) A transaction in which the purchase order is
34 received by a florist who is located outside Illinois, but
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1 who has a florist located in Illinois deliver the property to
2 the purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.
3 (24) Fuel consumed or used in the operation of ships,
4 barges, or vessels that are used primarily in or for the
5 transportation of property or the conveyance of persons for
6 hire on rivers bordering on this State if the fuel is
7 delivered by the seller to the purchaser's barge, ship, or
8 vessel while it is afloat upon that bordering river.
9 (25) A motor vehicle sold in this State to a nonresident
10 even though the motor vehicle is delivered to the nonresident
11 in this State, if the motor vehicle is not to be titled in
12 this State, and if a driveaway decal permit is issued to the
13 motor vehicle as provided in Section 3-603 of the Illinois
14 Vehicle Code or if the nonresident purchaser has vehicle
15 registration plates to transfer to the motor vehicle upon
16 returning to his or her home state. The issuance of the
17 driveaway decal permit or having the out-of-state
18 registration plates to be transferred is prima facie evidence
19 that the motor vehicle will not be titled in this State.
20 (26) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
21 for direct agricultural production.
22 (27) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
23 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
24 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
25 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
26 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
27 racing for prizes.
28 (28) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
29 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
30 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
31 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
32 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
33 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
34 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
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1 this Act.
2 (29) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
3 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
4 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body
5 that has been issued an active tax exemption identification
6 number by the Department under Section 1g of this Act.
7 (30) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
8 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
9 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated
10 for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally
11 declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
12 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to
13 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
14 institution that has been issued a sales tax exemption
15 identification number by the Department that assists victims
16 of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
17 (31) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
18 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
19 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in
20 the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
21 including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
22 access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
23 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
24 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
25 facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
26 State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
27 Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities
28 located in the declared disaster area within 6 months after
29 the disaster.
30 (32) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
31 including food, sold through fundraising events for the
32 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary
33 school, a group of those schools, or one or more school
34 districts, if the events are sponsored by an entity that
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1 consists primarily of volunteers and includes parents of the
2 school children. This paragraph does not apply to
3 fundraising events for the benefit of private home
4 instruction. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
5 Section 2-70.
6 (Source: P.A. 89-16, eff. 5-30-95; 89-115, eff. 1-1-96;
7 89-349, eff. 8-17-95; 89-495, eff. 6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
8 6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-519,
9 eff. 6-1-98; 90-552, eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98;
10 revised 2-10-99.)
11 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
12 becoming law.".
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