94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB4235

 

Introduced 12/8/2005, by Rep. Rich Brauer

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
35 ILCS 105/3-5   from Ch. 120, par. 439.3-5
35 ILCS 110/3-5   from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5
35 ILCS 115/3-5   from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5
35 ILCS 120/2-5   from Ch. 120, par. 441-5

    Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides a tax exemption under the Acts for aircraft and parts and supplies that are purchased and used to overhaul, rebuild, refurbish, or remodel an aircraft. Effective immediately.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning revenue.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Use Tax Act is amended by changing Section
5 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 arts or
20 cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
21 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
22 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
23 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
24 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
25 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
26 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
27 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
28 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
29 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
30 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
31 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
32 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification

 

 

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1 number issued by the Department.
2     (4) Personal property purchased by a governmental body, by
3 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
4 institution organized and operated exclusively for charitable,
5 religious, or educational purposes, or by a not-for-profit
6 corporation, society, association, foundation, institution, or
7 organization that has no compensated officers or employees and
8 that is organized and operated primarily for the recreation of
9 persons 55 years of age or older. A limited liability company
10 may qualify for the exemption under this paragraph only if the
11 limited liability company is organized and operated
12 exclusively for educational purposes. On and after July 1,
13 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for this exemption
14 shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an active exemption
15 identification number issued by the Department.
16     (5) Until July 1, 2003, a passenger car that is a
17 replacement vehicle to the extent that the purchase price of
18 the car is subject to the Replacement Vehicle Tax.
19     (6) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again on September 1,
20 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
21 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
22 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be
23 used primarily for graphic arts production, and including
24 machinery and equipment purchased for lease. Equipment
25 includes chemicals or chemicals acting as catalysts but only if
26 the chemicals or chemicals acting as catalysts effect a direct
27 and immediate change upon a graphic arts product.
28     (7) Farm chemicals.
29     (8) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
30 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
31 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
32 country, and bullion.
33     (9) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
34 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
35 secondary school located in Illinois.
36     (10) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor vehicle

 

 

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1 of the second division that is a self-contained motor vehicle
2 designed or permanently converted to provide living quarters
3 for recreational, camping, or travel use, with direct walk
4 through to the living quarters from the driver's seat, or a
5 motor vehicle of the second division that is of the van
6 configuration designed for the transportation of not less than
7 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in Section 1-146 of
8 the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for automobile renting,
9 as defined in the Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Tax
10 Act.
11     (11) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
12 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
13 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
14 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
15 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
16 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
17 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
18 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
19 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
20 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
21 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
22 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
23 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
24 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
25 this item (11). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry
26 boxes shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
27 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
28 vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price of the
29 tender is separately stated.
30     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
31 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
32 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
33 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
34 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
35 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
36 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other

 

 

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1 such equipment.
2     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
3 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
4 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
5 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
6 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
7 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
8 agricultural chemicals. This item (11) is exempt from the
9 provisions of Section 3-90.
10     (12) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
11 common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
12 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
13 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for or
14 returning from a location or locations outside the United
15 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
16 stopovers.
17     (13) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
18 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption of
19 food and beverages purchased at retail from a retailer, to the
20 extent that the proceeds of the service charge are in fact
21 turned over as tips or as a substitute for tips to the
22 employees who participate directly in preparing, serving,
23 hosting or cleaning up the food or beverage function with
24 respect to which the service charge is imposed.
25     (14) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
26 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
27 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
28 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
29 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
30 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
31 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
32 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
33 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
34     (15) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
35 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including that
36 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be

 

 

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1 used primarily for photoprocessing, and including
2 photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased for lease.
3     (16) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
4 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
5 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
6 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
7 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
8 Code.
9     (17) Until July 1, 2003, distillation machinery and
10 equipment, sold as a unit or kit, assembled or installed by the
11 retailer, certified by the user to be used only for the
12 production of ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption
13 as motor fuel or as a component of motor fuel for the personal
14 use of the user, and not subject to sale or resale.
15     (18) Manufacturing and assembling machinery and equipment
16 used primarily in the process of manufacturing or assembling
17 tangible personal property for wholesale or retail sale or
18 lease, whether that sale or lease is made directly by the
19 manufacturer or by some other person, whether the materials
20 used in the process are owned by the manufacturer or some other
21 person, or whether that sale or lease is made apart from or as
22 an incident to the seller's engaging in the service occupation
23 of producing machines, tools, dies, jigs, patterns, gauges, or
24 other similar items of no commercial value on special order for
25 a particular purchaser.
26     (19) Personal property delivered to a purchaser or
27 purchaser's donee inside Illinois when the purchase order for
28 that personal property was received by a florist located
29 outside Illinois who has a florist located inside Illinois
30 deliver the personal property.
31     (20) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
32 for direct agricultural production.
33     (21) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
34 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
35 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
36 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     (22) 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 the
11 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
12 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
13 any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
14 tax imposed under this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
15 case may be, based on the fair market value of the property at
16 the time the non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect
17 or attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that
18 purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
19 Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax
20 has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly
21 collects any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have
22 a legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
23 If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee for any
24 reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
25 Department.
26     (23) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases the
27 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
28 effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be subject to the
29 tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that has been
30 issued an active sales tax exemption identification number by
31 the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation
32 Tax Act. If the property is leased in a manner that does not
33 qualify for this exemption or used in any other non-exempt
34 manner, the lessor shall be liable for the tax imposed under
35 this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based
36 on the fair market value of the property at the time the

 

 

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1 non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or attempt
2 to collect an amount (however designated) that purports to
3 reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
4 Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been
5 paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such
6 amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to
7 claim a refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however,
8 that amount is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the
9 lessor is liable to pay that amount to the Department.
10     (24) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
11 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
12 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
13 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
14 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
15 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
16 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
17 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
18 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
19 who reside within the declared disaster area.
20     (25) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
21 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
22 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the
23 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
24 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
25 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
26 line extensions, water distribution and purification
27 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
28 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
29 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
30 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
31 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
32     (26) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds purchased
33 at a "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic
34 game hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code
35 or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
36 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from

 

 

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1 the provisions of Section 3-90.
2     (27) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
3 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
4 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
5 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
6 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
7 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
8 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
9 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
10 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
11 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
12 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
13 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
14 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
15 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
16 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
17 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
18 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
19 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
20     (28) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
21 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
22 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
23 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
24 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
25 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
26 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
27 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
28 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
29 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
30 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
31 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
32 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
33 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
34     (29) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
35 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
36 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other

 

 

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1 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
2 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
3 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
4 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
5 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
6 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
7 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
8     (30) Food for human consumption that is to be consumed off
9 the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages,
10 soft drinks, and food that has been prepared for immediate
11 consumption) and prescription and nonprescription medicines,
12 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
13 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
14 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
15 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
16 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
17 the Nursing Home Care Act.
18     (31) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
19 of the 92nd General Assembly, computers and communications
20 equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and equipment used
21 in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients
22 purchased by a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease
23 of one year or longer executed or in effect at the time the
24 lessor would otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this
25 Act, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
26 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
27 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
28 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
29 any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
30 tax imposed under this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
31 case may be, based on the fair market value of the property at
32 the time the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect
33 or attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that
34 purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
35 Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax
36 has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly

 

 

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1 collects any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have
2 a legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
3 If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee for any
4 reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
5 Department. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
6 Section 3-90.
7     (32) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
8 of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property purchased by a
9 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
10 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
11 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
12 governmental body that has been issued an active sales tax
13 exemption identification number by the Department under
14 Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the
15 property is leased in a manner that does not qualify for this
16 exemption or used in any other nonexempt manner, the lessor
17 shall be liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the
18 Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based on the fair
19 market value of the property at the time the nonqualifying use
20 occurs. No lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount
21 (however designated) that purports to reimburse that lessor for
22 the tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
23 case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor. If a
24 lessor improperly collects any such amount from the lessee, the
25 lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
26 amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount is not
27 refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is liable to
28 pay that amount to the Department. This paragraph is exempt
29 from the provisions of Section 3-90.
30     (33) On and after July 1, 2003 and through June 30, 2004,
31 the use in this State of motor vehicles of the second division
32 with a gross vehicle weight in excess of 8,000 pounds and that
33 are subject to the commercial distribution fee imposed under
34 Section 3-815.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code. Beginning on July
35 1, 2004 and through June 30, 2005, the use in this State of
36 motor vehicles of the second division: (i) with a gross vehicle

 

 

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1 weight rating in excess of 8,000 pounds; (ii) that are subject
2 to the commercial distribution fee imposed under Section
3 3-815.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code; and (iii) that are
4 primarily used for commercial purposes. Through June 30, 2005,
5 this exemption applies to repair and replacement parts added
6 after the initial purchase of such a motor vehicle if that
7 motor vehicle is used in a manner that would qualify for the
8 rolling stock exemption otherwise provided for in this Act. For
9 purposes of this paragraph, the term "used for commercial
10 purposes" means the transportation of persons or property in
11 furtherance of any commercial or industrial enterprise,
12 whether for-hire or not.
13     (34) On and after July 1, 2006, aircraft and any aircraft
14 repair part, aircraft replacement part, or similar supply that
15 is used for the purpose of becoming a physical component of an
16 aircraft if that part or supply is purchased and used to
17 overhaul, rebuild, refurbish, or remodel an aircraft.
18 (Source: P.A. 92-35, eff. 7-1-01; 92-227, eff. 8-2-01; 92-337,
19 eff. 8-10-01; 92-484, eff. 8-23-01; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02;
20 93-23, eff. 6-20-03; 93-24, eff. 6-20-03; 93-840, eff. 7-30-04;
21 93-1033, eff. 9-3-04; revised 10-21-04.)
 
22     Section 10. The Service Use Tax Act is amended by changing
23 Section 3-5 as follows:
 
24     (35 ILCS 110/3-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5)
25     Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. Use of the following tangible
26 personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
27     (1) Personal property purchased from a corporation,
28 society, association, foundation, institution, or
29 organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
30 organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
31 for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the
32 personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
33 purpose of resale by the enterprise.
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1 county fair association for use in conducting, operating, or
2 promoting the county fair.
3     (3) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit arts or
4 cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
5 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
6 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
7 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
8 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
9 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
10 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
11 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
12 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
13 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
14 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
15 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
16 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
17 number issued by the Department.
18     (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
19 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
20 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
21 country, and bullion.
22     (5) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again on September 1,
23 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
24 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
25 manufactured on special order or purchased for lease, certified
26 by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
27 production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting
28 as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as
29 catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
30 arts product.
31     (6) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
32 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
33 secondary school located in Illinois.
34     (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
35 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
36 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or

 

 

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1 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
2 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
3 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
4 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
5 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
6 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
7 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
8 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
9 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
10 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
11 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
12 this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
13 shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
14 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
15 vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price of the
16 tender is separately stated.
17     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
18 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
19 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
20 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
21 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
22 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
23 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
24 such equipment.
25     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
26 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
27 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
28 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
29 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
30 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
31 agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt from the
32 provisions of Section 3-75.
33     (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
34 common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
35 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
36 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for or

 

 

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1 returning from a location or locations outside the United
2 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
3 stopovers.
4     (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
5 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption of
6 food and beverages acquired as an incident to the purchase of a
7 service from a serviceman, to the extent that the proceeds of
8 the service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
9 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
10 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
11 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
12 imposed.
13     (10) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
14 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
15 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
16 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
17 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
18 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
19 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
20 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
21 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
22     (11) Proceeds from the sale of photoprocessing machinery
23 and equipment, including repair and replacement parts, both new
24 and used, including that manufactured on special order,
25 certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
26 photoprocessing, and including photoprocessing machinery and
27 equipment purchased for lease.
28     (12) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
29 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
30 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
31 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
32 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
33 Code.
34     (13) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
35 for direct agricultural production.
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1 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
2 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
3 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
4 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
5 racing for prizes.
6     (15) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
7 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
8 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients purchased by a
9 lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
10 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
11 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
12 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
13 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
14 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
15 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
16 any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
17 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
18 be, based on the fair market value of the property at the time
19 the non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or
20 attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that purports
21 to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
22 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
23 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
24 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
25 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
26 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
27 liable to pay that amount to the Department.
28     (16) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases the
29 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
30 effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be subject to the
31 tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that has been
32 issued an active tax exemption identification number by the
33 Department under Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation Tax
34 Act. If the property is leased in a manner that does not
35 qualify for this exemption or is used in any other non-exempt
36 manner, the lessor shall be liable for the tax imposed under

 

 

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1 this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based on the
2 fair market value of the property at the time the
3 non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or attempt
4 to collect an amount (however designated) that purports to
5 reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
6 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
7 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
8 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
9 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
10 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
11 liable to pay that amount to the Department.
12     (17) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
13 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
14 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
15 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
16 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
17 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
18 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
19 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
20 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
21 who reside within the declared disaster area.
22     (18) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
23 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
24 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the
25 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
26 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
27 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
28 line extensions, water distribution and purification
29 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
30 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
31 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
32 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
33 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
34     (19) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds purchased
35 at a "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic
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1 or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
2 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
3 the provisions of Section 3-75.
4     (20) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
5 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
6 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
7 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
8 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
9 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
10 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
11 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
12 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
13 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
14 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
15 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
16 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
17 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
18 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
19 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
20 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
21 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
22     (21) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
23 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
24 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
25 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
26 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
27 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
28 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
29 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
30 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
31 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
32 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
33 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
34 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
35 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
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1 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
2 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
3 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
4 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
5 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
6 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
7 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
8 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
9 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
10     (23) Food for human consumption that is to be consumed off
11 the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages,
12 soft drinks, and food that has been prepared for immediate
13 consumption) and prescription and nonprescription medicines,
14 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
15 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
16 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
17 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
18 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
19 the Nursing Home Care Act.
20     (24) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
21 of the 92nd General Assembly, computers and communications
22 equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and equipment used
23 in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients
24 purchased by a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease
25 of one year or longer executed or in effect at the time the
26 lessor would otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this
27 Act, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
28 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
29 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
30 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
31 any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
32 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
33 be, based on the fair market value of the property at the time
34 the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or
35 attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that purports
36 to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the

 

 

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1 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
2 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
3 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
4 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
5 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
6 liable to pay that amount to the Department. This paragraph is
7 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
8     (25) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
9 of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property purchased by a
10 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
11 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
12 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
13 governmental body that has been issued an active tax exemption
14 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
15 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased in a
16 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
17 any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
18 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
19 be, based on the fair market value of the property at the time
20 the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or
21 attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that purports
22 to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
23 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
24 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
25 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
26 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
27 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
28 liable to pay that amount to the Department. This paragraph is
29 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
30     (26) On and after July 1, 2006, aircraft and any aircraft
31 repair part, aircraft replacement part, or similar supply that
32 is used for the purpose of becoming a physical component of an
33 aircraft if that part or supply is purchased and used to
34 overhaul, rebuild, refurbish, or remodel an aircraft.
35 (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-35, eff. 7-1-01; 92-227,
36 eff. 8-2-01; 92-337, eff. 8-10-01; 92-484, eff. 8-23-01;

 

 

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1 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; 93-24, eff. 6-20-03; 93-840, eff.
2 7-30-04.)
 
3     Section 15. The Service Occupation Tax Act is amended by
4 changing Section 3-5 as follows:
 
5     (35 ILCS 115/3-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5)
6     Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. The following tangible personal
7 property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
8     (1) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
9 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
10 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
11 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the benefit
12 of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal property
13 was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose of resale
14 by the enterprise.
15     (2) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
16 Illinois county fair association for use in conducting,
17 operating, or promoting the county fair.
18     (3) Personal property purchased by any not-for-profit arts
19 or cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
20 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
21 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
22 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
23 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
24 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
25 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
26 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
27 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
28 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
29 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
30 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
31 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
32 number issued by the Department.
33     (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
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1 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
2 country, and bullion.
3     (5) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again on September 1,
4 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
5 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
6 manufactured on special order or purchased for lease, certified
7 by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
8 production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting
9 as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as
10 catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
11 arts product.
12     (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored student
13 organization affiliated with an elementary or secondary school
14 located in Illinois.
15     (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
16 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
17 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
18 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
19 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
20 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
21 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
22 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
23 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
24 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
25 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
26 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
27 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
28 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
29 this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
30 shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
31 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
32 vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price of the
33 tender is separately stated.
34     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
35 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
36 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not

 

 

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1 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
2 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
3 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
4 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
5 such equipment.
6     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
7 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
8 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
9 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
10 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
11 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
12 agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt from the
13 provisions of Section 3-55.
14     (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
15 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 or
18 returning from a location or locations outside the United
19 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
20 stopovers.
21     (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
22 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption of
23 food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
24 service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
25 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
26 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
27 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
28 imposed.
29     (10) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
30 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
31 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
32 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
33 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
34 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
35 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
36 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles

 

 

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1 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
2     (11) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
3 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including that
4 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be
5 used primarily for photoprocessing, and including
6 photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased for lease.
7     (12) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
8 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
9 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
10 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
11 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
12 Code.
13     (13) Food for human consumption that is to be consumed off
14 the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages,
15 soft drinks and food that has been prepared for immediate
16 consumption) and prescription and non-prescription medicines,
17 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
18 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
19 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
20 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
21 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
22 the Nursing Home Care Act.
23     (14) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
24 for direct agricultural production.
25     (15) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
26 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
27 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
28 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
29 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
30 racing for prizes.
31     (16) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
32 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
33 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
34 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
35 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
36 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption

 

 

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1 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
2 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
3     (17) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
4 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
5 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body that
6 has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
7 by the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation
8 Tax Act.
9     (18) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
10 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
11 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
12 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
13 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
14 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
15 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
16 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
17 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
18 who reside within the declared disaster area.
19     (19) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
20 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
21 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the
22 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
23 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
24 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
25 line extensions, water distribution and purification
26 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
27 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
28 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
29 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
30 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
31     (20) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold at a
32 "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic game
33 hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code or
34 at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
35 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
36 the provisions of Section 3-55.

 

 

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1     (21) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
2 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
3 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
4 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
5 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
6 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
7 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
8 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
9 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
10 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
11 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
12 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
13 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
14 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
15 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
16 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
17 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
18 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
19     (22) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
20 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
21 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
22 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
23 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
24 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
25 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
26 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
27 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
28 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
29 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
30 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
31 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
32 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
33     (23) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
34 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
35 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
36 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning

 

 

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1 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
2 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
3 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
4 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
5 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
6 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
7     (24) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
8 of the 92nd General Assembly, computers and communications
9 equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and equipment used
10 in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients
11 sold to a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one
12 year or longer executed or in effect at the time of the
13 purchase, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax
14 exemption identification number by the Department under
15 Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. This paragraph
16 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
17     (25) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
18 of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property sold to a
19 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
20 longer executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
21 governmental body that has been issued an active tax exemption
22 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
23 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. This paragraph is exempt from
24 the provisions of Section 3-55.
25     (26) Beginning on January 1, 2002, tangible personal
26 property purchased from an Illinois retailer by a taxpayer
27 engaged in centralized purchasing activities in Illinois who
28 will, upon receipt of the property in Illinois, temporarily
29 store the property in Illinois (i) for the purpose of
30 subsequently transporting it outside this State for use or
31 consumption thereafter solely outside this State or (ii) for
32 the purpose of being processed, fabricated, or manufactured
33 into, attached to, or incorporated into other tangible personal
34 property to be transported outside this State and thereafter
35 used or consumed solely outside this State. The Director of
36 Revenue shall, pursuant to rules adopted in accordance with the

 

 

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1 Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, issue a permit to any
2 taxpayer in good standing with the Department who is eligible
3 for the exemption under this paragraph (26). The permit issued
4 under this paragraph (26) shall authorize the holder, to the
5 extent and in the manner specified in the rules adopted under
6 this Act, to purchase tangible personal property from a
7 retailer exempt from the taxes imposed by this Act. Taxpayers
8 shall maintain all necessary books and records to substantiate
9 the use and consumption of all such tangible personal property
10 outside of the State of Illinois.
11     (27) On and after July 1, 2006, aircraft and any aircraft
12 repair part, aircraft replacement part, or similar supply that
13 is used for the purpose of becoming a physical component of an
14 aircraft if that part or supply is purchased and used to
15 overhaul, rebuild, refurbish, or remodel an aircraft.
16 (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-35, eff. 7-1-01; 92-227,
17 eff. 8-2-01; 92-337, eff. 8-10-01; 92-484, eff. 8-23-01;
18 92-488, eff. 8-23-01; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; 93-24, eff.
19 6-20-03; 93-840, eff. 7-30-04.)
 
20     Section 20. The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended by
21 changing Section 2-5 as follows:
 
22     (35 ILCS 120/2-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 441-5)
23     Sec. 2-5. Exemptions. Gross receipts from proceeds from the
24 sale of the following tangible personal property are exempt
25 from the tax imposed by this Act:
26     (1) Farm chemicals.
27     (2) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
28 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
29 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
30 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
31 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
32 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
33 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
34 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural

 

 

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1 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
2 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
3 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
4 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
5 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
6 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
7 this item (2). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
8 shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
9 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
10 vehicle required to be licensed, if the selling price of the
11 tender is separately stated.
12     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
13 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
14 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
15 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
16 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
17 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
18 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
19 such equipment.
20     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
21 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
22 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
23 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
24 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
25 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
26 agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt from the
27 provisions of Section 2-70.
28     (3) Until July 1, 2003, distillation machinery and
29 equipment, sold as a unit or kit, assembled or installed by the
30 retailer, certified by the user to be used only for the
31 production of ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption
32 as motor fuel or as a component of motor fuel for the personal
33 use of the user, and not subject to sale or resale.
34     (4) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again September 1,
35 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
36 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that

 

 

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1 manufactured on special order or purchased for lease, certified
2 by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
3 production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting
4 as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as
5 catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
6 arts product.
7     (5) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor vehicle
8 of the second division that is a self-contained motor vehicle
9 designed or permanently converted to provide living quarters
10 for recreational, camping, or travel use, with direct walk
11 through access to the living quarters from the driver's seat,
12 or a motor vehicle of the second division that is of the van
13 configuration designed for the transportation of not less than
14 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in Section 1-146 of
15 the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for automobile renting,
16 as defined in the Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Tax
17 Act.
18     (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored student
19 organization affiliated with an elementary or secondary school
20 located in Illinois.
21     (7) Until July 1, 2003, proceeds of that portion of the
22 selling price of a passenger car the sale of which is subject
23 to the Replacement Vehicle Tax.
24     (8) Personal property sold to an Illinois county fair
25 association for use in conducting, operating, or promoting the
26 county fair.
27     (9) Personal property sold to a not-for-profit arts or
28 cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
29 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
30 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
31 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
32 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
33 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
34 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
35 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
36 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,

 

 

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1 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
2 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
3 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
4 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
5 number issued by the Department.
6     (10) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
7 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
8 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
9 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the benefit
10 of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal property
11 was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose of resale
12 by the enterprise.
13     (11) Personal property sold to a governmental body, to a
14 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
15 organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious,
16 or educational purposes, or to a not-for-profit corporation,
17 society, association, foundation, institution, or organization
18 that has no compensated officers or employees and that is
19 organized and operated primarily for the recreation of persons
20 55 years of age or older. A limited liability company may
21 qualify for the exemption under this paragraph only if the
22 limited liability company is organized and operated
23 exclusively for educational purposes. On and after July 1,
24 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for this exemption
25 shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an active
26 identification number issued by the Department.
27     (12) Tangible personal property sold to interstate
28 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate
29 commerce or to lessors under leases of one year or longer
30 executed or in effect at the time of purchase by interstate
31 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate
32 commerce and equipment operated by a telecommunications
33 provider, licensed as a common carrier by the Federal
34 Communications Commission, which is permanently installed in
35 or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
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1 motor vehicles of the second division with a gross vehicle
2 weight in excess of 8,000 pounds that are subject to the
3 commercial distribution fee imposed under Section 3-815.1 of
4 the Illinois Vehicle Code. Beginning on July 1, 2004 and
5 through June 30, 2005, the use in this State of motor vehicles
6 of the second division: (i) with a gross vehicle weight rating
7 in excess of 8,000 pounds; (ii) that are subject to the
8 commercial distribution fee imposed under Section 3-815.1 of
9 the Illinois Vehicle Code; and (iii) that are primarily used
10 for commercial purposes. Through June 30, 2005, this exemption
11 applies to repair and replacement parts added after the initial
12 purchase of such a motor vehicle if that motor vehicle is used
13 in a manner that would qualify for the rolling stock exemption
14 otherwise provided for in this Act. For purposes of this
15 paragraph, "used for commercial purposes" means the
16 transportation of persons or property in furtherance of any
17 commercial or industrial enterprise whether for-hire or not.
18     (13) Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or shippers of
19 tangible personal property that is utilized by interstate
20 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate
21 commerce and equipment operated by a telecommunications
22 provider, licensed as a common carrier by the Federal
23 Communications Commission, which is permanently installed in
24 or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
25     (14) Machinery and equipment that will be used by the
26 purchaser, or a lessee of the purchaser, primarily in the
27 process of manufacturing or assembling tangible personal
28 property for wholesale or retail sale or lease, whether the
29 sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or by some
30 other person, whether the materials used in the process are
31 owned by the manufacturer or some other person, or whether the
32 sale or lease is made apart from or as an incident to the
33 seller's engaging in the service occupation of producing
34 machines, tools, dies, jigs, patterns, gauges, or other similar
35 items of no commercial value on special order for a particular
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1     (15) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
2 stated on customers' bills for purchase and consumption of food
3 and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the service
4 charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a substitute for
5 tips to the employees who participate directly in preparing,
6 serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or beverage function
7 with respect to which the service charge is imposed.
8     (16) Petroleum products sold to a purchaser if the seller
9 is prohibited by federal law from charging tax to the
10 purchaser.
11     (17) Tangible personal property sold to a common carrier by
12 rail or motor that receives the physical possession of the
13 property in Illinois and that transports the property, or
14 shares with another common carrier in the transportation of the
15 property, out of Illinois on a standard uniform bill of lading
16 showing the seller of the property as the shipper or consignor
17 of the property to a destination outside Illinois, for use
18 outside Illinois.
19     (18) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
20 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
21 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
22 country, and bullion.
23     (19) Until July 1 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
24 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
25 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
26 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
27 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
28 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
29 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
30 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
31 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
32     (20) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
33 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including that
34 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be
35 used primarily for photoprocessing, and including
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1     (21) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
2 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
3 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
4 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
5 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
6 Code.
7     (22) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
8 carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for consumption,
9 shipment, or storage in the conduct of its business as an air
10 common carrier, for a flight destined for or returning from a
11 location or locations outside the United States without regard
12 to previous or subsequent domestic stopovers.
13     (23) A transaction in which the purchase order is received
14 by a florist who is located outside Illinois, but who has a
15 florist located in Illinois deliver the property to the
16 purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.
17     (24) Fuel consumed or used in the operation of ships,
18 barges, or vessels that are used primarily in or for the
19 transportation of property or the conveyance of persons for
20 hire on rivers bordering on this State if the fuel is delivered
21 by the seller to the purchaser's barge, ship, or vessel while
22 it is afloat upon that bordering river.
23     (25) Except as provided in item (25-5) of this Section, a
24 motor vehicle sold in this State to a nonresident even though
25 the motor vehicle is delivered to the nonresident in this
26 State, if the motor vehicle is not to be titled in this State,
27 and if a drive-away permit is issued to the motor vehicle as
28 provided in Section 3-603 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or if
29 the nonresident purchaser has vehicle registration plates to
30 transfer to the motor vehicle upon returning to his or her home
31 state. The issuance of the drive-away permit or having the
32 out-of-state registration plates to be transferred is prima
33 facie evidence that the motor vehicle will not be titled in
34 this State.
35     (25-5) The exemption under item (25) does not apply if the
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1 a reciprocal exemption for a motor vehicle sold and delivered
2 in that state to an Illinois resident but titled in Illinois.
3 The tax collected under this Act on the sale of a motor vehicle
4 in this State to a resident of another state that does not
5 allow a reciprocal exemption shall be imposed at a rate equal
6 to the state's rate of tax on taxable property in the state in
7 which the purchaser is a resident, except that the tax shall
8 not exceed the tax that would otherwise be imposed under this
9 Act. At the time of the sale, the purchaser shall execute a
10 statement, signed under penalty of perjury, of his or her
11 intent to title the vehicle in the state in which the purchaser
12 is a resident within 30 days after the sale and of the fact of
13 the payment to the State of Illinois of tax in an amount
14 equivalent to the state's rate of tax on taxable property in
15 his or her state of residence and shall submit the statement to
16 the appropriate tax collection agency in his or her state of
17 residence. In addition, the retailer must retain a signed copy
18 of the statement in his or her records. Nothing in this item
19 shall be construed to require the removal of the vehicle from
20 this state following the filing of an intent to title the
21 vehicle in the purchaser's state of residence if the purchaser
22 titles the vehicle in his or her state of residence within 30
23 days after the date of sale. The tax collected under this Act
24 in accordance with this item (25-5) shall be proportionately
25 distributed as if the tax were collected at the 6.25% general
26 rate imposed under this Act.
27     (26) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
28 for direct agricultural production.
29     (27) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
30 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
31 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
32 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
33 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
34 racing for prizes.
35     (28) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
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1 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
2 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
3 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
4 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
5 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
6 this Act.
7     (29) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
8 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
9 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body that
10 has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
11 by the Department under Section 1g of this Act.
12     (30) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
13 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
14 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
15 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
16 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
17 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
18 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
19 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
20 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
21 who reside within the declared disaster area.
22     (31) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
23 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
24 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the
25 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
26 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
27 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
28 line extensions, water distribution and purification
29 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
30 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
31 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
32 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
33 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
34     (32) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold at a
35 "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic game
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1 at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
2 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
3 the provisions of Section 2-70.
4     (33) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
5 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
6 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
7 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
8 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
9 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
10 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
11 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
12 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
13 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
14 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
15 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
16 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
17 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
18 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
19 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
20 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
21 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
22     (34) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
23 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
24 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
25 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
26 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
27 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
28 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
29 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
30 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
31 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
32 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
33 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
34 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
35 exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
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1 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
2 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
3 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
4 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
5 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
6 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
7 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
8 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
9 is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
10     (35-5) Food for human consumption that is to be consumed
11 off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic
12 beverages, soft drinks, and food that has been prepared for
13 immediate consumption) and prescription and nonprescription
14 medicines, drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine
15 testing materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for
16 human use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
17 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
18 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
19 the Nursing Home Care Act.
20     (36) Beginning August 2, 2001, computers and
21 communications equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and
22 equipment used in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of
23 hospital patients sold to a lessor who leases the equipment,
24 under a lease of one year or longer executed or in effect at
25 the time of the purchase, to a hospital that has been issued an
26 active tax exemption identification number by the Department
27 under Section 1g of this Act. This paragraph is exempt from the
28 provisions of Section 2-70.
29     (37) Beginning August 2, 2001, personal property sold to a
30 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
31 longer executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
32 governmental body that has been issued an active tax exemption
33 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
34 this Act. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
35 Section 2-70.
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1 property purchased from an Illinois retailer by a taxpayer
2 engaged in centralized purchasing activities in Illinois who
3 will, upon receipt of the property in Illinois, temporarily
4 store the property in Illinois (i) for the purpose of
5 subsequently transporting it outside this State for use or
6 consumption thereafter solely outside this State or (ii) for
7 the purpose of being processed, fabricated, or manufactured
8 into, attached to, or incorporated into other tangible personal
9 property to be transported outside this State and thereafter
10 used or consumed solely outside this State. The Director of
11 Revenue shall, pursuant to rules adopted in accordance with the
12 Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, issue a permit to any
13 taxpayer in good standing with the Department who is eligible
14 for the exemption under this paragraph (38). The permit issued
15 under this paragraph (38) shall authorize the holder, to the
16 extent and in the manner specified in the rules adopted under
17 this Act, to purchase tangible personal property from a
18 retailer exempt from the taxes imposed by this Act. Taxpayers
19 shall maintain all necessary books and records to substantiate
20 the use and consumption of all such tangible personal property
21 outside of the State of Illinois.
22     (39) On and after July 1, 2006, aircraft and any aircraft
23 repair part, aircraft replacement part, or similar supply that
24 is used for the purpose of becoming a physical component of an
25 aircraft if that part or supply is purchased and used to
26 overhaul, rebuild, refurbish, or remodel an aircraft.
27 (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-35, eff. 7-1-01; 92-227,
28 eff. 8-2-01; 92-337, eff. 8-10-01; 92-484, eff. 8-23-01;
29 92-488, eff. 8-23-01; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; 92-680, eff.
30 7-16-02; 93-23, eff. 6-20-03; 93-24, eff. 6-20-03; 93-840, eff.
31 7-30-04; 93-1033, eff. 9-3-04; 93-1068, eff. 1-15-05.)
 
32     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
33 becoming law.