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91_HB1548
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1 AN ACT concerning taxation.
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
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
23 Revenue Code and that is organized and operated for the
24 presentation of live public performances of musical or
25 theatrical works on a regular basis.
26 (4) Personal property purchased by a governmental body,
27 by a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
28 institution organized and operated exclusively for
29 charitable, religious, or educational purposes, or by a
30 not-for-profit corporation, society, association, foundation,
31 institution, or organization that has no compensated officers
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1 or employees and that is organized and operated primarily for
2 the recreation of persons 55 years of age or older. A limited
3 liability company may qualify for the exemption under this
4 paragraph only if the limited liability company is organized
5 and operated exclusively for educational purposes. On and
6 after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
7 this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
8 active exemption identification number issued by the
9 Department.
10 (5) A passenger car that is a replacement vehicle to the
11 extent that the purchase price of the car is subject to the
12 Replacement Vehicle Tax.
13 (6) Graphic arts machinery and equipment, including
14 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, and
15 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
16 the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
17 production, and including machinery and equipment purchased
18 for lease.
19 (7) Farm chemicals.
20 (8) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
21 silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
22 government of the United States of America, or the government
23 of any foreign country, and bullion.
24 (9) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
25 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
26 secondary school located in Illinois.
27 (10) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor
28 vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
29 vehicle designed or permanently converted to provide living
30 quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use, with
31 direct walk through to the living quarters from the driver's
32 seat, or a motor vehicle of the second division that is of
33 the van configuration designed for the transportation of not
34 less than 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in
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1 Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for
2 automobile renting, as defined in the Automobile Renting
3 Occupation and Use Tax Act.
4 (11) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
5 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
6 the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
7 or State or federal agricultural programs, including
8 individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
9 including machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and
10 including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
11 the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
12 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
13 to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
14 Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
15 registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
16 polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
17 overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
18 equipment under this item (11). Agricultural chemical tender
19 tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
20 a motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold
21 mounted on a motor vehicle required to be licensed if the
22 selling price of the tender is separately stated.
23 Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
24 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
25 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
26 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters,
27 seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
28 but is not limited to, soil testing sensors, computers,
29 monitors, software, global positioning and mapping systems,
30 and other such equipment.
31 Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
32 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
33 the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
34 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
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1 limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
2 animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
3 diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (11) is exempt
4 from the provisions of Section 3-90.
5 (12) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an
6 air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
7 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
8 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
9 or returning from a location or locations outside the United
10 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
11 stopovers.
12 (13) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
13 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
14 of food and beverages purchased at retail from a retailer, to
15 the extent that the proceeds of the service charge are in
16 fact turned over as tips or as a substitute for tips to the
17 employees who participate directly in preparing, serving,
18 hosting or cleaning up the food or beverage function with
19 respect to which the service charge is imposed.
20 (14) Oil field exploration, drilling, and production
21 equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
22 cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
23 goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
24 pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
25 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
26 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
27 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
28 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
29 (15) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
30 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including
31 that manufactured on special order, certified by the
32 purchaser to be used primarily for photoprocessing, and
33 including photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased
34 for lease.
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1 (16) Coal exploration, mining, offhighway hauling,
2 processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
3 replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
4 purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
5 be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
6 (17) Distillation machinery and equipment, sold as a
7 unit or kit, assembled or installed by the retailer,
8 certified by the user to be used only for the production of
9 ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption as motor fuel
10 or as a component of motor fuel for the personal use of the
11 user, and not subject to sale or resale.
12 (18) Manufacturing and assembling machinery and
13 equipment used primarily in the process of manufacturing or
14 assembling tangible personal property for wholesale or retail
15 sale or lease, whether that sale or lease is made directly by
16 the manufacturer or by some other person, whether the
17 materials used in the process are owned by the manufacturer
18 or some other person, or whether that sale or lease is made
19 apart from or as an incident to the seller's engaging in the
20 service occupation of producing machines, tools, dies, jigs,
21 patterns, gauges, or other similar items of no commercial
22 value on special order for a particular purchaser.
23 (19) Personal property delivered to a purchaser or
24 purchaser's donee inside Illinois when the purchase order for
25 that personal property was received by a florist located
26 outside Illinois who has a florist located inside Illinois
27 deliver the personal property.
28 (20) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
29 for direct agricultural production.
30 (21) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
31 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
32 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
33 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
34 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
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1 racing for prizes.
2 (22) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
3 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
4 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients purchased by a
5 lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
6 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
7 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
8 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
9 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
10 the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is
11 leased in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption
12 or is used in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall
13 be liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the Service
14 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based on the fair market
15 value of the property at the time the non-qualifying use
16 occurs. No lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an
17 amount (however designated) that purports to reimburse that
18 lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax
19 Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the
20 lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount from
21 the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
22 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that
23 amount is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the
24 lessor is liable to pay that amount to the Department.
25 (23) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases
26 the property, under a lease of one year or longer executed
27 or in effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be
28 subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental
29 body that has been issued an active sales tax exemption
30 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
31 the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased
32 in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption or used
33 in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable
34 for the tax imposed under this Act or the Service Use Tax
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1 Act, as the case may be, based on the fair market value of
2 the property at the time the non-qualifying use occurs. No
3 lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
4 designated) that purports to reimburse that lessor for the
5 tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
6 case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor. If
7 a lessor improperly collects any such amount from the lessee,
8 the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
9 amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount is not
10 refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is liable
11 to pay that amount to the Department.
12 (24) 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
15 for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally
16 declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
17 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to
18 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
19 institution that has been issued a sales tax exemption
20 identification number by the Department that assists victims
21 of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
22 (25) 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
25 the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
26 including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
27 access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
28 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
29 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
30 facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
31 State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
32 Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities
33 located in the declared disaster area within 6 months after
34 the disaster.
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1 (26) Beginning January 1, 2000, a destination, delivery,
2 or similar charge added to or included in the purchase price
3 of a motor vehicle. This paragraph is exempt from the
4 provisions of Section 3-90.
5 (Source: P.A. 89-16, eff. 5-30-95; 89-115, eff. 1-1-96;
6 89-349, eff. 8-17-95; 89-495, eff. 6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
7 6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-552,
8 eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)
9 Section 10. The Service Use Tax Act is amended by
10 changing Section 3-5 as follows:
11 (35 ILCS 110/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5)
12 Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. Use of the following tangible
13 personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
14 (1) Personal property purchased from a corporation,
15 society, association, foundation, institution, or
16 organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
17 organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
18 for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the
19 personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
20 purpose of resale by the enterprise.
21 (2) Personal property purchased by a non-profit Illinois
22 county fair association for use in conducting, operating, or
23 promoting the county fair.
24 (3) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
25 music or dramatic arts organization that establishes, by
26 proof required by the Department by rule, that it has
27 received an exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
28 Revenue Code and that is organized and operated for the
29 presentation of live public performances of musical or
30 theatrical works on a regular basis.
31 (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
32 silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
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1 government of the United States of America, or the government
2 of any foreign country, and bullion.
3 (5) 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 (6) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
9 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
10 secondary school located in Illinois.
11 (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
12 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
13 the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
14 or State or federal agricultural programs, including
15 individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
16 including machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and
17 including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
18 the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
19 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
20 to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
21 Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
22 registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
23 polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
24 overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
25 equipment under this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender
26 tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
27 a motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold
28 mounted on a motor vehicle required to be licensed if the
29 selling price of the 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,
34 seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
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1 but is not limited to, soil testing sensors, computers,
2 monitors, software, global positioning and mapping systems,
3 and other such equipment.
4 Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
5 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
6 the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
7 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
8 limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
9 animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
10 diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt
11 from the provisions of Section 3-75.
12 (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an
13 air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
14 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
15 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
16 or returning from a location or locations outside the United
17 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
18 stopovers.
19 (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
20 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
21 of food and beverages acquired as an incident to the purchase
22 of a service from a serviceman, to the extent that the
23 proceeds of the service charge are in fact turned over as
24 tips or as a substitute for tips to the employees who
25 participate directly in preparing, serving, hosting or
26 cleaning up the food or beverage function with respect to
27 which the service charge is imposed.
28 (10) Oil field exploration, drilling, and production
29 equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
30 cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
31 goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
32 pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
33 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
34 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
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1 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
2 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
3 (11) Proceeds from the sale of photoprocessing machinery
4 and equipment, including repair and replacement parts, both
5 new and used, including that manufactured on special order,
6 certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
7 photoprocessing, and including photoprocessing machinery and
8 equipment purchased for lease.
9 (12) Coal exploration, mining, offhighway hauling,
10 processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
11 replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
12 purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
13 be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
14 (13) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
15 for direct agricultural production.
16 (14) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
17 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
18 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
19 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
20 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
21 racing for prizes.
22 (15) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
23 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
24 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients purchased by a
25 lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
26 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
27 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
28 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
29 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
30 the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased
31 in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is
32 used in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be
33 liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act,
34 as the case may be, based on the fair market value of the
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1 property at the time the non-qualifying use occurs. No
2 lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
3 designated) that purports to reimburse that lessor for the
4 tax imposed by this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
5 be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor
6 improperly collects any such amount from the lessee, the
7 lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
8 amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount is not
9 refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is liable
10 to pay that amount to the Department.
11 (16) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases
12 the property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or
13 in effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be subject
14 to the tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that
15 has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
16 by the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers'
17 Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased in a manner
18 that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in any
19 other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
20 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case
21 may be, based on the fair market value of the property at the
22 time the non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect
23 or attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that
24 purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
25 Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has
26 not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects
27 any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have a
28 legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
29 If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee for
30 any reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
31 Department.
32 (17) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
33 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
34 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated
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1 for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally
2 declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
3 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to
4 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
5 institution that has been issued a sales tax exemption
6 identification number by the Department that assists victims
7 of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
8 (18) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
9 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
10 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in
11 the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
12 including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
13 access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
14 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
15 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
16 facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
17 State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
18 Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities
19 located in the declared disaster area within 6 months after
20 the disaster.
21 (19) Beginning January 1, 2000, a destination, delivery,
22 or similar charge added to or included in the purchase price
23 of a motor vehicle. This paragraph is exempt from the
24 provisions of Section 3-75.
25 (Source: P.A. 89-16, eff. 5-30-95; 89-115, eff. 1-1-96;
26 89-349, eff. 8-17-95; 89-495, eff. 6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
27 6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-552,
28 eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)
29 Section 15. The Service Occupation Tax Act is amended by
30 changing Section 3-5 as follows:
31 (35 ILCS 115/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5)
32 Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. The following tangible personal
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1 property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
2 (1) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
3 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
4 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
5 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the
6 benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal
7 property was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose
8 of resale by the enterprise.
9 (2) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
10 Illinois county fair association for use in conducting,
11 operating, or promoting the county fair.
12 (3) Personal property purchased by any not-for-profit
13 music or dramatic arts organization that establishes, by
14 proof required by the Department by rule, that it has
15 received an exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the
16 Internal Revenue Code and that is organized and operated for
17 the presentation of live public performances of musical or
18 theatrical works on a regular basis.
19 (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
20 silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
21 government of the United States of America, or the government
22 of any foreign country, and bullion.
23 (5) Graphic arts machinery and equipment, including
24 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, and
25 including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
26 lease, certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
27 graphic arts production.
28 (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored
29 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
30 secondary school located in Illinois.
31 (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
32 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
33 the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
34 or State or federal agricultural programs, including
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1 individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
2 including machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and
3 including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
4 the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
5 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
6 to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
7 Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
8 registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
9 polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
10 overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
11 equipment under this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender
12 tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
13 a motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold
14 mounted on a motor vehicle required to be licensed if the
15 selling price of the tender is separately stated.
16 Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
17 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
18 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
19 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters,
20 seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
21 but is not limited to, soil testing sensors, computers,
22 monitors, software, global positioning and mapping systems,
23 and other such equipment.
24 Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
25 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
26 the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
27 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
28 limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
29 animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
30 diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt
31 from the provisions of Section 3-55 3-75.
32 (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an
33 air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
34 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
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1 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
2 or returning from a location or locations outside the United
3 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
4 stopovers.
5 (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
6 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
7 of food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
8 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) Oil field exploration, drilling, and production
14 equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
15 cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
16 goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
17 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) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
23 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including
24 that manufactured on special order, certified by the
25 purchaser to be used primarily for photoprocessing, and
26 including photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased
27 for lease.
28 (12) Coal exploration, mining, offhighway hauling,
29 processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
30 replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
31 purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
32 be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
33 (13) Food for human consumption that is to be consumed
34 off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic
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1 beverages, soft drinks and food that has been prepared for
2 immediate consumption) and prescription and non-prescription
3 medicines, drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine
4 testing materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics,
5 for human use, when purchased for use by a person receiving
6 medical assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid
7 Code who resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as
8 defined in the Nursing Home Care Act.
9 (14) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
10 for direct agricultural production.
11 (15) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
12 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
13 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
14 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
15 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
16 racing for prizes.
17 (16) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
18 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
19 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
20 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
21 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
22 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
23 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
24 the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
25 (17) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
26 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
27 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body
28 that has been issued an active tax exemption identification
29 number by the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers'
30 Occupation Tax Act.
31 (18) 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 donated
34 for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally
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1 declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
2 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to
3 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
4 institution that has been issued a sales tax exemption
5 identification number by the Department that assists victims
6 of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
7 (19) 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 used in
10 the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
11 including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
12 access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
13 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
14 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
15 facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
16 State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
17 Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities
18 located in the declared disaster area within 6 months after
19 the disaster.
20 (20) Beginning January 1, 2000, a destination, delivery,
21 or similar charge added to or included in the sale price of a
22 motor vehicle. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions
23 of Section 3-55.
24 (Source: P.A. 89-16, eff. 5-30-95; 89-115, eff. 1-1-96;
25 89-349, eff. 8-17-95; 89-495, eff. 6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
26 6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-552,
27 eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98; revised 2-10-99.)
28 Section 20. The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended
29 by changing Section 2-5 as follows:
30 (35 ILCS 120/2-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 441-5)
31 Sec. 2-5. Exemptions. Gross receipts from proceeds from
32 the sale of the following tangible personal property are
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1 exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
2 (1) Farm chemicals.
3 (2) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
4 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
5 the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
6 or State or federal agricultural programs, including
7 individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
8 including machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and
9 including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
10 the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
11 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
12 to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
13 Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
14 registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
15 polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
16 overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
17 equipment under this item (2). Agricultural chemical tender
18 tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
19 a motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold
20 mounted on a motor vehicle required to be licensed, if the
21 selling price of the tender is separately stated.
22 Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
23 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
24 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
25 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters,
26 seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
27 but is not limited to, soil testing sensors, computers,
28 monitors, software, global positioning and mapping systems,
29 and other such equipment.
30 Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
31 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
32 the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
33 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
34 limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
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1 animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
2 diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt
3 from the provisions of Section 2-70 3-75.
4 (3) Distillation machinery and equipment, sold as a unit
5 or kit, assembled or installed by the retailer, certified by
6 the user to be used only for the production of ethyl alcohol
7 that will be used for consumption as motor fuel or as a
8 component of motor fuel for the personal use of the user, and
9 not subject to sale or resale.
10 (4) 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 (5) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor
16 vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
17 vehicle designed or permanently converted to provide living
18 quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use, with
19 direct walk through access to the living quarters from the
20 driver's seat, or a motor vehicle of the second division that
21 is of the van configuration designed for the transportation
22 of not less than 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in
23 Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for
24 automobile renting, as defined in the Automobile Renting
25 Occupation and Use Tax Act.
26 (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored
27 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
28 secondary school located in Illinois.
29 (7) Proceeds of that portion of the selling price of a
30 passenger car the sale of which is subject to the Replacement
31 Vehicle Tax.
32 (8) Personal property sold to an Illinois county fair
33 association for use in conducting, operating, or promoting
34 the county fair.
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1 (9) Personal property sold to a not-for-profit music or
2 dramatic arts organization that establishes, by proof
3 required by the Department by rule, that it has received an
4 exemption under Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue
5 Code and that is organized and operated for the presentation
6 of live public performances of musical or theatrical works on
7 a regular basis.
8 (10) 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
12 benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal
13 property was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose
14 of resale by the enterprise.
15 (11) Personal property sold to a governmental body, to a
16 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
17 organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious,
18 or educational purposes, or to a not-for-profit corporation,
19 society, association, foundation, institution, or
20 organization that has no compensated officers or employees
21 and that is organized and operated primarily for the
22 recreation of persons 55 years of age or older. A limited
23 liability company may qualify for the exemption under this
24 paragraph only if the limited liability company is organized
25 and operated exclusively for educational purposes. On and
26 after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
27 this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
28 active identification number issued by the Department.
29 (12) Personal property sold to interstate carriers for
30 hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate commerce
31 or to lessors under leases of one year or longer executed or
32 in effect at the time of purchase by interstate carriers for
33 hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate commerce
34 and equipment operated by a telecommunications provider,
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1 licensed as a common carrier by the Federal Communications
2 Commission, which is permanently installed in or affixed to
3 aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
4 (13) Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or shippers
5 of tangible personal property that is utilized by interstate
6 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in
7 interstate commerce and equipment operated by a
8 telecommunications provider, licensed as a common carrier by
9 the Federal Communications Commission, which is permanently
10 installed in or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate
11 commerce.
12 (14) Machinery and equipment that will be used by the
13 purchaser, or a lessee of the purchaser, primarily in the
14 process of manufacturing or assembling tangible personal
15 property for wholesale or retail sale or lease, whether the
16 sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or by some
17 other person, whether the materials used in the process are
18 owned by the manufacturer or some other person, or whether
19 the sale or lease is made apart from or as an incident to the
20 seller's engaging in the service occupation of producing
21 machines, tools, dies, jigs, patterns, gauges, or other
22 similar items of no commercial value on special order for a
23 particular purchaser.
24 (15) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
25 stated on customers' bills for purchase and consumption of
26 food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
27 service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
28 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
29 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
30 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
31 imposed.
32 (16) Petroleum products sold to a purchaser if the
33 seller is prohibited by federal law from charging tax to the
34 purchaser.
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1 (17) Tangible personal property sold to a common carrier
2 by rail or motor that receives the physical possession of the
3 property in Illinois and that transports the property, or
4 shares with another common carrier in the transportation of
5 the property, out of Illinois on a standard uniform bill of
6 lading showing the seller of the property as the shipper or
7 consignor of the property to a destination outside Illinois,
8 for use outside Illinois.
9 (18) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
10 silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
11 government of the United States of America, or the government
12 of any foreign country, and bullion.
13 (19) Oil field exploration, drilling, and production
14 equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
15 cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
16 goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
17 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 (20) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
23 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including
24 that manufactured on special order, certified by the
25 purchaser to be used primarily for photoprocessing, and
26 including photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased
27 for lease.
28 (21) Coal exploration, mining, offhighway hauling,
29 processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
30 replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
31 purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
32 be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
33 (22) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an
34 air carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
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1 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
2 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
3 or returning from a location or locations outside the United
4 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
5 stopovers.
6 (23) A transaction in which the purchase order is
7 received by a florist who is located outside Illinois, but
8 who has a florist located in Illinois deliver the property to
9 the purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.
10 (24) Fuel consumed or used in the operation of ships,
11 barges, or vessels that are used primarily in or for the
12 transportation of property or the conveyance of persons for
13 hire on rivers bordering on this State if the fuel is
14 delivered by the seller to the purchaser's barge, ship, or
15 vessel while it is afloat upon that bordering river.
16 (25) A motor vehicle sold in this State to a nonresident
17 even though the motor vehicle is delivered to the nonresident
18 in this State, if the motor vehicle is not to be titled in
19 this State, and if a driveaway decal permit is issued to the
20 motor vehicle as provided in Section 3-603 of the Illinois
21 Vehicle Code or if the nonresident purchaser has vehicle
22 registration plates to transfer to the motor vehicle upon
23 returning to his or her home state. The issuance of the
24 driveaway decal permit or having the out-of-state
25 registration plates to be transferred is prima facie evidence
26 that the motor vehicle will not be titled in this State.
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.
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1 (28) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
2 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
3 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
4 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
5 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
6 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
7 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
8 this Act.
9 (29) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
10 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
11 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body
12 that has been issued an active tax exemption identification
13 number by the Department under Section 1g of this Act.
14 (30) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
15 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
16 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated
17 for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally
18 declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
19 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to
20 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
21 institution that has been issued a sales tax exemption
22 identification number by the Department that assists victims
23 of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
24 (31) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
25 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
26 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in
27 the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
28 including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
29 access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
30 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
31 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
32 facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
33 State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
34 Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities
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1 located in the declared disaster area within 6 months after
2 the disaster.
3 (32) Beginning January 1, 2000, a destination, delivery,
4 or similar charge added to or included in the sale price of a
5 motor vehicle. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions
6 of Section 2-70.
7 (Source: P.A. 89-16, eff. 5-30-95; 89-115, eff. 1-1-96;
8 89-349, eff. 8-17-95; 89-495, eff. 6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
9 6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-519,
10 eff. 6-1-98; 90-552, eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98;
11 revised 2-10-99.)
12 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect on
13 January 1, 2000.