Public Act 90-0267 of the 90th General Assembly
Public Act 90-0267
HB1417 Enrolled LRB9003559KDks
AN ACT to amend the Counties Code by changing Section
5-1006.5.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Counties Code is amended by changing
Section 5-1006.5 as follows:
(55 ILCS 5/5-1006.5)
Sec. 5-1006.5. Special County Retailers' Occupation Tax
For Public Safety.
(a) The county board of any county with a population in
excess of 180,000 inhabitants, as determined by the most
recent decennial census, may impose a tax upon all persons
engaged in the business of selling tangible personal
property, other than personal property titled or registered
with an agency of this State's government, at retail in the
county on the gross receipts from the sales made in the
course of business to provide revenue to be used exclusively
for public safety purposes in that county, if a proposition
for the tax has been submitted to the electors of that county
and approved by a majority of those voting on the question.
If imposed, this tax shall be imposed only in one-quarter
percent increments. By resolution, the county board may order
the proposition to be submitted at any election. The county
clerk shall certify the question to the proper election
authority, who shall submit the proposition at an election in
accordance with the general election law.
The proposition shall be in substantially the following
form:
"Shall (name of county) be authorized to impose a
public safety tax at the rate of .... upon all persons
engaged in the business of selling tangible personal
property at retail in the county on gross receipts from
the sales made in the course of their business to be used
for crime prevention, detention, and other public safety
purposes?"
Votes shall be recorded as Yes or No. If a majority of the
electors voting on the proposition vote in favor of it, the
county may impose the tax.
This additional tax may not be imposed on the sales of
food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the
premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages,
soft drinks, and food which has been prepared for immediate
consumption) and prescription and non-prescription medicines,
drugs, medical appliances and insulin, urine testing
materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics. The tax
imposed by a county under this Section and all civil
penalties that may be assessed as an incident of the tax
shall be collected and enforced by the Illinois Department of
Revenue. The certificate of registration that is issued by
the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation
Tax Act shall permit the retailer to engage in a business
that is taxable without registering separately with the
Department under an ordinance or resolution under this
Section. The Department has full power to administer and
enforce this Section, to collect all taxes and penalties due
under this Section, to dispose of taxes and penalties so
collected in the manner provided in this Section, and to
determine all rights to credit memoranda arising on account
of the erroneous payment of a tax or penalty under this
Section. In the administration of and compliance with this
Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this
Section shall (i) have the same rights, remedies, privileges,
immunities, powers, and duties, (ii) be subject to the same
conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, and
definitions of terms, and (iii) employ the same modes of
procedure as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1a-1, 1d, 1e,
1f, 1i, 1j, 2, 2-10 (in respect to all provisions contained
in those Sections other than the State rate of tax), 2-40,
2a, 2b, 2c, 3 (except provisions relating to transaction
returns and quarter monthly payments), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d,
5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 11a, 12, and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act and
Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act as if
those provisions were set forth in this Section.
Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority
granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their
sellers' tax liability by separately stating the tax as an
additional charge, which charge may be stated in combination,
in a single amount, with State tax which sellers are required
to collect under the Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracketed
schedules as the Department may prescribe.
Whenever the Department determines that a refund should
be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a
credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State
Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the
amount specified and to the person named in the notification
from the Department. The refund shall be paid by the State
Treasurer out of the County Public Safety Retailers'
Occupation Tax Fund.
(b) If a tax has been imposed under subsection (a), a
service occupation tax shall also be imposed at the same rate
upon all persons engaged, in the county, in the business of
making sales of service, who, as an incident to making those
sales of service, transfer tangible personal property within
the county as an incident to a sale of service. This tax may
not be imposed on sales of food for human consumption that is
to be consumed off the premises where it is sold (other than
alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, and food prepared for
immediate consumption) and prescription and non-prescription
medicines, drugs, medical appliances and insulin, urine
testing materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics.
The tax imposed under this subsection and all civil penalties
that may be assessed as an incident thereof shall be
collected and enforced by the Department of Revenue. The
Department has full power to administer and enforce this
subsection; to collect all taxes and penalties due hereunder;
to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in the manner
hereinafter provided; and to determine all rights to credit
memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax
or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and
compliance with this subsection, the Department and persons
who are subject to this paragraph shall (i) have the same
rights, remedies, privileges, immunities, powers, and duties,
(ii) be subject to the same conditions, restrictions,
limitations, penalties, exclusions, exemptions, and
definitions of terms, and (iii) employ the same modes of
procedure as are prescribed in Sections 1a-1, 2 (except that
the reference to State in the definition of supplier
maintaining a place of business in this State shall mean the
county), 2a, 3 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions
therein other than the State rate of tax), 4 (except that the
reference to the State shall be to the county), 5, 7, 8
(except that the jurisdiction to which the tax shall be a
debt to the extent indicated in that Section 8 shall be the
county), 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and
penalties collected, and except that the returned merchandise
credit for this tax may not be taken against any State tax),
10, 11, 12 (except the reference therein to Section 2b of the
Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any reference
to the State shall mean the county), the first paragraph of
Section 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 of the Service Occupation
Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest
Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.
Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority
granted in this subsection may reimburse themselves for their
serviceman's tax liability by separately stating the tax as
an additional charge, which charge may be stated in
combination, in a single amount, with State tax that
servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service Use
Tax Act, in accordance with such bracket schedules as the
Department may prescribe.
Whenever the Department determines that a refund should
be made under this subsection to a claimant instead of
issuing a credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the
State Comptroller, who shall cause the warrant to be drawn
for the amount specified, and to the person named, in the
notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid
by the State Treasurer out of the County Public Safety
Retailers' Occupation Fund.
Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to
authorize the county to impose a tax upon the privilege of
engaging in any business which under the Constitution of the
United States may not be made the subject of taxation by the
State.
(c) The Department shall immediately pay over to the
State Treasurer, Ex Officio, as trustee, all taxes and
penalties collected under this Section to be deposited into
the County Public Safety Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund,
which is created in the State treasury. On or before the
25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall prepare
and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated
sums of money to the counties from which retailers have paid
taxes or penalties to the Department during the second
preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each
county shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda)
collected under this Section during the second preceding
calendar month by the Department plus an amount the
Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that
were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not
including (i) an amount equal to the amount of refunds made
during the second preceding calendar month by the Department
on behalf of the county and (ii) any amount that the
Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that
were payable to a different taxing body but were erroneously
paid to the county. Within 10 days after receipt by the
Comptroller of the disbursement certification to the counties
provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller
by the Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to
be drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with
directions contained in the certification.
In addition to the disbursement required by the preceding
paragraph, an allocation shall be made in March of each year
to each county that received more than $500,000 in
disbursements under the preceding paragraph in the preceding
calendar year. The allocation shall be in an amount equal to
the average monthly distribution made to each such county
under the preceding paragraph during the preceding calendar
year (excluding the 2 months of highest receipts). The
distribution made in March of each year subsequent to the
year in which an allocation was made pursuant to this
paragraph and the preceding paragraph shall be reduced by the
amount allocated and disbursed under this paragraph in the
preceding calendar year. The Department shall prepare and
certify to the Comptroller for disbursement the allocations
made in accordance with this paragraph.
(d) For the purpose of determining the local
governmental unit whose tax is applicable, a retail sale by a
producer of coal or another mineral mined in Illinois is a
sale at retail at the place where the coal or other mineral
mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth. This
paragraph does not apply to coal or another mineral when it
is delivered or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a
point outside Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the
United States Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign
commerce.
(e) Nothing in this Section shall be construed to
authorize a county to impose a tax upon the privilege of
engaging in any business that under the Constitution of the
United States may not be made the subject of taxation by this
State.
(e-5) If a county imposes a tax under this Section, the
county board may, by ordinance, discontinue or lower the rate
of the tax. If the county board lowers the tax rate or
discontinues the tax, a referendum must be held in accordance
with subsection (a) of this Section in order to increase the
rate of the tax or to reimpose the discontinued tax.
(f) The results of any election authorizing a
proposition to impose a tax under this Section or effecting a
change in the rate of tax, or any ordinance lowering the rate
or discontinuing the tax, shall be certified by the county
clerk and filed with the Illinois Department of Revenue on or
before the first day of June. The Illinois Department of
Revenue shall then proceed to administer and enforce this
Section or to lower the rate or discontinue the tax, as the
case may be, as of the first day of January next following
the filing.
(g) When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement
to a county under this Section, the Department shall increase
or decrease the amounts by an amount necessary to offset any
miscalculation of previous disbursements. The offset amount
shall be the amount erroneously disbursed within the previous
6 months from the time a miscalculation is discovered.
(h) This Section may be cited as the "Special County
Occupation Tax For Public Safety Law".
(Source: P.A. 89-107, eff. 1-1-96.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.