94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB4994

 

Introduced 01/23/06, by Rep. Dave Winters

 

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 construction materials used to construct an ethanol plant in a depressed area and for tangible personal property used or consumed by any ethanol plant in the processing of ethanol in a depressed area. 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 and through June 30, 2011,
14 all construction materials used to construct an ethanol plant
15 in a depressed area and all tangible personal property used or
16 consumed by any ethanol plant in the processing of ethanol in a
17 depressed area. For purposes of this item (34), "depressed
18 area" has the definition set forth in Section 3 of the Illinois
19 Enterprise Zone Act.
20 (Source: P.A. 92-35, eff. 7-1-01; 92-227, eff. 8-2-01; 92-337,
21 eff. 8-10-01; 92-484, eff. 8-23-01; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02;
22 93-23, eff. 6-20-03; 93-24, eff. 6-20-03; 93-840, eff. 7-30-04;
23 93-1033, eff. 9-3-04; revised 10-21-04.)
 
24     Section 10. The Service Use Tax Act is amended by changing
25 Section 3-5 as follows:
 
26     (35 ILCS 110/3-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5)
27     Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. Use of the following tangible
28 personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
29     (1) Personal property purchased from a corporation,
30 society, association, foundation, institution, or
31 organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
32 organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
33 for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the
34 personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the

 

 

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1 purpose of resale by the enterprise.
2     (2) Personal property purchased by a non-profit Illinois
3 county fair association for use in conducting, operating, or
4 promoting the county fair.
5     (3) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit arts or
6 cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
7 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
8 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
9 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
10 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
11 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
12 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
13 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
14 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
15 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
16 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
17 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
18 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
19 number issued by the Department.
20     (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
21 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
22 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
23 country, and bullion.
24     (5) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again on September 1,
25 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
26 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
27 manufactured on special order or purchased for lease, certified
28 by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
29 production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting
30 as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as
31 catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
32 arts product.
33     (6) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
34 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
35 secondary school located in Illinois.
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1 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
2 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
3 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
4 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
5 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
6 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
7 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
8 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
9 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
10 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
11 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
12 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
13 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
14 this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
15 shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
16 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
17 vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price of the
18 tender is separately stated.
19     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
20 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
21 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
22 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
23 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
24 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
25 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
26 such equipment.
27     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
28 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
29 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
30 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
31 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
32 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
33 agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt from the
34 provisions of Section 3-75.
35     (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
36 common 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 or
3 returning from a location or locations outside the United
4 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
5 stopovers.
6     (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
7 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption of
8 food and beverages acquired as an incident to the purchase of a
9 service from a serviceman, to the extent that the proceeds of
10 the service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
11 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
12 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
13 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
14 imposed.
15     (10) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
16 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
17 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
18 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
19 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
20 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
21 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
22 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
23 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
24     (11) Proceeds from the sale of photoprocessing machinery
25 and equipment, including repair and replacement parts, both new
26 and used, including that manufactured on special order,
27 certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
28 photoprocessing, and including photoprocessing machinery and
29 equipment purchased for lease.
30     (12) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
31 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
32 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
33 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
34 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
35 Code.
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1 for direct agricultural production.
2     (14) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
3 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
4 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
5 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
6 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
7 racing for prizes.
8     (15) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
9 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
10 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients purchased by a
11 lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
12 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
13 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
14 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
15 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
16 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
17 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
18 any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
19 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
20 be, based on the fair market value of the property at the time
21 the non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or
22 attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that purports
23 to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
24 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
25 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
26 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
27 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
28 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
29 liable to pay that amount to the Department.
30     (16) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases the
31 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
32 effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be subject to the
33 tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that has been
34 issued an active tax exemption identification number by the
35 Department under Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation Tax
36 Act. If the property is leased in a manner that does not

 

 

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1 qualify for this exemption or is used in any other non-exempt
2 manner, the lessor shall be liable for the tax imposed under
3 this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based on the
4 fair market value of the property at the time the
5 non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or attempt
6 to collect an amount (however designated) that purports to
7 reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
8 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
9 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
10 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
11 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
12 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
13 liable to pay that amount to the Department.
14     (17) 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 for
17 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
18 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
19 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
20 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
21 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
22 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
23 who reside within the declared disaster area.
24     (18) 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 the
27 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
28 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
29 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
30 line extensions, water distribution and purification
31 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
32 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
33 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
34 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
35 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
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1 at a "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic
2 game hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code
3 or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
4 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
5 the provisions of Section 3-75.
6     (20) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
7 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
8 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
9 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
10 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
11 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
12 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
13 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
14 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
15 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
16 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
17 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
18 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
19 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
20 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
21 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
22 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
23 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
24     (21) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
25 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
26 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
27 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
28 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
29 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
30 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
31 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
32 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
33 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
34 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
35 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
36 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is

 

 

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1 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
2     (22) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
3 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
4 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
5 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
6 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
7 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
8 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
9 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
10 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
11 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
12     (23) Food for human consumption that is to be consumed off
13 the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages,
14 soft drinks, and food that has been prepared for immediate
15 consumption) and prescription and nonprescription medicines,
16 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
17 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
18 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
19 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
20 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
21 the Nursing Home Care Act.
22     (24) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
23 of the 92nd General Assembly, computers and communications
24 equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and equipment used
25 in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients
26 purchased by a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease
27 of one year or longer executed or in effect at the time the
28 lessor would otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this
29 Act, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
30 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
31 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
32 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
33 any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
34 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
35 be, based on the fair market value of the property at the time
36 the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or

 

 

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1 attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that purports
2 to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
3 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
4 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
5 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
6 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
7 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
8 liable to pay that amount to the Department. This paragraph is
9 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
10     (25) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
11 of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property purchased by a
12 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
13 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
14 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
15 governmental body that has been issued an active tax exemption
16 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
17 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased in a
18 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
19 any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
20 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
21 be, based on the fair market value of the property at the time
22 the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or
23 attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that purports
24 to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
25 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
26 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
27 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
28 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
29 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
30 liable to pay that amount to the Department. This paragraph is
31 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
32     (26) On and after July 1, 2006 and through June 30, 2011,
33 all construction materials used to construct an ethanol plant
34 in a depressed area and all tangible personal property used or
35 consumed by any ethanol plant in the processing of ethanol in a
36 depressed area. For purposes of this item (26), "depressed

 

 

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1 area" has the definition set forth in Section 3 of the Illinois
2 Enterprise Zone Act.
3 (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-35, eff. 7-1-01; 92-227,
4 eff. 8-2-01; 92-337, eff. 8-10-01; 92-484, eff. 8-23-01;
5 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; 93-24, eff. 6-20-03; 93-840, eff.
6 7-30-04.)
 
7     Section 15. The Service Occupation Tax Act is amended by
8 changing Section 3-5 as follows:
 
9     (35 ILCS 115/3-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5)
10     Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. The following tangible personal
11 property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
12     (1) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
13 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
14 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
15 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the benefit
16 of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal property
17 was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose of resale
18 by the enterprise.
19     (2) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
20 Illinois county fair association for use in conducting,
21 operating, or promoting the county fair.
22     (3) Personal property purchased by any not-for-profit arts
23 or cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
24 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
25 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
26 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
27 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
28 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
29 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
30 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
31 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
32 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
33 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
34 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make

 

 

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1 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
2 number issued by the Department.
3     (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
4 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
5 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
6 country, and bullion.
7     (5) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again on September 1,
8 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
9 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
10 manufactured on special order or purchased for lease, certified
11 by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
12 production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting
13 as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as
14 catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
15 arts product.
16     (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored student
17 organization affiliated with an elementary or secondary school
18 located in Illinois.
19     (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
20 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
21 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
22 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
23 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
24 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
25 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
26 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
27 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
28 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
29 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
30 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
31 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
32 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
33 this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
34 shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
35 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
36 vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price of the

 

 

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1 tender is separately stated.
2     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
3 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
4 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
5 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
6 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
7 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
8 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
9 such equipment.
10     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
11 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
12 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
13 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
14 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
15 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
16 agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt from the
17 provisions of Section 3-55.
18     (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
19 common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
20 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
21 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for or
22 returning from a location or locations outside the United
23 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
24 stopovers.
25     (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
26 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption of
27 food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
28 service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
29 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
30 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
31 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
32 imposed.
33     (10) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
34 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
35 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
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1 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
2 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
3 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
4 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
5 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
6     (11) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
7 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including that
8 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be
9 used primarily for photoprocessing, and including
10 photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased for lease.
11     (12) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
12 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
13 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
14 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
15 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
16 Code.
17     (13) Food for human consumption that is to be consumed off
18 the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages,
19 soft drinks and food that has been prepared for immediate
20 consumption) and prescription and non-prescription medicines,
21 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
22 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
23 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
24 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
25 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
26 the Nursing Home Care Act.
27     (14) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
28 for direct agricultural production.
29     (15) 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     (16) 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 the
6 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
7     (17) 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 the Retailers' Occupation
12 Tax Act.
13     (18) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
14 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
15 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
16 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
17 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
18 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
19 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
20 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
21 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
22 who reside within the declared disaster area.
23     (19) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
24 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
25 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the
26 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
27 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
28 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
29 line extensions, water distribution and purification
30 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
31 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
32 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
33 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
34 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
35     (20) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold at a
36 "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic game

 

 

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

 

 

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1     (23) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
2 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
3 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
4 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
5 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
6 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
7 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
8 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
9 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
10 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
11     (24) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
12 of the 92nd General Assembly, computers and communications
13 equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and equipment used
14 in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients
15 sold to a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one
16 year or longer executed or in effect at the time of the
17 purchase, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax
18 exemption identification number by the Department under
19 Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. This paragraph
20 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
21     (25) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
22 of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property sold to a
23 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
24 longer executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
25 governmental body that has been issued an active tax exemption
26 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
27 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. This paragraph is exempt from
28 the provisions of Section 3-55.
29     (26) Beginning on January 1, 2002, tangible personal
30 property purchased from an Illinois retailer by a taxpayer
31 engaged in centralized purchasing activities in Illinois who
32 will, upon receipt of the property in Illinois, temporarily
33 store the property in Illinois (i) for the purpose of
34 subsequently transporting it outside this State for use or
35 consumption thereafter solely outside this State or (ii) for
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1 into, attached to, or incorporated into other tangible personal
2 property to be transported outside this State and thereafter
3 used or consumed solely outside this State. The Director of
4 Revenue shall, pursuant to rules adopted in accordance with the
5 Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, issue a permit to any
6 taxpayer in good standing with the Department who is eligible
7 for the exemption under this paragraph (26). The permit issued
8 under this paragraph (26) shall authorize the holder, to the
9 extent and in the manner specified in the rules adopted under
10 this Act, to purchase tangible personal property from a
11 retailer exempt from the taxes imposed by this Act. Taxpayers
12 shall maintain all necessary books and records to substantiate
13 the use and consumption of all such tangible personal property
14 outside of the State of Illinois.
15     (27) On and after July 1, 2006 and through June 30, 2011,
16 all construction materials used to construct an ethanol plant
17 in a depressed area and all tangible personal property used or
18 consumed by any ethanol plant in the processing of ethanol in a
19 depressed area. For purposes of this item (27), "depressed
20 area" has the definition set forth in Section 3 of the Illinois
21 Enterprise Zone Act.
22 (Source: P.A. 92-16, eff. 6-28-01; 92-35, eff. 7-1-01; 92-227,
23 eff. 8-2-01; 92-337, eff. 8-10-01; 92-484, eff. 8-23-01;
24 92-488, eff. 8-23-01; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; 93-24, eff.
25 6-20-03; 93-840, eff. 7-30-04.)
 
26     Section 20. The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended by
27 changing Section 2-5 as follows:
 
28     (35 ILCS 120/2-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 441-5)
29     Sec. 2-5. Exemptions. Gross receipts from proceeds from the
30 sale of the following tangible personal property are exempt
31 from the tax imposed by this Act:
32     (1) Farm chemicals.
33     (2) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
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1 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
2 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
3 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
4 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
5 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
6 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
7 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
8 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
9 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
10 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
11 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
12 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
13 this item (2). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
14 shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
15 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
16 vehicle required to be licensed, if the selling price of the
17 tender is separately stated.
18     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
19 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
20 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
21 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
22 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
23 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
24 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
25 such equipment.
26     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
27 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
28 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
29 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
30 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
31 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
32 agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt from the
33 provisions of Section 2-70.
34     (3) Until July 1, 2003, distillation machinery and
35 equipment, sold as a unit or kit, assembled or installed by the
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1 production of ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption
2 as motor fuel or as a component of motor fuel for the personal
3 use of the user, and not subject to sale or resale.
4     (4) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again September 1,
5 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
6 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
7 manufactured on special order or purchased for lease, certified
8 by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
9 production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting
10 as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as
11 catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
12 arts product.
13     (5) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor vehicle
14 of the second division that is a self-contained motor vehicle
15 designed or permanently converted to provide living quarters
16 for recreational, camping, or travel use, with direct walk
17 through access to the living quarters from the driver's seat,
18 or a motor vehicle of the second division that is of the van
19 configuration designed for the transportation of not less than
20 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in Section 1-146 of
21 the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for automobile renting,
22 as defined in the Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Tax
23 Act.
24     (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored student
25 organization affiliated with an elementary or secondary school
26 located in Illinois.
27     (7) Until July 1, 2003, proceeds of that portion of the
28 selling price of a passenger car the sale of which is subject
29 to the Replacement Vehicle Tax.
30     (8) Personal property sold to an Illinois county fair
31 association for use in conducting, operating, or promoting the
32 county fair.
33     (9) Personal property sold to a not-for-profit arts or
34 cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
35 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
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1 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
2 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
3 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
4 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
5 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
6 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
7 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
8 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
9 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
10 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
11 number issued by the Department.
12     (10) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
13 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
14 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
15 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the benefit
16 of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal property
17 was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose of resale
18 by the enterprise.
19     (11) Personal property sold to a governmental body, to a
20 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
21 organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious,
22 or educational purposes, or to a not-for-profit corporation,
23 society, association, foundation, institution, or organization
24 that has no compensated officers or employees and that is
25 organized and operated primarily for the recreation of persons
26 55 years of age or older. A limited liability company may
27 qualify for the exemption under this paragraph only if the
28 limited liability company is organized and operated
29 exclusively for educational purposes. On and after July 1,
30 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for this exemption
31 shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an active
32 identification number issued by the Department.
33     (12) Tangible personal property sold to interstate
34 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate
35 commerce or to lessors under leases of one year or longer
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1 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate
2 commerce and equipment operated by a telecommunications
3 provider, licensed as a common carrier by the Federal
4 Communications Commission, which is permanently installed in
5 or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
6     (12-5) On and after July 1, 2003 and through June 30, 2004,
7 motor vehicles of the second division with a gross vehicle
8 weight in excess of 8,000 pounds that are subject to the
9 commercial distribution fee imposed under Section 3-815.1 of
10 the Illinois Vehicle Code. Beginning on July 1, 2004 and
11 through June 30, 2005, the use in this State of motor vehicles
12 of the second division: (i) with a gross vehicle weight rating
13 in excess of 8,000 pounds; (ii) that are subject to the
14 commercial distribution fee imposed under Section 3-815.1 of
15 the Illinois Vehicle Code; and (iii) that are primarily used
16 for commercial purposes. Through June 30, 2005, this exemption
17 applies to repair and replacement parts added after the initial
18 purchase of such a motor vehicle if that motor vehicle is used
19 in a manner that would qualify for the rolling stock exemption
20 otherwise provided for in this Act. For purposes of this
21 paragraph, "used for commercial purposes" means the
22 transportation of persons or property in furtherance of any
23 commercial or industrial enterprise whether for-hire or not.
24     (13) Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or shippers of
25 tangible personal property that is utilized by interstate
26 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate
27 commerce and equipment operated by a telecommunications
28 provider, licensed as a common carrier by the Federal
29 Communications Commission, which is permanently installed in
30 or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
31     (14) Machinery and equipment that will be used by the
32 purchaser, or a lessee of the purchaser, primarily in the
33 process of manufacturing or assembling tangible personal
34 property for wholesale or retail sale or lease, whether the
35 sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or by some
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1 owned by the manufacturer or some other person, or whether the
2 sale or lease is made apart from or as an incident to the
3 seller's engaging in the service occupation of producing
4 machines, tools, dies, jigs, patterns, gauges, or other similar
5 items of no commercial value on special order for a particular
6 purchaser.
7     (15) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
8 stated on customers' bills for purchase and consumption of food
9 and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the service
10 charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a substitute for
11 tips to the employees who participate directly in preparing,
12 serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or beverage function
13 with respect to which the service charge is imposed.
14     (16) Petroleum products sold to a purchaser if the seller
15 is prohibited by federal law from charging tax to the
16 purchaser.
17     (17) Tangible personal property sold to a common carrier by
18 rail or motor that receives the physical possession of the
19 property in Illinois and that transports the property, or
20 shares with another common carrier in the transportation of the
21 property, out of Illinois on a standard uniform bill of lading
22 showing the seller of the property as the shipper or consignor
23 of the property to a destination outside Illinois, for use
24 outside Illinois.
25     (18) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
26 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
27 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
28 country, and bullion.
29     (19) 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
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1 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
2     (20) 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     (21) 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     (22) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
14 carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for consumption,
15 shipment, or storage in the conduct of its business as an air
16 common carrier, for a flight destined for or returning from a
17 location or locations outside the United States without regard
18 to previous or subsequent domestic stopovers.
19     (23) A transaction in which the purchase order is received
20 by a florist who is located outside Illinois, but who has a
21 florist located in Illinois deliver the property to the
22 purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.
23     (24) Fuel consumed or used in the operation of ships,
24 barges, or vessels that are used primarily in or for the
25 transportation of property or the conveyance of persons for
26 hire on rivers bordering on this State if the fuel is delivered
27 by the seller to the purchaser's barge, ship, or vessel while
28 it is afloat upon that bordering river.
29     (25) Except as provided in item (25-5) of this Section, a
30 motor vehicle sold in this State to a nonresident even though
31 the motor vehicle is delivered to the nonresident in this
32 State, if the motor vehicle is not to be titled in this State,
33 and if a drive-away permit is issued to the motor vehicle as
34 provided in Section 3-603 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or if
35 the nonresident purchaser has vehicle registration plates to
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1 state. The issuance of the drive-away permit or having the
2 out-of-state registration plates to be transferred is prima
3 facie evidence that the motor vehicle will not be titled in
4 this State.
5     (25-5) The exemption under item (25) does not apply if the
6 state in which the motor vehicle will be titled does not allow
7 a reciprocal exemption for a motor vehicle sold and delivered
8 in that state to an Illinois resident but titled in Illinois.
9 The tax collected under this Act on the sale of a motor vehicle
10 in this State to a resident of another state that does not
11 allow a reciprocal exemption shall be imposed at a rate equal
12 to the state's rate of tax on taxable property in the state in
13 which the purchaser is a resident, except that the tax shall
14 not exceed the tax that would otherwise be imposed under this
15 Act. At the time of the sale, the purchaser shall execute a
16 statement, signed under penalty of perjury, of his or her
17 intent to title the vehicle in the state in which the purchaser
18 is a resident within 30 days after the sale and of the fact of
19 the payment to the State of Illinois of tax in an amount
20 equivalent to the state's rate of tax on taxable property in
21 his or her state of residence and shall submit the statement to
22 the appropriate tax collection agency in his or her state of
23 residence. In addition, the retailer must retain a signed copy
24 of the statement in his or her records. Nothing in this item
25 shall be construed to require the removal of the vehicle from
26 this state following the filing of an intent to title the
27 vehicle in the purchaser's state of residence if the purchaser
28 titles the vehicle in his or her state of residence within 30
29 days after the date of sale. The tax collected under this Act
30 in accordance with this item (25-5) shall be proportionately
31 distributed as if the tax were collected at the 6.25% general
32 rate imposed under this Act.
33     (26) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
34 for direct agricultural production.
35     (27) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
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1 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
2 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
3 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
4 racing for prizes.
5     (28) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
6 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
7 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
8 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
9 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
10 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
11 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
12 this Act.
13     (29) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
14 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
15 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body that
16 has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
17 by the Department under Section 1g of this Act.
18     (30) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
19 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
20 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
21 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
22 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
23 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
24 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
25 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
26 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
27 who reside within the declared disaster area.
28     (31) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
29 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
30 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the
31 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
32 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
33 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
34 line extensions, water distribution and purification
35 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
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1 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
2 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
3 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
4     (32) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold at a
5 "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic game
6 hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code or
7 at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
8 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
9 the provisions of Section 2-70.
10     (33) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
11 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
12 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
13 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
14 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
15 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
16 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
17 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
18 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
19 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
20 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
21 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
22 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
23 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
24 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
25 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
26 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
27 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
28     (34) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
29 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
30 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
31 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
32 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
33 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
34 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
35 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
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1 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
2 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
3 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
4 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
5 exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
6     (35) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
7 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
8 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
9 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
10 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
11 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
12 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
13 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
14 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
15 is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
16     (35-5) Food for human consumption that is to be consumed
17 off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic
18 beverages, soft drinks, and food that has been prepared for
19 immediate consumption) and prescription and nonprescription
20 medicines, drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine
21 testing materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for
22 human use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
23 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
24 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
25 the Nursing Home Care Act.
26     (36) Beginning August 2, 2001, computers and
27 communications equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and
28 equipment used in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of
29 hospital patients sold to a lessor who leases the equipment,
30 under a lease of one year or longer executed or in effect at
31 the time of the purchase, to a hospital that has been issued an
32 active tax exemption identification number by the Department
33 under Section 1g of this Act. This paragraph is exempt from the
34 provisions of Section 2-70.
35     (37) Beginning August 2, 2001, personal property sold to a
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1 longer executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
2 governmental body that has been issued an active tax exemption
3 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
4 this Act. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
5 Section 2-70.
6     (38) Beginning on January 1, 2002, tangible personal
7 property purchased from an Illinois retailer by a taxpayer
8 engaged in centralized purchasing activities in Illinois who
9 will, upon receipt of the property in Illinois, temporarily
10 store the property in Illinois (i) for the purpose of
11 subsequently transporting it outside this State for use or
12 consumption thereafter solely outside this State or (ii) for
13 the purpose of being processed, fabricated, or manufactured
14 into, attached to, or incorporated into other tangible personal
15 property to be transported outside this State and thereafter
16 used or consumed solely outside this State. The Director of
17 Revenue shall, pursuant to rules adopted in accordance with the
18 Illinois Administrative Procedure Act, issue a permit to any
19 taxpayer in good standing with the Department who is eligible
20 for the exemption under this paragraph (38). The permit issued
21 under this paragraph (38) shall authorize the holder, to the
22 extent and in the manner specified in the rules adopted under
23 this Act, to purchase tangible personal property from a
24 retailer exempt from the taxes imposed by this Act. Taxpayers
25 shall maintain all necessary books and records to substantiate
26 the use and consumption of all such tangible personal property
27 outside of the State of Illinois.
28     (39) On and after July 1, 2006 and through June 30, 2011,
29 all construction materials used to construct an ethanol plant
30 in a depressed area and all tangible personal property used or
31 consumed by any ethanol plant in the processing of ethanol in a
32 depressed area. For purposes of this item (39), "depressed
33 area" has the definition set forth in Section 3 of the Illinois
34 Enterprise Zone Act.
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 92-488, eff. 8-23-01; 92-651, eff. 7-11-02; 92-680, eff.
2 7-16-02; 93-23, eff. 6-20-03; 93-24, eff. 6-20-03; 93-840, eff.
3 7-30-04; 93-1033, eff. 9-3-04; 93-1068, eff. 1-15-05.)
 
4     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
5 becoming law.