(35 ILCS 638/10)
Sec. 10.
Definitions.
As used in this Act:
"Charges for mobile telecommunications services" means any charge for, or
associated with, the provision of commercial mobile radio service, as defined
in Section 20.3 of Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations as in effect on
June 1, 1999, or any charge for, or associated with, a service provided as an
adjunct to a commercial mobile radio service, that is billed to the customer by
or for the customer's home service provider regardless of whether individual
transmissions originate or terminate within the licensed service area of the
home service provider.
"Customer" means (i) the person or entity that contracts with the home
service provider for mobile telecommunications services or (ii) if the end
user of mobile telecommunications services is not the contracting party, the
end user of the mobile telecommunications services, but this clause (ii)
applies
only for the purpose of determining the place of primary use. "Customer" does
not include (i) a reseller of mobile telecommunications service or (ii) a
serving carrier under an arrangement to serve the customer outside the home
service provider's licensed service area.
"Designated database provider" means a corporation, association, or other
entity representing all the political subdivisions of a State that is:
(i) responsible for providing an electronic database |
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(ii) approved by municipal and county associations or
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"Enhanced zip code" means a United States postal zip code of 9 or more
digits.
"Home service provider" means the facilities-based carrier or reseller with
which the customer contracts for the provision of mobile telecommunications
services.
"Licensed service area" means the geographic area in which the home service
provider is authorized by law or contract to provide commercial mobile radio
service to the customer.
"Mobile telecommunications service" means commercial mobile radio service, as
defined in Section 20.3 of Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations as in
effect on June 1, 1999.
"Place of primary use" means the street address representative of where the
customer's use of the mobile telecommunications service primarily occurs, which
must be:
(i) the residential street address or the primary
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(ii) within the licensed service area of the home
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"Prepaid telephone calling services" means the right to purchase exclusively
telecommunications services that must be paid for in advance that enables the
origination of calls using an access number, authorization code, or both,
whether manually or electronically dialed, if the remaining amount of units of
service that have been prepaid is known by the provider of the prepaid service
on a continuous basis.
"Reseller" means a provider who purchases telecommunications services from
another telecommunications service provider and then resells, uses as a
component part of, or integrates the purchased services into a mobile
telecommunications service. "Reseller" does not include a serving carrier with
which a home service provider arranges for the services to its customers
outside the home service provider's licensed service area.
"Serving carrier" means a facilities-based carrier providing mobile
telecommunications service to a customer outside a home service provider's or
reseller's licensed service area.
"Taxing jurisdiction" means any of the several states, the District of
Columbia, or any territory or possession of the United States, any
municipality, city, county, township, parish, transportation district, or
assessment jurisdiction, or any other political subdivision within the
territorial limits of the United States with the authority to impose a tax,
charge, or fee.
(Source: P.A. 92-474, eff. 8-1-02.)
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(35 ILCS 638/15)
Sec. 15.
Application of this Act.
The provisions of this Act shall apply
as follows:
(a) General provisions. This Act shall apply to any tax, charge, or fee
levied by the State or a taxing jurisdiction within this State as a fixed
charge for each customer or measured by gross amounts charged to customers for
mobile telecommunications services, regardless of whether the tax, charge, or
fee is imposed on the vendor or customer of the service and regardless of the
terminology used to describe the tax, charge, or fee.
(b) General exceptions. This Act does not apply to:
(1) any tax, charge, or fee levied upon or measured |
| by the net income, capital stock, net worth, or property value of the provider of mobile telecommunications service;
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(2) any tax, charge, or fee that is applied to an
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(3) any tax, charge, or fee that represents
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| compensation for a mobile telecommunications service provider's use of public rights of way or other public property, provided that such tax, charge, or fee is not levied by the taxing jurisdiction as a fixed charge for each customer or measured by gross amounts charged to customers for mobile telecommunications services;
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(4) any generally applicable business and occupation
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| tax that is imposed by a State, is applied to gross receipts or gross proceeds, is the legal liability of the home service provider, and that statutorily allows the home service provider to elect to use the sourcing method required in this Act;
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(5) any fee related to obligations under Section 254
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(6) any tax, charge, or fee imposed by the Federal
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(c) Specific exceptions. The provisions of this Act:
(1) do not apply to the determination of the taxing
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(2) do not affect the taxability of either the
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| initial sale of mobile telecommunications services or subsequent resale of such services, whether as sales of such services alone or as a part of a bundled product, if the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act would preclude a taxing jurisdiction from subjecting the charges of the sale of such services to a tax, charge, or fee, but this Section provides no evidence of the intent of the General Assembly with respect to the applicability of the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act to such charges; and
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(3) do not apply to the determination of the taxing
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| situs of air-ground radiotelephone service as defined in Section 22.99 of Title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations as in effect on June 1, 1999.
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(d) Date of applicability. The provisions of this Act apply to customer
bills issued on or after August 1, 2002.
(Source: P.A. 92-474, eff. 8-1-02.)
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(35 ILCS 638/25)
Sec. 25.
Provision of electronic database.
(a) The State may provide an electronic database to a home service provider
or, if the State does not provide such an electronic database to home service
providers, then the designated database provider may provide an electronic
database to a home service provider.
(b) The electronic database, whether provided by the State or the designated
database provider, shall:
(1) be provided in a format approved by the American |
| National Standards Institute's Accredited Standards Committee X12, that, allowing for de minimis deviations, designates for each street address in the State, including to the extent practical, any multiple postal street addresses applicable to one street location, the appropriate taxing jurisdictions, and the appropriate code for each taxing jurisdiction, for each level of taxing jurisdiction, identified by one nationwide standard numeric code described in subsection (c); and
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(2) also provide the appropriate code for each street
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(c) The nationwide standard numeric codes shall contain the same number of
numeric digits with each digit or combination of digits referring to the same
level of taxing jurisdiction throughout the United States using a format
similar to FIPS 55-3 or other appropriate standard approved by the Federation
of Tax Administrators and the Multistate Tax Commission, or their successors.
Each address shall be provided in standard postal format.
(Source: P.A. 92-474, eff. 8-1-02.)
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(35 ILCS 638/40)
Sec. 40.
Safe harbor.
(a) If neither the State nor a designated database provider provides an
electronic database under Section 25, a home service provider shall be held
harmless from any tax, charge, or fee liability that otherwise would be due
solely as a result of an assignment of a street address to an incorrect taxing
jurisdiction if, subject to Section 60, the home service provider employs an
enhanced zip code to assign each street address to a specific taxing
jurisdiction for each level of taxing jurisdiction and exercises due diligence
at each level of taxing jurisdiction to ensure that each such street address is
assigned to the correct taxing jurisdiction. If an enhanced zip code overlaps
boundaries of taxing jurisdictions of the same level, the home service provider
must designate one specific jurisdiction within the enhanced zip code for use
in taxing the activity for the enhanced zip code for each level of taxing
jurisdiction. Any enhanced zip code assignment changed in accordance with
Section 60 is deemed to be in compliance with this Section.
(b) For purposes of this Section, there is a rebuttable presumption that a
home service provider has exercised due diligence if the home service provider
demonstrates that it has:
(1) expended reasonable resources to implement and |
| maintain an appropriately detailed electronic database of street address assignments to taxing jurisdictions;
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(2) implemented and maintained reasonable internal
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| controls to promptly correct misassignments of street addresses to taxing jurisdictions; and
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(3) used all reasonably obtainable and usable data
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| pertaining to municipal annexations, incorporations, reorganizations, and any other changes in jurisdictional boundaries that materially affect the accuracy of the database.
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(Source: P.A. 92-474, eff. 8-1-02.)
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(35 ILCS 638/60)
Sec. 60.
Determination by taxing jurisdiction or State concerning place of
primary use; notice to home service provider. A taxing jurisdiction or the
State, on behalf of any taxing jurisdiction or taxing jurisdictions within this
State, may:
(a) determine that the address used for purposes of determining the taxing
jurisdictions to which taxes, charges, or fees for mobile telecommunications
services are remitted does not meet the definition of place of primary use in
this Act and give binding notice to the home service provider to change the
place of primary use on a prospective basis from the date of notice of
determination if:
(1) the taxing jurisdiction obtains the consent of |
| all affected taxing jurisdictions within the State before giving the notice of determination (if the taxing jurisdiction making the determination is not the State); and
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(2) before the taxing jurisdiction gives the notice
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| of determination, the customer is given an opportunity to demonstrate in accordance with applicable State or local tax, charge, or fee administrative procedures that the address is the customer's place of primary use.
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(b) determine that the assignment of a taxing jurisdiction by a home service
provider under Section 40 does not reflect the correct taxing jurisdiction and
give binding notice to the home service provider to change the assignment on a
prospective basis from the date of notice of determination if:
(1) the taxing jurisdiction obtains the consent of
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(2) the home service provider is given an opportunity
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(Source: P.A. 92-474, eff. 8-1-02.)
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(35 ILCS 638/80)
Sec. 80.
Customers' procedures and remedies for correcting taxes and
fees.
(a) If a customer believes that he or she is being charged an improper
amount of tax or is not subject to a tax imposed under the Simplified Municipal
Telecommunications Tax Act for a telecommunications service covered by the term
"mobile telecommunications" under this Act, he or she shall follow the
procedures outlined in subsection (c) of Section 5-42 of the Simplified
Municipal Telecommunications Tax Act. The procedures outlined in subsection (c)
of Section 5-42 of the Simplified Municipal Telecommunications Tax Act shall
also apply to the home service provider, the Department, and municipalities.
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall apply to a municipality that directly
receives collected tax revenue from a retailer under subsection (b) of Section
5-40 of the Simplified Municipal Telecommunications Tax Act for a
telecommunications service covered by the term "mobile telecommunications
service" under this Act. In lieu of subsection (a), a customer may seek
relief under subsection (c) only if a municipality directly receives collected
tax
revenue from a retailer under subsection (b) of Section 5-40 of the Simplified
Municipal Telecommunications Tax Act for a telecommunications service covered
by the term "mobile telecommunications service" under this Act.
(c) For municipalities covered under subsection (b) of Section 5-40 of the
Simplified Municipal Telecommunications Tax Act,
if a customer believes that an amount of tax or assignment of place of
primary use or taxing jurisdiction included on a billing is erroneous, the
customer shall notify the home service provider in writing. The customer shall
include in this written notification the street address for her or his place of
primary use, the account name and number for which the customer seeks a
correction of the tax assignment, a description of the error asserted by the
customer, and any other information that the home service provider reasonably
requires to process the request. Within 60 days after receiving a notice under
this subsection (c), the home service provider shall review its
records and the
electronic database or enhanced zip code used pursuant to Section 25 or 40 to
determine the customer's taxing jurisdiction. If this review shows that the
amount of tax, assignment of place of primary use, or taxing jurisdiction is in
error, the home service provider shall correct the error and refund or credit
the amount of tax erroneously collected from the customer for a period of up to
2 years. If this review shows that the amount of tax, assignment of place of
primary use, or taxing jurisdiction is correct, the home service provider
shall provide a written explanation to the customer. If the customer is dissatisfied with the response of the home
service
provider under this Section, the customer may seek a correction or refund or
both from the
municipality that directly receives collected tax revenue from a retailer
pursuant to subsection (b) of Section 5-40 of the Simplified Municipal
Telecommunications Tax Act for a telecommunications service covered by the term
"mobile telecommunications service" under this Act.
(d) The procedures set forth in subsections (b) and (c) shall be the first
course of remedy
available to customers seeking correction of assignment of place of primary use
or taxing jurisdiction or a refund of or other compensation for taxes, charges,
and fees erroneously collected by the home service provider, and no cause of
action based upon a dispute arising from these taxes, charges, or fees shall
accrue until a customer has reasonably exercised the rights
and procedures set forth in this Section.
(Source: P.A. 92-474, eff. 8-1-02; 92-602, eff. 7-1-02.)
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