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90_HB0318 30 ILCS 105/5.449 new 30 ILCS 105/5.450 new 65 ILCS 5/8-11-21 new 65 ILCS 5/8-11-22 new 65 ILCS 5/8-11-23 new 65 ILCS 5/8-11-24 new 65 ILCS 5/8-11-25 new Amends the State Finance Act and the Illinois Municipal Code. Allows the corporate authorities of non-home rule municipalities, upon approval of the electors, to impose, by ordinance or resolution, a retailers' occupation tax, service occupation tax, and use tax at a rate of up to 1% in 1/4 of 1% increments for expenditure on capital projects. Allows the municipality to discontinue the tax by ordinance or resolution. Requires the ordinance or resolution to be filed with the Department of Revenue on or before the first day of July and the Department to administer and enforce the additional tax, or discontinue the tax, as of the first day of October following the adoption and filing. LRB9000660DNsbC LRB9000660DNsbC 1 AN ACT in relation to non-home rule municipality 2 occupation and use taxes. 3 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 4 represented in the General Assembly: 5 Section 5. The State Finance Act is amended by adding 6 Sections 5.449, 5.450, and 5.451 as follows: 7 (30 ILCS 105/5.449 new) 8 Sec. 5.449. The Non-Home Rule Capital Projects Municipal 9 Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. 10 (30 ILCS 105/5.450 new) 11 Sec. 5.450. The Non-Home Rule Capital Projects Municipal 12 Service Occupation Tax Fund. 13 Section 10. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by 14 adding Sections 8-11-21, 8-11-22, 8-11-23, 8-11-24, and 15 8-11-25 as follows: 16 (65 ILCS 5/8-11-21 new) 17 Sec. 8-11-21. Capital projects use and occupation taxes. 18 (a) The corporate authorities of a non-home rule 19 municipality may, upon approval of the electors of the 20 municipality pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section, 21 impose, by ordinance or resolution, the tax authorized in 22 Sections 8-11-23, 8-11-24 and 8-11-25 of this Act. 23 (b) The corporate authorities of the municipality may, 24 by ordinance or resolution, call for the submission to the 25 electors of the municipality the question of whether the 26 municipality shall impose the tax. That question shall be 27 certified by the municipal clerk to the election authority in 28 accordance with Section 28-5 of the Election Code and shall -2- LRB9000660DNsbC 1 be in a form in accordance with Section 16-7 of the Election 2 Code. 3 If a majority of the electors in the municipality voting 4 upon the question vote in the affirmative, the tax shall be 5 imposed. 6 An ordinance or resolution imposing the tax, or 7 discontinuing the tax, shall be adopted and a certified copy 8 of the ordinance or resolution, together with a certification 9 that the ordinance or resolution received referendum approval 10 in the case of the imposition of the tax, shall be filed with 11 the Department of Revenue on or before the first day of July, 12 whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and 13 enforce the additional tax or to discontinue the tax, as the 14 case may be, as of the first day of October next following 15 the adoption and filing. 16 (65 ILCS 5/8-11-22 new) 17 Sec. 8-11-22. Definition. As used in Sections 8-11-23, 18 8-11-24 and 8-11-25 of this Act, "capital projects" includes 19 but is not limited to municipal roads and streets, access 20 roads, bridges, and sidewalks; waste disposal systems; and 21 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and 22 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention 23 facilities, sewage treatment facilities, and the construction 24 of, purchases of, expansion of, or improvement to municipal 25 owned property. "Capital projects" includes equipment 26 necessary to conduct and carry out capital projects. 27 (65 ILCS 5/8-11-23 new) 28 Sec. 8-11-23. Non-home rule capital projects municipal 29 retailers' occupation tax. The corporate authorities of a 30 non-home rule municipality may impose a tax upon all persons 31 engaged in the business of selling tangible personal 32 property, other than on an item of tangible personal property -3- LRB9000660DNsbC 1 that is titled and registered by an agency of this State's 2 government, at retail in the municipality at a rate of up to 3 1% in 1/4 of 1% increments for expenditure on capital 4 projects as defined in Section 8-11-22 if approved by 5 referendum as provided in Section 8-11-21, of the gross 6 receipts from the sales made in the course of such business. 7 This additional tax may not be imposed on the sales of food 8 for human consumption that is to be consumed off the premises 9 where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, soft 10 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. The tax 14 imposed by a municipality under this Section and all civil 15 penalties that may be assessed as an incident to the 16 imposition of the tax shall be collected and enforced by the 17 State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration 18 that is issued by the Department to a retailer under the 19 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act shall permit that retailer to 20 engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or 21 resolution enacted under this Section without registering 22 separately with the Department under the ordinance or 23 resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have 24 full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect 25 all taxes and penalties due under this Section; to dispose of 26 taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter 27 provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda, 28 arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty 29 under this Section. In the administration of, and compliance 30 with, this Section, the Department and persons who are 31 subject to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, 32 privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, and be subject to 33 the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, 34 and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of -4- LRB9000660DNsbC 1 procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1a-1, 1d, 1e, 2 1f, 1i, 1j, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions 3 therein other than the State rate of tax), 2c, 3 (except as 4 to the disposition of taxes and penalties collected), 4, 5, 5 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l, 6, 6a, 6b, 6 6c, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 of the Retailers' Occupation 7 Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest 8 Act as fully as if those provisions were set forth in this 9 Section. 10 Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority 11 granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their 12 seller's tax liability under this Section by separately 13 stating the tax as an additional charge, which charge may be 14 stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax 15 that sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax Act, 16 pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may 17 prescribe. 18 Whenever the Department determines that a refund should 19 be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a 20 credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State 21 Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the 22 amount specified, and to the person named, in the 23 notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid 24 by the State Treasurer out of the Non-Home Rule Capital 25 Projects Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund. 26 The Department shall forthwith pay over to the State 27 Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties 28 collected under this Section. On or before the 25th day of 29 each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify 30 to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money 31 to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from 32 which retailers have paid taxes or penalties under this 33 Section to the Department during the second preceding 34 calendar month. The amount to be paid to each municipality -5- LRB9000660DNsbC 1 shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda) 2 collected under this Section during the second preceding 3 calendar month by the Department plus an amount the 4 Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts that 5 were erroneously paid to a different taxing body, and not 6 including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made 7 during the second preceding calendar month by the Department 8 on behalf of the municipality, and not including any amount 9 that the Department determines is necessary to offset any 10 amounts that were payable to a different taxing body but were 11 erroneously paid to the municipality. Within 10 days after 12 receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement 13 certification to the municipalities, provided for in this 14 Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the 15 Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the 16 respective amounts in accordance with the directions 17 contained in the certification. 18 For the purpose of determining the local governmental 19 unit whose tax is applicable, a retail sale, by a producer of 20 coal or other mineral mined in Illinois, is a sale at retail 21 at the place where the coal or other mineral mined in 22 Illinois is extracted from the earth. This paragraph does 23 not apply to coal or other mineral when it is delivered or 24 shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside 25 Illinois so that the sale is exempt under the Federal 26 Constitution as a sale in interstate or foreign commerce. 27 Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a 28 municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging 29 in any business that under the Constitution of the United 30 States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State. 31 When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a 32 municipality under this Section, the Department shall 33 increase or decrease the amount by an amount necessary to 34 offset any misallocation of previous disbursements. The -6- LRB9000660DNsbC 1 offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed 2 within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is 3 discovered. 4 As used in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality" 5 means a city, village or incorporated town, including an 6 incorporated town that has superseded a civil township. 7 This Section may be cited as the "Non-Home Rule Capital 8 Projects Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act". 9 (65 ILCS 5/8-11-24 new) 10 Sec. 8-11-24. Non-home rule capital projects municipal 11 service occupation tax. The corporate authorities of a 12 non-home rule municipality may impose a tax upon all persons 13 engaged, in the municipality, in the business of making sales 14 of service at a rate of up to 1% in 1/4 of 1% increments for 15 expenditure on capital projects as defined in Section 8-11-22 16 if approved by referendum as provided in Section 8-11-21, of 17 the selling price of all tangible personal property 18 transferred by the servicemen either in the form of tangible 19 personal property or in the form of real estate as an 20 incident to a sale of service. This additional tax may not be 21 imposed on the sales of food for human consumption that is to 22 be consumed off the premises where it is sold (other than 23 alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, and food that has been 24 prepared for immediate consumption) and prescription and 25 nonprescription medicines, drugs, medical appliances and 26 insulin, urine testing materials, syringes, and needles used 27 by diabetics. The tax imposed by a municipality under this 28 Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as an 29 incident to the imposition of the tax shall be collected and 30 enforced by the State Department of Revenue. The certificate 31 of registration that is issued by the Department to a 32 retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or under the 33 Service Occupation Tax Act shall permit the registrant to -7- LRB9000660DNsbC 1 engage in a business that is taxable under any ordinance or 2 resolution enacted under this Section without registering 3 separately with the Department under the ordinance or 4 resolution or under this Section. The Department shall have 5 full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect 6 all taxes and penalties due under this Section; to dispose of 7 taxes and penalties so collected in the manner hereinafter 8 provided, and to determine all rights to credit memoranda 9 arising on account of the erroneous payment of tax or penalty 10 under this Section. In the administration of, and compliance 11 with, this Section the Department and persons who are subject 12 to this Section shall have the same rights, remedies, 13 privileges, immunities, powers, and duties, and be subject to 14 the same conditions, restrictions, limitations, penalties, 15 and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes of 16 procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1a-1, 2, 2a, 3 17 through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions therein other than 18 the State rate of tax), 4 (except that the reference to the 19 State shall be to the taxing municipality), 5, 7, 8 (except 20 that the jurisdiction to which the tax shall be a debt to the 21 extent indicated in that Section 8 shall be the taxing 22 municipality), 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and 23 penalties collected, and except that the returned merchandise 24 credit for this municipal tax may not be taken against any 25 State tax), 10, 11, 12 (except the reference therein to 26 Section 2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except 27 that any reference to the State shall mean the taxing 28 municipality), the first paragraph of Section 15, 16, 17, 18, 29 19, and 20 of the Service Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 30 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest Act, as fully as if those 31 provisions were set forth in this Section. 32 Persons subject to any tax imposed under the authority 33 granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for their 34 serviceman's tax liability under this Section by separately -8- LRB9000660DNsbC 1 stating the tax as an additional charge, which charge may be 2 stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax 3 which servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service 4 Use Tax Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the 5 Department may prescribe. 6 Whenever the Department determines that a refund should 7 be made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing 8 credit memorandum, the Department shall notify the State 9 Comptroller, who shall cause the order to be drawn for the 10 amount specified, and to the person named, in the 11 notification from the Department. The refund shall be paid by 12 the State Treasurer out of the Non-Home Rule Capital Projects 13 Municipal Service Occupation Tax Fund. 14 The Department shall forthwith pay over to the State 15 Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties 16 collected under this Section. On or before the 25th day of 17 each calendar month, the Department shall prepare and certify 18 to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums of money 19 to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from 20 which suppliers and servicemen have paid taxes or penalties 21 under this Section to the Department during the second 22 preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each 23 municipality shall be the amount (not including credit 24 memoranda) collected under this Section during the second 25 preceding calendar month by the Department, and not including 26 an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the 27 second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf 28 of the municipality. Within 10 days after receipt, by the 29 Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the 30 municipalities and the General Revenue Fund, provided for in 31 this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the 32 Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be 33 drawn for the respective amounts in accordance with the 34 directions contained in the certification. -9- LRB9000660DNsbC 1 Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a 2 municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging 3 in any business that under the Constitution of the United 4 States may not be made the subject of taxation by this State. 5 As used in this Section, "municipal" or "municipality" 6 means or refers to a city, village or incorporated town, 7 including an incorporated town that has superseded a civil 8 township. 9 This Section may be cited as the "Non-Home Rule Capital 10 Projects Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act". 11 (65 ILCS 5/8-11-25 new) 12 Sec. 8-11-25. Non-home rule capital projects municipal 13 use tax. The corporate authorities of a non-home rule 14 municipality may impose a tax upon the privilege of using, in 15 the municipality, any item of tangible personal property that 16 is purchased at retail from a retailer, and that is titled or 17 registered with an agency of this State's government, at a 18 rate of up to 1% in 1/4 of 1% increments based on the selling 19 price of the tangible personal property, as "selling price" 20 is defined in the Use Tax Act, for expenditure on capital 21 projects as defined in Section 8-11-22, if approved by 22 referendum as provided in Section 8-11-21. The tax shall be 23 collected from persons whose Illinois address for title or 24 registration purposes is given as being in the municipality. 25 The tax shall be collected by the municipality imposing the 26 tax. 27 This Section may be cited as the "Non-Home Rule Capital 28 Projects Municipal Use Tax Act".