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HOUSE BILL NO. 476 – Taxing dist, increase not taken

HOUSE BILL NO. 476

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H0476...............................................by REVENUE AND TAXATION
TAXING DISTRICTS - Amends existing law to limit recovery by a taxing
district of a tax increase which was allowed but not taken, to the
following year.

01/15    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
01/16    Rpt prt - to Rev/Tax

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H0476


                                                                        
 ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
Fifty-fourth Legislature                 Second Regular Session - 1998
                                                                        

                             IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 476

                            BY REVENUE AND TAXATION COMMITTEE

 1                                        AN ACT
 2    RELATING TO TAX CHARGES; AMENDING SECTION 63-802, IDAHO CODE, TO LIMIT  AUTHO-
 3        RIZATION  OF A TAXING DISTRICT TO TAKE A FOREGONE TAX INCREASE TO THE NEXT
 4        YEAR.

 5    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

 6        SECTION 1.  That Section 63-802, Idaho Code, be, and the  same  is  hereby
 7    amended to read as follows:

 8        63-802.  LIMITATION  ON  BUDGET  REQUESTS  -- LIMITATION ON TAX CHARGES --
 9    EXCEPTIONS. (1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section  for  tax
10    year 1995, and each year thereafter, no taxing district shall certify a budget
11    request  for  an  amount  of property tax revenues to finance an annual budget
12    that exceeds the greater of:
13        (a)  The dollar amount of property taxes certified for its  annual  budget
14        for any one (1) of the three (3) tax years preceding the current tax year,
15        whichever  is greater, which amount may be increased by a growth factor of
16        not to exceed three percent (3%) plus the amount  of  revenue  that  would
17        have been generated by applying the levy of the previous year, not includ-
18        ing  any levy described in subsection (3) of this section, to any increase
19        in market value subject to taxation resulting  from  new  construction  or
20        change  of  land use classification as evidenced by the value shown on the
21        new construction roll compiled pursuant to section  63-301A,  Idaho  Code;
22        and  by the value of annexation during the previous calendar year, as cer-
23        tified by the state tax commission for market values of operating property
24        of public utilities and by the county assessor; or
25        (b)  The dollar amount of property taxes certified for its  annual  budget
26        during the last year in which a levy was made; or
27        (c)  The  dollar  amount  of the actual budget request, if the taxing dis-
28        trict is newly created; or
29        (d)  In the case of school districts, the restriction imposed  in  section
30        33-802, Idaho Code; or
31        (e)  In  the  case of a nonschool district for which less than the maximum
32        allowable increase in the dollar amount of property  taxes  is   certified
33        for  annual  budget  purposes in any one (1) year, such a district may, in
34         any   the  following  year,  recover  the  foregone
35        increase  by certifying, in addition to any increase otherwise allowed, an
36        amount not to exceed one hundred percent (100%) of the increase originally
37        foregone. Said additional amount shall be included in future  calculations
38        for increases as allowed.
39        (2)  No  board  of  county  commissioners  shall set a levy, nor shall the
40    state tax commission approve a levy for annual budget purposes  which  exceeds
41    the  limitation imposed in subsection (1) of this section, unless authority to
42    exceed such  limitation  has  been  approved  by  a  majority  of  the  taxing
43    district's electors voting on the question at an election called for that pur-


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 1    pose  and  held pursuant to section 34-106, Idaho Code, provided however, that
 2    such voter approval shall be for a period of not to exceed two (2) years.
 3        (3)  The amount of property tax revenues to finance an annual budget  does
 4    not  include revenues from nonproperty tax sources, and does not include reve-
 5    nue from levies that are voter approved for bonds, override levies or  supple-
 6    mental  levies,  plant  facilities  reserve fund levies, school emergency fund
 7    levies or for levies applicable to newly annexed property or for levies appli-
 8    cable to new construction as evidenced by the value of property subject to the
 9    occupancy tax pursuant to section 63-317, Idaho Code, for  the  preceding  tax
10    year.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact


    





                         STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
                               RS 07399
                                   
    
    This bill will eliminate the "foregone amount" concept in 
    developing budgets for taxing districts. The bill limits 
    the carryover period of the unused portion of growth 
    increase to the following year.
    
                              FISCAL NOTE
    
    There :is no fiscal impact on the state general fund or 
    any political subdivision. However, this will stop the 
    recovering of foregone balance increases.
    
    CONTACT: Representative Jim Clark
             332-1000
             STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/ 
             FISCAL NOTE
    
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    H 476