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HOUSE BILL NO. 265 – Heat produce matter/sales tax exmpt

HOUSE BILL NO. 265

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H0265..................................................by REVENUE AND TAXATION
HEAT PRODUCING MATTER - Repeals and amends existing law to delete the sales
tax exemption for the purchase of any matter used to produce heat by burning.
                                                                        
02/14    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/17    Rpt prt - to Rev/Tax

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  ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
 Fifty-seventh Legislature                 First Regular Session - 2003
                                                                        
                                                                        
                              IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                                                        
                                     HOUSE BILL NO. 265
                                                                        
                             BY REVENUE AND TAXATION COMMITTEE
                                                                        
  1                                        AN ACT
  2    RELATING TO SALES TAXATION; REPEALING SECTION 63-3622G, IDAHO  CODE,  RELATING
  3        TO AN EXEMPTION FROM SALES TAXATION FOR THE PURCHASE OF ANY MATTER USED TO
  4        PRODUCE  HEAT BY BURNING; AMENDING SECTION 63-3622D, IDAHO CODE, TO DELETE
  5        REFERENCE TO THE SALES TAX EXEMPTION FOR HEATING  MATERIALS  AND  TO  MAKE
  6        TECHNICAL  CORRECTIONS;  AMENDING SECTION 63-3622JJ, IDAHO CODE, TO DELETE
  7        REFERENCE TO THE SALES TAX EXEMPTION FOR HEATING MATERIALS; AND  DECLARING
  8        AN EMERGENCY.
                                                                        
  9    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
                                                                        
 10        SECTION  1.  That Section 63-3622G, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
 11    repealed.
                                                                        
 12        SECTION 2.  That Section 63-3622D, Idaho Code, be, and the same is  hereby
 13    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 14        63-3622D.  PRODUCTION EXEMPTION. There are exempted from the taxes imposed
 15    by this chapter:
 16        (a)  The  sale  at retail, storage, use or other consumption in this state
 17    of:
 18        (1)  Tangible personal property which will enter into and become an ingre-
 19        dient or component part of tangible personal property manufactured,  proc-
 20        essed, mined, produced or fabricated for sale.
 21        (2)  Tangible personal property primarily and directly used or consumed in
 22        or  during  a  manufacturing,  processing, mining, farming, or fabricating
 23        operation, including,  but  not  limited  to,  repair  parts,  lubricants,
 24        hydraulic  oil, and coolants, which become a component part of such tangi-
 25        ble personal property; provided that the use or consumption of such tangi-
 26        ble personal property is necessary or essential to the performance of such
 27        operation.
 28        (3)  Chemicals, catalysts, and other materials which are used for the pur-
 29        pose of producing or inducing a chemical or physical change in the product
 30        or for removing impurities from the product or otherwise placing the prod-
 31        uct in a more marketable condition as part of an  operation  described  in
 32        subsection  (a)(2)  of  this  section, and chemicals and equipment used in
 33        clean-in-place systems in  the  food  processing  and  food  manufacturing
 34        industries.
 35        (4)  Safety equipment and supplies required to meet a safety standard of a
 36        state  or  federal agency when such safety equipment and supplies are used
 37        as part of an operation described in subsection (a)(2) of this section.
 38        (5)  Plants to be used as part of a farming operation.
 39        (b)  Other than as provided in subsection (c) of this section, the  exemp-
 40    tions allowed in subsections (a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3) and (a)(4) of this section
 41    are  available only to a business or separately operated segment of a business
 42    which is primarily devoted to producing tangible personal property which  that
                                                                        
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  1    business will sell and which is intended for ultimate sale at retail within or
  2    without  this state. A contractor providing services to a business entitled to
  3    an exemption under this section is  not  exempt  as  to  any  property  owned,
  4    leased, rented or used by it unless, as a result of the terms of the contract,
  5    the use of the property is exempt under section 63-3615(b), Idaho Code.
  6        (c)  The  exemptions  allowed  in  subsections  (a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3) and
  7    (a)(4)  of this section shall also be available to a business,  or  separately
  8    operated  segment  of  a  business, engaged in farming or mining, whether as a
  9    subcontractor, contractor, contractee or subcontractee, when such business  or
 10    segment  of  a  business  is  primarily devoted to producing tangible personal
 11    property which is intended for ultimate sale at retail within or without  this
 12    state, without regard to the ownership of the product being produced.
 13        (d)  As  used  in  this section, the term "directly used or consumed in or
 14    during" a farming operation means the performance  of  a  function  reasonably
 15    necessary  to  the  operation  of  the  total farming business, including, the
 16    planting, growing, harvesting and initial storage of crops and other  agricul-
 17    tural  products and movement of crops and produce from the place of harvest to
 18    the place of initial storage. It includes  disinfectants  used  in  the  dairy
 19    industry  to  clean cow udders or to clean pipes, vats or other milking equip-
 20    ment.
 21        (e)  The exemptions allowed in this  section  do  not  include  machinery,
 22    equipment,  materials  and supplies used in a manner that is incidental to the
 23    manufacturing, processing, mining, farming or fabricating operations  such  as
 24    maintenance and janitorial equipment and supplies.
 25        (f)  Without  regard  to  the  use of such property, this section does not
 26    exempt:
 27        (1)  Hand tools with a unit purchase price not in excess  of  one  hundred
 28        dollars ($100). A hand tool is an instrument used or worked by hand.
 29        (2)  Tangible  personal  property  used  in  any activities other than the
 30        actual manufacturing, processing, mining, farming  or  fabricating  opera-
 31        tions  such  as  office equipment and supplies, and equipment and supplies
 32        used in selling or distributing activities.
 33        (3)  Property used in research or development.
 34        (4)  Property used in transportation activities.
 35        (5)  Machinery, equipment, tools or other property used to  make  repairs.
 36        This subsection does not include repair parts that become a component part
 37        of  tangible  property  exempt  from tax under this section or lubricants,
 38        hydraulic oil, or coolants used in  the  operation  of  tangible  personal
 39        property exempt under this section.
 40        (6)  Machinery,  equipment,  tools  or other property used to manufacture,
 41        fabricate, assemble or install tangible personal property which is:
 42             (i)  Not held for resale in the regular course of business; and
 43             (ii) Owned by the manufacturer, processor, miner, farmer or  fabrica-
 44             tor;
 45        provided,  however,  this subsection does not prevent exemption of machin-
 46        ery, equipment, tools or other property exempted from tax under subsection
 47        (a)(2) or (a)(3) of this section.
 48        (7)  Any improvement to real property or fixture thereto or  any  tangible
 49        personal  property  which  becomes or is intended to become a component of
 50        any real property or any improvement or fixture thereto.
 51        (8)  Motor vehicles and aircraft.
 52        (9)  Tangible personal property used or consumed in processing,  producing
 53        or  fabricating  tangible  personal  property exempted from tax under this
 54        chapter in sections 63-3622F, 63-3622G and 63-3622I, Idaho Code.
 55        (10) Tangible personal property  described  in  section  63-3622HH,  Idaho
                                                                        
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  1        Code.
  2        (g)  Any tangible personal property exempt under this section which ceases
  3    to qualify for this exemption, and does not qualify for any other exemption or
  4    exclusion  of  the  taxes imposed by this chapter, shall be subject to use tax
  5    based upon its value at the time it ceases to qualify for exemption. Any  tan-
  6    gible  personal  property  taxed  under this chapter which later qualifies for
  7    this exemption shall not entitle the owner of it to any claim for refund.
                                                                        
  8        SECTION 3.  That Section 63-3622JJ, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby
  9    amended to read as follows:
                                                                        
 10        63-3622JJ.  LOGGING EXEMPTION. There are exempted from the  taxes  imposed
 11    by this chapter:
 12        (1)  The  sale  at retail, storage, use or other consumption in this state
 13    of tangible personal property which is primarily and directly used or consumed
 14    in logging including, but not  limited  to,  log  loaders,  log  jammers,  log
 15    skidders and fuel used in logging trucks, provided that the use or consumption
 16    of such tangible personal property is necessary or essential to logging.
 17        (2)  The  exemption  allowed  by  subsection  (1) of this section does not
 18    include machinery, equipment, materials and supplies used in a manner that  is
 19    incidental  to  logging  such as maintenance and janitorial equipment and sup-
 20    plies, and hand tools with a unit purchase price not in excess of one  hundred
 21    dollars  ($100);  nor  does  it include tangible personal property used in any
 22    activities other than the actual logging, such as office  equipment  and  sup-
 23    plies,  equipment  and supplies used in selling or distributing activities, in
 24    research, or, except for fuel used in logging trucks, in transportation activ-
 25    ities; nor shall this exemption include motor vehicles  or  aircraft,  without
 26    regard  to the use to which such motor vehicles or aircraft are put; nor shall
 27    this exemption apply to vehicles or equipment described in section  63-3622HH,
 28    Idaho  Code;  nor shall this exemption include tangible personal property used
 29    to produce tangible personal property exempted from the tax under this chapter
 30    by section 63-3622G, Idaho Code.
                                                                        
 31        SECTION 4.  An emergency existing  therefor,  which  emergency  is  hereby
 32    declared to exist, this act shall be in full force and effect on and after its
 33    passage and approval.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact



                       STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
                             RS 12847
Removes Section 63-3622G, Idaho Code, which prevents certain
industries from the production exemption.  There are five wood
pellet manufacturing companies located in Idaho that are
prohibited from fully participating in the State's sales and use
tax exemption afforded to all other manufacturing companies.
                          FISCAL IMPACT

The Tax Commission estimates a reduction of $120,000 to the
general fund.  

Contact
Name: Rep. George Eskridge, Sen. Shawn Keough 
Phone: 332-1270
332-1349



STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE             H 265