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 1                    AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 802

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend Senate Bill 802  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN ACT concerning taxes."; and

 5    by  replacing  everything  after the enacting clause with the
 6    following:

 7        "Section 5.  The Use  Tax  Act  is  amended  by  changing
 8    Section 2 as follows:

 9        (35 ILCS 105/2) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.2)
10        Sec.  2.   "Use"  means the exercise by any person of any
11    right or power over tangible personal  property  incident  to
12    the  ownership  of  that  property,  except  that it does not
13    include the sale of such property in  any  form  as  tangible
14    personal  property  in  the regular course of business to the
15    extent that such property is not first subjected to a use for
16    which it was purchased, and does not include the use of  such
17    property  by  its  owner for demonstration purposes: Provided
18    that the property purchased is deemed to be purchased for the
19    purpose of resale, despite first being used, to the extent to
20    which it is resold  as  an  ingredient  of  an  intentionally
21    produced  product or by-product of manufacturing.  "Use" does
 
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 1    not mean the demonstration use or  interim  use  of  tangible
 2    personal property by a retailer before he sells that tangible
 3    personal property.  For watercraft or aircraft, if the period
 4    of  demonstration  use or interim use by the retailer exceeds
 5    18 months, the retailer shall pay on the retailers'  original
 6    cost  price  the  tax  imposed by this Act, and no credit for
 7    that tax is  permitted  if  the  watercraft  or  aircraft  is
 8    subsequently  sold  by the retailer.  "Use" does not mean the
 9    physical incorporation of tangible personal property, to  the
10    extent  not  first  subjected  to  a  use  for  which  it was
11    purchased,  as  an  ingredient  or  constituent,  into  other
12    tangible personal property (a) which is sold in  the  regular
13    course of business or (b) which the person incorporating such
14    ingredient  or constituent therein has undertaken at the time
15    of such purchase to cause to  be  transported  in  interstate
16    commerce  to  destinations  outside  the  State  of Illinois:
17    Provided  that  the  property  purchased  is  deemed  to   be
18    purchased  for  the  purpose  of  resale, despite first being
19    used, to the extent to which it is resold as an ingredient of
20    an  intentionally   produced   product   or   by-product   of
21    manufacturing.
22        "Watercraft"  means  a  Class  2,  Class  3,  or  Class 4
23    watercraft as defined in Section 3-2 of the Boat Registration
24    and Safety Act, a personal watercraft, or any  boat  equipped
25    with an inboard motor.
26        "Purchase   at  retail"  means  the  acquisition  of  the
27    ownership of or title to tangible personal property through a
28    sale at retail.
29        "Purchaser" means anyone who, through a sale  at  retail,
30    acquires  the  ownership  of tangible personal property for a
31    valuable consideration.
32        "Sale at retail" means any transfer of the  ownership  of
33    or  title  to  tangible personal property to a purchaser, for
34    the purpose of use, and not for the purpose of resale in  any
 
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 1    form  as  tangible  personal property to the extent not first
 2    subjected to a use for which it was purchased, for a valuable
 3    consideration: Provided that the property purchased is deemed
 4    to be purchased for the  purpose  of  resale,  despite  first
 5    being  used,  to  the  extent  to  which  it  is resold as an
 6    ingredient of an intentionally produced product or by-product
 7    of manufacturing.  For this  purpose,  slag  produced  as  an
 8    incident  to  manufacturing  pig  iron  or  steel and sold is
 9    considered to be  an  intentionally  produced  by-product  of
10    manufacturing.   "Sale  at retail" includes any such transfer
11    made for resale unless made in compliance with Section 2c  of
12    the   Retailers'  Occupation  Tax  Act,  as  incorporated  by
13    reference into Section 12 of this Act.  Transactions  whereby
14    the  possession of the property is transferred but the seller
15    retains the title as security  for  payment  of  the  selling
16    price are sales.
17        "Sale  at  retail" shall also be construed to include any
18    Illinois florist's sales transaction in  which  the  purchase
19    order  is  received  in Illinois by a florist and the sale is
20    for use or  consumption,  but  the  Illinois  florist  has  a
21    florist   in  another  state  deliver  the  property  to  the
22    purchaser or the purchaser's donee in such other state.
23        Nonreusable tangible personal property that  is  used  by
24    persons  engaged  in  the business of operating a restaurant,
25    cafeteria, or drive-in is  a  sale  for  resale  when  it  is
26    transferred  to  customers in the ordinary course of business
27    as part of the sale of food  or  beverages  and  is  used  to
28    deliver, package, or consume food or beverages, regardless of
29    where  consumption of the food or beverages occurs.  Examples
30    of those items include, but are not limited  to  nonreusable,
31    paper  and  plastic  cups,  plates,  baskets, boxes, sleeves,
32    buckets or other  containers,  utensils,  straws,  placemats,
33    napkins,  doggie  bags,  and  wrapping or packaging materials
34    that are transferred to customers as part of the sale of food
 
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 1    or beverages in the ordinary course of business.
 2        The purchase, employment and transfer  of  such  tangible
 3    personal  property  as  newsprint  and  ink  for  the primary
 4    purpose of conveying news (with or without other information)
 5    is not a purchase, use or sale of tangible personal property.
 6        "Sale at retail" does not include a sale or  transfer  of
 7    tangible  personal  property  to a multistate taxpayer who is
 8    engaged in centralized purchasing activities in  Illinois  if
 9    the purchaser, upon receipt of the tangible personal property
10    in  Illinois, will temporarily store the property in Illinois
11    prior  to  transferring  the  property  to  an   out-of-state
12    location  for  use  solely outside of this State, never to be
13    returned to this State  for  use  or  consumption.   For  the
14    purposes  of  this  paragraph,  a  "multistate taxpayer" is a
15    taxpayer registered to collect or  remit  a  sales,  use,  or
16    occupation  tax  in a state or states other than Illinois.  A
17    taxpayer engaged in "centralized purchasing activities" is  a
18    multistate  taxpayer who purchases tangible personal property
19    in bulk for the common use or  consumption  of  its  multiple
20    business   locations   both   within  and  outside  Illinois.
21    Tangible  personal  property   acquired   by   a   registered
22    multistate   taxpayer   engaged   in  centralized  purchasing
23    activities in this State  is  "temporarily  stored"  in  this
24    State  if  it  is  received  in  this  State from an Illinois
25    registered retailer and subsequently transferred for  use  to
26    another   state   without   alteration   or,  if  altered  by
27    converting, fabricating, manufacturing, printing, processing,
28    or  shaping,  is  used  solely  outside  this  State  by  the
29    registered multistate taxpayer.
30        "Selling price" means the consideration for a sale valued
31    in money whether received in money  or  otherwise,  including
32    cash,  credits,  property other than as hereinafter provided,
33    and services, but not including the value of or credit  given
34    for  traded-in tangible personal property where the item that
 
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 1    is traded-in is of like kind and character as that  which  is
 2    being  sold, and shall be determined without any deduction on
 3    account of the  cost  of  the  property  sold,  the  cost  of
 4    materials  used,  labor  or service cost or any other expense
 5    whatsoever, but does not include interest or finance  charges
 6    which  appear  as separate items on the bill of sale or sales
 7    contract nor charges that are added to prices by  sellers  on
 8    account  of  the seller's tax liability under the "Retailers'
 9    Occupation Tax Act", or on account of the  seller's  duty  to
10    collect,  from the purchaser, the tax that is imposed by this
11    Act, or on  account  of  the  seller's  tax  liability  under
12    Section  8-11-1 of the Illinois Municipal Code, as heretofore
13    and hereafter amended, or on  account  of  the  seller's  tax
14    liability  under  the "County Retailers' Occupation Tax Act".
15    Effective December 1, 1985,  "selling  price"  shall  include
16    charges that are added to prices by sellers on account of the
17    seller's  tax  liability  under  the  Cigarette  Tax  Act, on
18    account of the seller's duty to collect, from the  purchaser,
19    the  tax  imposed  under  the  Cigarette  Use Tax Act, and on
20    account of the seller's duty to collect, from the  purchaser,
21    any cigarette tax imposed by a home rule unit.
22        The  phrase  "like kind and character" shall be liberally
23    construed (including but not limited to  any  form  of  motor
24    vehicle for any form of motor vehicle, or any kind of farm or
25    agricultural   implement  for  any  other  kind  of  farm  or
26    agricultural implement), while not including a kind  of  item
27    which,  if  sold  at retail by that retailer, would be exempt
28    from retailers' occupation tax and use tax as an isolated  or
29    occasional sale.
30        "Department" means the Department of Revenue.
31        "Person" means any natural individual, firm, partnership,
32    association,  joint stock company, joint adventure, public or
33    private  corporation,  limited  liability   company,   or   a
34    receiver, executor, trustee, guardian or other representative
 
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 1    appointed by order of any court.
 2        "Retailer" means and includes every person engaged in the
 3    business  of  making  sales  at  retail  as  defined  in this
 4    Section.
 5        A person who  holds  himself  or  herself  out  as  being
 6    engaged  (or  who  habitually  engages)  in  selling tangible
 7    personal property at retail  is  a  retailer  hereunder  with
 8    respect  to  such  sales  (and  not  primarily  in  a service
 9    occupation) notwithstanding the fact that such person designs
10    and produces such tangible personal property on special order
11    for the purchaser and in such a way as to render the property
12    of value only to such purchaser, if  such  tangible  personal
13    property  so  produced  on special order serves substantially
14    the same function as stock  or  standard  items  of  tangible
15    personal property that are sold at retail.
16        A  person  whose  activities  are organized and conducted
17    primarily as a not-for-profit  service  enterprise,  and  who
18    engages  in  selling  tangible  personal  property  at retail
19    (whether to the public or merely to members and their guests)
20    is a retailer with respect to  such  transactions,  excepting
21    only   a   person  organized  and  operated  exclusively  for
22    charitable, religious or educational purposes either (1),  to
23    the  extent of sales by such person to its members, students,
24    patients or inmates of tangible personal property to be  used
25    primarily  for  the  purposes  of such person, or (2), to the
26    extent of sales by such person of tangible personal  property
27    which  is  not  sold or offered for sale by persons organized
28    for profit.  The selling of school books and school  supplies
29    by  schools  at  retail to students is not "primarily for the
30    purposes of"  the  school  which  does  such  selling.   This
31    paragraph   does   not  apply  to  nor  subject  to  taxation
32    occasional dinners, social or similar activities of a  person
33    organized  and operated exclusively for charitable, religious
34    or educational purposes, whether or not such  activities  are
 
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 1    open to the public.
 2        A  person  who  is  the  recipient of a grant or contract
 3    under Title VII of the Older  Americans  Act  of  1965  (P.L.
 4    92-258)  and  serves  meals  to  participants  in the federal
 5    Nutrition Program for the Elderly in return for contributions
 6    established in amount by the individual participant  pursuant
 7    to  a  schedule  of  suggested  fees  as  provided for in the
 8    federal Act is not a retailer under this Act with respect  to
 9    such transactions.
10        Persons  who  engage  in  the  business  of  transferring
11    tangible  personal  property  upon  the redemption of trading
12    stamps are retailers hereunder when engaged in such business.
13        The isolated or  occasional  sale  of  tangible  personal
14    property  at retail by a person who does not hold himself out
15    as being engaged (or  who  does  not  habitually  engage)  in
16    selling  such  tangible personal property at retail or a sale
17    through a bulk vending machine does not make  such  person  a
18    retailer  hereunder.  However, any person who is engaged in a
19    business which is not subject  to  the  tax  imposed  by  the
20    "Retailers' Occupation Tax Act" because of involving the sale
21    of  or  a  contract  to  sell  real  estate or a construction
22    contract to improve real estate, but who, in  the  course  of
23    conducting   such   business,   transfers  tangible  personal
24    property to users or consumers in the finished form in  which
25    it  was  purchased,  and  which  does not become real estate,
26    under any provision of a construction contract or real estate
27    sale or real estate sales agreement entered  into  with  some
28    other  person  arising  out  of or because of such nontaxable
29    business, is a retailer to the extent of  the  value  of  the
30    tangible  personal  property  so  transferred.   If,  in such
31    transaction, a separate  charge  is  made  for  the  tangible
32    personal property so transferred, the value of such property,
33    for  the  purposes  of  this Act, is the amount so separately
34    charged, but not less than the cost of such property  to  the
 
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 1    transferor;  if no separate charge is made, the value of such
 2    property, for the purposes of this Act, is the  cost  to  the
 3    transferor of such tangible personal property.
 4        "Retailer maintaining a place of business in this State",
 5    or  any  like  term,  means and includes any of the following
 6    retailers:
 7             1.  A retailer having  or  maintaining  within  this
 8        State,   directly   or   by   a  subsidiary,  an  office,
 9        distribution house, sales house, warehouse or other place
10        of  business,  or  any  agent  or  other   representative
11        operating  within  this  State under the authority of the
12        retailer or its subsidiary, irrespective of whether  such
13        place  of  business  or  agent or other representative is
14        located here permanently or temporarily, or whether  such
15        retailer or subsidiary is licensed to do business in this
16        State. However, the ownership of property that is located
17        at  the premises of a printer with which the retailer has
18        contracted for printing and that consists  of  the  final
19        printed  product,  property  that  becomes  a part of the
20        final printed product, or copy  from  which  the  printed
21        product  is  produced  shall  not  result in the retailer
22        being deemed to have or maintain an office,  distribution
23        house, sales house, warehouse, or other place of business
24        within this State.
25             2.  A   retailer   soliciting  orders  for  tangible
26        personal property by  means  of  a  telecommunication  or
27        television  shopping  system  (which  utilizes  toll free
28        numbers)  which  is  intended  by  the  retailer  to   be
29        broadcast   by   cable   television  or  other  means  of
30        broadcasting, to consumers located in this State.
31             3.  A  retailer,  pursuant  to  a  contract  with  a
32        broadcaster  or  publisher   located   in   this   State,
33        soliciting orders for tangible personal property by means
34        of   advertising   which  is  disseminated  primarily  to
 
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 1        consumers located in this State and only  secondarily  to
 2        bordering jurisdictions.
 3             4.  A   retailer   soliciting  orders  for  tangible
 4        personal  property  by  mail  if  the  solicitations  are
 5        substantial and recurring and if  the  retailer  benefits
 6        from    any    banking,   financing,   debt   collection,
 7        telecommunication, or marketing activities  occurring  in
 8        this State or benefits from the location in this State of
 9        authorized installation, servicing, or repair facilities.
10             5.  A  retailer  that  is owned or controlled by the
11        same interests that own or control any retailer  engaging
12        in  business  in  the same or similar line of business in
13        this State.
14             6.  A  retailer  having  a  franchisee  or  licensee
15        operating under its  trade  name  if  the  franchisee  or
16        licensee  is  required  to  collect  the  tax  under this
17        Section.
18             7.  A retailer, pursuant to a contract with a  cable
19        television  operator  located  in  this State, soliciting
20        orders  for  tangible  personal  property  by  means   of
21        advertising  which  is  transmitted or distributed over a
22        cable television system in this State.
23             8.  A retailer engaging in activities  in  Illinois,
24        which  activities  in  the  state  in  which  the  retail
25        business  engaging  in  such  activities is located would
26        constitute maintaining a place of business in that state.
27        "Bulk vending machine" means a  nonelectrically  operated
28    vending  machine,  containing  unsorted  confections, nuts or
29    other merchandise which, when a coin of  a  denomination  not
30    larger  than  one  cent  is  inserted, are dispensed in equal
31    portions, at random and without selection by the customer.
32    (Source: P.A. 90-289, eff. 8-1-97.)

33        Section 10.  The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended
 
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 1    by changing Section 1 as follows:

 2        (35 ILCS 120/1) (from Ch. 120, par. 440)
 3        Sec.  1.   Definitions.   "Sale  at  retail"  means   any
 4    transfer  of  the  ownership of or title to tangible personal
 5    property  to  a  purchaser,  for  the  purpose  of   use   or
 6    consumption, and not for the purpose of resale in any form as
 7    tangible  personal property to the extent not first subjected
 8    to  a  use  for  which  it  was  purchased,  for  a  valuable
 9    consideration:   Provided  that  the  property  purchased  is
10    deemed to be purchased for the  purpose  of  resale,  despite
11    first  being  used, to the extent to which it is resold as an
12    ingredient of an intentionally produced product or  byproduct
13    of  manufacturing.   For  this  purpose,  slag produced as an
14    incident to manufacturing pig  iron  or  steel  and  sold  is
15    considered  to  be  an  intentionally  produced  byproduct of
16    manufacturing.  Transactions whereby the  possession  of  the
17    property  is  transferred but the seller retains the title as
18    security for payment of the selling price shall be deemed  to
19    be sales.
20        "Sale  at  retail"  shall  be  construed  to  include any
21    transfer of the ownership of or title  to  tangible  personal
22    property  to a purchaser, for use or consumption by any other
23    person to whom  such  purchaser  may  transfer  the  tangible
24    personal  property  without  a valuable consideration, and to
25    include any transfer, whether made for or without a  valuable
26    consideration,  for  resale  in any form as tangible personal
27    property unless made in compliance with Section  2c  of  this
28    Act.
29        Sales  of  tangible personal property, which property, to
30    the extent not first subjected to a  use  for  which  it  was
31    purchased,  as  an  ingredient  or constituent, goes into and
32    forms a part of tangible personal property  subsequently  the
33    subject  of  a  "Sale  at retail", are not sales at retail as
 
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 1    defined in this Act:  Provided that the property purchased is
 2    deemed to be purchased for the  purpose  of  resale,  despite
 3    first  being  used, to the extent to which it is resold as an
 4    ingredient of an intentionally produced product or  byproduct
 5    of manufacturing.
 6        "Sale  at  retail"  shall  be  construed  to  include any
 7    Illinois florist's sales transaction in  which  the  purchase
 8    order  is  received  in Illinois by a florist and the sale is
 9    for use or  consumption,  but  the  Illinois  florist  has  a
10    florist   in  another  state  deliver  the  property  to  the
11    purchaser or the purchaser's donee in such other state.
12        Nonreusable tangible personal property that  is  used  by
13    persons  engaged  in  the business of operating a restaurant,
14    cafeteria, or drive-in is  a  sale  for  resale  when  it  is
15    transferred  to  customers in the ordinary course of business
16    as part of the sale of food  or  beverages  and  is  used  to
17    deliver, package, or consume food or beverages, regardless of
18    where  consumption of the food or beverages occurs.  Examples
19    of those items include, but are not limited  to  nonreusable,
20    paper  and  plastic  cups,  plates,  baskets, boxes, sleeves,
21    buckets or other  containers,  utensils,  straws,  placemats,
22    napkins,  doggie  bags,  and  wrapping or packaging materials
23    that are transferred to customers as part of the sale of food
24    or beverages in the ordinary course of business.
25        The purchase, employment and transfer  of  such  tangible
26    personal  property  as  newsprint  and  ink  for  the primary
27    purpose of conveying news (with or without other information)
28    is not a purchase, use or sale of tangible personal property.
29        A person whose activities  are  organized  and  conducted
30    primarily  as  a  not-for-profit  service enterprise, and who
31    engages in  selling  tangible  personal  property  at  retail
32    (whether to the public or merely to members and their guests)
33    is  engaged  in  the  business  of  selling tangible personal
34    property  at  retail  with  respect  to  such   transactions,
 
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 1    excepting  only  a  person organized and operated exclusively
 2    for charitable, religious or educational purposes either (1),
 3    to the extent  of  sales  by  such  person  to  its  members,
 4    students,  patients  or inmates of tangible personal property
 5    to be used primarily for the purposes of such person, or (2),
 6    to the extent of sales by such person  of  tangible  personal
 7    property  which  is  not  sold or offered for sale by persons
 8    organized for profit.  The selling of school books and school
 9    supplies by schools at retail to students is  not  "primarily
10    for the purposes of" the school which does such selling.  The
11    provisions  of  this paragraph shall not apply to nor subject
12    to taxation occasional dinners, socials or similar activities
13    of  a  person  organized   and   operated   exclusively   for
14    charitable, religious or educational purposes, whether or not
15    such activities are open to the public.
16        A  person  who  is  the  recipient of a grant or contract
17    under Title VII of the Older  Americans  Act  of  1965  (P.L.
18    92-258)  and  serves  meals  to  participants  in the federal
19    Nutrition Program for the Elderly in return for contributions
20    established in amount by the individual participant  pursuant
21    to  a  schedule  of  suggested  fees  as  provided for in the
22    federal Act  is  not  engaged  in  the  business  of  selling
23    tangible  personal  property  at  retail with respect to such
24    transactions.
25        "Sale at retail" does not include a sale or  transfer  of
26    tangible  personal  property  to a multistate taxpayer who is
27    engaged in centralized purchasing activities in  Illinois  if
28    the purchaser, upon receipt of the tangible personal property
29    in  Illinois, will temporarily store the property in Illinois
30    prior  to  transferring  the  property  to  an   out-of-state
31    location  for  use  solely outside of this State, never to be
32    returned to this State  for  use  or  consumption.   For  the
33    purposes  of  this  paragraph,  a  "multistate taxpayer" is a
34    taxpayer registered to collect or  remit  a  sales,  use,  or
 
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 1    occupation  tax  in a state or states other than Illinois.  A
 2    taxpayer engaged in "centralized purchasing activities" is  a
 3    multistate  taxpayer who purchases tangible personal property
 4    in bulk for the common use or  consumption  of  its  multiple
 5    business   locations   both   within  and  outside  Illinois.
 6    Tangible  personal  property   acquired   by   a   registered
 7    multistate   taxpayer   engaged   in  centralized  purchasing
 8    activities in this State  is  "temporarily  stored"  in  this
 9    State  if  it  is  received  in  this  State from an Illinois
10    registered retailer and subsequently transferred for  use  to
11    another   state   without   alteration   or,  if  altered  by
12    converting, fabricating, manufacturing, printing, processing,
13    or  shaping,  is  used  solely  outside  this  State  by  the
14    registered multistate taxpayer.
15        "Purchaser" means anyone who, through a sale  at  retail,
16    acquires  the  ownership  of  or  title  to tangible personal
17    property for a valuable consideration.
18        "Reseller of motor fuel" means any person engaged in  the
19    business  of  selling  or delivering or transferring title of
20    motor  fuel  to  another  person  other  than  for   use   or
21    consumption.  No person shall act as a reseller of motor fuel
22    within  this  State  without  first  being  registered  as  a
23    reseller pursuant to Section 2c or  a  retailer  pursuant  to
24    Section 2a.
25        "Selling  price"  or  the  "amount  of  sale"  means  the
26    consideration  for a sale valued in money whether received in
27    money or otherwise, including cash, credits, property,  other
28    than as hereinafter provided, and services, but not including
29    the  value of or credit given for traded-in tangible personal
30    property where the item that is traded-in is of like kind and
31    character  as  that  which  is  being  sold,  and  shall   be
32    determined  without  any  deduction on account of the cost of
33    the property sold, the  cost  of  materials  used,  labor  or
34    service  cost  or  any other expense whatsoever, but does not
 
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 1    include charges that  are  added  to  prices  by  sellers  on
 2    account  of  the seller's tax liability under this Act, or on
 3    account of the seller's duty to collect, from the  purchaser,
 4    the  tax that is imposed by the Use Tax Act, or on account of
 5    the seller's  tax  liability  under  Section  8-11-1  of  the
 6    Illinois Municipal Code, as heretofore and hereafter amended,
 7    or  on account of the seller's tax liability under the County
 8    Retailers' Occupation Tax Act, or on account of the  seller's
 9    tax  liability  under  the  Home  Rule  Municipal  Soft Drink
10    Retailers' Occupation Tax, or on account of the seller's  tax
11    liability   under   any   tax  imposed  under  the  "Regional
12    Transportation Authority Act", approved  December  12,  1973.
13    Effective  December  1,  1985,  "selling price" shall include
14    charges that are added to prices by sellers on account of the
15    seller's tax  liability  under  the  Cigarette  Tax  Act,  on
16    account  of the sellers' duty to collect, from the purchaser,
17    the tax imposed under the  Cigarette  Use  Tax  Act,  and  on
18    account  of the seller's duty to collect, from the purchaser,
19    any cigarette tax imposed by a home rule unit.
20        The phrase "like kind and character" shall  be  liberally
21    construed  (including  but  not  limited to any form of motor
22    vehicle for any form of motor vehicle, or any kind of farm or
23    agricultural  implement  for  any  other  kind  of  farm   or
24    agricultural  implement),  while not including a kind of item
25    which, if sold at retail by that retailer,  would  be  exempt
26    from  retailers' occupation tax and use tax as an isolated or
27    occasional sale.
28        "Gross receipts" from  the  sales  of  tangible  personal
29    property  at  retail  means  the  total  selling price or the
30    amount of such sales, as hereinbefore defined.  In  the  case
31    of  charge  and  time  sales,  the  amount  thereof  shall be
32    included only as  and  when  payments  are  received  by  the
33    seller.  Receipts  or other consideration derived by a seller
34    from the sale, transfer or assignment of accounts  receivable
 
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 1    to  a  wholly  owned  subsidiary  will not be deemed payments
 2    prior to  the  time  the  purchaser  makes  payment  on  such
 3    accounts.
 4        "Department" means the Department of Revenue.
 5        "Person" means any natural individual, firm, partnership,
 6    association,  joint stock company, joint adventure, public or
 7    private  corporation,  limited  liability   company,   or   a
 8    receiver, executor, trustee, guardian or other representative
 9    appointed by order of any court.
10        The  isolated  or  occasional  sale  of tangible personal
11    property at retail by a person who does not hold himself  out
12    as  being  engaged  (or  who  does  not habitually engage) in
13    selling such tangible personal property at retail, or a  sale
14    through  a bulk vending machine, does not constitute engaging
15    in a business of selling such tangible personal  property  at
16    retail  within  the  meaning  of  this Act; provided that any
17    person who is engaged in a business which is not  subject  to
18    the  tax imposed by this Act because of involving the sale of
19    or a contract to sell real estate or a construction  contract
20    to   improve  real  estate  or  a  construction  contract  to
21    engineer, install,  and  maintain  an  integrated  system  of
22    products, but who, in the course of conducting such business,
23    transfers tangible personal property to users or consumers in
24    the  finished  form in which it was purchased, and which does
25    not become real estate or was not engineered  and  installed,
26    under any provision of a construction contract or real estate
27    sale  or  real  estate sales agreement entered into with some
28    other person arising out of or  because  of  such  nontaxable
29    business,  is  engaged  in  the  business of selling tangible
30    personal property at retail to the extent of the value of the
31    tangible personal property so  transferred.  If,  in  such  a
32    transaction,  a  separate  charge  is  made  for the tangible
33    personal property so transferred, the value of such property,
34    for  the  purpose  of  this  Act,  shall  be  the  amount  so
 
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 1    separately charged, but  not  less  than  the  cost  of  such
 2    property  to  the  transferor; if no separate charge is made,
 3    the value of such property, for the purposes of this Act,  is
 4    the   cost  to  the  transferor  of  such  tangible  personal
 5    property. Construction contracts for the improvement of  real
 6    estate   consisting   of   engineering,   installation,   and
 7    maintenance   of   voice,  data,  video,  security,  and  all
 8    telecommunication systems do not  constitute  engaging  in  a
 9    business  of  selling  tangible  personal  property at retail
10    within the meaning of this  Act  if  they  are  sold  at  one
11    specified contract price.
12        A  person  who  holds  himself  or  herself  out as being
13    engaged (or  who  habitually  engages)  in  selling  tangible
14    personal  property  at  retail  is  a  person  engaged in the
15    business of selling  tangible  personal  property  at  retail
16    hereunder  with respect to such sales (and not primarily in a
17    service occupation) notwithstanding the fact that such person
18    designs and  produces  such  tangible  personal  property  on
19    special  order  for  the  purchaser  and  in such a way as to
20    render the property of value only to such purchaser, if  such
21    tangible  personal  property  so  produced  on  special order
22    serves substantially the same function as stock  or  standard
23    items of tangible personal property that are sold at retail.
24        Persons  who  engage  in  the  business  of  transferring
25    tangible  personal  property  upon  the redemption of trading
26    stamps are engaged in the business of selling  such  property
27    at  retail  and  shall  be  liable  for and shall pay the tax
28    imposed by this Act on the basis of the retail value  of  the
29    property transferred upon redemption of such stamps.
30        "Bulk  vending  machine" means a nonelectrically operated
31    vending machine, containing  unsorted  confections,  nuts  or
32    other  merchandise  which,  when a coin of a denomination not
33    larger than one cent is  inserted,  are  dispensed  in  equal
34    portions, at random and without selection by the customer.
 
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 1    (Source: P.A. 90-289, eff. 8-1-97.)".

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