95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB0403

 

Introduced 1/26/2007, by Rep. Jim Watson - David Reis - Dan Reitz - Angelo Saviano and Kurt M. Granberg

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
35 ILCS 105/3-5   from Ch. 120, par. 439.3-5
35 ILCS 110/3-5   from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5
35 ILCS 115/3-5   from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5
35 ILCS 120/2-5   from Ch. 120, par. 441-5

    Amends the Use Tax Act, the Service Use Tax Act, the Service Occupation Tax Act, and the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides an exemption from taxation under the Acts for tangible personal property used in the construction, maintenance, or operation of a public water supply that is operated by a not-for-profit entity. Provides that the Acts' sunset provisions do not apply to these these exemptions.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning revenue.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Use Tax Act is amended by changing Section
5 3-5 as follows:
 
6     (35 ILCS 105/3-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 439.3-5)
7     Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. Use of the following tangible
8 personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
9     (1) Personal property purchased from a corporation,
10 society, association, foundation, institution, or
11 organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
12 organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
13 for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the
14 personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
15 purpose of resale by the enterprise.
16     (2) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
17 Illinois county fair association for use in conducting,
18 operating, or promoting the county fair.
19     (3) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit arts or
20 cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
21 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
22 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
23 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or

 

 

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1 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
2 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
3 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
4 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
5 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
6 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
7 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
8 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
9 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
10 number issued by the Department.
11     (4) Personal property purchased by a governmental body, by
12 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
13 institution organized and operated exclusively for charitable,
14 religious, or educational purposes, or by a not-for-profit
15 corporation, society, association, foundation, institution, or
16 organization that has no compensated officers or employees and
17 that is organized and operated primarily for the recreation of
18 persons 55 years of age or older. A limited liability company
19 may qualify for the exemption under this paragraph only if the
20 limited liability company is organized and operated
21 exclusively for educational purposes. On and after July 1,
22 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for this exemption
23 shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an active exemption
24 identification number issued by the Department.
25     (5) Until July 1, 2003, a passenger car that is a
26 replacement vehicle to the extent that the purchase price of

 

 

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1 the car is subject to the Replacement Vehicle Tax.
2     (6) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again on September 1,
3 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
4 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
5 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be
6 used primarily for graphic arts production, and including
7 machinery and equipment purchased for lease. Equipment
8 includes chemicals or chemicals acting as catalysts but only if
9 the chemicals or chemicals acting as catalysts effect a direct
10 and immediate change upon a graphic arts product.
11     (7) Farm chemicals.
12     (8) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
13 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
14 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
15 country, and bullion.
16     (9) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
17 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
18 secondary school located in Illinois.
19     (10) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor vehicle
20 of the second division that is a self-contained motor vehicle
21 designed or permanently converted to provide living quarters
22 for recreational, camping, or travel use, with direct walk
23 through to the living quarters from the driver's seat, or a
24 motor vehicle of the second division that is of the van
25 configuration designed for the transportation of not less than
26 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in Section 1-146 of

 

 

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1 the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for automobile renting,
2 as defined in the Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Tax
3 Act.
4     (11) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
5 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
6 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
7 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
8 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
9 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
10 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
11 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
12 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
13 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
14 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
15 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
16 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
17 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
18 this item (11). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry
19 boxes shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
20 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
21 vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price of the
22 tender is separately stated.
23     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
24 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
25 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
26 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,

 

 

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1 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
2 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
3 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
4 such equipment.
5     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
6 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
7 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
8 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
9 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
10 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
11 agricultural chemicals. This item (11) is exempt from the
12 provisions of Section 3-90.
13     (12) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
14 common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
15 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
16 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for or
17 returning from a location or locations outside the United
18 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
19 stopovers.
20     (13) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
21 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption of
22 food and beverages purchased at retail from a retailer, to the
23 extent that the proceeds of the service charge are in fact
24 turned over as tips or as a substitute for tips to the
25 employees who participate directly in preparing, serving,
26 hosting or cleaning up the food or beverage function with

 

 

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1 respect to which the service charge is imposed.
2     (14) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
3 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
4 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
5 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
6 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
7 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
8 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
9 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
10 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
11     (15) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
12 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including that
13 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be
14 used primarily for photoprocessing, and including
15 photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased for lease.
16     (16) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
17 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
18 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
19 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
20 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
21 Code.
22     (17) Until July 1, 2003, distillation machinery and
23 equipment, sold as a unit or kit, assembled or installed by the
24 retailer, certified by the user to be used only for the
25 production of ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption
26 as motor fuel or as a component of motor fuel for the personal

 

 

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1 use of the user, and not subject to sale or resale.
2     (18) Manufacturing and assembling machinery and equipment
3 used primarily in the process of manufacturing or assembling
4 tangible personal property for wholesale or retail sale or
5 lease, whether that sale or lease is made directly by the
6 manufacturer or by some other person, whether the materials
7 used in the process are owned by the manufacturer or some other
8 person, or whether that sale or lease is made apart from or as
9 an incident to the seller's engaging in the service occupation
10 of producing machines, tools, dies, jigs, patterns, gauges, or
11 other similar items of no commercial value on special order for
12 a particular purchaser.
13     (19) Personal property delivered to a purchaser or
14 purchaser's donee inside Illinois when the purchase order for
15 that personal property was received by a florist located
16 outside Illinois who has a florist located inside Illinois
17 deliver the personal property.
18     (20) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
19 for direct agricultural production.
20     (21) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
21 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
22 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
23 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
24 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
25 racing for prizes.
26     (22) Computers and communications equipment utilized for

 

 

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1 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
2 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients purchased by a
3 lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
4 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
5 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
6 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
7 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
8 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
9 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
10 any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
11 tax imposed under this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
12 case may be, based on the fair market value of the property at
13 the time the non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect
14 or attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that
15 purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
16 Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax
17 has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly
18 collects any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have
19 a legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
20 If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee for any
21 reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
22 Department.
23     (23) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases the
24 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
25 effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be subject to the
26 tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that has been

 

 

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1 issued an active sales tax exemption identification number by
2 the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation
3 Tax Act. If the property is leased in a manner that does not
4 qualify for this exemption or used in any other non-exempt
5 manner, the lessor shall be liable for the tax imposed under
6 this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based
7 on the fair market value of the property at the time the
8 non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or attempt
9 to collect an amount (however designated) that purports to
10 reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
11 Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been
12 paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such
13 amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to
14 claim a refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however,
15 that amount is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the
16 lessor is liable to pay that amount to the Department.
17     (24) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
18 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
19 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
20 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
21 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
22 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
23 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
24 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
25 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
26 who reside within the declared disaster area.

 

 

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1     (25) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
2 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
3 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the
4 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
5 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
6 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
7 line extensions, water distribution and purification
8 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
9 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
10 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
11 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
12 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
13     (26) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds purchased
14 at a "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic
15 game hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code
16 or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
17 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
18 the provisions of Section 3-90.
19     (27) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
20 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
21 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
22 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
23 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
24 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
25 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
26 or institution organized and operated exclusively for

 

 

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1 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
2 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
3 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
4 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
5 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
6 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
7 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
8 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
9 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
10 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
11     (28) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
12 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
13 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
14 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
15 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
16 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
17 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
18 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
19 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
20 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
21 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
22 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
23 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
24 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
25     (29) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
26 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and

 

 

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1 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
2 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
3 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
4 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
5 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
6 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
7 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
8 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
9     (30) Beginning January 1, 2001 and through June 30, 2011,
10 food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the
11 premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, soft
12 drinks, and food that has been prepared for immediate
13 consumption) and prescription and nonprescription medicines,
14 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
15 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
16 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
17 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
18 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
19 the Nursing Home Care Act.
20     (31) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
21 of the 92nd General Assembly, computers and communications
22 equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and equipment used
23 in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients
24 purchased by a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease
25 of one year or longer executed or in effect at the time the
26 lessor would otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this

 

 

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1 Act, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
2 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
3 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
4 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
5 any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
6 tax imposed under this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
7 case may be, based on the fair market value of the property at
8 the time the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect
9 or attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that
10 purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
11 Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax
12 has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly
13 collects any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have
14 a legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
15 If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee for any
16 reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
17 Department. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
18 Section 3-90.
19     (32) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
20 of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property purchased by a
21 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
22 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
23 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
24 governmental body that has been issued an active sales tax
25 exemption identification number by the Department under
26 Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the

 

 

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1 property is leased in a manner that does not qualify for this
2 exemption or used in any other nonexempt manner, the lessor
3 shall be liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the
4 Service Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based on the fair
5 market value of the property at the time the nonqualifying use
6 occurs. No lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount
7 (however designated) that purports to reimburse that lessor for
8 the tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
9 case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor. If a
10 lessor improperly collects any such amount from the lessee, the
11 lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
12 amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount is not
13 refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is liable to
14 pay that amount to the Department. This paragraph is exempt
15 from the provisions of Section 3-90.
16     (33) On and after July 1, 2003 and through June 30, 2004,
17 the use in this State of motor vehicles of the second division
18 with a gross vehicle weight in excess of 8,000 pounds and that
19 are subject to the commercial distribution fee imposed under
20 Section 3-815.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code. Beginning on July
21 1, 2004 and through June 30, 2005, the use in this State of
22 motor vehicles of the second division: (i) with a gross vehicle
23 weight rating in excess of 8,000 pounds; (ii) that are subject
24 to the commercial distribution fee imposed under Section
25 3-815.1 of the Illinois Vehicle Code; and (iii) that are
26 primarily used for commercial purposes. Through June 30, 2005,

 

 

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1 this exemption applies to repair and replacement parts added
2 after the initial purchase of such a motor vehicle if that
3 motor vehicle is used in a manner that would qualify for the
4 rolling stock exemption otherwise provided for in this Act. For
5 purposes of this paragraph, the term "used for commercial
6 purposes" means the transportation of persons or property in
7 furtherance of any commercial or industrial enterprise,
8 whether for-hire or not.
9     (34) Beginning January 1, 2008, tangible personal property
10 used in the construction, maintenance, or operation of a public
11 water supply, as defined under Section 3.365 of the
12 Environmental Protection Act, that is operated by a
13 not-for-profit entity. This paragraph is exempt from the
14 provisions of Section 3-90.
15 (Source: P.A. 93-23, eff. 6-20-03; 93-24, eff. 6-20-03; 93-840,
16 eff. 7-30-04; 93-1033, eff. 9-3-04; 94-1002, eff. 7-3-06.)
 
17     Section 10. The Service Use Tax Act is amended by changing
18 Section 3-5 as follows:
 
19     (35 ILCS 110/3-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5)
20     Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. Use of the following tangible
21 personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
22     (1) Personal property purchased from a corporation,
23 society, association, foundation, institution, or
24 organization, other than a limited liability company, that is

 

 

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1 organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
2 for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the
3 personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
4 purpose of resale by the enterprise.
5     (2) Personal property purchased by a non-profit Illinois
6 county fair association for use in conducting, operating, or
7 promoting the county fair.
8     (3) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit arts or
9 cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
10 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
11 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
12 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
13 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
14 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
15 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
16 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
17 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
18 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
19 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
20 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
21 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
22 number issued by the Department.
23     (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
24 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
25 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
26 country, and bullion.

 

 

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1     (5) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again on September 1,
2 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
3 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
4 manufactured on special order or purchased for lease, certified
5 by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
6 production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting
7 as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as
8 catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
9 arts product.
10     (6) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
11 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
12 secondary school located in Illinois.
13     (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
14 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
15 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
16 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
17 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
18 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
19 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
20 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
21 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
22 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
23 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
24 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
25 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
26 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under

 

 

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1 this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
2 shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
3 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
4 vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price of the
5 tender is separately stated.
6     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
7 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
8 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
9 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
10 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
11 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
12 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
13 such equipment.
14     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
15 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
16 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
17 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
18 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
19 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
20 agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt from the
21 provisions of Section 3-75.
22     (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
23 common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
24 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
25 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for or
26 returning from a location or locations outside the United

 

 

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1 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
2 stopovers.
3     (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
4 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption of
5 food and beverages acquired as an incident to the purchase of a
6 service from a serviceman, to the extent that the proceeds of
7 the service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
8 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
9 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
10 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
11 imposed.
12     (10) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
13 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
14 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
15 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
16 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
17 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
18 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
19 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
20 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
21     (11) Proceeds from the sale of photoprocessing machinery
22 and equipment, including repair and replacement parts, both new
23 and used, including that manufactured on special order,
24 certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
25 photoprocessing, and including photoprocessing machinery and
26 equipment purchased for lease.

 

 

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1     (12) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
2 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
3 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
4 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
5 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
6 Code.
7     (13) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
8 for direct agricultural production.
9     (14) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
10 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
11 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
12 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
13 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
14 racing for prizes.
15     (15) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
16 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
17 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients purchased by a
18 lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
19 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
20 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
21 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
22 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
23 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
24 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
25 any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
26 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may

 

 

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1 be, based on the fair market value of the property at the time
2 the non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or
3 attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that purports
4 to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
5 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
6 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
7 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
8 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
9 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
10 liable to pay that amount to the Department.
11     (16) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases the
12 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
13 effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be subject to the
14 tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that has been
15 issued an active tax exemption identification number by the
16 Department under Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation Tax
17 Act. If the property is leased in a manner that does not
18 qualify for this exemption or is used in any other non-exempt
19 manner, the lessor shall be liable for the tax imposed under
20 this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based on the
21 fair market value of the property at the time the
22 non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or attempt
23 to collect an amount (however designated) that purports to
24 reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
25 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
26 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount

 

 

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1 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
2 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
3 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
4 liable to pay that amount to the Department.
5     (17) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
6 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
7 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
8 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
9 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
10 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
11 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
12 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
13 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
14 who reside within the declared disaster area.
15     (18) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
16 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
17 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the
18 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
19 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
20 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
21 line extensions, water distribution and purification
22 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
23 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
24 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
25 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
26 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.

 

 

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1     (19) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds purchased
2 at a "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic
3 game hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code
4 or at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
5 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
6 the provisions of Section 3-75.
7     (20) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
8 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
9 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
10 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
11 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
12 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
13 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
14 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
15 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
16 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
17 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
18 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
19 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
20 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
21 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
22 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
23 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
24 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
25     (21) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
26 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the

 

 

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1 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
2 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
3 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
4 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
5 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
6 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
7 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
8 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
9 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
10 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
11 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
12 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
13     (22) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
14 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
15 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
16 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
17 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
18 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
19 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
20 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
21 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
22 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
23     (23) Beginning August 23, 2001 and through June 30, 2011,
24 food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the
25 premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, soft
26 drinks, and food that has been prepared for immediate

 

 

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1 consumption) and prescription and nonprescription medicines,
2 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
3 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
4 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
5 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
6 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
7 the Nursing Home Care Act.
8     (24) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
9 of the 92nd General Assembly, computers and communications
10 equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and equipment used
11 in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients
12 purchased by a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease
13 of one year or longer executed or in effect at the time the
14 lessor would otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this
15 Act, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
16 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
17 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased in a
18 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
19 any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
20 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
21 be, based on the fair market value of the property at the time
22 the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or
23 attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that purports
24 to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
25 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
26 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount

 

 

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1 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
2 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
3 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
4 liable to pay that amount to the Department. This paragraph is
5 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
6     (25) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
7 of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property purchased by a
8 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
9 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
10 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
11 governmental body that has been issued an active tax exemption
12 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
13 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased in a
14 manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in
15 any other nonexempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
16 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
17 be, based on the fair market value of the property at the time
18 the nonqualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect or
19 attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that purports
20 to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the
21 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by
22 the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount
23 from the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
24 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount
25 is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is
26 liable to pay that amount to the Department. This paragraph is

 

 

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1 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
2     (26) Beginning January 1, 2008, tangible personal property
3 used in the construction, maintenance, or operation of a public
4 water supply, as defined under Section 3.365 of the
5 Environmental Protection Act, that is operated by a
6 not-for-profit entity. This paragraph is exempt from the
7 provisions of Section 3-75.
8 (Source: P.A. 93-24, eff. 6-20-03; 93-840, eff. 7-30-04;
9 94-1002, eff. 7-3-06.)
 
10     Section 15. The Service Occupation Tax Act is amended by
11 changing Section 3-5 as follows:
 
12     (35 ILCS 115/3-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5)
13     Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. The following tangible personal
14 property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
15     (1) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
16 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
17 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
18 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the benefit
19 of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal property
20 was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose of resale
21 by the enterprise.
22     (2) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
23 Illinois county fair association for use in conducting,
24 operating, or promoting the county fair.

 

 

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1     (3) Personal property purchased by any not-for-profit arts
2 or cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
3 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
4 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
5 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
6 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or
7 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
8 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
9 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
10 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
11 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
12 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
13 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
14 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
15 number issued by the Department.
16     (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
17 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
18 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
19 country, and bullion.
20     (5) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again on September 1,
21 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
22 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
23 manufactured on special order or purchased for lease, certified
24 by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
25 production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting
26 as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as

 

 

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1 catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
2 arts product.
3     (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored student
4 organization affiliated with an elementary or secondary school
5 located in Illinois.
6     (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
7 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
8 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
9 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
10 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
11 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
12 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
13 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
14 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
15 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
16 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
17 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
18 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
19 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
20 this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
21 shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
22 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
23 vehicle required to be licensed if the selling price of the
24 tender is separately stated.
25     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
26 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be

 

 

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1 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
2 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
3 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not
4 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
5 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
6 such equipment.
7     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
8 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
9 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
10 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
11 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
12 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
13 agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt from the
14 provisions of Section 3-55.
15     (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
16 common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
17 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
18 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for or
19 returning from a location or locations outside the United
20 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
21 stopovers.
22     (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
23 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption of
24 food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
25 service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
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1 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
2 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
3 imposed.
4     (10) Until July 1, 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
5 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
6 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
7 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
8 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
9 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
10 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
11 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
12 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
13     (11) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
14 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including that
15 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be
16 used primarily for photoprocessing, and including
17 photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased for lease.
18     (12) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
19 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
20 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
21 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
22 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
23 Code.
24     (13) Beginning January 1, 1992 and through June 30, 2011,
25 food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the
26 premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, soft

 

 

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1 drinks and food that has been prepared for immediate
2 consumption) and prescription and non-prescription medicines,
3 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
4 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
5 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
6 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
7 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
8 the Nursing Home Care Act.
9     (14) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
10 for direct agricultural production.
11     (15) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
12 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
13 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
14 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
15 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
16 racing for prizes.
17     (16) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
18 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
19 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
20 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
21 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
22 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
23 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
24 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
25     (17) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
26 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in

 

 

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1 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body that
2 has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
3 by the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation
4 Tax Act.
5     (18) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
6 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
7 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
8 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
9 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
10 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
11 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
12 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
13 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
14 who reside within the declared disaster area.
15     (19) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
16 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
17 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in the
18 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
19 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
20 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
21 line extensions, water distribution and purification
22 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
23 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
24 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
25 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
26 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.

 

 

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1     (20) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold at a
2 "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic game
3 hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code or
4 at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
5 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
6 the provisions of Section 3-55.
7     (21) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
8 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
9 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
10 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
11 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
12 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
13 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
14 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
15 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
16 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
17 branches of learning by methods common to public schools and
18 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
19 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
20 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
21 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
22 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
23 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
24 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
25     (22) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
26 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the

 

 

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1 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
2 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
3 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
4 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
5 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
6 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
7 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
8 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
9 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
10 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
11 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
12 exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
13     (23) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
14 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
15 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
16 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
17 January 1, 2002 and through June 30, 2003, machines and parts
18 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
19 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
20 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
21 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
22 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
23     (24) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
24 of the 92nd General Assembly, computers and communications
25 equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and equipment used
26 in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of hospital patients

 

 

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1 sold to a lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one
2 year or longer executed or in effect at the time of the
3 purchase, to a hospital that has been issued an active tax
4 exemption identification number by the Department under
5 Section 1g of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. This paragraph
6 is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
7     (25) Beginning on the effective date of this amendatory Act
8 of the 92nd General Assembly, personal property sold to a
9 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
10 longer executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
11 governmental body that has been issued an active tax exemption
12 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of the
13 Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. This paragraph is exempt from
14 the provisions of Section 3-55.
15     (26) Beginning on January 1, 2002 and through June 30,
16 2011, tangible personal property purchased from an Illinois
17 retailer by a taxpayer engaged in centralized purchasing
18 activities in Illinois who will, upon receipt of the property
19 in Illinois, temporarily store the property in Illinois (i) for
20 the purpose of subsequently transporting it outside this State
21 for use or consumption thereafter solely outside this State or
22 (ii) for the purpose of being processed, fabricated, or
23 manufactured into, attached to, or incorporated into other
24 tangible personal property to be transported outside this State
25 and thereafter used or consumed solely outside this State. The
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1 accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act,
2 issue a permit to any taxpayer in good standing with the
3 Department who is eligible for the exemption under this
4 paragraph (26). The permit issued under this paragraph (26)
5 shall authorize the holder, to the extent and in the manner
6 specified in the rules adopted under this Act, to purchase
7 tangible personal property from a retailer exempt from the
8 taxes imposed by this Act. Taxpayers shall maintain all
9 necessary books and records to substantiate the use and
10 consumption of all such tangible personal property outside of
11 the State of Illinois.
12     (27) Beginning January 1, 2008, tangible personal property
13 used in the construction, maintenance, or operation of a public
14 water supply, as defined under Section 3.365 of the
15 Environmental Protection Act, that is operated by a
16 not-for-profit entity. This paragraph is exempt from the
17 provisions of Section 3-55.
18 (Source: P.A. 93-24, eff. 6-20-03; 93-840, eff. 7-30-04;
19 94-1002, eff. 7-3-06.)
 
20     Section 20. The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended by
21 changing Section 2-5 as follows:
 
22     (35 ILCS 120/2-5)  (from Ch. 120, par. 441-5)
23     Sec. 2-5. Exemptions. Gross receipts from proceeds from the
24 sale of the following tangible personal property are exempt

 

 

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1 from the tax imposed by this Act:
2     (1) Farm chemicals.
3     (2) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
4 including that manufactured on special order, certified by the
5 purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture or
6 State or federal agricultural programs, including individual
7 replacement parts for the machinery and equipment, including
8 machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and including
9 implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of the
10 Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
11 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required to
12 be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle Code,
13 but excluding other motor vehicles required to be registered
14 under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural polyhouses or
15 hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or overwintering
16 plants shall be considered farm machinery and equipment under
17 this item (2). Agricultural chemical tender tanks and dry boxes
18 shall include units sold separately from a motor vehicle
19 required to be licensed and units sold mounted on a motor
20 vehicle required to be licensed, if the selling price of the
21 tender is separately stated.
22     Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
23 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
24 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
25 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters, seeders,
26 or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes, but is not

 

 

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1 limited to, soil testing sensors, computers, monitors,
2 software, global positioning and mapping systems, and other
3 such equipment.
4     Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
5 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in the
6 computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
7 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not limited
8 to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of animal and
9 crop data for the purpose of formulating animal diets and
10 agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt from the
11 provisions of Section 2-70.
12     (3) Until July 1, 2003, distillation machinery and
13 equipment, sold as a unit or kit, assembled or installed by the
14 retailer, certified by the user to be used only for the
15 production of ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption
16 as motor fuel or as a component of motor fuel for the personal
17 use of the user, and not subject to sale or resale.
18     (4) Until July 1, 2003 and beginning again September 1,
19 2004, graphic arts machinery and equipment, including repair
20 and replacement parts, both new and used, and including that
21 manufactured on special order or purchased for lease, certified
22 by the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
23 production. Equipment includes chemicals or chemicals acting
24 as catalysts but only if the chemicals or chemicals acting as
25 catalysts effect a direct and immediate change upon a graphic
26 arts product.

 

 

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1     (5) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor vehicle
2 of the second division that is a self-contained motor vehicle
3 designed or permanently converted to provide living quarters
4 for recreational, camping, or travel use, with direct walk
5 through access to the living quarters from the driver's seat,
6 or a motor vehicle of the second division that is of the van
7 configuration designed for the transportation of not less than
8 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in Section 1-146 of
9 the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for automobile renting,
10 as defined in the Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Tax
11 Act.
12     (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored student
13 organization affiliated with an elementary or secondary school
14 located in Illinois.
15     (7) Until July 1, 2003, proceeds of that portion of the
16 selling price of a passenger car the sale of which is subject
17 to the Replacement Vehicle Tax.
18     (8) Personal property sold to an Illinois county fair
19 association for use in conducting, operating, or promoting the
20 county fair.
21     (9) Personal property sold to a not-for-profit arts or
22 cultural organization that establishes, by proof required by
23 the Department by rule, that it has received an exemption under
24 Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and that is
25 organized and operated primarily for the presentation or
26 support of arts or cultural programming, activities, or

 

 

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1 services. These organizations include, but are not limited to,
2 music and dramatic arts organizations such as symphony
3 orchestras and theatrical groups, arts and cultural service
4 organizations, local arts councils, visual arts organizations,
5 and media arts organizations. On and after the effective date
6 of this amendatory Act of the 92nd General Assembly, however,
7 an entity otherwise eligible for this exemption shall not make
8 tax-free purchases unless it has an active identification
9 number issued by the Department.
10     (10) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
11 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
12 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
13 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the benefit
14 of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal property
15 was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose of resale
16 by the enterprise.
17     (11) Personal property sold to a governmental body, to a
18 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
19 organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious,
20 or educational purposes, or to a not-for-profit corporation,
21 society, association, foundation, institution, or organization
22 that has no compensated officers or employees and that is
23 organized and operated primarily for the recreation of persons
24 55 years of age or older. A limited liability company may
25 qualify for the exemption under this paragraph only if the
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1 exclusively for educational purposes. On and after July 1,
2 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for this exemption
3 shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an active
4 identification number issued by the Department.
5     (12) Tangible personal property sold to interstate
6 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate
7 commerce or to lessors under leases of one year or longer
8 executed or in effect at the time of purchase by interstate
9 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate
10 commerce and equipment operated by a telecommunications
11 provider, licensed as a common carrier by the Federal
12 Communications Commission, which is permanently installed in
13 or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
14     (12-5) On and after July 1, 2003 and through June 30, 2004,
15 motor vehicles of the second division with a gross vehicle
16 weight in excess of 8,000 pounds that are subject to the
17 commercial distribution fee imposed under Section 3-815.1 of
18 the Illinois Vehicle Code. Beginning on July 1, 2004 and
19 through June 30, 2005, the use in this State of motor vehicles
20 of the second division: (i) with a gross vehicle weight rating
21 in excess of 8,000 pounds; (ii) that are subject to the
22 commercial distribution fee imposed under Section 3-815.1 of
23 the Illinois Vehicle Code; and (iii) that are primarily used
24 for commercial purposes. Through June 30, 2005, this exemption
25 applies to repair and replacement parts added after the initial
26 purchase of such a motor vehicle if that motor vehicle is used

 

 

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1 in a manner that would qualify for the rolling stock exemption
2 otherwise provided for in this Act. For purposes of this
3 paragraph, "used for commercial purposes" means the
4 transportation of persons or property in furtherance of any
5 commercial or industrial enterprise whether for-hire or not.
6     (13) Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or shippers of
7 tangible personal property that is utilized by interstate
8 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate
9 commerce and equipment operated by a telecommunications
10 provider, licensed as a common carrier by the Federal
11 Communications Commission, which is permanently installed in
12 or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
13     (14) Machinery and equipment that will be used by the
14 purchaser, or a lessee of the purchaser, primarily in the
15 process of manufacturing or assembling tangible personal
16 property for wholesale or retail sale or lease, whether the
17 sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or by some
18 other person, whether the materials used in the process are
19 owned by the manufacturer or some other person, or whether the
20 sale or lease is made apart from or as an incident to the
21 seller's engaging in the service occupation of producing
22 machines, tools, dies, jigs, patterns, gauges, or other similar
23 items of no commercial value on special order for a particular
24 purchaser.
25     (15) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
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1 and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the service
2 charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a substitute for
3 tips to the employees who participate directly in preparing,
4 serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or beverage function
5 with respect to which the service charge is imposed.
6     (16) Petroleum products sold to a purchaser if the seller
7 is prohibited by federal law from charging tax to the
8 purchaser.
9     (17) Tangible personal property sold to a common carrier by
10 rail or motor that receives the physical possession of the
11 property in Illinois and that transports the property, or
12 shares with another common carrier in the transportation of the
13 property, out of Illinois on a standard uniform bill of lading
14 showing the seller of the property as the shipper or consignor
15 of the property to a destination outside Illinois, for use
16 outside Illinois.
17     (18) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or silver
18 coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the government of the
19 United States of America, or the government of any foreign
20 country, and bullion.
21     (19) Until July 1 2003, oil field exploration, drilling,
22 and production equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs,
23 rotary rigs, cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and
24 tubular goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps
25 and pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
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1 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
2 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
3 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
4     (20) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
5 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including that
6 manufactured on special order, certified by the purchaser to be
7 used primarily for photoprocessing, and including
8 photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased for lease.
9     (21) Until July 1, 2003, coal exploration, mining,
10 offhighway hauling, processing, maintenance, and reclamation
11 equipment, including replacement parts and equipment, and
12 including equipment purchased for lease, but excluding motor
13 vehicles required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle
14 Code.
15     (22) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an air
16 carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for consumption,
17 shipment, or storage in the conduct of its business as an air
18 common carrier, for a flight destined for or returning from a
19 location or locations outside the United States without regard
20 to previous or subsequent domestic stopovers.
21     (23) A transaction in which the purchase order is received
22 by a florist who is located outside Illinois, but who has a
23 florist located in Illinois deliver the property to the
24 purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.
25     (24) Fuel consumed or used in the operation of ships,
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1 transportation of property or the conveyance of persons for
2 hire on rivers bordering on this State if the fuel is delivered
3 by the seller to the purchaser's barge, ship, or vessel while
4 it is afloat upon that bordering river.
5     (25) Except as provided in item (25-5) of this Section, a
6 motor vehicle sold in this State to a nonresident even though
7 the motor vehicle is delivered to the nonresident in this
8 State, if the motor vehicle is not to be titled in this State,
9 and if a drive-away permit is issued to the motor vehicle as
10 provided in Section 3-603 of the Illinois Vehicle Code or if
11 the nonresident purchaser has vehicle registration plates to
12 transfer to the motor vehicle upon returning to his or her home
13 state. The issuance of the drive-away permit or having the
14 out-of-state registration plates to be transferred is prima
15 facie evidence that the motor vehicle will not be titled in
16 this State.
17     (25-5) The exemption under item (25) does not apply if the
18 state in which the motor vehicle will be titled does not allow
19 a reciprocal exemption for a motor vehicle sold and delivered
20 in that state to an Illinois resident but titled in Illinois.
21 The tax collected under this Act on the sale of a motor vehicle
22 in this State to a resident of another state that does not
23 allow a reciprocal exemption shall be imposed at a rate equal
24 to the state's rate of tax on taxable property in the state in
25 which the purchaser is a resident, except that the tax shall
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1 Act. At the time of the sale, the purchaser shall execute a
2 statement, signed under penalty of perjury, of his or her
3 intent to title the vehicle in the state in which the purchaser
4 is a resident within 30 days after the sale and of the fact of
5 the payment to the State of Illinois of tax in an amount
6 equivalent to the state's rate of tax on taxable property in
7 his or her state of residence and shall submit the statement to
8 the appropriate tax collection agency in his or her state of
9 residence. In addition, the retailer must retain a signed copy
10 of the statement in his or her records. Nothing in this item
11 shall be construed to require the removal of the vehicle from
12 this state following the filing of an intent to title the
13 vehicle in the purchaser's state of residence if the purchaser
14 titles the vehicle in his or her state of residence within 30
15 days after the date of sale. The tax collected under this Act
16 in accordance with this item (25-5) shall be proportionately
17 distributed as if the tax were collected at the 6.25% general
18 rate imposed under this Act.
19     (26) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
20 for direct agricultural production.
21     (27) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
22 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
23 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
24 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
25 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
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1     (28) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
2 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
3 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
4 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
5 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
6 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
7 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
8 this Act.
9     (29) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
10 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
11 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body that
12 has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
13 by the Department under Section 1g of this Act.
14     (30) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
15 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
16 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated for
17 disaster relief to be used in a State or federally declared
18 disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
19 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to a
20 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
21 that has been issued a sales tax exemption identification
22 number by the Department that assists victims of the disaster
23 who reside within the declared disaster area.
24     (31) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
25 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
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1 performance of infrastructure repairs in this State, including
2 but not limited to municipal roads and streets, access roads,
3 bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems, water and sewer
4 line extensions, water distribution and purification
5 facilities, storm water drainage and retention facilities, and
6 sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a State or
7 federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering Illinois
8 when such repairs are initiated on facilities located in the
9 declared disaster area within 6 months after the disaster.
10     (32) Beginning July 1, 1999, game or game birds sold at a
11 "game breeding and hunting preserve area" or an "exotic game
12 hunting area" as those terms are used in the Wildlife Code or
13 at a hunting enclosure approved through rules adopted by the
14 Department of Natural Resources. This paragraph is exempt from
15 the provisions of Section 2-70.
16     (33) A motor vehicle, as that term is defined in Section
17 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is donated to a
18 corporation, limited liability company, society, association,
19 foundation, or institution that is determined by the Department
20 to be organized and operated exclusively for educational
21 purposes. For purposes of this exemption, "a corporation,
22 limited liability company, society, association, foundation,
23 or institution organized and operated exclusively for
24 educational purposes" means all tax-supported public schools,
25 private schools that offer systematic instruction in useful
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1 that compare favorably in their scope and intensity with the
2 course of study presented in tax-supported schools, and
3 vocational or technical schools or institutes organized and
4 operated exclusively to provide a course of study of not less
5 than 6 weeks duration and designed to prepare individuals to
6 follow a trade or to pursue a manual, technical, mechanical,
7 industrial, business, or commercial occupation.
8     (34) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property,
9 including food, purchased through fundraising events for the
10 benefit of a public or private elementary or secondary school,
11 a group of those schools, or one or more school districts if
12 the events are sponsored by an entity recognized by the school
13 district that consists primarily of volunteers and includes
14 parents and teachers of the school children. This paragraph
15 does not apply to fundraising events (i) for the benefit of
16 private home instruction or (ii) for which the fundraising
17 entity purchases the personal property sold at the events from
18 another individual or entity that sold the property for the
19 purpose of resale by the fundraising entity and that profits
20 from the sale to the fundraising entity. This paragraph is
21 exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
22     (35) Beginning January 1, 2000 and through December 31,
23 2001, new or used automatic vending machines that prepare and
24 serve hot food and beverages, including coffee, soup, and other
25 items, and replacement parts for these machines. Beginning
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1 for machines used in commercial, coin-operated amusement and
2 vending business if a use or occupation tax is paid on the
3 gross receipts derived from the use of the commercial,
4 coin-operated amusement and vending machines. This paragraph
5 is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
6     (35-5) Beginning August 23, 2001 and through June 30, 2011,
7 food for human consumption that is to be consumed off the
8 premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic beverages, soft
9 drinks, and food that has been prepared for immediate
10 consumption) and prescription and nonprescription medicines,
11 drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine testing
12 materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics, for human
13 use, when purchased for use by a person receiving medical
14 assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid Code who
15 resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as defined in
16 the Nursing Home Care Act.
17     (36) Beginning August 2, 2001, computers and
18 communications equipment utilized for any hospital purpose and
19 equipment used in the diagnosis, analysis, or treatment of
20 hospital patients sold to a lessor who leases the equipment,
21 under a lease of one year or longer executed or in effect at
22 the time of the purchase, to a hospital that has been issued an
23 active tax exemption identification number by the Department
24 under Section 1g of this Act. This paragraph is exempt from the
25 provisions of Section 2-70.
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1 lessor who leases the property, under a lease of one year or
2 longer executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
3 governmental body that has been issued an active tax exemption
4 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
5 this Act. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
6 Section 2-70.
7     (38) Beginning on January 1, 2002 and through June 30,
8 2011, tangible personal property purchased from an Illinois
9 retailer by a taxpayer engaged in centralized purchasing
10 activities in Illinois who will, upon receipt of the property
11 in Illinois, temporarily store the property in Illinois (i) for
12 the purpose of subsequently transporting it outside this State
13 for use or consumption thereafter solely outside this State or
14 (ii) for the purpose of being processed, fabricated, or
15 manufactured into, attached to, or incorporated into other
16 tangible personal property to be transported outside this State
17 and thereafter used or consumed solely outside this State. The
18 Director of Revenue shall, pursuant to rules adopted in
19 accordance with the Illinois Administrative Procedure Act,
20 issue a permit to any taxpayer in good standing with the
21 Department who is eligible for the exemption under this
22 paragraph (38). The permit issued under this paragraph (38)
23 shall authorize the holder, to the extent and in the manner
24 specified in the rules adopted under this Act, to purchase
25 tangible personal property from a retailer exempt from the
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1 necessary books and records to substantiate the use and
2 consumption of all such tangible personal property outside of
3 the State of Illinois.
4     (39) Beginning January 1, 2008, tangible personal property
5 used in the construction, maintenance, or operation of a public
6 water supply, as defined under Section 3.365 of the
7 Environmental Protection Act, that is operated by a
8 not-for-profit entity. This paragraph is exempt from the
9 provisions of Section 2-70.
10 (Source: P.A. 93-23, eff. 6-20-03; 93-24, eff. 6-20-03; 93-840,
11 eff. 7-30-04; 93-1033, eff. 9-3-04; 93-1068, eff. 1-15-05;
12 94-1002, eff. 7-3-06.)