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91_HB0542
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1 AN ACT concerning taxation.
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
5 Section 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
20 music or dramatic arts organization that establishes, by
21 proof required by the Department by rule, that it has
22 received an exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
23 Revenue Code and that is organized and operated for the
24 presentation of live public performances of musical or
25 theatrical works on a regular basis.
26 (4) Personal property purchased by a governmental body,
27 by a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
28 institution organized and operated exclusively for
29 charitable, religious, or educational purposes, or by a
30 not-for-profit corporation, society, association, foundation,
31 institution, or organization that has no compensated officers
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1 or employees and that is organized and operated primarily for
2 the recreation of persons 55 years of age or older. A limited
3 liability company may qualify for the exemption under this
4 paragraph only if the limited liability company is organized
5 and operated exclusively for educational purposes. On and
6 after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
7 this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
8 active exemption identification number issued by the
9 Department.
10 (5) A passenger car that is a replacement vehicle to the
11 extent that the purchase price of the car is subject to the
12 Replacement Vehicle Tax.
13 (6) Graphic arts machinery and equipment, including
14 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, and
15 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
16 the purchaser to be used primarily for graphic arts
17 production, and including machinery and equipment purchased
18 for lease.
19 (7) Farm chemicals.
20 (8) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
21 silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
22 government of the United States of America, or the government
23 of any foreign country, and bullion.
24 (9) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
25 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
26 secondary school located in Illinois.
27 (10) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor
28 vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
29 vehicle designed or permanently converted to provide living
30 quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use, with
31 direct walk through to the living quarters from the driver's
32 seat, or a motor vehicle of the second division that is of
33 the van configuration designed for the transportation of not
34 less than 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in
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1 Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for
2 automobile renting, as defined in the Automobile Renting
3 Occupation and Use Tax Act.
4 (11) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
5 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
6 the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
7 or State or federal agricultural programs, including
8 individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
9 including machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and
10 including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
11 the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
12 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
13 to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
14 Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
15 registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
16 polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
17 overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
18 equipment under this item (11). Agricultural chemical tender
19 tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
20 a motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold
21 mounted on a motor vehicle required to be licensed if the
22 selling price of the 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,
27 seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
28 but is not limited to, soil testing sensors, computers,
29 monitors, software, global positioning and mapping systems,
30 and other such equipment.
31 Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
32 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
33 the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
34 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
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1 limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
2 animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
3 diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (11) is exempt
4 from the provisions of Section 3-90.
5 (12) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an
6 air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
7 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
8 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
9 or returning from a location or locations outside the United
10 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
11 stopovers.
12 (13) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
13 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
14 of food and beverages purchased at retail from a retailer, to
15 the extent that the proceeds of the service charge are in
16 fact turned over as tips or as a substitute for tips to the
17 employees who participate directly in preparing, serving,
18 hosting or cleaning up the food or beverage function with
19 respect to which the service charge is imposed.
20 (14) Oil field exploration, drilling, and production
21 equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
22 cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
23 goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
24 pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
25 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
26 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
27 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
28 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
29 (15) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
30 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including
31 that manufactured on special order, certified by the
32 purchaser to be used primarily for photoprocessing, and
33 including photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased
34 for lease.
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1 (16) Coal exploration, mining, offhighway hauling,
2 processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
3 replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
4 purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
5 be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
6 (17) Distillation machinery and equipment, sold as a
7 unit or kit, assembled or installed by the retailer,
8 certified by the user to be used only for the production of
9 ethyl alcohol that will be used for consumption as motor fuel
10 or as a component of motor fuel for the personal use of the
11 user, and not subject to sale or resale.
12 (18) Manufacturing and assembling machinery and
13 equipment used primarily in the process of manufacturing or
14 assembling tangible personal property for wholesale or retail
15 sale or lease, whether that sale or lease is made directly by
16 the manufacturer or by some other person, whether the
17 materials used in the process are owned by the manufacturer
18 or some other person, or whether that sale or lease is made
19 apart from or as an incident to the seller's engaging in the
20 service occupation of producing machines, tools, dies, jigs,
21 patterns, gauges, or other similar items of no commercial
22 value on special order for a particular purchaser.
23 (19) Personal property delivered to a purchaser or
24 purchaser's donee inside Illinois when the purchase order for
25 that personal property was received by a florist located
26 outside Illinois who has a florist located inside Illinois
27 deliver the personal property.
28 (20) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
29 for direct agricultural production.
30 (21) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
31 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
32 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
33 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
34 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
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1 racing for prizes.
2 (22) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
3 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
4 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients purchased by a
5 lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
6 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
7 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
8 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
9 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
10 the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is
11 leased in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption
12 or is used in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall
13 be liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the Service
14 Use Tax Act, as the case may be, based on the fair market
15 value of the property at the time the non-qualifying use
16 occurs. No lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an
17 amount (however designated) that purports to reimburse that
18 lessor for the tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax
19 Act, as the case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the
20 lessor. If a lessor improperly collects any such amount from
21 the lessee, the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a
22 refund of that amount from the lessor. If, however, that
23 amount is not refunded to the lessee for any reason, the
24 lessor is liable to pay that amount to the Department.
25 (23) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases
26 the property, under a lease of one year or longer executed
27 or in effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be
28 subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental
29 body that has been issued an active sales tax exemption
30 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
31 the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased
32 in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption or used
33 in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable
34 for the tax imposed under this Act or the Service Use Tax
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1 Act, as the case may be, based on the fair market value of
2 the property at the time the non-qualifying use occurs. No
3 lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
4 designated) that purports to reimburse that lessor for the
5 tax imposed by this Act or the Service Use Tax Act, as the
6 case may be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor. If
7 a lessor improperly collects any such amount from the lessee,
8 the lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
9 amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount is not
10 refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is liable
11 to pay that amount to the Department.
12 (24) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
13 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
14 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated
15 for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally
16 declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
17 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to
18 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
19 institution that has been issued a sales tax exemption
20 identification number by the Department that assists victims
21 of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
22 (25) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
23 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
24 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in
25 the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
26 including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
27 access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
28 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
29 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
30 facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
31 State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
32 Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities
33 located in the declared disaster area within 6 months after
34 the disaster.
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1 (26) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property
2 purchased through events sponsored by a parent-teacher
3 association affiliated with an elementary or secondary
4 school. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
5 Section 3-90.
6 (Source: P.A. 89-16, eff. 5-30-95; 89-115, eff. 1-1-96;
7 89-349, eff. 8-17-95; 89-495, eff. 6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
8 6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-552,
9 eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)
10 Section 10. The Service Use Tax Act is amended by
11 changing Section 3-5 as follows:
12 (35 ILCS 110/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5)
13 Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. Use of the following tangible
14 personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
15 (1) Personal property purchased from a corporation,
16 society, association, foundation, institution, or
17 organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
18 organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
19 for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the
20 personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
21 purpose of resale by the enterprise.
22 (2) Personal property purchased by a non-profit Illinois
23 county fair association for use in conducting, operating, or
24 promoting the county fair.
25 (3) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
26 music or dramatic arts organization that establishes, by
27 proof required by the Department by rule, that it has
28 received an exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
29 Revenue Code and that is organized and operated for the
30 presentation of live public performances of musical or
31 theatrical works on a regular basis.
32 (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
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1 silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
2 government of the United States of America, or the government
3 of any foreign country, and bullion.
4 (5) Graphic arts machinery and equipment, including
5 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, and
6 including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
7 lease, certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
8 graphic arts production.
9 (6) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
10 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
11 secondary school located in Illinois.
12 (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
13 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
14 the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
15 or State or federal agricultural programs, including
16 individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
17 including machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and
18 including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
19 the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
20 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
21 to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
22 Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
23 registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
24 polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
25 overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
26 equipment under this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender
27 tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
28 a motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold
29 mounted on a motor vehicle required to be licensed if the
30 selling price of the tender is separately stated.
31 Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
32 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
33 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
34 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters,
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1 seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
2 but is not limited to, soil testing sensors, computers,
3 monitors, software, global positioning and mapping systems,
4 and other such equipment.
5 Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
6 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
7 the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
8 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
9 limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
10 animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
11 diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt
12 from the provisions of Section 3-75.
13 (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an
14 air 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
17 or returning from a location or locations outside the United
18 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
19 stopovers.
20 (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
21 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
22 of food and beverages acquired as an incident to the purchase
23 of a service from a serviceman, to the extent that the
24 proceeds of the service charge are in fact turned over as
25 tips or as a substitute for tips to the employees who
26 participate directly in preparing, serving, hosting or
27 cleaning up the food or beverage function with respect to
28 which the service charge is imposed.
29 (10) Oil field exploration, drilling, and production
30 equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
31 cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
32 goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
33 pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
34 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
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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 (11) Proceeds from the sale of photoprocessing machinery
5 and equipment, including repair and replacement parts, both
6 new and used, including that manufactured on special order,
7 certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
8 photoprocessing, and including photoprocessing machinery and
9 equipment purchased for lease.
10 (12) Coal exploration, mining, offhighway hauling,
11 processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
12 replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
13 purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
14 be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
15 (13) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
16 for direct agricultural production.
17 (14) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
18 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
19 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
20 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
21 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
22 racing for prizes.
23 (15) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
24 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
25 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients purchased by a
26 lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
27 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
28 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
29 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
30 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
31 the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased
32 in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is
33 used in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be
34 liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act,
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1 as the case may be, based on the fair market value of the
2 property at the time the non-qualifying use occurs. No
3 lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
4 designated) that purports to reimburse that lessor for the
5 tax imposed by this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
6 be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor
7 improperly collects any such amount from the lessee, the
8 lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
9 amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount is not
10 refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is liable
11 to pay that amount to the Department.
12 (16) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases
13 the property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or
14 in effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be subject
15 to the tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that
16 has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
17 by the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers'
18 Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased in a manner
19 that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in any
20 other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be liable for the
21 tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case
22 may be, based on the fair market value of the property at the
23 time the non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect
24 or attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that
25 purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
26 Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has
27 not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects
28 any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have a
29 legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
30 If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee for
31 any reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
32 Department.
33 (17) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
34 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
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1 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated
2 for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally
3 declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
4 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to
5 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
6 institution that has been issued a sales tax exemption
7 identification number by the Department that assists victims
8 of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
9 (18) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
10 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
11 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in
12 the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
13 including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
14 access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
15 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
16 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
17 facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
18 State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
19 Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities
20 located in the declared disaster area within 6 months after
21 the disaster.
22 (19) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property
23 purchased through events sponsored by a parent-teacher
24 association affiliated with an elementary or secondary
25 school. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
26 Section 3-75.
27 (Source: P.A. 89-16, eff. 5-30-95; 89-115, eff. 1-1-96;
28 89-349, eff. 8-17-95; 89-495, eff. 6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
29 6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-552,
30 eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)
31 Section 15. The Service Occupation Tax Act is amended by
32 changing Section 3-5 as follows:
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1 (35 ILCS 115/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5)
2 Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. The following tangible personal
3 property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
4 (1) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
5 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
6 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
7 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the
8 benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal
9 property was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose
10 of resale by the enterprise.
11 (2) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
12 Illinois county fair association for use in conducting,
13 operating, or promoting the county fair.
14 (3) Personal property purchased by any not-for-profit
15 music or dramatic arts organization that establishes, by
16 proof required by the Department by rule, that it has
17 received an exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the
18 Internal Revenue Code and that is organized and operated for
19 the presentation of live public performances of musical or
20 theatrical works on a regular basis.
21 (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
22 silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
23 government of the United States of America, or the government
24 of any foreign country, and bullion.
25 (5) Graphic arts machinery and equipment, including
26 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, and
27 including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
28 lease, certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
29 graphic arts production.
30 (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored
31 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
32 secondary school located in Illinois.
33 (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
34 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
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1 the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
2 or State or federal agricultural programs, including
3 individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
4 including machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and
5 including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
6 the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
7 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
8 to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
9 Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
10 registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
11 polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
12 overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
13 equipment under this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender
14 tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
15 a motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold
16 mounted on a motor vehicle required to be licensed if the
17 selling price of the tender is separately stated.
18 Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
19 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
20 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
21 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters,
22 seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
23 but is not limited to, soil testing sensors, computers,
24 monitors, software, global positioning and mapping systems,
25 and other such equipment.
26 Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
27 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
28 the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
29 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
30 limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
31 animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
32 diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt
33 from the provisions of Section 3-75.
34 (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an
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1 air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
2 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
3 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
4 or returning from a location or locations outside the United
5 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
6 stopovers.
7 (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
8 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
9 of food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
10 service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
11 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
12 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
13 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
14 imposed.
15 (10) Oil field exploration, drilling, and production
16 equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
17 cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
18 goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
19 pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
20 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
21 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
22 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
23 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
24 (11) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
25 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including
26 that manufactured on special order, certified by the
27 purchaser to be used primarily for photoprocessing, and
28 including photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased
29 for lease.
30 (12) Coal exploration, mining, offhighway hauling,
31 processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
32 replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
33 purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
34 be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
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1 (13) Food for human consumption that is to be consumed
2 off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic
3 beverages, soft drinks and food that has been prepared for
4 immediate consumption) and prescription and non-prescription
5 medicines, drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine
6 testing materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics,
7 for human use, when purchased for use by a person receiving
8 medical assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid
9 Code who resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as
10 defined in the Nursing Home Care Act.
11 (14) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
12 for direct agricultural production.
13 (15) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
14 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
15 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
16 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
17 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
18 racing for prizes.
19 (16) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
20 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
21 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
22 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
23 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
24 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
25 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
26 the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
27 (17) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
28 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
29 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body
30 that has been issued an active tax exemption identification
31 number by the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers'
32 Occupation Tax Act.
33 (18) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
34 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
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1 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated
2 for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally
3 declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
4 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to
5 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
6 institution that has been issued a sales tax exemption
7 identification number by the Department that assists victims
8 of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
9 (19) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
10 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
11 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in
12 the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
13 including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
14 access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
15 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
16 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
17 facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
18 State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
19 Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities
20 located in the declared disaster area within 6 months after
21 the disaster.
22 (20) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property
23 purchased through events sponsored by a parent-teacher
24 association affiliated with an elementary or secondary
25 school. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
26 Section 3-55.
27 (Source: P.A. 89-16, eff. 5-30-95; 89-115, eff. 1-1-96;
28 89-349, eff. 8-17-95; 89-495, eff. 6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
29 6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-552,
30 eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)
31 Section 20. The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended
32 by changing Section 2-5 as follows:
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1 (35 ILCS 120/2-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 441-5)
2 Sec. 2-5. Exemptions. Gross receipts from proceeds from
3 the sale of the following tangible personal property are
4 exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
5 (1) Farm chemicals.
6 (2) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
7 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
8 the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
9 or State or federal agricultural programs, including
10 individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
11 including machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and
12 including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
13 the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
14 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
15 to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
16 Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
17 registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
18 polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
19 overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
20 equipment under this item (2). Agricultural chemical tender
21 tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
22 a motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold
23 mounted on a motor vehicle required to be licensed, if the
24 selling price of the tender is separately stated.
25 Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
26 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
27 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
28 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters,
29 seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
30 but is not limited to, soil testing sensors, computers,
31 monitors, software, global positioning and mapping systems,
32 and other such equipment.
33 Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
34 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
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1 the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
2 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
3 limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
4 animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
5 diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt
6 from the provisions of Section 3-75.
7 (3) Distillation machinery and equipment, sold as a unit
8 or kit, assembled or installed by the retailer, certified by
9 the user to be used only for the production of ethyl alcohol
10 that will be used for consumption as motor fuel or as a
11 component of motor fuel for the personal use of the user, and
12 not subject to sale or resale.
13 (4) Graphic arts machinery and equipment, including
14 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, and
15 including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
16 lease, certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
17 graphic arts production.
18 (5) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor
19 vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
20 vehicle designed or permanently converted to provide living
21 quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use, with
22 direct walk through access to the living quarters from the
23 driver's seat, or a motor vehicle of the second division that
24 is of the van configuration designed for the transportation
25 of not less than 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in
26 Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for
27 automobile renting, as defined in the Automobile Renting
28 Occupation and Use Tax Act.
29 (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored
30 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
31 secondary school located in Illinois.
32 (7) Proceeds of that portion of the selling price of a
33 passenger car the sale of which is subject to the Replacement
34 Vehicle Tax.
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1 (8) Personal property sold to an Illinois county fair
2 association for use in conducting, operating, or promoting
3 the county fair.
4 (9) Personal property sold to a not-for-profit music or
5 dramatic arts organization that establishes, by proof
6 required by the Department by rule, that it has received an
7 exemption under Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue
8 Code and that is organized and operated for the presentation
9 of live public performances of musical or theatrical works on
10 a regular basis.
11 (10) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
12 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
13 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
14 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the
15 benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal
16 property was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose
17 of resale by the enterprise.
18 (11) Personal property sold to a governmental body, to a
19 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
20 organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious,
21 or educational purposes, or to a not-for-profit corporation,
22 society, association, foundation, institution, or
23 organization that has no compensated officers or employees
24 and that is organized and operated primarily for the
25 recreation of persons 55 years of age or older. A limited
26 liability company may qualify for the exemption under this
27 paragraph only if the limited liability company is organized
28 and operated exclusively for educational purposes. On and
29 after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
30 this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
31 active identification number issued by the Department.
32 (12) Personal property sold to interstate carriers for
33 hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate commerce
34 or to lessors under leases of one year or longer executed or
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1 in effect at the time of purchase by interstate carriers for
2 hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate commerce
3 and equipment operated by a telecommunications provider,
4 licensed as a common carrier by the Federal Communications
5 Commission, which is permanently installed in or affixed to
6 aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
7 (13) Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or shippers
8 of tangible personal property that is utilized by interstate
9 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in
10 interstate commerce and equipment operated by a
11 telecommunications provider, licensed as a common carrier by
12 the Federal Communications Commission, which is permanently
13 installed in or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate
14 commerce.
15 (14) Machinery and equipment that will be used by the
16 purchaser, or a lessee of the purchaser, primarily in the
17 process of manufacturing or assembling tangible personal
18 property for wholesale or retail sale or lease, whether the
19 sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or by some
20 other person, whether the materials used in the process are
21 owned by the manufacturer or some other person, or whether
22 the sale or lease is made apart from or as an incident to the
23 seller's engaging in the service occupation of producing
24 machines, tools, dies, jigs, patterns, gauges, or other
25 similar items of no commercial value on special order for a
26 particular purchaser.
27 (15) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
28 stated on customers' bills for purchase and consumption of
29 food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
30 service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
31 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
32 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
33 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
34 imposed.
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1 (16) Petroleum products sold to a purchaser if the
2 seller is prohibited by federal law from charging tax to the
3 purchaser.
4 (17) Tangible personal property sold to a common carrier
5 by rail or motor that receives the physical possession of the
6 property in Illinois and that transports the property, or
7 shares with another common carrier in the transportation of
8 the property, out of Illinois on a standard uniform bill of
9 lading showing the seller of the property as the shipper or
10 consignor of the property to a destination outside Illinois,
11 for use outside Illinois.
12 (18) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
13 silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
14 government of the United States of America, or the government
15 of any foreign country, and bullion.
16 (19) Oil field exploration, drilling, and production
17 equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
18 cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
19 goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
20 pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
21 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
22 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
23 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
24 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
25 (20) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
26 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including
27 that manufactured on special order, certified by the
28 purchaser to be used primarily for photoprocessing, and
29 including photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased
30 for lease.
31 (21) Coal exploration, mining, offhighway hauling,
32 processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
33 replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
34 purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
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1 be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
2 (22) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an
3 air carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
4 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
5 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
6 or returning from a location or locations outside the United
7 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
8 stopovers.
9 (23) A transaction in which the purchase order is
10 received by a florist who is located outside Illinois, but
11 who has a florist located in Illinois deliver the property to
12 the purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.
13 (24) Fuel consumed or used in the operation of ships,
14 barges, or vessels that are used primarily in or for the
15 transportation of property or the conveyance of persons for
16 hire on rivers bordering on this State if the fuel is
17 delivered by the seller to the purchaser's barge, ship, or
18 vessel while it is afloat upon that bordering river.
19 (25) A motor vehicle sold in this State to a nonresident
20 even though the motor vehicle is delivered to the nonresident
21 in this State, if the motor vehicle is not to be titled in
22 this State, and if a driveaway decal permit is issued to the
23 motor vehicle as provided in Section 3-603 of the Illinois
24 Vehicle Code or if the nonresident purchaser has vehicle
25 registration plates to transfer to the motor vehicle upon
26 returning to his or her home state. The issuance of the
27 driveaway decal permit or having the out-of-state
28 registration plates to be transferred is prima facie evidence
29 that the motor vehicle will not be titled in this State.
30 (26) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
31 for direct agricultural production.
32 (27) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
33 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
34 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
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1 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
2 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
3 racing for prizes.
4 (28) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
5 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
6 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
7 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
8 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
9 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
10 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
11 this Act.
12 (29) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
13 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
14 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body
15 that has been issued an active tax exemption identification
16 number by the Department under Section 1g of this Act.
17 (30) 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
20 for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally
21 declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
22 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to
23 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
24 institution that has been issued a sales tax exemption
25 identification number by the Department that assists victims
26 of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
27 (31) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
28 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
29 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in
30 the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
31 including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
32 access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
33 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
34 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
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1 facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
2 State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
3 Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities
4 located in the declared disaster area within 6 months after
5 the disaster.
6 (32) Beginning January 1, 2000, personal property
7 purchased through events sponsored by a parent-teacher
8 association affiliated with an elementary or secondary
9 school. This paragraph is exempt from the provisions of
10 Section 2-70.
11 (Source: P.A. 89-16, eff. 5-30-95; 89-115, eff. 1-1-96;
12 89-349, eff. 8-17-95; 89-495, eff. 6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
13 6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-519,
14 eff. 6-1-98; 90-552, eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)
15 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
16 becoming law.