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91_SB0132

 
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Automobile Renting Occupation and Use
 2    Tax Act by changing Section 2.

 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:

 5        Section 5.  The Automobile Renting Occupation and Use Tax
 6    Act is amended by changing Section 2 as follows:

 7        (35 ILCS 155/2) (from Ch. 120, par. 1702)
 8        Sec. 2.  Definitions.  "Renting" means  any  transfer  of
 9    the  possession  or right to possession of an automobile to a
10    user for a valuable consideration for a period of one year or
11    less.
12        "Renting" does not include making a charge for the use of
13    an automobile where the rentor, either himself or through  an
14    agent, furnishes a service of operating an automobile so that
15    the  rentor  remains in possession of the automobile, because
16    this does not constitute a transfer of possession or right to
17    possession of the automobile.
18        "Renting" does not include the making of a charge  by  an
19    automobile   dealer  for  the  use  of  an  automobile  as  a
20    demonstrator in connection  with  the  dealer's  business  of
21    selling, where the charge is merely made to recover the costs
22    of  operating  the  automobile  as  a demonstrator and is not
23    intended as a rental or leasing charge in the ordinary sense.
24        "Renting" does not include the making of a charge  by  an
25    automobile  dealer  for  the use of an automobile by a person
26    while that person's motor vehicle is being repaired  by  that
27    automobile  dealer  and  the  repair  is  made  pursuant to a
28    manufacturer's warranty or  a  service  contract,  where  the
29    charge  is  merely made to recover the costs of operating the
30    automobile as a  loaner  vehicle.   The  provisions  of  this
31    amendatory  Act  of the 91st General Assembly are declarative
 
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 1    of existing law and are not a new enactment.
 2        "Automobile"  means  any  motor  vehicle  of  the   first
 3    division,  a  motor vehicle of the second division which is a
 4    self-contained  motor   vehicle   designed   or   permanently
 5    converted   to  provide  living  quarters  for  recreational,
 6    camping or travel use, with direct walk through access to the
 7    living quarters from the driver's seat, or a motor vehicle of
 8    the  second  division  which  is  of  the  van  configuration
 9    designed for the transportation of not less than 7  nor  more
10    than  16  passengers,  as  defined  in  Section  1-146 of the
11    Illinois Vehicle Code.
12        "Department" means the Department of Revenue.
13        "Person" means any natural individual, firm, partnership,
14    association, joint stock company, joint adventure, public  or
15    private   corporation,   limited   liability  company,  or  a
16    receiver,   executor,   trustee,   conservator    or    other
17    representative appointed by order of any court.
18        "Rentor"   means   any   person,   firm,  corporation  or
19    association engaged in the business  of  renting  or  leasing
20    automobiles  to  users.   For  this purpose, the objective of
21    making a profit is not necessary to make the renting activity
22    a business.
23        "Rentee" means any user to whom the  possession,  or  the
24    right  to  possession,  of an automobile is transferred for a
25    valuable consideration for a period  of  one  year  or  less,
26    whether paid for by the "rentee" or by someone else.
27        "Gross  receipts"  from  the renting of tangible personal
28    property or "rent" means the total rental  price  or  leasing
29    price.   In  the  case  of  rental  transactions in which the
30    consideration is paid to the rentor on an installment  basis,
31    the  amounts of such payments shall be included by the rentor
32    in gross receipts or rent  only  as  and  when  payments  are
33    received by the rentor.
34        "Rental  price"  means  the  consideration for renting or
 
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 1    leasing an automobile valued in money,  whether  received  in
 2    money  or  otherwise,  including  cash  credits, property and
 3    services, and shall be determined without  any  deduction  on
 4    account  of  the  cost  of  the  property rented, the cost of
 5    materials used, labor or service cost, or any  other  expense
 6    whatsoever,  but does not include charges that are added by a
 7    rentor on account of the rentor's tax  liability  under  this
 8    Act  or  on account of the rentor's duty to collect, from the
 9    rentee, the tax that is imposed by Section  4  of  this  Act.
10    The  phrase "rental price" does not include compensation paid
11    to a rentor by a rentee in consideration of the waiver by the
12    rentor of any right of action or claim against the rentee for
13    loss or damage to the automobile rented  and  also  does  not
14    include  a separately stated charge for insurance or recovery
15    of refueling costs or other separately  stated  charges  that
16    are not for the use of tangible personal property.
17    (Source: P.A. 90-14, eff. 7-1-97.)

18        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
19    becoming law.

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