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91_SB0229
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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, tangible personal
2 property and its component parts purchased by a
3 telecommunications carrier if the property and parts are used
4 directly and primarily in transmitting, receiving, switching,
5 or recording any interactive, two-way electromagnetic
6 communications, including voice, image, data, and
7 information, through the use of any medium, including, but
8 not limited to, poles, wires, cables, switching equipment,
9 computers, and record storage devices and media. This
10 paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-90.
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; 90-552,
14 eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)
15 Section 10. The Service Use Tax Act is amended by
16 changing Section 3-5 as follows:
17 (35 ILCS 110/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.33-5)
18 Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. Use of the following tangible
19 personal property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
20 (1) Personal property purchased from a corporation,
21 society, association, foundation, institution, or
22 organization, other than a limited liability company, that is
23 organized and operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise
24 for the benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the
25 personal property was not purchased by the enterprise for the
26 purpose of resale by the enterprise.
27 (2) Personal property purchased by a non-profit Illinois
28 county fair association for use in conducting, operating, or
29 promoting the county fair.
30 (3) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
31 music or dramatic arts organization that establishes, by
32 proof required by the Department by rule, that it has
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1 received an exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal
2 Revenue Code and that is organized and operated for the
3 presentation of live public performances of musical or
4 theatrical works on a regular basis.
5 (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
6 silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
7 government of the United States of America, or the government
8 of any foreign country, and bullion.
9 (5) Graphic arts machinery and equipment, including
10 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, and
11 including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
12 lease, certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
13 graphic arts production.
14 (6) Personal property purchased from a teacher-sponsored
15 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
16 secondary school located in Illinois.
17 (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
18 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
19 the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
20 or State or federal agricultural programs, including
21 individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
22 including machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and
23 including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
24 the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
25 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
26 to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
27 Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
28 registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
29 polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
30 overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
31 equipment under this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender
32 tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
33 a motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold
34 mounted on a motor vehicle required to be licensed if the
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1 selling price of the tender is separately stated.
2 Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
3 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
4 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
5 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters,
6 seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
7 but is not limited to, soil testing sensors, computers,
8 monitors, software, global positioning and mapping systems,
9 and other such equipment.
10 Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
11 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
12 the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
13 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
14 limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
15 animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
16 diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt
17 from the provisions of Section 3-75.
18 (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an
19 air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
20 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
21 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
22 or returning from a location or locations outside the United
23 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
24 stopovers.
25 (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
26 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
27 of food and beverages acquired as an incident to the purchase
28 of a service from a serviceman, to the extent that the
29 proceeds of the service charge are in fact turned over as
30 tips or as a substitute for tips to the employees who
31 participate directly in preparing, serving, hosting or
32 cleaning up the food or beverage function with respect to
33 which the service charge is imposed.
34 (10) Oil field exploration, drilling, and production
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1 equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
2 cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
3 goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
4 pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
5 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
6 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
7 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
8 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
9 (11) Proceeds from the sale of photoprocessing machinery
10 and equipment, including repair and replacement parts, both
11 new and used, including that manufactured on special order,
12 certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
13 photoprocessing, and including photoprocessing machinery and
14 equipment purchased for lease.
15 (12) Coal exploration, mining, offhighway hauling,
16 processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
17 replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
18 purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
19 be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
20 (13) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
21 for direct agricultural production.
22 (14) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
23 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
24 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
25 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
26 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
27 racing for prizes.
28 (15) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
29 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
30 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients purchased by a
31 lessor who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or
32 longer executed or in effect at the time the lessor would
33 otherwise be subject to the tax imposed by this Act, to a
34 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
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1 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
2 the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. If the equipment is leased
3 in a manner that does not qualify for this exemption or is
4 used in any other non-exempt manner, the lessor shall be
5 liable for the tax imposed under this Act or the Use Tax Act,
6 as the case may be, based on the fair market value of the
7 property at the time the non-qualifying use occurs. No
8 lessor shall collect or attempt to collect an amount (however
9 designated) that purports to reimburse that lessor for the
10 tax imposed by this Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may
11 be, if the tax has not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor
12 improperly collects any such amount from the lessee, the
13 lessee shall have a legal right to claim a refund of that
14 amount from the lessor. If, however, that amount is not
15 refunded to the lessee for any reason, the lessor is liable
16 to pay that amount to the Department.
17 (16) Personal property purchased by a lessor who leases
18 the property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or
19 in effect at the time the lessor would otherwise be subject
20 to the tax imposed by this Act, to a governmental body that
21 has been issued an active tax exemption identification number
22 by the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers'
23 Occupation Tax Act. If the property is leased in a manner
24 that does not qualify for this exemption or is used in any
25 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
27 may be, based on the fair market value of the property at the
28 time the non-qualifying use occurs. No lessor shall collect
29 or attempt to collect an amount (however designated) that
30 purports to reimburse that lessor for the tax imposed by this
31 Act or the Use Tax Act, as the case may be, if the tax has
32 not been paid by the lessor. If a lessor improperly collects
33 any such amount from the lessee, the lessee shall have a
34 legal right to claim a refund of that amount from the lessor.
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1 If, however, that amount is not refunded to the lessee for
2 any reason, the lessor is liable to pay that amount to the
3 Department.
4 (17) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
5 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
6 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated
7 for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally
8 declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
9 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to
10 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
11 institution that has been issued a sales tax exemption
12 identification number by the Department that assists victims
13 of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
14 (18) 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 used in
17 the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
18 including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
19 access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
20 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
21 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
22 facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
23 State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
24 Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities
25 located in the declared disaster area within 6 months after
26 the disaster.
27 (19) Beginning January 1, 2000, tangible personal
28 property and its component parts purchased by a
29 telecommunications carrier if the property and parts are used
30 directly and primarily in transmitting, receiving, switching,
31 or recording any interactive, two-way electromagnetic
32 communications, including voice, image, data, and
33 information, through the use of any medium, including, but
34 not limited to, poles, wires, cables, switching equipment,
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1 computers, and record storage devices and media. This
2 paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-75.
3 (Source: P.A. 89-16, eff. 5-30-95; 89-115, eff. 1-1-96;
4 89-349, eff. 8-17-95; 89-495, eff. 6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
5 6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-552,
6 eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)
7 Section 15. The Service Occupation Tax Act is amended by
8 changing Section 3-5 as follows:
9 (35 ILCS 115/3-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 439.103-5)
10 Sec. 3-5. Exemptions. The following tangible personal
11 property is exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
12 (1) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
13 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
14 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
15 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the
16 benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal
17 property was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose
18 of resale by the enterprise.
19 (2) Personal property purchased by a not-for-profit
20 Illinois county fair association for use in conducting,
21 operating, or promoting the county fair.
22 (3) Personal property purchased by any not-for-profit
23 music or dramatic arts organization that establishes, by
24 proof required by the Department by rule, that it has
25 received an exemption under Section 501(c)(3) of the
26 Internal Revenue Code and that is organized and operated for
27 the presentation of live public performances of musical or
28 theatrical works on a regular basis.
29 (4) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
30 silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
31 government of the United States of America, or the government
32 of any foreign country, and bullion.
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1 (5) Graphic arts machinery and equipment, including
2 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, and
3 including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
4 lease, certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
5 graphic arts production.
6 (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored
7 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
8 secondary school located in Illinois.
9 (7) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
10 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
11 the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
12 or State or federal agricultural programs, including
13 individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
14 including machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and
15 including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
16 the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
17 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
18 to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
19 Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
20 registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
21 polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
22 overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
23 equipment under this item (7). Agricultural chemical tender
24 tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
25 a motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold
26 mounted on a motor vehicle required to be licensed if the
27 selling price of the tender is separately stated.
28 Farm machinery and equipment shall include precision
29 farming equipment that is installed or purchased to be
30 installed on farm machinery and equipment including, but not
31 limited to, tractors, harvesters, sprayers, planters,
32 seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
33 but is not limited to, soil testing sensors, computers,
34 monitors, software, global positioning and mapping systems,
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1 and other such equipment.
2 Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
3 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
4 the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
5 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
6 limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
7 animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
8 diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt
9 from the provisions of Section 3-75.
10 (8) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an
11 air common carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
12 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
13 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
14 or returning from a location or locations outside the United
15 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
16 stopovers.
17 (9) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
18 stated on customers' bills for the purchase and consumption
19 of food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
20 service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
21 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
22 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
23 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
24 imposed.
25 (10) Oil field exploration, drilling, and production
26 equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
27 cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
28 goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
29 pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
30 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
31 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
32 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
33 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
34 (11) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
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1 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including
2 that manufactured on special order, certified by the
3 purchaser to be used primarily for photoprocessing, and
4 including photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased
5 for lease.
6 (12) Coal exploration, mining, offhighway hauling,
7 processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
8 replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
9 purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
10 be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
11 (13) Food for human consumption that is to be consumed
12 off the premises where it is sold (other than alcoholic
13 beverages, soft drinks and food that has been prepared for
14 immediate consumption) and prescription and non-prescription
15 medicines, drugs, medical appliances, and insulin, urine
16 testing materials, syringes, and needles used by diabetics,
17 for human use, when purchased for use by a person receiving
18 medical assistance under Article 5 of the Illinois Public Aid
19 Code who resides in a licensed long-term care facility, as
20 defined in the Nursing Home Care Act.
21 (14) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
22 for direct agricultural production.
23 (15) Horses, or interests in horses, registered with and
24 meeting the requirements of any of the Arabian Horse Club
25 Registry of America, Appaloosa Horse Club, American Quarter
26 Horse Association, United States Trotting Association, or
27 Jockey Club, as appropriate, used for purposes of breeding or
28 racing for prizes.
29 (16) Computers and communications equipment utilized for
30 any hospital purpose and equipment used in the diagnosis,
31 analysis, or treatment of hospital patients sold to a lessor
32 who leases the equipment, under a lease of one year or longer
33 executed or in effect at the time of the purchase, to a
34 hospital that has been issued an active tax exemption
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1 identification number by the Department under Section 1g of
2 the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.
3 (17) Personal property sold to a lessor who leases the
4 property, under a lease of one year or longer executed or in
5 effect at the time of the purchase, to a governmental body
6 that has been issued an active tax exemption identification
7 number by the Department under Section 1g of the Retailers'
8 Occupation Tax Act.
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 donated
12 for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally
13 declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
14 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to
15 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
16 institution that has been issued a sales tax exemption
17 identification number by the Department that assists victims
18 of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
19 (19) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
20 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
21 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in
22 the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
23 including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
24 access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
25 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
26 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
27 facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
28 State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
29 Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities
30 located in the declared disaster area within 6 months after
31 the disaster.
32 (20) Beginning January 1, 2000, tangible personal
33 property and its component parts purchased by a
34 telecommunications carrier if the property and parts are used
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1 directly and primarily in transmitting, receiving, switching,
2 or recording any interactive, two-way electromagnetic
3 communications, including voice, image, data, and
4 information, through the use of any medium, including, but
5 not limited to, poles, wires, cables, switching equipment,
6 computers, and record storage devices and media. This
7 paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 3-55.
8 (Source: P.A. 89-16, eff. 5-30-95; 89-115, eff. 1-1-96;
9 89-349, eff. 8-17-95; 89-495, eff. 6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
10 6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-552,
11 eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)
12 Section 20. The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended
13 by changing Section 2-5 as follows:
14 (35 ILCS 120/2-5) (from Ch. 120, par. 441-5)
15 Sec. 2-5. Exemptions. Gross receipts from proceeds from
16 the sale of the following tangible personal property are
17 exempt from the tax imposed by this Act:
18 (1) Farm chemicals.
19 (2) Farm machinery and equipment, both new and used,
20 including that manufactured on special order, certified by
21 the purchaser to be used primarily for production agriculture
22 or State or federal agricultural programs, including
23 individual replacement parts for the machinery and equipment,
24 including machinery and equipment purchased for lease, and
25 including implements of husbandry defined in Section 1-130 of
26 the Illinois Vehicle Code, farm machinery and agricultural
27 chemical and fertilizer spreaders, and nurse wagons required
28 to be registered under Section 3-809 of the Illinois Vehicle
29 Code, but excluding other motor vehicles required to be
30 registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code. Horticultural
31 polyhouses or hoop houses used for propagating, growing, or
32 overwintering plants shall be considered farm machinery and
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1 equipment under this item (2). Agricultural chemical tender
2 tanks and dry boxes shall include units sold separately from
3 a motor vehicle required to be licensed and units sold
4 mounted on a motor vehicle required to be licensed, if the
5 selling price of the 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,
10 seeders, or spreaders. Precision farming equipment includes,
11 but is not limited to, soil testing sensors, computers,
12 monitors, software, global positioning and mapping systems,
13 and other such equipment.
14 Farm machinery and equipment also includes computers,
15 sensors, software, and related equipment used primarily in
16 the computer-assisted operation of production agriculture
17 facilities, equipment, and activities such as, but not
18 limited to, the collection, monitoring, and correlation of
19 animal and crop data for the purpose of formulating animal
20 diets and agricultural chemicals. This item (7) is exempt
21 from the provisions of Section 3-75.
22 (3) Distillation machinery and equipment, sold as a unit
23 or kit, assembled or installed by the retailer, certified by
24 the user to be used only for the production of ethyl alcohol
25 that will be used for consumption as motor fuel or as a
26 component of motor fuel for the personal use of the user, and
27 not subject to sale or resale.
28 (4) Graphic arts machinery and equipment, including
29 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, and
30 including that manufactured on special order or purchased for
31 lease, certified by the purchaser to be used primarily for
32 graphic arts production.
33 (5) A motor vehicle of the first division, a motor
34 vehicle of the second division that is a self-contained motor
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1 vehicle designed or permanently converted to provide living
2 quarters for recreational, camping, or travel use, with
3 direct walk through access to the living quarters from the
4 driver's seat, or a motor vehicle of the second division that
5 is of the van configuration designed for the transportation
6 of not less than 7 nor more than 16 passengers, as defined in
7 Section 1-146 of the Illinois Vehicle Code, that is used for
8 automobile renting, as defined in the Automobile Renting
9 Occupation and Use Tax Act.
10 (6) Personal property sold by a teacher-sponsored
11 student organization affiliated with an elementary or
12 secondary school located in Illinois.
13 (7) Proceeds of that portion of the selling price of a
14 passenger car the sale of which is subject to the Replacement
15 Vehicle Tax.
16 (8) Personal property sold to an Illinois county fair
17 association for use in conducting, operating, or promoting
18 the county fair.
19 (9) Personal property sold to a not-for-profit music or
20 dramatic arts organization that establishes, by proof
21 required by the Department by rule, that it has received an
22 exemption under Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue
23 Code and that is organized and operated for the presentation
24 of live public performances of musical or theatrical works on
25 a regular basis.
26 (10) Personal property sold by a corporation, society,
27 association, foundation, institution, or organization, other
28 than a limited liability company, that is organized and
29 operated as a not-for-profit service enterprise for the
30 benefit of persons 65 years of age or older if the personal
31 property was not purchased by the enterprise for the purpose
32 of resale by the enterprise.
33 (11) Personal property sold to a governmental body, to a
34 corporation, society, association, foundation, or institution
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1 organized and operated exclusively for charitable, religious,
2 or educational purposes, or to a not-for-profit corporation,
3 society, association, foundation, institution, or
4 organization that has no compensated officers or employees
5 and that is organized and operated primarily for the
6 recreation of persons 55 years of age or older. A limited
7 liability company may qualify for the exemption under this
8 paragraph only if the limited liability company is organized
9 and operated exclusively for educational purposes. On and
10 after July 1, 1987, however, no entity otherwise eligible for
11 this exemption shall make tax-free purchases unless it has an
12 active identification number issued by the Department.
13 (12) Personal property sold to interstate carriers for
14 hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate commerce
15 or to lessors under leases of one year or longer executed or
16 in effect at the time of purchase by interstate carriers for
17 hire for use as rolling stock moving in interstate commerce
18 and equipment operated by a telecommunications provider,
19 licensed as a common carrier by the Federal Communications
20 Commission, which is permanently installed in or affixed to
21 aircraft moving in interstate commerce.
22 (13) Proceeds from sales to owners, lessors, or shippers
23 of tangible personal property that is utilized by interstate
24 carriers for hire for use as rolling stock moving in
25 interstate commerce and equipment operated by a
26 telecommunications provider, licensed as a common carrier by
27 the Federal Communications Commission, which is permanently
28 installed in or affixed to aircraft moving in interstate
29 commerce.
30 (14) Machinery and equipment that will be used by the
31 purchaser, or a lessee of the purchaser, primarily in the
32 process of manufacturing or assembling tangible personal
33 property for wholesale or retail sale or lease, whether the
34 sale or lease is made directly by the manufacturer or by some
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1 other person, whether the materials used in the process are
2 owned by the manufacturer or some other person, or whether
3 the sale or lease is made apart from or as an incident to the
4 seller's engaging in the service occupation of producing
5 machines, tools, dies, jigs, patterns, gauges, or other
6 similar items of no commercial value on special order for a
7 particular purchaser.
8 (15) Proceeds of mandatory service charges separately
9 stated on customers' bills for purchase and consumption of
10 food and beverages, to the extent that the proceeds of the
11 service charge are in fact turned over as tips or as a
12 substitute for tips to the employees who participate directly
13 in preparing, serving, hosting or cleaning up the food or
14 beverage function with respect to which the service charge is
15 imposed.
16 (16) Petroleum products sold to a purchaser if the
17 seller is prohibited by federal law from charging tax to the
18 purchaser.
19 (17) Tangible personal property sold to a common carrier
20 by rail or motor that receives the physical possession of the
21 property in Illinois and that transports the property, or
22 shares with another common carrier in the transportation of
23 the property, out of Illinois on a standard uniform bill of
24 lading showing the seller of the property as the shipper or
25 consignor of the property to a destination outside Illinois,
26 for use outside Illinois.
27 (18) Legal tender, currency, medallions, or gold or
28 silver coinage issued by the State of Illinois, the
29 government of the United States of America, or the government
30 of any foreign country, and bullion.
31 (19) Oil field exploration, drilling, and production
32 equipment, including (i) rigs and parts of rigs, rotary rigs,
33 cable tool rigs, and workover rigs, (ii) pipe and tubular
34 goods, including casing and drill strings, (iii) pumps and
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1 pump-jack units, (iv) storage tanks and flow lines, (v) any
2 individual replacement part for oil field exploration,
3 drilling, and production equipment, and (vi) machinery and
4 equipment purchased for lease; but excluding motor vehicles
5 required to be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
6 (20) Photoprocessing machinery and equipment, including
7 repair and replacement parts, both new and used, including
8 that manufactured on special order, certified by the
9 purchaser to be used primarily for photoprocessing, and
10 including photoprocessing machinery and equipment purchased
11 for lease.
12 (21) Coal exploration, mining, offhighway hauling,
13 processing, maintenance, and reclamation equipment, including
14 replacement parts and equipment, and including equipment
15 purchased for lease, but excluding motor vehicles required to
16 be registered under the Illinois Vehicle Code.
17 (22) Fuel and petroleum products sold to or used by an
18 air carrier, certified by the carrier to be used for
19 consumption, shipment, or storage in the conduct of its
20 business as an air common carrier, for a flight destined for
21 or returning from a location or locations outside the United
22 States without regard to previous or subsequent domestic
23 stopovers.
24 (23) A transaction in which the purchase order is
25 received by a florist who is located outside Illinois, but
26 who has a florist located in Illinois deliver the property to
27 the purchaser or the purchaser's donee in Illinois.
28 (24) Fuel consumed or used in the operation of ships,
29 barges, or vessels that are used primarily in or for the
30 transportation of property or the conveyance of persons for
31 hire on rivers bordering on this State if the fuel is
32 delivered by the seller to the purchaser's barge, ship, or
33 vessel while it is afloat upon that bordering river.
34 (25) A motor vehicle sold in this State to a nonresident
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1 even though the motor vehicle is delivered to the nonresident
2 in this State, if the motor vehicle is not to be titled in
3 this State, and if a driveaway decal permit is issued to the
4 motor vehicle as provided in Section 3-603 of the Illinois
5 Vehicle Code or if the nonresident purchaser has vehicle
6 registration plates to transfer to the motor vehicle upon
7 returning to his or her home state. The issuance of the
8 driveaway decal permit or having the out-of-state
9 registration plates to be transferred is prima facie evidence
10 that the motor vehicle will not be titled in this State.
11 (26) Semen used for artificial insemination of livestock
12 for direct agricultural production.
13 (27) 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 (28) 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 this Act.
27 (29) 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 this Act.
32 (30) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
33 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
34 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is donated
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1 for disaster relief to be used in a State or federally
2 declared disaster area in Illinois or bordering Illinois by a
3 manufacturer or retailer that is registered in this State to
4 a corporation, society, association, foundation, or
5 institution that has been issued a sales tax exemption
6 identification number by the Department that assists victims
7 of the disaster who reside within the declared disaster area.
8 (31) Beginning with taxable years ending on or after
9 December 31, 1995 and ending with taxable years ending on or
10 before December 31, 2004, personal property that is used in
11 the performance of infrastructure repairs in this State,
12 including but not limited to municipal roads and streets,
13 access roads, bridges, sidewalks, waste disposal systems,
14 water and sewer line extensions, water distribution and
15 purification facilities, storm water drainage and retention
16 facilities, and sewage treatment facilities, resulting from a
17 State or federally declared disaster in Illinois or bordering
18 Illinois when such repairs are initiated on facilities
19 located in the declared disaster area within 6 months after
20 the disaster.
21 (32) Beginning January 1, 2000, tangible personal
22 property and its component parts purchased by a
23 telecommunications carrier if the property and parts are used
24 directly and primarily in transmitting, receiving, switching,
25 or recording any interactive, two-way electromagnetic
26 communications, including voice, image, data, and
27 information, through the use of any medium, including, but
28 not limited to, poles, wires, cables, switching equipment,
29 computers, and record storage devices and media. This
30 paragraph is exempt from the provisions of Section 2-70.
31 (Source: P.A. 89-16, eff. 5-30-95; 89-115, eff. 1-1-96;
32 89-349, eff. 8-17-95; 89-495, eff. 6-24-96; 89-496, eff.
33 6-25-96; 89-626, eff. 8-9-96; 90-14, eff. 7-1-97; 90-519,
34 eff. 6-1-98; 90-552, eff. 12-12-97; 90-605, eff. 6-30-98.)
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1 Section 90. The State Mandates Act is amended by adding
2 Section 8.23 as follows:
3 (30 ILCS 805/8.23 new)
4 Sec. 8.23. Exempt mandate. Notwithstanding Sections 6
5 and 8 of this Act, no reimbursement by the State is required
6 for the implementation of any mandate created by this
7 amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly.
8 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
9 becoming law.