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House File 2541

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  1  1                                            HOUSE FILE 2541
  1  2                                    
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 RELATING TO UTILITY REPLACEMENT TAXES BY REDEFINING MAJOR 
  1  5    ADDITIONS FOR PURPOSES OF ALLOCATING REPLACEMENT TAXES TO 
  1  6    TAXING DISTRICTS, REQUIRING CERTAIN TAXPAYERS TO REPORT 
  1  7    ESTIMATED REPLACEMENT TAXES, AND CHANGING OR ESTABLISHING 
  1  8    CERTAIN REPORTING DATES AND INCLUDING EFFECTIVE AND RETRO-
  1  9    ACTIVE APPLICABILITY DATE PROVISIONS.
  1 10 
  1 11 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  1 12 
  1 13    Section 1.  Section 437A.3, subsection 18, Code Supplement
  1 14 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  1 15    18.  "Major addition" means any either of the following:
  1 16    a.  Any acquisition on or after January 1, 1998, by a
  1 17 taxpayer, by transfer of ownership, self-construction, or
  1 18 capital lease of any interest in any of the following:
  1 19    a. (1)  A building in this state where the acquisition cost
  1 20 of all interests acquired exceeds ten million dollars.
  1 21    b. (2)  An electric power generating plant where the
  1 22 acquisition cost of all interests acquired exceeds ten million
  1 23 dollars.  For purposes of this paragraph, "electric power
  1 24 generating plant" means each nameplate rated electric power
  1 25 generating plant owned solely or jointly by any person or
  1 26 electric power facility financed under the provisions of
  1 27 chapter 28F or 476A in which electrical energy is produced
  1 28 from other forms of energy, including all equipment used in
  1 29 the production of such energy through its step-up transformer.
  1 30    c. (3)  Natural gas operating property within a local
  1 31 taxing district where the acquisition cost of all interests
  1 32 acquired exceeds one million dollars.
  1 33    d. (4)  Any property described in section 437A.16 in this
  1 34 state acquired by a person not previously subject to taxation
  1 35 under this chapter.
  2  1    b.  Any acquisition on or after January 1, 2004, by a
  2  2 taxpayer, by transfer of ownership, self-construction, or
  2  3 capital lease of any interest in electric transmission
  2  4 operating property within a local taxing district where the
  2  5 acquisition cost of all interests acquired exceeds one million
  2  6 dollars.
  2  7    For purposes of this chapter, the acquisition cost of an
  2  8 asset acquired by capital lease is its capitalized value
  2  9 determined under generally accepted accounting principles.
  2 10    Sec. 2.  Section 437A.15, subsection 3, paragraph e, Code
  2 11 Supplement 2003, is amended to read as follows:
  2 12    e.  Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, if
  2 13 during the tax year a person who was not a taxpayer during the
  2 14 prior tax year acquires a new major addition, as defined in
  2 15 section 437A.3, subsection 18, paragraph "d" "a", subparagraph
  2 16 (4), the replacement tax associated with that major addition
  2 17 shall be allocated, for that tax year, under this section in
  2 18 accordance with the general allocating formula on the basis of
  2 19 the general property tax equivalents established under section
  2 20 437A.15, except that the levy rates established and reported
  2 21 to the department of management on or before June 30 following
  2 22 the tax year in which the major addition was acquired shall be
  2 23 applied to the prorated assessed value of the major addition
  2 24 and provided that section 437A.19, subsection 2, paragraph
  2 25 "b", subparagraph (2), is in any event applicable.  For
  2 26 purposes of this paragraph, "prorated assessed value of the
  2 27 major addition" means the assessed value of the major addition
  2 28 as of January 1 of the year following the tax year in which
  2 29 the major addition was acquired multiplied by the percentage
  2 30 derived by dividing the number of months that the major
  2 31 addition existed during the tax year by twelve, counting any
  2 32 portion of a month as a full month.
  2 33    Sec. 3.  Section 437A.19, subsection 2, paragraph f,
  2 34 unnumbered paragraph 5, Code Supplement 2003, is amended to
  2 35 read as follows:
  3  1    In addition to reporting the assessed values as described
  3  2 in this subsection, the director, on or before October 31,
  3  3 2003, in the case of January 1, 2003, values, and on or before
  3  4 August 31 of each subsequent assessment year, shall also
  3  5 report to the department of management and to the auditor of
  3  6 each county the taxable value of taxpayer property as of
  3  7 January 1 of such assessment year for each local taxing
  3  8 district.  For purposes of this chapter, "taxable value" means
  3  9 the value for all property subject to the replacement tax
  3 10 annually determined by the director, by dividing the estimated
  3 11 annual replacement tax liability for that property by the
  3 12 prior year's consolidated taxing district rate for the taxing
  3 13 district where that property is located, then multiplying the
  3 14 quotient by one thousand.  The prior year's replacement tax
  3 15 amounts for that property shall be used to estimate the
  3 16 current tax year's taxable value for that property.  If
  3 17 property not subject to any threshold recalculation is
  3 18 generating replacement tax for the first time, or if a
  3 19 taxpayer's replacement tax will not be changed by any
  3 20 threshold recalculation and the taxpayer believes that the
  3 21 replacement tax will vary more than ten percent from the
  3 22 previous tax year, the taxpayer shall report to the director
  3 23 by July 15 of the current calendar year, on forms prescribed
  3 24 by the director, the estimated replacement tax liability that
  3 25 will be attributable to that property for the current tax
  3 26 year.  A taxpayer who paid more than five hundred thousand
  3 27 dollars in replacement tax in the previous tax year or who
  3 28 believes their replacement tax liability will vary more than
  3 29 ten percent from the previous tax year shall report to the
  3 30 director by October 1 of the current calendar year, on forms
  3 31 prescribed by the director, the estimated replacement tax
  3 32 liability that will be attributable to all of the taxpayer's
  3 33 property subject to replacement tax for the current tax year.
  3 34 The department shall utilize the estimated replacement tax
  3 35 liability as reported by the taxpayer or the taxpayer's prior
  4  1 year's replacement tax amounts to estimate the current tax
  4  2 year's taxable value for that property.  Furthermore, a
  4  3 taxpayer who has a new major addition of operating property
  4  4 which is put into service for the first time in the current
  4  5 calendar year shall report to the director by October 1 of the
  4  6 current calendar year, or at the time the major addition is
  4  7 put into service, whichever time is later, on forms prescribed
  4  8 by the director, the cost of the major addition and, if not
  4  9 previously reported, shall report the estimated replacement
  4 10 taxes which that asset will generate in the current calendar
  4 11 year.  For the purposes of computing the taxable value of
  4 12 property in a taxing district, the taxing district's share of
  4 13 the estimated replacement tax liability shall be the taxing
  4 14 district's percentage share of the "assessed value allocated
  4 15 by property tax equivalent" multiplied by the total estimated
  4 16 replacement tax.  "Assessed value allocated by property tax
  4 17 equivalent" shall be determined by dividing the taxpayer's
  4 18 current year assessed valuation in a taxing district by one
  4 19 thousand, and then multiplying by the prior year's
  4 20 consolidated tax rate.
  4 21    Sec. 4.  EFFECTIVE AND RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY DATES.
  4 22 This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect
  4 23 upon enactment and applies retroactively to January 1, 2004.  
  4 24 
  4 25 
  4 26                                                             
  4 27                               CHRISTOPHER C. RANTS
  4 28                               Speaker of the House
  4 29 
  4 30 
  4 31                                                             
  4 32                               JEFFREY M. LAMBERTI
  4 33                               President of the Senate
  4 34 
  4 35    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
  5  1 is known as House File 2541, Eightieth General Assembly.
  5  2 
  5  3 
  5  4                                                             
  5  5                               MARGARET THOMSON
  5  6                               Chief Clerk of the House
  5  7 Approved                , 2004
  5  8 
  5  9 
  5 10                            
  5 11 THOMAS J. VILSACK
  5 12 Governor
     

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