1. There is imposed a tax of five percent upon the gross receipts from all sales of tangible personal property, consisting of goods, wares, or merchandise, except as otherwise provided in this division, sold at retail in the state to consumers or users; a like rate of tax upon the gross receipts from the sales, furnishing, or service of gas, electricity, water, heat, pay television service, and communication service, including the gross receipts from such sales by any municipal corporation or joint water utility furnishing gas, electricity, water, heat, pay television service, and communication service to the public in its proprietary capacity, except as otherwise provided in this division, when sold at retail in the state to consumers or users; a like rate of tax upon the gross receipts from all sales of tickets or admissions to places of amusement, fairs, and athletic events except those of elementary and secondary educational institutions; a like rate of tax on the gross receipts from an entry fee or like charge imposed solely for the privilege of participating in an activity at a place of amusement, fair, or athletic event unless the gross receipts from the sales of tickets or admissions charges for observing the same activity are taxable under this division; and a like rate of tax upon that part of private club membership fees or charges paid for the privilege of participating in any athletic sports provided club members.
2. There is imposed a tax of five percent upon the gross receipts derived from the operation of all forms of amusement devices and games of skill, games of chance, raffles, and bingo games as defined in chapter 99B, operated or conducted within the state, the tax to be collected from the operator in the same manner as for the collection of taxes upon the gross receipts of tickets or admission as provided in this section. The tax shall also be imposed upon the gross receipts derived from the sale of lottery tickets or shares pursuant to chapter 99E. The tax on the lottery tickets or shares shall be included in the sales price and distributed to the general fund as provided in section 99E.10.
3. The tax thus imposed covers all receipts from the operation of games of skill, games of chance, raffles and bingo games as defined in chapter 99B, and musical devices, weighing machines, shooting galleries, billiard and pool tables, bowling alleys, pinball machines, slot-operated devices selling merchandise not subject to the general sales taxes and on all receipts from devices or systems where prizes are in any manner awarded to patrons and upon the receipts from fees charged for participation in any game or other form of amusement, and generally upon the gross receipts from any source of amusement operated for profit, not specified in this section, and upon the gross receipts from which no tax is collected for tickets or admission, but no tax shall be imposed upon any activity exempt from sales tax under section 422.45, subsection 3. Every person receiving gross receipts from the sources defined in this section is subject to all provisions of this division relating to retail sales tax and other provisions of this chapter as applicable.
4. There is imposed a tax of five percent upon the gross receipts from the sales of engraving, photography, retouching, printing, and binding services. For the purpose of this division, the sales of engraving, photography, retouching, printing, and binding services are sales of tangible property.
5. There is imposed a tax of five percent upon the gross receipts from the sales of vulcanizing, recapping, and retreading services. For the purpose of this division, the sales of vulcanizing, recapping, and retreading services are sales of tangible property.
6. There is imposed a tax of five percent upon the gross receipts from the sales of optional service or warranty contracts, except residential service contracts regulated under chapter 523C, which provide for the furnishing of labor and materials and require the furnishing of any taxable service enumerated under this section. The gross receipts are subject to tax even if some of the services furnished are not enumerated under this section. For the purpose of this division, the sale of an optional service or warranty contract, other than a residential service contract regulated under chapter 523C, is a sale of tangible personal property. Additional sales, services, or use taxes shall not be levied on services, parts, or labor provided under optional service or warranty contracts which are subject to tax under this section.
7. There is imposed a tax of five percent upon the gross receipts from the renting of rooms, apartments, or sleeping quarters in a hotel, motel, inn, public lodging house, rooming house, mobile home which is tangible personal property, or tourist court, or in any place where sleeping accommodations are furnished to transient guests for rent, whether with or without meals. "Renting" and "rent" include any kind of direct or indirect charge for such rooms, apartments, or sleeping quarters, or their use. For the purposes of this division, such renting is regarded as a sale of tangible personal property at retail. However, this tax does not apply to the gross receipts from the renting of a room, apartment, or sleeping quarters while rented by the same person for a period of more than thirty-one consecutive days.
8. All revenues arising under the operation of the provisions of this section shall become part of the state general fund.
9. Nothing herein shall legalize any games of skill or chance or slot-operated devices which are now prohibited by law.
10. There is imposed a tax of five percent upon the gross receipts from the rendering, furnishing, or performing of services as defined in section 422.42.
11. The following enumerated services are subject to the tax imposed on gross taxable services: alteration and garment repair; armored car; vehicle repair; battery, tire, and allied; investment counseling; service charges of all financial institutions; barber and beauty; boat repair; vehicle wash and wax; carpentry; roof, shingle, and glass repair; dance schools and dance studios; dating services; dry cleaning, pressing, dyeing, and laundering; electrical and electronic repair and installation; rental of tangible personal property, except mobile homes which are tangible personal property; excavating and grading; farm implement repair of all kinds; flying service; furniture, rug, upholstery repair and cleaning; fur storage and repair; golf and country clubs and all commercial recreation; house and building moving; household appliance, television, and radio repair; jewelry and watch repair; limousine service, including driver; machine operator; machine repair of all kinds; motor repair; motorcycle, scooter, and bicycle repair; oilers and lubricators; office and business machine repair; painting, papering, and interior decorating; parking facilities; pipe fitting and plumbing; wood preparation; licensed executive search agencies; private employment agencies, excluding services for placing a person in employment where the principal place of employment of that person is to be located outside of the state; sewage services for nonresidential commercial operations; sewing and stitching; shoe repair and shoeshine; sign construction and installation; storage of household goods, mini-storage, and warehousing of raw agricultural products; swimming pool cleaning and maintenance; taxidermy services; telephone answering service; test laboratories, including mobile testing laboratories and field testing by testing laboratories, and excluding tests on humans or animals; termite, bug, roach, and pest eradicators; tin and sheet metal repair; turkish baths, massage, and reducing salons; weighing; welding; well drilling; wrapping, packing, and packaging of merchandise other than processed meat, fish, fowl and vegetables; wrecking service; wrecker and towing; pay television; campgrounds; carpet and upholstery cleaning; gun and camera repair; janitorial and building maintenance or cleaning; lawn care, landscaping and tree trimming and removal; pet grooming; reflexology; security and detective services; tanning beds or salons; and water conditioning and softening.
For purposes of this subsection, gross taxable services from rental includes rents, royalties, and copyright and license fees. For purposes of this subsection, "financial institutions" means all national banks, federally chartered savings and loan associations, federally chartered savings banks, federally chartered credit unions, banks organized under chapter 524, savings and loan associations and savings banks organized under chapter 534, and credit unions organized under chapter 533.
12. Reserved.
13. a. A tax of five percent is imposed upon the gross receipts from the sales, furnishing, or service of solid waste collection and disposal service.
For purposes of this subsection, "solid waste" means garbage, refuse, sludge from a water supply treatment plant or air contaminant treatment facility, and other discarded waste materials and sludges, in solid, semisolid, liquid, or contained gaseous form, resulting from nonresidential commercial operations, but does not include auto hulks; street sweepings; ash; construction debris; mining waste; trees; tires; lead acid batteries; used oil; hazardous waste; animal waste used as fertilizer; earthen fill, boulders, rock; foundry sand used for daily cover at a sanitary landfill; sewage sludge; solid or dissolved material in domestic sewage or other common pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial waste water effluents or discharges which are point sources subject to permits under section 402 of the federal Water Pollution Control Act, dissolved materials in irrigation return flows; or source, special nuclear, or by-product material defined by the federal Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
A recycling facility that separates or processes recyclable materials and that reduces the volume of the waste by at least eighty-five percent is exempt from the tax imposed by this subsection if the waste exempted is collected and disposed of separately from other solid waste.
b. A person who transports solid waste generated by that person or another person without compensation shall pay the tax imposed by this subsection at the collection or disposal facility based on the disposal charge or tipping fee. However, the costs of a service or portion of a service to collect and manage recyclable materials separated from solid waste by the waste generator is exempt from the tax imposed by this subsection.
[C35, § 6943-f39; C39, § 6943.075; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 422.43; 81 Acts, ch 137, § 1; 82 Acts, ch 1172, § 1]
83 Acts, ch 1, § 1, 2, 3, 6; 84 Acts, ch 1140, § 1, 2; 84 Acts, ch 1254, § 1, 2; 84 Acts, ch 1305, § 76, 77; 85 Acts, ch 32, §83; 85 Acts, ch 195, §47; 87 Acts, ch 214, § 8; 87 Acts, ch 136, §1; 88 Acts, ch 1154, §1; 90 Acts, ch 1232, § 13; 91 Acts, ch 81, § 1; 91 Acts, ch 159, § 18; 91 Acts, ch 168, § 7; 92 Acts, ch 1019, § 4, 8; 92 Acts, ch 1217, § 1; 92 Acts, ch 1232, § 404--;406, 412; 92 Acts, 1st Ex, ch 1001, § 1, 2, 5; 92 Acts, 2nd Ex, ch 1001, § 206--;208, 242; 93 Acts, ch 135, §1; 94 Acts, ch 1165, §22; 95 Acts, ch 83, §5, 6; 95 Acts, ch 187, §1
Referred to in § 29C.15, 99E.10, 123.187, 328.26, 422.42, 422.45, 422.48, 422.52, 422.53, 422.58, 422A.1, 423.1, 423.2, 423.9, 423.10, 423.14, 423.21, 423.22, 423.25
Local sales and services tax; § 422B.8 et seq.
Applicability of increase from four to five percent; 92 Acts, 2nd Ex, ch 1001, § 213 ~I1992 amendments adding and amending subsection 13 effective April 1, 1992, except that increase in tax from four to five percent in paragraph a is effective July 1, 1992; 92 Acts, ch 1019, § 8; 92 Acts, ch 1232, § 412; 92 Acts, 2nd Ex, ch 1001, § 601
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