House File 690 - Introduced



                                       HOUSE FILE       
                                       BY  JOCHUM


    Passed House,  Date               Passed Senate, Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to the sales and use taxes on the operation of
  2    bingo games.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 1655HH 81
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 423.2, subsection 4, unnumbered
  1  2 paragraph 2, Code 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    The tax imposed under this subsection covers the total
  1  4 amount from the operation of games of skill, games of chance,
  1  5 and raffles, and bingo games as defined in chapter 99B, and
  1  6 musical devices, weighing machines, shooting galleries,
  1  7 billiard and pool tables, bowling alleys, pinball machines,
  1  8 slot=operated devices selling merchandise not subject to the
  1  9 general sales taxes and covers the total amount less amounts
  1 10 awarded as prizes from the operation of bingo games as defined
  1 11 in chapter 99B, on the total amount from devices or systems
  1 12 where prizes are in any manner awarded to patrons and upon the
  1 13 receipts from fees charged for participation in any game or
  1 14 other form of amusement, and generally upon the sales price
  1 15 from any source of amusement operated for profit, not
  1 16 specified in this section, and upon the sales price from which
  1 17 tax is not collected for tickets or admission, but tax shall
  1 18 not be imposed upon any activity exempt from sales tax under
  1 19 section 423.3, subsection 78.  Every person receiving any
  1 20 sales price from the sources described in this section is
  1 21 subject to all provisions of this subchapter relating to
  1 22 retail sales tax and other provisions of this chapter as
  1 23 applicable.
  1 24    Sec. 2.  Section 423B.5, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2005,
  1 25 is amended to read as follows:
  1 26    A local sales and services tax at the rate of not more than
  1 27 one percent may be imposed by a county on the sales price
  1 28 taxed by the state under chapter 423, subchapter II.  A local
  1 29 sales and services tax shall be imposed on the same basis as
  1 30 the state sales and services tax or in the case of the use of
  1 31 natural gas, natural gas service, electricity, or electric
  1 32 service on the same basis as the state use tax and shall not
  1 33 be imposed on the sale of any property or on any service not
  1 34 taxed by the state, except the tax shall not be imposed on the
  1 35 sales price from the sale of motor fuel or special fuel as
  2  1 defined in chapter 452A which is consumed for highway use or
  2  2 in watercraft or aircraft if the fuel tax is paid on the
  2  3 transaction and a refund has not or will not be allowed, on
  2  4 the sales price from the rental of rooms, apartments, or
  2  5 sleeping quarters which are taxed under chapter 423A during
  2  6 the period the hotel and motel tax is imposed, on the sales
  2  7 price from the sale of equipment by the state department of
  2  8 transportation, on the sales price from the sale of self=
  2  9 propelled building equipment, pile drivers, motorized
  2 10 scaffolding, or attachments customarily drawn or attached to
  2 11 self=propelled building equipment, pile drivers, and motorized
  2 12 scaffolding, including auxiliary attachments which improve the
  2 13 performance, safety, operation, or efficiency of the equipment
  2 14 and replacement parts and are directly and primarily used by
  2 15 contractors, subcontractors, and builders for new
  2 16 construction, reconstruction, alterations, expansion, or
  2 17 remodeling of real property or structures, and on the sales
  2 18 price from the sale of a lottery ticket or share in a lottery
  2 19 game conducted pursuant to chapter 99G, and on the sales price
  2 20 derived from the operation of bingo games as defined in
  2 21 chapter 99B, and except the tax shall not be imposed on the
  2 22 sales price from the sale or use of natural gas, natural gas
  2 23 service, electricity, or electric service in a city or county
  2 24 where the sales price from the sale of natural gas or electric
  2 25 energy are subject to a franchise fee or user fee during the
  2 26 period the franchise or user fee is imposed.  A local sales
  2 27 and services tax is applicable to transactions within those
  2 28 incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county where it
  2 29 is imposed and shall be collected by all persons required to
  2 30 collect state sales taxes.  However, a person required to
  2 31 collect state retail sales tax under chapter 423, subchapter V
  2 32 or VI, is not required to collect local sales and services tax
  2 33 on transactions delivered within the area where the local
  2 34 sales and services tax is imposed unless the person has
  2 35 physical presence in that taxing area.  All cities contiguous
  3  1 to each other shall be treated as part of one incorporated
  3  2 area and the tax would be imposed in each of those contiguous
  3  3 cities only if the majority of those voting in the total area
  3  4 covered by the contiguous cities favors its imposition.
  3  5    Sec. 3.  Section 423E.3, subsection 2, Code 2005, is
  3  6 amended to read as follows:
  3  7    2.  The tax shall be imposed on the same basis as the state
  3  8 sales and services tax or in the case of the use of natural
  3  9 gas, natural gas service, electricity, or electric service on
  3 10 the same basis as the state use tax and shall not be imposed
  3 11 on the sale of any property or on any service not taxed by the
  3 12 state, except the tax shall not be imposed on the sales price
  3 13 from the sale of motor fuel or special fuel as defined in
  3 14 chapter 452A which is consumed for highway use or in
  3 15 watercraft or aircraft if the fuel tax is paid on the
  3 16 transaction and a refund has not or will not be allowed, on
  3 17 the sales price from the rental of rooms, apartments, or
  3 18 sleeping quarters which are taxed under chapter 423A during
  3 19 the period the hotel and motel tax is imposed, on the sales
  3 20 price from the sale of equipment by the state department of
  3 21 transportation, on the sales price from the sale of self=
  3 22 propelled building equipment, pile drivers, motorized
  3 23 scaffolding, or attachments customarily drawn or attached to
  3 24 self=propelled building equipment, pile drivers, and motorized
  3 25 scaffolding, including auxiliary attachments which improve the
  3 26 performance, safety, operation, or efficiency of the
  3 27 equipment, and replacement parts and are directly and
  3 28 primarily used by contractors, subcontractors, and builders
  3 29 for new construction, reconstruction, alterations, expansion,
  3 30 or remodeling of real property or structures, and on the sales
  3 31 price from the sale of a lottery ticket or share in a lottery
  3 32 game conducted pursuant to chapter 99G, and on the sales price
  3 33 derived from the operation of bingo games as defined in
  3 34 chapter 99B, and except the tax shall not be imposed on the
  3 35 sales price from the sale or use of natural gas, natural gas
  4  1 service, electricity, or electric service in a city or county
  4  2 where the sales price from the sale of natural gas or electric
  4  3 energy are subject to a franchise fee or user fee during the
  4  4 period the franchise or user fee is imposed.
  4  5                           EXPLANATION
  4  6    Presently, the state sales tax is imposed on the gross
  4  7 amount derived from the operation of bingo games.  This bill
  4  8 imposes the tax only on the gross amount less the amounts
  4  9 awarded as prizes.  In addition, the bill exempts the amount
  4 10 derived from bingo games from the local option city and county
  4 11 sales tax and the local option school district sales tax.
  4 12 LSB 1655HH 81
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