Bill Text: IA HSB734 | 2023-2024 | 90th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act repealing the excise tax on the handling of grain.(See HF 2657.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-03-14 - Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2657. [HSB734 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2023-HSB734-Introduced.html
House Study Bill 734 - Introduced HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS BILL BY CHAIRPERSON KAUFMANN) A BILL FOR An Act repealing the excise tax on the handling of grain. 1 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 2 TLSB 6343YC (2) 90 da/ns
H.F. _____ Section 1. Section 445.3, subsection 2, Code 2024, is 1 amended to read as follows: 2 2. a. The commencement of actions for ad valorem taxes 3 authorized under this section shall not begin until the 4 issuance of a tax sale certificate under the requirements of 5 section 446.19 . The commencement of actions for all other 6 taxes authorized under this section shall not begin until ten 7 days after the publication of tax sale under the requirements 8 of section 446.9, subsection 2 . 9 b. This subsection does not apply to the collection of ad 10 valorem taxes under section 445.32 , and grain handling taxes 11 under section 428.35 . 12 Sec. 2. REPEAL. Section 428.35, Code 2024, is repealed. 13 Sec. 3. IMPLEMENTATION. Section 25B.7 shall not apply to 14 the property tax exemption enacted in this Act. 15 EXPLANATION 16 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 17 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 18 This bill repeals the grain handling excise tax of 19 one-fourth mill per bushel upon all grain handled. For 20 purposes of the tax, “handling or handled” means the receiving 21 of grain at or in each elevator, warehouse, mill, processing 22 plant, or other facility in this state in which it is received 23 for storage, accumulation, sale, processing, or any other 24 purpose. In addition, “grain” means wheat, corn, barley, 25 oats, rye, flaxseed, field peas, soybeans, grain sorghums, 26 spelts, and such other products as are usually stored in grain 27 elevators other than seeds after being processed. The excise 28 tax is entered on the tax list of the taxing district and 29 revenue collected from the excise tax is distributed to the 30 various taxing authorities (taxing units) within the taxing 31 district in the same manner as general property taxes. 32 The bill makes inapplicable Code section 25B.7. Code 33 section 25B.7 provides that for a property tax credit or 34 exemption enacted on or after January 1, 1997, if a state 35 -1- LSB 6343YC (2) 90 da/ns 1/ 2
H.F. _____ appropriation made to fund the credit or exemption is not 1 sufficient to fully fund the credit or exemption, the political 2 subdivision shall be required to extend to the taxpayer only 3 that portion of the credit or exemption estimated by the 4 department of revenue to be funded by the state appropriation. 5 -2- LSB 6343YC (2) 90 da/ns 2/ 2
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