Bill Text: IL HB0788 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act in the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section authorizing the imposition of the tax.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-24 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB0788 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB0788-Introduced.html

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99TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2015 and 2016 HB0788 Introduced , by Rep. Michael J. Madigan SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
65 ILCS 5/8-11-5 from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-5
Amends the Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act in the Illinois Municipal Code. Makes a technical change in a Section authorizing the imposition of the tax.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning local government.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Municipal Code is amended by
changing Section 8-11-5 as follows:
(65 ILCS 5/8-11-5) (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-5)
Sec. 8-11-5. Home Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax
Act. The The corporate authorities of a home rule municipality
may impose a tax upon all persons engaged, in such
municipality, in the business of making sales of service at the
same rate of tax imposed pursuant to Section 8-11-1, of the
selling price of all tangible personal property transferred by
such servicemen either in the form of tangible personal
property or in the form of real estate as an incident to a sale
of service. If imposed, such tax shall only be imposed in 1/4%
increments. On and after September 1, 1991, this additional tax
may not be imposed on the sales of food for human consumption
which is to be consumed off the premises where it is sold
(other than alcoholic beverages, soft drinks and food which has
been prepared for immediate consumption) and prescription and
nonprescription medicines, drugs, medical appliances and
insulin, urine testing materials, syringes and needles used by
diabetics. The tax imposed by a home rule municipality pursuant

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to this Section and all civil penalties that may be assessed as
an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the
State Department of Revenue. The certificate of registration
which is issued by the Department to a retailer under the
Retailers' Occupation Tax Act or under the Service Occupation
Tax Act shall permit such registrant to engage in a business
which is taxable under any ordinance or resolution enacted
pursuant to this Section without registering separately with
the Department under such ordinance or resolution or under this
Section. The Department shall have full power to administer and
enforce this Section; to collect all taxes and penalties due
hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties so collected in
the manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all rights to
credit memoranda arising on account of the erroneous payment of
tax or penalty hereunder. In the administration of, and
compliance with, this Section the Department and persons who
are subject to this Section shall have the same rights,
remedies, privileges, immunities, powers and duties, and be
subject to the same conditions, restrictions, limitations,
penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same modes
of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1a-1, 2, 2a, 3
through 3-50 (in respect to all provisions therein other than
the State rate of tax), 4 (except that the reference to the
State shall be to the taxing municipality), 5, 7, 8 (except
that the jurisdiction to which the tax shall be a debt to the
extent indicated in that Section 8 shall be the taxing

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municipality), 9 (except as to the disposition of taxes and
penalties collected, and except that the returned merchandise
credit for this municipal tax may not be taken against any
State tax), 10, 11, 12 (except the reference therein to Section
2b of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act), 13 (except that any
reference to the State shall mean the taxing municipality), the
first paragraph of Section 15, 16, 17 (except that credit
memoranda issued hereunder may not be used to discharge any
State tax liability), 18, 19 and 20 of the Service Occupation
Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest
Act, as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.
No tax may be imposed by a home rule municipality pursuant
to this Section unless such municipality also imposes a tax at
the same rate pursuant to Section 8-11-1 of this Act.
Persons subject to any tax imposed pursuant to the
authority granted in this Section may reimburse themselves for
their serviceman's tax liability hereunder by separately
stating such tax as an additional charge, which charge may be
stated in combination, in a single amount, with State tax which
servicemen are authorized to collect under the Service Use Tax
Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may
prescribe.
Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be
made under this Section to a claimant instead of issuing credit
memorandum, the Department shall notify the State Comptroller,
who shall cause the order to be drawn for the amount specified,

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and to the person named, in such notification from the
Department. Such refund shall be paid by the State Treasurer
out of the home rule municipal retailers' occupation tax fund.
The Department shall forthwith pay over to the State
Treasurer, ex-officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties
collected hereunder.
As soon as possible after the first day of each month,
beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department
of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the
Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the
local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation
Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section
during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a
STAR bond district.
After the monthly transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund,
on or before the 25th day of each calendar month, the
Department shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller the
disbursement of stated sums of money to named municipalities,
the municipalities to be those from which suppliers and
servicemen have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the
Department during the second preceding calendar month. The
amount to be paid to each municipality shall be the amount (not
including credit memoranda) collected hereunder during the
second preceding calendar month by the Department, and not
including an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during
the second preceding calendar month by the Department on behalf

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of such municipality, and not including any amounts that are
transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund. Within 10 days
after receipt, by the Comptroller, of the disbursement
certification to the municipalities, provided for in this
Section to be given to the Comptroller by the Department, the
Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the
respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained
in such certification.
In addition to the disbursement required by the preceding
paragraph and in order to mitigate delays caused by
distribution procedures, an allocation shall, if requested, be
made within 10 days after January 14, 1991, and in November of
1991 and each year thereafter, to each municipality that
received more than $500,000 during the preceding fiscal year,
(July 1 through June 30) whether collected by the municipality
or disbursed by the Department as required by this Section.
Within 10 days after January 14, 1991, participating
municipalities shall notify the Department in writing of their
intent to participate. In addition, for the initial
distribution, participating municipalities shall certify to
the Department the amounts collected by the municipality for
each month under its home rule occupation and service
occupation tax during the period July 1, 1989 through June 30,
1990. The allocation within 10 days after January 14, 1991,
shall be in an amount equal to the monthly average of these
amounts, excluding the 2 months of highest receipts. Monthly

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average for the period of July 1, 1990 through June 30, 1991
will be determined as follows: the amounts collected by the
municipality under its home rule occupation and service
occupation tax during the period of July 1, 1990 through
September 30, 1990, plus amounts collected by the Department
and paid to such municipality through June 30, 1991, excluding
the 2 months of highest receipts. The monthly average for each
subsequent period of July 1 through June 30 shall be an amount
equal to the monthly distribution made to each such
municipality under the preceding paragraph during this period,
excluding the 2 months of highest receipts. The distribution
made in November 1991 and each year thereafter under this
paragraph and the preceding paragraph shall be reduced by the
amount allocated and disbursed under this paragraph in the
preceding period of July 1 through June 30. The Department
shall prepare and certify to the Comptroller for disbursement
the allocations made in accordance with this paragraph.
Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a
municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in
any business which under the constitution of the United States
may not be made the subject of taxation by this State.
An ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing a tax
hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be
adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department
on or before the first day of June, whereupon the Department
shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the

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first day of September next following such adoption and filing.
Beginning January 1, 1992, an ordinance or resolution imposing
or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a change in the
rate thereof shall be adopted and a certified copy thereof
filed with the Department on or before the first day of July,
whereupon the Department shall proceed to administer and
enforce this Section as of the first day of October next
following such adoption and filing. Beginning January 1, 1993,
an ordinance or resolution imposing or discontinuing the tax
hereunder or effecting a change in the rate thereof shall be
adopted and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department
on or before the first day of October, whereupon the Department
shall proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the
first day of January next following such adoption and filing.
However, a municipality located in a county with a population
in excess of 3,000,000 that elected to become a home rule unit
at the general primary election in 1994 may adopt an ordinance
or resolution imposing the tax under this Section and file a
certified copy of the ordinance or resolution with the
Department on or before July 1, 1994. The Department shall then
proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of October 1,
1994. Beginning April 1, 1998, an ordinance or resolution
imposing or discontinuing the tax hereunder or effecting a
change in the rate thereof shall either (i) be adopted and a
certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or before
the first day of April, whereupon the Department shall proceed

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to administer and enforce this Section as of the first day of
July next following the adoption and filing; or (ii) be adopted
and a certified copy thereof filed with the Department on or
before the first day of October, whereupon the Department shall
proceed to administer and enforce this Section as of the first
day of January next following the adoption and filing.
Any unobligated balance remaining in the Municipal
Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund on December 31, 1989, which fund
was abolished by Public Act 85-1135, and all receipts of
municipal tax as a result of audits of liability periods prior
to January 1, 1990, shall be paid into the Local Government Tax
Fund, for distribution as provided by this Section prior to the
enactment of Public Act 85-1135. All receipts of municipal tax
as a result of an assessment not arising from an audit, for
liability periods prior to January 1, 1990, shall be paid into
the Local Government Tax Fund for distribution before July 1,
1990, as provided by this Section prior to the enactment of
Public Act 85-1135, and on and after July 1, 1990, all such
receipts shall be distributed as provided in Section 6z-18 of
the State Finance Act.
As used in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality"
means a city, village or incorporated town, including an
incorporated town which has superseded a civil township.
This Section shall be known and may be cited as the Home
Rule Municipal Service Occupation Tax Act.
(Source: P.A. 96-939, eff. 6-24-10.)