Bill Text: IL SB3282 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Provides that, by March 31 of each year, each holder of a Direct Pay Permit shall review its purchase activity for the 12-month period ending on December 31 of the immediately preceding calendar year to verify that the purchases made in that 12-month period were sourced correctly and the correct tax rate was applied. Provides that the Direct Pay Permit holder is subject to a $6,000 penalty for failure to properly verify purchase activity and correct sourcing and tax rate errors. Provides that the penalty does not apply if at least 95% of the Direct Pay Permit holder's transactions for the applicable 12-month review period are correctly sourced and the correct taxes have been remitted or the permit holder acted with ordinary business care and prudence. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2024-08-09 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 103-0966 [SB3282 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3282-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3282 Introduced 2/7/2024, by Sen. Sara Feigenholtz SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
35 ILCS 120/2-10.5
Amends the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Requires each holder of a Direct Pay Permit to review its purchase activity by January 31 and July 31 of each year to verify that the purchases made in the preceding 6-month period were sourced correctly and the correct tax rate was applied. Sets forth penalties for failure to comply with the reporting requirements. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning revenue.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Retailers' Occupation Tax Act is amended by
changing Section 2-10.5 as follows:
(35 ILCS 120/2-10.5)
Sec. 2-10.5. Direct payment program; purchaser's providing
of permit to retailer; retailer relieved of collecting use tax
and local retailers' occupation tax reimbursements from
purchaser; direct payment of retailers' occupation tax and
local retailers' occupation tax by purchaser.
(a) Beginning on July 1, 2001 there is established in this
State a Direct Payment Program to be administered by the
Department. The Department shall issue a Direct Pay Permit to
applicants who have been approved to participate in the Direct
Payment Program. Each person applying to participate in the
Direct Payment Program must demonstrate (1) the applicant's
ability to comply with the retailers' occupation tax laws and
the use tax laws in effect in this State and that the
applicant's accounting system will reflect the proper amount
of tax due, (2) that the applicant has a valid business purpose
for participating in the Direct Payment Program, and (3) how
the applicant's participation in the Direct Payment Program

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will benefit tax compliance. Application shall be made on
forms provided by the Department and shall contain information
as the Department may reasonably require. The Department shall
approve or deny an applicant within 90 days after the
Department's receipt of the application, unless the Department
makes a written request for additional information from the
applicant.
(b) A person who has been approved for the Direct Payment
Program and who has been issued a Direct Pay Permit by the
Department is relieved of paying tax to a retailer when
purchasing tangible personal property for use or consumption,
except as provided in subsection (d), by providing that
retailer a copy of that Direct Pay Permit. A retailer who
accepts a copy of a customer's Direct Pay Permit is relieved of
the obligation to remit the tax imposed by this Act on the
transaction. References in this Section to "the tax imposed by
this Act" include any local occupation taxes administered by
the Department that would be incurred on the retail sale.
(c) Once the holder of a Direct Pay Permit uses that Permit
to relieve the Permit holder from paying tax to a particular
retailer, the holder must use its Permit for all purchases,
except as provided in subsection (d), from that retailer for
so long as the Permit is valid.
(d) Direct Pay Permits are not valid and shall not be used
for sales or purchases of:
(1) food or beverage;

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(2) tangible personal property required to be titled
or registered with an agency of government; or
(3) any transactions subject to the Service Occupation
Tax Act or Service Use Tax Act.
(e) Direct Pay Permits are not assignable and are not
transferable. As an illustration, a construction contractor
shall not make purchases using a customer's Direct Pay Permit.
(f) A Direct Pay Permit is valid until it is revoked by the
Department or until the holder notifies the Department in
writing that the holder is withdrawing from the Direct Payment
Program. A Direct Pay Permit can be revoked by the Department,
after notice and hearing, if the holder violates any provision
of this Act, any provision of the Illinois Use Tax Act, or any
provision of any Act imposing a local retailers' occupation
tax administered by the Department.
(g) The holder of a Direct Pay Permit who has been relieved
of paying tax to a retailer on a purchase for use or
consumption by representing to that retailer that it would pay
all applicable taxes directly to the Department shall pay
those taxes to the Department not later than the 20th day of
the month following the month in which the purchase was made.
Permit holders making such purchases are subject to all
provisions of this Act, and the tax must be reported and paid
as retailers' occupation tax in the same manner that the
retailer from whom the purchases were made would have reported
and paid it, including any local retailers' occupation taxes

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applicable to that retail sale. Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Act, Permit holders shall make all payments
to the Department through the use of electronic funds
transfer.
(h) Beginning on January 1, 2025, each holder of a Direct
Pay Permit must review its purchase activity by January 31 and
July 31 of each year to verify that the purchases made in the
preceding 6-month period ending on the last day of the
calendar month immediately preceding the month in which the
report is due were sourced correctly and the correct tax rate
was applied. If any errors are discovered, then the holder of
the Direct Pay Permit shall correct the errors on returns
filed on or after the date on which the error is discovered and
shall file amended returns to correct past errors. Any holder
of a Direct Pay Permit who fails to properly verify purchase
activity and correct sourcing and tax rate errors based on the
permit holder's purchase activity, as required by this Section
and the rules adopted by the Department, is liable to pay to
the Department, for deposit into the Tax Compliance and
Administration Fund, a penalty of $6,000 for each 6-month
review period after which the permit holder does not correct
sourcing and tax rate errors based on its purchase activity
until the permit holder comes into compliance and corrects any
sourcing or tax rate errors. The penalties imposed under this
Section shall not apply if the permit holder shows that he or
she acted with ordinary business care and prudence. The

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Department may adopt rules to administer the penalties under
this Section.
(Source: P.A. 92-484, eff. 8-23-01.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.