Bill Text: WV HB2778 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: To remove the taxation on burials, funerals and cremation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-21 - To House Finance [HB2778 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2025-HB2778-Introduced.html
FISCAL NOTE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 2778
By Delegates Crouse, W. Clark, Drennan, Lucas, Brooks, Hornby, Dean, Masters, Amos, and Clay
[Introduced February 21, 2025; referred to the Committee on Finance]
A BILL to amend and reenact the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §11-15-9v, relating to creating a tax exemption for funeral, cremation, and burial services.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
Article 15. Consumer sales and service tax.
§11-15-9v. Funeral, cremation, and Burial Services.
Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, the sale of funeral, cremation, and burial services, as those terms are defined in §30-6-1, et seq., are exempted from the taxes imposed by this article and by §11-15A-1 et seq.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to create a tax exemption for funeral, cremation, and burial services.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
