Bill Text: WV HB4966 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating generally to updating the North American Industry Classification System code references
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-07 - On 3rd reading, House Calendar [HB4966 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2020-HB4966-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2020 regular session
Originating
House Bill 4966
By Delegates Householder, Boggs, Pack,Storch, Pethtel, Espinosa, Hartman, Graves, Ellington and Criss
[Originating in the Committee on Finance; Reported on February 21, 2020]
A BILL to amend and reenact §11-6F-2 of the code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend §11-13S-3 of said code, all relating generally to updating the North American Industry Classification System code references applicable to certain manufacturing activities that include the processing of raw natural gas or oil to recover or extract liquid hydrocarbons; and removing or revising obsolete, outdated, antiquated, inoperative, surplus or superseded provisions.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 6F. SPECIAL METHOD FOR APPRAISING QUALIFIED CAPITAL ADDITIONS TO MANUFACTURING FACILITIES.
As used in this article, the term:
(a) “Certified capital addition property” means all real
property and personal property included within or to be included within a
qualified capital addition to a manufacturing facility that has been certified
by the State Tax Commissioner in accordance with section four of this
article §11-6F-4 of this code: Provided, That airplanes and
motor vehicles licensed by the Division of Motor Vehicles shall in no event
constitute certified capital addition property.
(b) “Manufacturing” means any business activity classified
as having a sector identifier, consisting of the first two digits of the
six-digit North American Industry Classification System code number of thirty-one,
thirty-two or thirty-three 31, 32 or 33. or the six digit code
number 211112 For purposes of this article, manufacturing also includes
the processing of raw natural gas or oil to recover or extract liquid
hydrocarbons, which activity is classified under 211130. This definition shall
not be interpreted to mean or include any other processes, or activities
classified, categorized, grouped or identified under North American Industry
Classification System code number 211130.
(c) “Manufacturing facility” means any factory, mill, chemical plant, refinery, warehouse, building or complex of buildings, including land on which it is located, and all machinery, equipment, improvements and other real property and personal property located at or within the facility used in connection with the operation of the facility in a manufacturing business.
(d) “Personal property” means all property specified in subdivision
(q), section ten, article two, chapter two §2-2-10(q)
of this code and includes, but is not limited to, furniture, fixtures,
machinery and equipment, pollution control equipment, computers and related
data processing equipment, spare parts and supplies.
(e) “Qualified capital addition to a manufacturing facility” means either:
(1) All real property and personal property, the combined
original cost of which exceeds $50 million to be constructed, located or
installed at or within two miles of a manufacturing facility owned or operated
by the person making the capital addition that has a total original cost before
the capital addition of at least $100 million. If the capital addition is made
in a steel, chemical or polymer alliance zone as designated from time-to-time
by executive order of the Governor, then the person making the capital addition
may for purposes of satisfying the requirements of this subsection join in a
multiparty project with a person owning or operating a manufacturing facility
that has a total original cost before the capital addition of at least $100
million if the capital addition creates additional production capacity of
existing or related products or feedstock or derivative products respecting the
manufacturing facility, consists of a facility used to store, handle, process
or produce raw materials for the manufacturing facility, consists of a facility
used to store, handle or process natural gas to produce fuel for the generation
of steam or electricity for the manufacturing facility or consists of a
facility that generates steam or electricity for the manufacturing facility,
including but not limited to a facility that converts coal to a gas or liquid
for the manufacturing facility's use in heating, manufacturing or generation of
electricity. Beginning on and after July 1, 2011, when When the
new capital addition is a facility that is or will be classified under the
North American Industry Classification System with a six digit code number
211112 processing raw natural gas or oil to recover or extract liquid
hydrocarbons, or is a manufacturing facility that uses product produced at
a facility with code number 211112 engaged in processing of raw
natural gas or oil to recover or extract liquid hydrocarbons, then wherever
the term “100 million” is used in this subsection, the term “20 million” shall
be substituted and where the term “50 million” is used, the term “10 million”
shall be substituted; or
(2) (A) All real property and personal property, the combined original cost of which exceeds $2 billion to be constructed, located or installed at a facility, or a combination of facilities by a single entity or combination of entities engaged in a unitary business, that:
(i) Is or will be classified under the North American
Industry Classification System with a six digit code number 211112 engaged
in processing of raw natural gas or oil to recover or extract liquid
hydrocarbons; or
(ii) Is a manufacturing facility that uses one or more
products produced at a facility with code number 211112 described in
subparagraph (i) of this paragraph; or
(iii) Is a manufacturing facility that uses one or more products produced at a facility described in subparagraph (ii) of this subdivision.
(B) No preexisting investment made, or in place before the capital addition shall be required for property specified in this subdivision (2). The requirements set forth in subdivision (1) of this subsection shall not apply to property specified in this subdivision (2) relating to:
(i) Location or installation of investment at or within two miles of a manufacturing facility owned or operated by the person making the capital addition;
(ii) Total original cost of preexisting investment before the capital addition of at least $100 million or $20 million; or
(iii) Multiparty projects.
(f) “Real property” means all property specified in subdivision
(p), section ten, article two, chapter two §2-2-10(p) of this code
and includes, but is not limited to, lands, buildings and improvements on the
land such as sewers, fences, roads, paving and leasehold improvements: Provided,
That for capital additions certified on or after July 1, 2011, the value of
the land before any improvements shall be subtracted from the value of the
capital addition and the unimproved land value shall not be given salvage value
treatment.
ARTICLE 13S. MANUFACTURING INVESTMENT TAX CREDIT.
§11-13S-3. Definitions.
(a) Any term used in this article has the meaning ascribed by this section unless a different meaning is clearly required by the context of its use or by definition in this article.
(b) For purpose of this article, the term:
(1) “Eligible taxpayer” means an industrial taxpayer who purchases new property for the purpose of industrial expansion or for the purpose of industrial revitalization of an existing industrial facility in this state.
(2) “Industrial expansion” means capital investment in a new or expanded industrial facility in this state.
(3) “Industrial facility” means any factory, mill, plant, refinery, warehouse, building or complex of buildings located within this state, including the land on which it is located, and all machinery, equipment and other real and tangible personal property located at or within the facility primarily used in connection with the operation of the manufacturing business.
(4) “Industrial revitalization” or “revitalization” means capital investment in an industrial facility located in this state to replace or modernize buildings, equipment, machinery and other tangible personal property used in connection with the operation of the facility in an industrial business of the taxpayer including the acquisition of any real property necessary to the industrial revitalization.
(5) “Industrial taxpayer” means any taxpayer who is primarily engaged in a manufacturing business.
(6) “Manufacturing” means any business activity classified
as having a sector identifier, consisting of the first two digits of the
six-digit North American Industry Classification System code number, of thirty-one,
thirty-two or thirty-three 31, 32 or 33. or the six digit code
number 211112. For purposes of this article, manufacturing also includes
the processing of raw natural gas or oil to recover or extract liquid
hydrocarbons, which is classified under 211130. This definition shall not be
interpreted to mean or include any other processes, or activities classified,
categorized, grouped or identified under North American Industry Classification
System code number 211130.
(A) “Property purchased for manufacturing investment” does not include:
(i) Repair costs, including materials used in the repair, unless for federal income tax purposes, the cost of the repair must be capitalized and not expensed;
(ii) Motor vehicles licensed by the Department Division
of Motor Vehicles;
(iii) Airplanes;
(iv) Off-premises transportation equipment;
(v) Property which is primarily used outside this state; and
(vi) Property which is acquired incident to the purchase of the stock or assets of an industrial taxpayer which property was or had been used by the seller in his or her industrial business in this state or in which investment was previously the basis of a credit against tax taken under any other article of this chapter.
(B) Purchases or acquisitions of land or depreciable property qualify as purchases of property purchased for manufacturing investment for purposes of this article only if:
(i) The property is not acquired from a person whose
relationship to the person acquiring it would result in the disallowance of
deductions under section 267 or 707(b) of the United States Internal Revenue
Code of 1986, as amended defined in §11-21-1 et
seq. and §11-24-1 et seq. of this code;
(ii) The property is not acquired from a related person or by one component member of a controlled group from another component member of the same controlled group. The Tax Commissioner may waive this requirement if the property was acquired from a related party for its then fair market value; and
(iii) The basis of the property for federal income tax
purposes, in the hands of the person acquiring it, is not determined, in whole
or in part, by reference to the federal adjusted basis of the property in the
hands of the person from whom it was acquired or under Section 1014(e) of the
United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(8) “Qualified manufacturing investment” means that amount
determined under section five of this article §11-13S-5 of this code
as qualified manufacturing investment.
(9) “Taxpayer” means any person subject to any of the
taxes imposed by §11-13A-1 et seq., twenty-three §11-21-1 et
seq., or §11-24-1 et seq. of this
code, or any combination of those articles of this chapter.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to update the North American Industrial Code (NAIC) reference in the definition of “manufacturing” as used in W. Va. Code §11-6F-2 and §11-13S-3 from 211112 to 21130 but only to the extent the classification applies to the processing of raw natural gas or oil to recover the liquid hydrocarbons, which activity is classified under 211130.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
