SECOND REGULAR SESSION

SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILLS NOS. 731, 714,

715, 513, 691, 857, 887, 516, 667,

491, 654, 590 & 873

89TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY


Reported from the Committee on Ways and Means, March 3, 1998, with recommendation that the Senate Committee Substitute do pass.

TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.

S3164.05C


AN ACT

To repeal sections 143.111, 143.161, 143.171, 144.062, RSMo 1994, and sections 144.030 and 144.805, RSMo Supp. 1997, relating to taxation, and to enact in lieu thereof nine new sections relating to the same subject, with an effective date for certain sections.


Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

Section A.  Sections 143.111, 143.161, 143.171, 144.062, RSMo 1994, and sections 144.030 and 144.805, RSMo Supp. 1997, are repealed and nine new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 135.313, 143.111, 143.122, 143.161, 143.171, 144.030, 144.062, 144.517 and 144.805, to read as follows:

135.313.  1.  Any person, firm or corporation who engages in the business of producing charcoal or charcoal products in the state of Missouri shall be eligible for a tax credit on income taxes otherwise due pursuant to chapter 143, RSMo, except sections 143.191 to 143.261, RSMo, as an incentive to implement safe and efficient environmental controls.  The tax credit shall be equal to fifty percent of the purchase price of the best available control technology equipment connected with the production of charcoal in the state of Missouri or, if the taxpayer manufactures such equipment, fifty percent of the manufacturing cost of the equipment, to and including the year the equipment is put into service.  The credit may be claimed for a period of eight years beginning with the 1998 calendar year and is to be a tax credit against the tax otherwise due.

2.  Any amount of credit which exceeds the tax due shall not be refunded but may be carried over to any subsequent taxable year, not to exceed seven years.

3.  The charcoal producer may elect to assign to a third party the approved tax credit.  Certification of assignment and other appropriate forms must be filed with the Missouri department of revenue and the department of economic development.

4.  When applying for a tax credit, the charcoal producer specified in subsection 1 of this section shall make application for the credit to the division of environmental quality of the department of natural resources.  The application shall identify the specific best available control technology equipment and the purchase price, or manufacturing cost of such equipment.  The director of the department of natural resources is authorized to require permits to construct prior to the installation of best available control technology equipment and other information which he or she deems appropriate.

5.  The director of the department of natural resources in conjunction with the department of economic development shall certify to the department of revenue that the best available control technology equipment meets the requirements to obtain a tax credit as specified in this section.

143.111.  The Missouri taxable income of a resident shall be his Missouri adjusted gross income less:

(1)  Either[:] the Missouri standard deduction or the Missouri itemized deduction[,];

(2)  The Missouri deduction for personal exemptions[,];

(3)  The Missouri deduction for dependency exemptions[,];

(4)  The deduction for federal income taxes provided in section 143.171; and

(5)  The deduction for tuition, attendance fees or school supplies provided in section 143.122.

143.122.  In addition to the amounts to be subtracted from a resident's Missouri adjusted gross income to determine Missouri taxable income under the provisions of section 143.111, there shall be subtracted the amount the taxpayer has paid to others for each dependent in grades nine through twelve, for tuition, attendance fees, or school supplies or transportation costs for or on behalf of each dependent in attending a secondary school situated in Missouri, up to a maximum of two thousand five hundred dollars for each dependent.

143.161.  1.  For all tax years beginning before January 1, 1999, a resident may deduct four hundred dollars for each dependent for whom he is entitled to a dependency exemption deduction for federal income tax purposes.

2.  For all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 1999, a resident may deduct eight hundred dollars for each dependent for whom he is entitled to a dependency exemption deduction for federal income tax purposes.

[2.]  3.  A resident who qualifies as an unmarried head of household or as a surviving spouse for federal income tax purposes may deduct an additional eight hundred dollars.

143.171.  1.  For all tax years beginning before January 1, 1994, for an individual taxpayer and for all tax years beginning before September 1, 1993, for a corporate taxpayer, the taxpayer shall be allowed a deduction for his federal income tax liability under chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code for the same taxable year for which the Missouri return is being filed after reduction for all credits thereon, except the credit for payments of federal estimated tax, the credit for the overpayment of any federal tax, and the credits allowed by the Internal Revenue Code by section 31 (tax withheld on wages), section 27 (tax of foreign country and United States possessions), and section 34 (tax on certain uses of gasoline, special fuels, and lubricating oils).

2.  For all tax years beginning on or after January 1, 1994, an individual taxpayer shall be allowed a deduction for his federal income tax liability under chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code for the same taxable year for which the Missouri return is being filed, not to exceed five thousand dollars on a single taxpayer's return or ten thousand dollars on a combined return, after reduction for all credits thereon, except the credit for payments of federal estimated tax, the credit for the overpayment of any federal tax, and the credits allowed by the Internal Revenue Code by section 31 (tax withheld on wages), section 27 (tax of foreign country and United States possessions), and section 34 (tax on certain uses of gasoline, special fuels, and lubricating oils).

3.  For all tax years beginning on or after September 1, 1993, and before September 1, 1998, a corporate taxpayer shall be allowed a deduction for fifty percent of its federal income tax liability under chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code for the same taxable year for which the Missouri return is being filed after reduction for all credits thereon, except the credit for payments of federal estimated tax, the credit for the overpayment of any federal tax, and the credits allowed by the Internal Revenue Code by section 31 (tax withheld on wages), section 27 (tax of foreign country and United States possessions), and section 34 (tax on certain uses of gasoline, special fuels and lubricating oils).

4.  For all tax years beginning on or after September 1, 1998, a corporate taxpayer shall be allowed a deduction for seventy-five percent of its federal income tax liability under chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code for the same taxable year for which the Missouri return is being filed after reduction for all credits thereon, except the credit for payments of federal estimated tax, the credit for the overpayment of any federal tax, and the credits allowed by the Internal Revenue Code by section 31 (tax withheld on wages), section 27 (tax of foreign country and United States possessions) and section 34 (tax on certain uses of gasoline, special fuels and lubricating oils).

5.  If a federal income tax liability for a tax year prior to the applicability of sections 143.011 to 143.996 for which he was not previously entitled to a Missouri deduction is later paid or accrued, he may deduct the federal tax in the later year to the extent it would have been deductible if paid or accrued in the prior year.

6.  For all tax years beginning on or after September 1, 1998, a corporate taxpayer shall be allowed a deduction for the amount the taxpayer has paid to others for any pupil or pupils in grades nine through twelve for tuition or attendance fees and direct expenses including but not limited to book fees, necessary supplies, and transportation costs for or on behalf of any pupil or pupils attending a secondary school situated in Missouri, wherein a resident of this state may legally fulfill the state's compulsory attendance laws, up to a maximum of two thousand five hundred dollars for any pupil.

144.030.  1.  There is hereby specifically exempted from the provisions of sections 144.010 to 144.525 and from the computation of the tax levied, assessed or payable pursuant to sections 144.010 to 144.525 such retail sales as may be made in commerce between this state and any other state of the United States, or between this state and any foreign country, and any retail sale which the state of Missouri is prohibited from taxing pursuant to the Constitution or laws of the United States of America, and such retail sales of tangible personal property which the general assembly of the state of Missouri is prohibited from taxing or further taxing by the constitution of this state.

2.  There are also specifically exempted from the provisions of the local sales tax law as defined in section 32.085, RSMo, section 238.235, RSMo, and sections 144.010 to 144.525 and 144.600 to 144.745 and from the computation of the tax levied, assessed or payable pursuant to the local sales tax law as defined in section 32.085, RSMo, section 238.235, RSMo, and sections 144.010 to 144.525 and 144.600 to 144.745:

(1)  Motor fuel or special fuel subject to an excise tax of this state, unless all or part of such excise tax is refunded pursuant to section 142.584, RSMo; or upon the sale at retail of fuel to be consumed in manufacturing or creating gas, power, steam, electrical current or in furnishing water to be sold ultimately at retail; or feed for livestock or poultry [which is to be used in the feeding of livestock or poultry to be sold ultimately in processed form or otherwise at retail]; or grain to be converted into foodstuffs which are to be sold ultimately in processed form at retail; or seed, limestone or fertilizer which is to be used for seeding, liming or fertilizing crops which when harvested will be sold at retail or will be fed to livestock or poultry to be sold ultimately in processed form at retail; economic poisons registered pursuant to the provisions of the Missouri pesticide registration law (sections 281.220 to 281.310, RSMo) which are to be used in connection with the growth or production of crops, fruit trees or orchards applied before, during, or after planting, the crop of which when harvested will be sold at retail or will be converted into foodstuffs which are to be sold ultimately in processed form at retail;

(2)  Materials, manufactured goods, machinery and parts which when used in manufacturing, processing, compounding, mining, producing or fabricating become a component part or ingredient of the new personal property resulting from such manufacturing, processing, compounding, mining, producing or fabricating and which new personal property is intended to be sold ultimately for final use or consumption; and materials, including without limitation, gases and manufactured goods, including without limitation, slagging materials and firebrick, which are ultimately consumed in the manufacturing process by blending, reacting or interacting with or by becoming, in whole or in part, component parts or ingredients of steel or glass products intended to be sold ultimately for final use or consumption;

(3)  Materials, replacement parts and equipment purchased for use directly upon, and for the repair and maintenance or manufacture of, motor vehicles, watercraft, railroad rolling stock or aircraft engaged as common carriers of persons or property;

(4)  Replacement machinery, [and] equipment and parts, and the materials and supplies solely required for the installation or construction of such replacement machinery, [and] equipment and parts, [replacing and used for the same purposes or to produce a substantially similar product as the machinery and equipment, which is purchased for and] used directly [for manufacturing or fabricating] in manufacturing, mining, fabrication or producing a product which is intended to be sold ultimately for final use or consumption; and machinery and equipment, and the materials and supplies required solely for the operation, installation or construction of such machinery and equipment, purchased and used to establish new, or to replace or expand existing, material recovery processing plants in this state.  For the purposes of this subdivision, a "material recovery processing plant" means a facility which converts recovered materials into a new product, or a different form which is used in producing a new product, and shall include a facility or equipment which is used exclusively for the collection of recovered materials for delivery to a material recovery processing plant but shall not include motor vehicles used on highways.  For purposes of this section, the terms "motor vehicle" and "highway" shall have the same meaning pursuant to section 301.010, RSMo;

(5)  Machinery and equipment, and parts and the materials and supplies solely required for the installation or construction of such machinery and equipment, purchased and used to establish new or to expand existing manufacturing, mining or fabricating plants in the state if such machinery and equipment is used directly in manufacturing, mining or fabricating a product which is intended to be sold ultimately for final use or consumption;

(6)  Tangible personal property which is used exclusively in the manufacturing, processing, modification or assembling of products sold to the United States government or to any agency of the United States government;

(7)  Animals or poultry used for breeding or feeding purposes;

(8)  Newsprint, ink, computers, photosensitive paper and film, toner, printing plates and other machinery, equipment, replacement parts and supplies used in producing newspapers published for dissemination of news to the general public;

(9)  The rentals of films, records or any type of sound or picture transcriptions for public commercial display;

(10)  Pumping machinery and equipment used to propel products delivered by pipelines engaged as common carriers;

(11)  Railroad rolling stock for use in transporting persons or property in interstate commerce and motor vehicles licensed for a gross weight of twenty-four thousand pounds or more or trailers used by common carriers, as defined in section 390.020, RSMo, solely in the transportation of persons or property in interstate commerce;

(12)  Electrical energy used in the actual primary manufacture, processing, compounding, mining or producing of a product, or electrical energy used in the actual secondary processing or fabricating of the product, or a material recovery processing plant as defined in subdivision (4) of this subsection, in facilities owned or leased by the taxpayer, if the total cost of electrical energy so used exceeds ten percent of the total cost of production, either primary or secondary, exclusive of the cost of electrical energy so used or if the raw materials used in such processing contain at least twenty-five percent recovered materials as defined in section 260.200, RSMo.  For purposes of this subdivision, "processing" means any mode of treatment, act or series of acts performed upon materials to transform and reduce them to a different state or thing, including treatment necessary to maintain or preserve such processing by the producer at the production facility;

(13)  Anodes or electrodes which are used or consumed in manufacturing, processing, compounding, mining, producing or fabricating and which have a useful life of less than one year;

(14)  Machinery, equipment, appliances and devices purchased or leased and used solely for the purpose of preventing, abating or monitoring air pollution, and materials and supplies solely required for the installation, construction or reconstruction of such machinery, equipment, appliances and devices, and so certified as such by the director of the department of natural resources, except that any action by the director pursuant to this subdivision may be appealed to the air conservation commission which may uphold or reverse such action;

(15)  Machinery, equipment, appliances and devices purchased or leased and used solely for the purpose of preventing, abating or monitoring water pollution, and materials and supplies solely required for the installation, construction or reconstruction of such machinery, equipment, appliances and devices, and so certified as such by the director of the department of natural resources, except that any action by the director pursuant to this subdivision may be appealed to the Missouri clean water commission which may uphold or reverse such action;

(16)  Tangible personal property purchased by a rural water district;

(17)  All amounts paid or charged for admission or participation or other fees paid by or other charges to individuals in or for any place of amusement, entertainment or recreation, games or athletic events, including museums, fairs, zoos and planetariums, owned or operated by a municipality or other political subdivision where all the proceeds derived therefrom benefit the municipality or other political subdivision and do not inure to any private person, firm, or corporation;

(18)  All sales of insulin and prosthetic or orthopedic devices as defined on January 1, 1980, by the federal Medicare program pursuant to Title XVIII of the Social Security Act of 1965, including the items specified in section 1862(a)(12) of that act, and also specifically including hearing aids and hearing aid supplies and all sales of drugs which may be legally dispensed by a licensed pharmacist only upon a lawful prescription of a practitioner licensed to administer those items, including samples and materials used to manufacture samples which may be dispensed by a practitioner authorized to dispense such samples [and], all sales of medical oxygen, all sales of manual and powered wheelchairs, stairway lifts, braille writers, electronic braille equipment, and, if purchased by or on behalf of a person with one or more physical or mental disabilities to enable them to function more independently, all sales of scooters, reading machines, electronic print enlargers and magnifiers, electronic alternative and augmentative communication devices, and items used solely to modify motor vehicles to permit the use of such motor vehicles by individuals with disabilities;

(19)  All sales made by or to religious and charitable organizations and institutions in their religious, charitable or educational functions and activities and all sales made by or to all elementary and secondary schools operated at public expense in their educational functions and activities;

(20)  All sales of aircraft to common carriers for storage or for use in interstate commerce and all sales made by or to not for profit civic, social, service or fraternal organizations, including fraternal organizations which have been declared tax exempt organizations pursuant to section 501(c)(8) or (10) of the 1986 Internal Revenue Code, as amended, solely in their civic or charitable functions and activities and all sales made to eleemosynary and penal institutions and industries of the state, and all sales made to any private not for profit institution of higher education not otherwise excluded pursuant to subdivision (19) of this subsection or any institution of higher education supported by public funds, and all sales made to a state relief agency in the exercise of relief functions and activities;

(21)  All ticket sales made by benevolent, scientific and educational associations which are formed to foster, encourage, and promote progress and improvement in the science of agriculture and in the raising and breeding of animals, and by nonprofit summer theater organizations if such organizations are exempt from federal tax pursuant to the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and all admission charges and entry fees to the Missouri state fair or any fair conducted by a county agricultural and mechanical society organized and operated pursuant to sections 262.290 to 262.530, RSMo;

(22)  All sales made to any private not for profit elementary or secondary school, all sales of feed additives, medications or vaccines administered to livestock or poultry in the production of food or fiber, all sales of pesticides or herbicides used in the production of crops, livestock or poultry [for food or fiber], all sales of bedding used in the production of livestock or poultry for food or fiber, all sales of propane or natural gas, electricity or diesel fuel used exclusively for drying agricultural crops, and all sales of farm machinery, other than airplanes, motor vehicles and trailers.  As used in this subdivision, the term "feed additives" means tangible personal property which, when mixed with feed for livestock or poultry, is to be used in the feeding of livestock or poultry.  As used in this subdivision, the term "pesticides" includes adjuvants such as crop oils, surfactants, wetting agents and other assorted pesticide carriers used to improve or enhance the effect of a pesticide, and foam markers used in the application of pesticides.  As used in this subdivision, the term "farm machinery" means new or used farm tractors and such other new or used farm machinery and equipment and repair or replacement parts thereon and lubricants used exclusively for such farm machinery and equipment and one-half of each purchaser's purchase of diesel fuel therefor which is:

(a)  Used exclusively for agricultural purposes;

(b)  Used on land owned or leased for the purpose of producing farm products; and

(c)  Used directly in producing farm products to be sold ultimately in processed form or otherwise at retail or in producing farm products to be fed to livestock or poultry to be sold ultimately in processed form at retail;

(23)  Except as otherwise provided in section 144.032, all sales of metered water service, electricity, electrical current, natural, artificial or propane gas, wood, coal or home heating oil for domestic use and in any city not within a county, all sales of metered or unmetered water service for domestic use;

(a)  "Domestic use" means that portion of metered water service, electricity, electrical current, natural, artificial or propane gas, wood, coal or home heating oil, and in any city not within a county, metered or unmetered water service, which an individual occupant of a residential premises uses for nonbusiness, noncommercial or nonindustrial purposes.  Utility service through a single or master meter for residential apartments or condominiums, including service for common areas and facilities and vacant units, shall be deemed to be for domestic use.  Each seller shall establish and maintain a system whereby individual purchases are determined as exempt or nonexempt;

(b)  Regulated utility sellers shall determine whether individual purchases are exempt or nonexempt based upon the seller's utility service rate classifications as contained in tariffs on file with and approved by the Missouri public service commission.  Sales and purchases made pursuant to the rate classification "residential" and sales to and purchases made by or on behalf of the occupants of residential apartments or condominiums through a single or master meter, including service for common areas and facilities and vacant units, shall be considered as sales made for domestic use and such sales shall be exempt from sales tax.  Sellers shall charge sales tax upon the entire amount of purchases classified as nondomestic use.  The seller's utility service rate classification and the provision of service thereunder shall be conclusive as to whether or not the utility must charge sales tax;

(c)  Each person making domestic use purchases of services or property and who uses any portion of the services or property so purchased for a nondomestic use shall, by the fifteenth day of the fourth month following the year of purchase, and without assessment, notice or demand, file a return and pay sales tax on that portion of nondomestic purchases.  Each person making nondomestic purchases of services or property and who uses any portion of the services or property so purchased for domestic use, and each person making domestic purchases on behalf of occupants of residential apartments or condominiums through a single or master meter, including service for common areas and facilities and vacant units, under a nonresidential utility service rate classification may, between the first day of the first month and the fifteenth day of the fourth month following the year of purchase, apply for credit or refund to the director of revenue and the director shall give credit or make refund for taxes paid on the domestic use portion of the purchase.  The person making such purchases on behalf of occupants of residential apartments or condominiums shall have standing to apply to the director of revenue for such credit or refund;

(24)  All sales of handicraft items made by the seller or the seller's spouse if the seller or the seller's spouse is at least sixty-five years of age, and if the total gross proceeds from such sales do not constitute a majority of the annual gross income of the seller;

(25)  Excise taxes, collected on sales at retail, imposed by sections 4041, 4061, 4071, 4081, 4091, 4161, 4181, 4251, 4261 and 4271 of Title 26, United States Code.  The director of revenue shall promulgate rules pursuant to chapter 536, RSMo, to eliminate all state and local sales taxes on such excise taxes;

(26)  Sales of fuel consumed or used in the operation of ships, barges, or waterborne vessels which are used primarily in or for the transportation of property or cargo, or the conveyance of persons for hire, on navigable rivers bordering on or located in part in this state, if such fuel is delivered by the seller to the purchaser's barge, ship, or waterborne vessel while it is afloat upon such river;

(27)  All sales made to an interstate compact agency created pursuant to sections 70.370 to [70.440] 70.429, RSMo, or sections 238.010 to 238.100, RSMo, in the exercise of the functions and activities of such agency as provided pursuant to the compact;

(28)  Computers, computer software and computer security systems purchased for use by architectural or engineering firms headquartered in this state.  For the purposes of this subdivision, "headquartered in this state" means the office for the administrative management of at least four integrated facilities operated by the taxpayer is located in the state of Missouri;

(29)  All livestock sales when either the seller is engaged in the growing, producing or feeding of such livestock, or the seller is engaged in the business of buying and selling, bartering or leasing of such livestock;

(30)  All sales of barges which are to be used primarily in the transportation of property or cargo on interstate waterways;

(31)  Electrical energy or gas, whether natural, artificial or propane, which is ultimately consumed in connection with the manufacturing of cellular glass products;

(32)  All sales of retreading or recapping equipment, supplies or materials; tire carcasses; uncured rubber; or retreaded or recapped tires to any business which retreads or recaps or resells at retail any retreaded or recapped tires;

(33)  All sales of grain bins for storage of grain for resale;

(34)  All sales of feed which are developed for and used in the feeding of dogs owned by a commercial breeder when such sales are made to a commercial breeder, as defined in section 273.325, RSMo, and licensed pursuant to sections 273.325 to 273.357, RSMo;

(35)  Machines or parts for machines used in a commercial, coin-operated amusement and vending business where sales tax is paid on the gross receipts derived from the use of commercial, coin operated amusement and vending machines;

(36)  Tangible personal property purchased for use or consumption directly and exclusively in the research and development of prescription pharmaceuticals consumed by humans or animals;

(37)  Any equipment purchased by a federally licensed commercial or public broadcast station when such equipment purchased is made either as a result of federal mandate or technological change.  This exemption does not apply to replacement of equipment necessitated as a result of use or equipment replaced due to damage or theft.  As used in this subdivision, the following terms mean:

(a)  "Equipment", such equipment as may be necessary for the broadcast station to fulfill those obligations as set forth under federal guidelines;

(b)  "Federally licensed commercial or public broadcast station", any enterprise, either commercial or non-commercial, which operates under a license granted by the Federal Communications Commission for the purpose of the free distribution of audio and/or video services when such distribution occurs by means of transmission over the public airwaves;

(c)  "Federal mandate", any action of the congress of the United States or any federal regulatory agency having jurisdiction with regard to broadcast stations when such action requires broadcasters to alter methods of operation;

(d)  "Technological change", those changes in the design and methods of operation of broadcast equipment which would, by virtue of those changes, require the implementation and/or installation of replacement equipment and the updating of existing equipment.

144.062.  1.  With respect to exempt sales at retail of tangible personal property and materials for the purpose of constructing, repairing or remodeling facilities for: (1) a county, other political subdivision or instrumentality thereof exempt from taxation under subdivision (10) of section 39 of article III of the Constitution of Missouri; or (2) an organization sales to which are exempt from taxation under the provisions of subdivision (19) of subsection 2 of section 144.030; or (3) any institution of higher education supported by public funds or any private not for profit institution of higher education, exempt from taxation under subdivision (20) of subsection 2 of section 144.030; or (4) any private not for profit elementary or secondary school exempt from taxation under subdivision (22) of subsection 2 of section 144.030, hereinafter collectively referred to as exempt entities, such exemptions shall be allowed for such purchases if the purchases are related to the entities' exempt functions and activities.  In addition, the sales shall not be rendered nonexempt nor shall any material supplier or contractor be obligated to pay, collect or remit sales tax with respect to such purchases made by or on behalf of an exempt entity due to such purchases being billed to or paid for by a contractor or the exempt entity contracting with any entity to render any services in relation to such purchases, including but not limited to selection of materials, ordering, pickup, delivery, approval on delivery, taking of delivery, transportation, storage, assumption of risk of loss to materials or providing warranties on materials as specified by contract, use of materials or other purchases for construction of the building or other facility, providing labor, management services, administrative services, design or technical services or advice to the exempt entity, whether or not the contractor or other entity exercises dominion or control in any other manner over the materials in conjunction with services or labor provided to the exempt entity.

2.  When any exempt entity contracts for the purpose of constructing, repairing or remodeling facilities, and purchases of tangible personal property and materials to be incorporated into or consumed in the construction of the project are to be made on a tax-exempt basis, such entity shall furnish to the contractor an exemption certificate authorizing such purchases for the construction, repair or remodeling project.  The form and content of such project exemption certificate shall be approved by the director of revenue.  The project exemption certificate shall include but not be limited to:

(1)  The exempt entity's name, address, Missouri tax identification number and signature of authorized representative;

(2)  The project location, description, and unique identification number;

(3)  The date the contract is entered into, which is the earliest date materials may be purchased for the project on a tax-exempt basis;

(4)  The estimated project completion date; and

(5)  The certificate expiration date.  Such certificate is renewable for a given project at the option of the exempt entity, only for the purpose of revising the certificate expiration date as necessary to complete the project.

3.  The contractor shall furnish the certificate prescribed in subsection 2 of this section to all subcontractors, and any contractor purchasing materials shall present such certificate to all material suppliers as authorization to purchase, on behalf of the exempt entity, all tangible personal property and materials to be incorporated into or consumed in the construction of that project and no other on a tax-exempt basis.  Such suppliers shall execute to the purchasing contractor invoices bearing the name of the exempt entity and the project identification number.  Nothing in this section shall be deemed to exempt the purchase of any construction machinery, equipment or tools used in constructing, repairing or remodeling facilities for the exempt entity.  All invoices for all personal property and materials purchased under a project exemption certificate shall be retained by the purchasing contractor for a period of five years and shall be subject to audit by the director of revenue.

4.  Any excess resalable tangible personal property or materials which were purchased for the project by a contractor under a project exemption certificate but which were not incorporated into or consumed in the construction of the project shall either be returned to the supplier for credit or the appropriate sales or use tax on such excess property or materials shall be reported on a return and paid by such contractor not later than the due date of the contractor's Missouri sales or use tax return following the month in which it was determined that the materials were not to be used in the project.

5.  No contractor or material supplier shall, upon audit, be required to pay tax on tangible personal property and materials incorporated into or consumed in the construction of the project, due to the failure of the exempt entity to revise the certificate expiration date as necessary to complete any work required by the contract.  If it is determined that tax is owed on such property and materials due to the failure of the exempt entity to revise such certificate expiration date, the exempt entity shall be liable for the tax owed.

6.  If an entity issues exemption certificates for the purchase of tangible personal property and materials which are incorporated into or consumed in the construction of its project and such entity is found not to have had the authority granted by this section to issue such exemption certificates, then such entity shall be liable for the tax owed on such personal property and materials.  In addition, if an entity which does have the authority granted by this section to issue exemption certificates issues such certificates for the purchase of tangible personal property and materials which are incorporated into or consumed in the construction of a project, or part of a project, which is found not to be related to such entity's exempt functions and activities, then such entity shall be liable for the tax owed on such personal property and materials.

144.517.  There is hereby specifically exempted from the provisions of sections 144.010 to 144.525 and sections 144.600 to 144.745, and from the computation of the tax levied, assessed or payable pursuant to sections 144.010 to 144.525 and sections 144.600 to 144.745, all sales of textbooks, as defined by section 170.051, RSMo, when such textbook is purchased for use by a student of any public or private university, college or other postsecondary institution of higher learning offering a course of study leading to a degree in the liberal arts, humanities or sciences or in a professional, vocational or technical field.

144.805.  1.  In addition to the exemptions granted pursuant to the provisions of section 144.030, there shall also be specifically exempted from the provisions of sections 144.010 to 144.525, sections 144.600 to 144.748, and section 238.235, RSMo, and the provisions of any local sales tax law, as defined in section 32.085, RSMo, and from the computation of the tax levied, assessed or payable pursuant to sections 144.010 to 144.525, sections 144.600 to 144.748, and section 238.235, RSMo, and the provisions of any local sales tax law, as defined in section 32.085, RSMo, all sales of aviation jet fuel in a given calendar year to common carriers engaged in the interstate air transportation of passengers and cargo, and the storage, use and consumption of such aviation jet fuel by such common carriers, if such common carrier has first paid to the state of Missouri, in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, state sales and use taxes pursuant to the foregoing provisions and applicable to the purchase, storage, use or consumption of such aviation jet fuel in a maximum and aggregate amount of one million five hundred thousand dollars of state sales and use taxes in such calendar year.

2.  To qualify for the exemption prescribed in subsection 1 of this section, the common carrier shall furnish to the seller a certificate in writing to the effect that an exemption pursuant to this section is applicable to the aviation jet fuel so purchased, stored, used and consumed.  The director of revenue shall permit any such common carrier to enter into a direct pay agreement with the department of revenue, pursuant to which such common carrier may pay directly to the department of revenue any applicable sales and use taxes on such aviation jet fuel up to the maximum aggregate amount of one million five hundred thousand dollars in each calendar year.  The director of revenue shall adopt appropriate rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this section, and to permit appropriate claims for refunds of any excess sales and use taxes collected in calendar year 1993 or any subsequent year with respect to any such common carrier and aviation jet fuel.

3.  The provisions of this section shall apply to all purchases and deliveries of aviation jet fuel from and after May 10, 1993.

4.  Effective September 1, 1998, all sales and use tax revenues upon aviation jet fuel received pursuant to chapter 144, RSMo, less the amounts specifically designated under the constitution for other purposes, shall be deposited to the credit of the aviation trust fund established pursuant to section 305.230, RSMo.

5.  The provisions of sections 144.805 and 144.807 shall expire on December 31, 2001.

Section B.  Sections 143.111 and 143.122 shall become effective on January 1, 1999, and shall apply to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 1998.




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