AB 2518

Bill Subjects

Abstract

Existing sales and use tax laws impose taxes on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, and provides various exemptions from the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill, until January 1, 2020, would partially exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, building and construction supplies, materials, equipment, and machinery, and the parts thereof, that are purchased for a specified use by a nonprofit corporation, as provided. The bill would make the purchaser liable for the payment of sales tax if the building and construction supplies, materials, equipment, and machinery, and the parts thereof, are removed, converted, or used in a manner not qualifying for the exemption. This bill would specify that this exemption does not apply to specified state sales and use taxes from which the proceeds are deposited into the Local Revenue Fund, the Local Revenue Fund 2011, the Local Public Safety Fund, and the Education Protection Account. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing law authorizes districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Exemptions to state sales and use taxes are incorporated into these laws. Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code provides that the state will reimburse counties and cities for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse any local agencies for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy, but its operative date would depend on its effective date.