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HB 1181: Revenue-Neutral Tax Reform

GENERAL BILL by Costello ; Corcoran

Revenue-Neutral Tax Reform; Provides for revenue-neutral tax reform by replacing revenue from required local effort school property tax & nonvoted discretionary property taxes with revenue from state sales tax surtax; revises provisions for purposes relating to Streamlined Sales & Use Tax Agreement; deletes application of brackets for calculation of sales & use taxes; creates education surtax on sales & use tax base; provides for method of determining such surtax; revises exemptions from sales & use tax for food & medical products; revises exemption from sales & use tax for drinking water sold in certain containers to limit exemption to water sold in containers of specified size or larger; subjects drinking water sold in containers of specified size or smaller to sales & use tax; provides for entry into agreements with other states to simplify & facilitate compliance with sales tax laws; deletes requirement that district school board levy minimum millage rate necessary to provide district's required local effort; specifies that proceeds from education surtax shall be allocated from State School Trust Fund annually in General Appropriations Act in lieu of revenue that would have been raised from levy of nonvoted operating discretionary millage & certain other millages.

Effective Date: 1/1/2013
Last Action: 3/9/2012 House - Died in Finance and Tax Committee
Bill Text: PDF



Bill History

Date Chamber Action
1/3/2012 House • Filed
1/9/2012 House • Referred to Finance and Tax Committee; PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee; Appropriations Committee -HJ 116
1/10/2012 House • Introduced -HJ 115
3/9/2012 House • Died in Finance and Tax Committee