House File 2471 - Reprinted




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND
                                     MEANS

                                 (SUCCESSOR TO HF 2359)
                                 (SUCCESSOR TO HSB 604)
       (As Amended and Passed by the House April 23, 2012)

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to economic development by providing an
  2    adjustment to net income for certified suppliers of anchor
  3    manufacturers for purposes of state taxation and including
  4    retroactive applicability provisions.
  5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  15.226  Definitions.
  1  2    For purposes of this part:
  1  3    1.  "Anchor manufacturer" means a business that meets all of
  1  4 the following:
  1  5    a.  Manufactures tangible personal property at a facility in
  1  6 Iowa.
  1  7    b.  Exports at least fifty percent of the tangible personal
  1  8 property produced at the facility to markets outside of the
  1  9 state.
  1 10    2.  "Certified supplier" means a business certified pursuant
  1 11 to section 15.227.
  1 12    3.  "Facility" means a building or buildings located in the
  1 13 state at which tangible personal property is manufactured for
  1 14 sale within or without the state of Iowa.
  1 15    4.  "Manufactured" or "Manufactures"  means adding value to
  1 16 personal property through a process of manufacturing, refining,
  1 17 purifying, combining of different materials, the packaging of
  1 18 meats, extracting and recovering natural resources, and all
  1 19 processes of fabricating and curing, with a view to selling the
  1 20 property for gain or profit.
  1 21    5.  "Tangible personal property" means the same as defined in
  1 22 section 422.33, subsection 2, unnumbered paragraph 2.
  1 23    Sec. 2.  NEW SECTION.  15.227  Certification of suppliers.
  1 24    1.  A business meeting the requirements of subsection 2 may
  1 25 apply to the authority, no later than ninety days after the
  1 26 end of a tax year of the business, for certification under
  1 27 this section.  If a business applying to the authority meets
  1 28 the requirements of subsection 2, the authority shall issue
  1 29 a certificate to the business stating that the business is a
  1 30 certified supplier.
  1 31    2.  To receive certification as a certified supplier, a
  1 32 business must meet all of the following for the tax year
  1 33 immediately preceding the tax year for which the requested
  1 34 certificate will be valid:
  1 35    a.  The business manufactures tangible personal property at a
  2  1 facility in Iowa.
  2  2    b.  The business derives more than ten percent of its gross
  2  3 sales of tangible personal property manufactured at a facility
  2  4 in Iowa from sales to anchor manufacturers. For purposes of
  2  5 the requirement in this paragraph, a business may aggregate
  2  6 gross sales to more than one anchor manufacturer.
  2  7    c.  All sales by the business to anchor manufacturers are
  2  8 arm's length transactions.
  2  9    d.  The business provides a statement from an anchor
  2 10 manufacturer, signed by an officer or authorized representative
  2 11 of the anchor manufacturer, attesting that the anchor
  2 12 manufacturer meets the definition of anchor manufacturer under
  2 13 section 15.226, and provides supporting documentation in a form
  2 14 prescribed by the authority.
  2 15    e.  The business meets one of the following criteria:
  2 16    (1)  At least ten percent of the total payroll of the
  2 17 business is located in the state.
  2 18    (2)  The business employs at least fifty employees at a
  2 19 facility in the state.
  2 20    f.  The business agrees to annually provide to the authority
  2 21 information and data on jobs created and capital investments
  2 22 made in the state by the business.  The information and data
  2 23 shall be in a form prescribed by the authority.
  2 24    g.  The business is not an anchor manufacturer.
  2 25    3.  A certificate is valid for one tax year and shall include
  2 26 an expiration date.  Reapplication may be made each year for
  2 27 certification under this part. The department of revenue shall
  2 28 accept a validly issued, unexpired certificate issued under
  2 29 this section.
  2 30    4.  The authority shall not issue certificates pursuant
  2 31 to this section for tax years beginning on or after January
  2 32 1, 2015. On or after January 1, 2015, the authority and the
  2 33 department of revenue shall coordinate with the chairpersons
  2 34 of the senate and house standing committees on economic
  2 35 growth and rebuild Iowa to evaluate the effectiveness of this
  3  1 certification process and the related adjustments to net income
  3  2 provided in chapter 422, and the feasibility of continuing both
  3  3 into the future.
  3  4    Sec. 3.  NEW SECTION.  15.228  Eligibility for adjustment to
  3  5 net income of certified suppliers.
  3  6    1.  A certified supplier shall be eligible to make the
  3  7 adjustment to net income in section 422.35, subsection 26, for
  3  8 a tax year if all the following apply:
  3  9    a.  The certified supplier's net business income for the tax
  3 10 year, allocated and apportioned to this state under section
  3 11 422.33, subsection 2, paragraph "b", computed without regard
  3 12 to section 422.35, subsection 26, increased by more than five
  3 13 percent over the certified supplier's net business income in
  3 14 the prior year, allocated and apportioned to this state under
  3 15 section 422.33, subsection 2, paragraph "b".
  3 16    b.  The certified supplier attaches a copy of a valid,
  3 17 unexpired certificate issued under section 15.227 to the
  3 18 certified supplier's tax return required under chapter 422.
  3 19    2.  A taxpayer who is a shareholder in a subchapter S
  3 20 corporation that is a certified supplier shall be eligible to
  3 21 make the adjustment to net income in section 422.7, subsection
  3 22 57, for a tax year if all the following apply:
  3 23    a.  The certified supplier's net business income for the tax
  3 24 year, allocated and apportioned to this state under section
  3 25 422.33, subsection 2, paragraph "b", computed without regard
  3 26 to section 422.35, subsection 26, increased by more than five
  3 27 percent over the certified supplier's net business income in
  3 28 the prior year, allocated and apportioned to this state under
  3 29 section 422.33, subsection 2, paragraph "b", computed with
  3 30 regard to section 422.35, subsection 26, if the subchapter S
  3 31 corporation was a certified supplier in the previous tax year
  3 32 and met the eligibility requirements in this paragraph "a".
  3 33    b.  The shareholder attaches a copy of a valid, unexpired
  3 34 certificate issued under section 15.227 to the shareholder's
  3 35 tax return required under chapter 422.
  4  1    3.  For purposes of establishing eligibility under this
  4  2 section, "net business income" shall not include any income of
  4  3 a certified supplier that is attributable to an existing trade
  4  4 or business or income=producing contract that was acquired by
  4  5 the certified supplier through merger or acquisition during or
  4  6 after the first year for which the certified supplier becomes
  4  7 eligible pursuant to this section for the adjustments to net
  4  8 income in section 422.7, subsection 57, or section 422.35,
  4  9 subsection 26.
  4 10    Sec. 4.  NEW SECTION.  15.229  Rules.
  4 11    The authority and the department of revenue may adopt rules
  4 12 for the implementation of this part.
  4 13    Sec. 5.  Section 257.21, Code 2011, is amended to read as
  4 14 follows:
  4 15    257.21  Computation of instructional support amount.
  4 16    1.  The department of management shall establish the amount
  4 17 of instructional support property tax to be levied and the
  4 18 amount of instructional support income surtax to be imposed
  4 19 by a district in accordance with the decision of the board
  4 20 under section 257.19 for each school year for which the
  4 21 instructional support program is authorized. The department
  4 22 of management shall determine these amounts based upon the
  4 23 most recent figures available for the district's valuation of
  4 24 taxable property, individual state income tax paid, and budget
  4 25 enrollment in the district, and shall certify to the district's
  4 26 county auditor the amount of instructional support property
  4 27 tax, and to the director of revenue the amount of instructional
  4 28 support income surtax to be imposed if an instructional support
  4 29 income surtax is to be imposed.
  4 30    2.  The instructional support income surtax shall be imposed
  4 31 on the state individual income tax for the calendar year during
  4 32 which the school's budget year begins, or for a taxpayer's
  4 33 fiscal year ending during the second half of that calendar year
  4 34 and after the date the board adopts a resolution to participate
  4 35 in the program or the first half of the succeeding calendar
  5  1 year, and shall be imposed on all individuals residing in the
  5  2 school district on the last day of the applicable tax year.
  5  3 As used in this section, "state individual income tax" means
  5  4 the taxes computed under section 422.5, without regard to the
  5  5 adjustment to net income in section 422.7, subsection 57, less
  5  6 the amounts of nonrefundable credits allowed under chapter 422,
  5  7 division II.
  5  8    Sec. 6.  Section 422.7, Code Supplement 2011, is amended by
  5  9 adding the following new subsection:
  5 10    NEW SUBSECTION.  57.  a.  If the adjusted gross income
  5 11 includes income from a subchapter S corporation for which the
  5 12 taxpayer is a shareholder, which subchapter S corporation is
  5 13 a certified supplier that meets the requirements in section
  5 14 15.228, subsection 2, paragraph "a", the taxpayer may subtract
  5 15 an amount based on the taxpayer's pro rata share of the
  5 16 profits or losses from the subchapter S corporation equal to
  5 17 the difference between the subchapter S corporation's net
  5 18 business income for the tax year, allocated and apportioned
  5 19 to this state under section 422.33, subsection 2, paragraph
  5 20 "b", computed without regard to section 422.35, subsection 26,
  5 21 and one hundred five percent of the subchapter S corporation's
  5 22 net business income for the prior tax year, allocated and
  5 23 apportioned under section 422.33, subsection 2, paragraph "b",
  5 24 computed with regard to section 422.35, subsection 26, if
  5 25 the subchapter S corporation was a certified supplier in the
  5 26 previous tax year and met the requirements in section 15.228,
  5 27 subsection 2, paragraph "a".  A taxpayer who is a resident shall
  5 28 not make the subtraction provided in this subsection unless
  5 29 the taxpayer also makes an election pursuant to section 422.5,
  5 30 subsection 1, paragraph "j", subparagraph (2).
  5 31    b.  For purposes of the adjustment provided in this
  5 32 subsection, "net business income" shall not include any
  5 33 income of a certified supplier that is attributable to an
  5 34 existing trade or business or income=producing contract that
  5 35 was acquired by the certified supplier through merger or
  6  1 acquisition during or after the first year for which the
  6  2 certified supplier becomes eligible for the adjustment in this
  6  3 subsection.
  6  4    Sec. 7.  Section 422.35, Code Supplement 2011, is amended by
  6  5 adding the following new subsection:
  6  6    NEW SUBSECTION.  26.  a.  If the taxpayer is a certified
  6  7 supplier that meets the requirements in section 15.228,
  6  8 subsection 1, subtract an amount equal to the difference
  6  9 between the taxpayer's net business income for the tax year,
  6 10 allocated and apportioned under section 422.33, subsection 2,
  6 11 paragraph "b", computed without regard to this subsection, and
  6 12 one hundred five percent of the taxpayer's net business income
  6 13 for the prior tax year, allocated and apportioned under section
  6 14 422.33, subsection 2, paragraph "b".
  6 15    b.  For purposes of the adjustment provided in this
  6 16 subsection, "net business income" shall not include any
  6 17 income of a certified supplier that is attributable to an
  6 18 existing trade or business or income=producing contract
  6 19 which was acquired by the certified supplier through merger
  6 20 or acquisition during or after the first year for which the
  6 21 certified supplier becomes eligible for the adjustment in this
  6 22 subsection.
  6 23    Sec. 8.  Section 422D.2, Code 2011, is amended to read as
  6 24 follows:
  6 25    422D.2  Local income surtax.
  6 26    A county may impose by ordinance a local income surtax as
  6 27 provided in section 422D.1 at the rate set by the board of
  6 28 supervisors, of up to one percent, on the state individual
  6 29 income tax of each individual residing in the county at the
  6 30 end of the individual's applicable tax year. However, the
  6 31 cumulative total of the percents of income surtax imposed on
  6 32 any taxpayer in the county shall not exceed twenty percent.
  6 33 The reason for imposing the surtax and the amount needed
  6 34 shall be set out in the ordinance. The surtax rate shall be
  6 35 set to raise only the amount needed. For purposes of this
  7  1 section, "state individual income tax" means the tax computed
  7  2 under section 422.5, without regard to the adjustment to net
  7  3 income in section 422.7, subsection 57, less the amounts of
  7  4 nonrefundable credits allowed under chapter 422, division II.
  7  5    Sec. 9.  RETROACTIVE APPLICABILITY.  This Act applies
  7  6 retroactively to January 1, 2012, for tax years beginning on
  7  7 or after that date.
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