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Senate Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
Senate of Pennsylvania
Session of 2019 - 2020
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | January 11, 2019 02:11 PM |
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| From: | Senator Vincent J. Hughes |
| To: | All Senate members |
| Subject: | Sales and Use Tax Exemption for Solar Energy |
| In the near future, I plan on introducing Senator Rafferty’s Senate Bill 495 from last session, which exempts from taxation retail solar energy systems. Pennsylvania is third in the nation in Carbon Dioxide Emissions. It is time for Pennsylvania to do more to encourage the purchase and subsequent use of solar. According to the most recent data from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), 0.2% of the Commonwealth’s electricity comes from solar. Pennsylvania, which is home to nearly 600 solar companies (developers, manufacturers and installers), is one of the largest solar employers in the nation. Neighboring states Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Ohio all provide a sales tax exemption for solar energy systems. This legislation would amend the Tax Reform Code to provide an exemption from taxation for the sale at retail or use of a solar energy system or any component of a solar energy system. A solar energy system would include equipment and hardware that is used for collecting, transferring, converting, sorting or using solar energy for heating or cooling. I hope you will join me in sponsoring this legislation. Please contact my office if you have any questions. |
Introduced as SB148