PRINTER'S NO. 2353
No. 1823 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY KUKOVICH, DALEY, SWEET, PISTELLA, BURNS, TIGUE,
CARN, MARKOSEK, BELFANTI, HALUSKA, MICHLOVIC, LINTON,
MRKONIC, PRESTON, KOSINSKI, BLAUM, O'DONNELL, JOSEPHS, ITKIN,
VEON, COWELL AND DeLUCA, OCTOBER 22, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, OCTOBER 22, 1985
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), entitled "An
2 act relating to tax reform and State taxation by codifying
3 and enumerating certain subjects of taxation and imposing
4 taxes thereon; providing procedures for the payment,
5 collection, administration and enforcement thereof; providing
6 for tax credits in certain cases; conferring powers and
7 imposing duties upon the Department of Revenue, certain
8 employers, fiduciaries, individuals, persons, corporations
9 and other entities; prescribing crimes, offenses and
10 penalties," providing for excess utilities gross receipts tax
11 to be placed into the Commonwealth Weatherization and Energy
12 Assistance Fund.
13 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
14 hereby enacts as follows:
15 Section 1. Section 1101(a), (b) and (d) of the act of March
16 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as the Tax Reform Code of 1971,
17 amended December 11, 1979 (P.L.499, No.107), are amended to
18 read:
19 Section 1101. Imposition of Tax.--(a) General Rule.--Every
20 railroad company, pipeline company, conduit company, steamboat
21 company, canal company, slack water navigation company,
22 transportation company, and every other company, association,
1 joint-stock association, or limited partnership, now or
2 hereafter incorporated or organized by or under any law of this
3 Commonwealth, or now or hereafter organized or incorporated by
4 any other state or by the United States or any foreign
5 government, and doing business in this Commonwealth, and every
6 copartnership, person or persons owning, operating or leasing to
7 or from another corporation, company, association, joint-stock
8 association, limited partnership, copartnership, person or
9 persons, any railroad, pipeline, conduit, steamboat, canal,
10 slack water navigation, or other device for the transportation
11 of freight, passengers, baggage, or oil, except taxicabs, motor
12 buses and motor omnibuses, and every limited partnership,
13 association, joint-stock association, corporation or company
14 engaged in, or hereafter engaged in, the transportation of
15 freight or oil within this State, and every telephone company,
16 telegraph company, express company, gas company, palace car
17 company and sleeping car company, now or hereafter incorporated
18 or organized by or under any law of this Commonwealth, or now or
19 hereafter organized or incorporated by any other state or by the
20 United States or any foreign government and doing business in
21 this Commonwealth, and every limited partnership, association,
22 joint-stock association, copartnership, person or persons,
23 engaged in telephone, telegraph, express, gas, palace car or
24 sleeping car business in this Commonwealth, shall pay to the
25 State Treasurer, through the Department of Revenue, a tax [of
26 forty-five mills] at the rate prescribed in subsection (d)(2)
27 upon each dollar of the gross receipts of the corporation,
28 company or association, limited partnership, joint-stock
29 association, copartnership, person or persons, received from
30 passengers, baggage, and freight transported wholly within this
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1 State, from telegraph or telephone messages transmitted wholly
2 within this State, from express, palace car or sleeping car
3 business done wholly within this State, or from the sales of
4 gas, except gross receipts derived from sales to any
5 municipality owned or operated public utility and except gross
6 receipts derived from the sales for resale, to persons,
7 partnerships, associations, corporations or political
8 subdivisions subject to the tax imposed by this act upon gross
9 receipts derived from such resale and from the transportation of
10 oil done wholly within this State. The gross receipts of gas
11 companies shall include the gross receipts from the sale of
12 artificial and natural gas, but shall not include gross receipts
13 from the sale of liquefied petroleum gas.
14 (b) Electric Light, Waterpower and Hydro-electric
15 Utilities.--Every electric light company, waterpower company and
16 hydro-electric company now or hereafter incorporated or
17 organized by or under any law of this Commonwealth, or now or
18 hereafter organized or incorporated by any other state or by the
19 United States or any foreign government and doing business in
20 this Commonwealth, and every limited partnership, association,
21 joint-stock association, copartnership, person or persons,
22 engaged in electric light and power business, waterpower
23 business and hydro-electric business in this Commonwealth, shall
24 pay to the State Treasurer, through the Department of Revenue, a
25 tax [of forty-five mills] at the rate prescribed in subsection
26 (d)(2) upon each dollar of the gross receipts of the
27 corporation, company or association, limited partnership, joint-
28 stock association, copartnership, person or persons, received
29 from:
30 (1) the sales of electric energy within this State, except
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1 gross receipts derived from the sales for resale of electric
2 energy to persons, partnerships, associations, corporations or
3 political subdivisions subject to the tax imposed by this
4 subsection upon gross receipts derived from such resale; and
5 (2) the sales of electric energy produced in Pennsylvania
6 and made outside of Pennsylvania in a state that has taken
7 action since December 21, 1977 which results in higher costs for
8 electric energy produced in that state and sold in Pennsylvania
9 unless the action that was taken after December 21, 1977 is
10 rescinded according to the following apportionment formula:
11 except for gross receipts derived from sales under clause (1),
12 the gross receipts from all sales of electricity of the producer
13 shall be apportioned to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by the
14 ratio of the producer's operating and maintenance expenses in
15 Pennsylvania and depreciation attributable to property in
16 Pennsylvania to the producer's total operating and maintenance
17 expenses and depreciation.
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19 (d) Tax [Computation.--] Computation; Rate.--(1) Upon the
20 date its tentative report is required to be made, for the year
21 1972 and each year thereafter the corporation, association or
22 individual making a tentative report shall transmit such report
23 to the Department of Revenue on account of the tax due for the
24 current period of twelve months and compute and make payment of
25 the tentative tax with such report pursuant to the provisions of
26 section 1202.1.
27 (2) The tax imposed by this section shall be imposed at the
28 rate shown below on the gross receipts derived from business
29 done during the indicated calendar year:
30 Calendar Year Rate
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1 1984 and earlier 45 mills
2 1985 45 mills
3 1986 45 mills
4 1987 43 mills
5 1988 41 mills
6 1989 39 mills
7 1990 37 mills
8 1991 and thereafter 35 mills
9 (3) During fiscal year 1985-1986 and in each fiscal year
10 thereafter, the Secretary of Revenue shall deposit in a special
11 fund to be known as the Commonwealth Weatherization and Energy
12 Assistance Fund, any revenue received from the tax imposed by
13 this article in excess of the amount of revenue received from
14 the tax imposed by this article during fiscal year 1984-1985.
15 These funds shall only be appropriated for weatherization
16 programs and for low income energy assistance.
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18 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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