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ID H0339

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/27/2013

Primary Sponsor

Transportation and Defense Committee

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Origin

House of Representatives

2013 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Establishes the "Safe Roads Act of 2013" which creates a new motor vehicle lease and rental tax on short-term rentals (30 days or less) at the same percentage rate as the state sales tax.

  • Tax applies to daily rental rates charged by motor vehicle rental businesses, including charges for insurance, additional drivers, and accessory equipment, with exemptions for vehicles over 8,001 pounds gross weight, moving vans, replacement vehicles, and taxicabs.

  • Motor vehicle rental businesses must register with the state tax commission, file monthly returns, and remit taxes by the 20th of the succeeding month; all collected taxes are state money and deposited to the highway distribution account.

  • Amends sales tax code to exclude motor vehicle lease and rental tax from the definition of "sales price" and revises how collected sales tax revenue is distributed among state accounts and local jurisdictions.

  • Effective January 1, 2014; applies enforcement and collection procedures from the Idaho income tax act to administration of the new motor vehicle rental tax.

Legislative Description

Amends and adds to existing law relating to transportation and certain taxes to revise provisions relating to the term "sales price"; to revise distributions from the sales tax; and to establish the motor vehicle lease and rental tax.

TRANSPORTATION AND CERTAIN TAXES

Last Action

Reported Printed and Referred to Transportation & Defense

3/28/2013

Full Bill Text

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