Introduced Version






SENATE BILL No. 543

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



Citations Affected: IC 6-2.5-5-46.

Synopsis: Sales tax exemption related to aircraft. Adds aircraft having the United States as its country of registration under the sales and use tax exemption for items related to the repair, maintenance, refurbishment, remodeling, or remanufacturing of the aircraft or an avionics system of the aircraft.

Effective: July 1, 2013.





Mishler




    January 14, 2013, read first time and referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy.







Introduced

First Regular Session 118th General Assembly (2013)


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SENATE BILL No. 543



    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning taxation.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 6-2.5-5-46; (13)IN0543.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 6-2.5-5-46, AS ADDED BY P.L.153-2012, SECTION 5, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2013]: Sec. 46. (a) For purposes of this section, "aircraft" refers to an aircraft with a country of registration that is outside the United States and that is:
        (1) certified by the Federal Aviation Administration as having a minimum landing weight of at least five thousand (5,000) pounds; or
        (2) equipped with a turboprop or turbojet power plant.
    (b) Transactions involving tangible personal property (including materials, parts, equipment, and engines) are exempt from the state gross retail tax, if the property is:
        (1) used;
        (2) consumed; or
        (3) installed;
in furtherance of, or in, the repair, maintenance, refurbishment, remodeling, or remanufacturing of an aircraft or an avionics systems

system of an aircraft.
    (c) The exemption provided by this section applies to a transaction only if the retail merchant, at the time of the transaction, possesses a valid repair station certificate issued by the Federal Aviation Administration under 14 CFR 145 et seq. or other applicable law or regulation.