Bill Text: NJ S3920 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Concerns provision of energy to certain manufacturing facilities by providing exemptions to certain energy related taxes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-01-21 - Approved P.L.2019, c.437. [S3920 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2018-S3920-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Senator NELLIE POU
District 35 (Bergen and Passaic)
SYNOPSIS
Concerns provision of energy to certain manufacturing facilities by providing exemptions to certain energy related taxes.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning provision of energy to certain manufacturing facilities, and supplementing various parts of the statutory law.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. As used in P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill):
"Comprehensive energy audit" means the same as defined in section 2 of P.L.1995, c.180 (C.48:2-21.25).
"Director" means the Director of the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury.
"Division" means the Division of Taxation in the Department of the Treasury.
"Recovered materials" means the same as defined in 40 C.F.R. s.247.3.
"Recovered materials manufacturing facility" means a facility that: (1) received service under an electric public utility rate that applied only to the owner of the facility on January 1, 2004; (2) manufactures products made from recovered materials, provided however, that not less than 50 percent of the content of such products produced in this State meet the definition of recovered materials; (3) completed a comprehensive energy audit not more than 48 months before but not later than 90 days after the effective date of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill); and (4) employed, individually or collectively with an affiliated facility, not less than 250 employees in this State on January 1, 2019.
"Tax exemption period" means a period of seven years beginning on a date specified by the owner of a recovered materials manufacturing facility following consultation and filing of notice with the division, provided, however, that the beginning date shall be specified to occur after June 30, 2019 and before July 1, 2022.
2. a. Receipts from the sale or use of energy and utility service to or by a recovered materials manufacturing facility for use or consumption directly and primarily in the production of tangible personal property shall be exempt from the tax imposed under the "Sales and Use Tax Act," P.L.1966, c.30 (C.54:32B-1 et seq.), during the tax exemption period.
b. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection a. of this section, a seller of energy and utility service shall charge and collect from a purchaser that is a recovered materials manufacturing facility the sales and use tax at the rate then in effect, and the tax shall be refunded to the purchaser by the filing, within 30 days of the close of the calendar quarter in which the sale or use is made or rendered, of a claim with the director for a refund of sales and use taxes paid for energy and utility service, which refund shall be paid within 60 days of the filing of a claim for refund. Proof of claim for refund shall be made by the submission of auditable receipts and such other documentation as the director may require.
c. (1) If the owner of a recovered materials manufacturing facility relocates the facility to a location outside this State during the tax exemption period, the owner of the facility shall pay the director the amount of tax for which an exemption shall have been allowed and refunded in accordance with subsection b. of this section.
(2) The State Treasurer shall notify the director of the relocation of a recovered materials manufacturing facility to a location outside this State, and the director shall issue a tax assessment for the recapture of tax, equal to the amount of tax for which an exemption shall have been allowed and refunded in accordance with subsection b. of this section.
(3) The recapture of tax shall be a State tax subject to the State Uniform Tax Procedure Law, R.S.54:48-1 et seq., and shall be deposited in the General Fund.
3. a. The division shall annually review the financial records of a recovered materials manufacturing facility that is eligible for a sales and use tax exemption pursuant to section 2 of P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill), in order to determine whether it is economically feasible for the State to continue to allow that recovered materials manufacturing facility to receive that sales and use tax exemption.
b. Upon the completion of the review required by this section, the division shall prepare and submit, pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1991, c.164 (C.52:14-19.1), an annual report to the Legislature containing the division's recommendation as to whether the sales and use tax exemption should be continued or whether the exemption should be altered or repealed. The division shall submit the first annual report on the first day of the ninth month following the commencement of the tax exemption period and shall review the period beginning with the first day after the commencement of the tax exemption period and extending for the subsequent six months. Each of the six subsequent annual reports shall review the 12-month period beginning on the first day after the close of the prior reporting period.
c. The annual reports shall review the financial records of such a recovered materials manufacturing facility for the preceding one-year period. As a condition of receiving the sales and use tax exemption, the recovered materials manufacturing facility shall make its financial records available to the division and shall provide such other information as may be required by the division to complete its review and assessment pursuant to this section.
4. This act shall take
effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill concerns the provision of energy to certain recovered materials manufacturing facilities by exempting, for a period of seven years, the sale or use of energy utility service to qualifying recovered materials manufacturing facilities from the sales and use tax. The bill requires the Division of Taxation to annually review the economic feasibility of continuing to provide qualifying recovered materials manufacturing facilities with the exemption from the sales and use tax and to submit their recommendations to the Legislature as to whether such exemptions should be continued.
