Bill Text: TX HB2584 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to the $1 million total revenue exemption for the franchise tax; decreasing the rates of the franchise tax.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-02 - Left pending in committee [HB2584 Detail]

Download: Texas-2013-HB2584-Introduced.html

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83R8473 ADM-D
By: Harper-Brown H.B. No. 2584

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the $1 million total revenue exemption for the
franchise tax; decreasing the rates of the franchise tax.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 171.002(a) and (b), Tax Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) Subject to Sections 171.003 and 171.1016 and except as
provided by Subsection (b), the rate of the franchise tax is 0.75
[one] percent of taxable margin.
(b) Subject to Sections 171.003 and 171.1016, the rate of
the franchise tax is 0.25 [0.5] percent of taxable margin for those
taxable entities primarily engaged in retail or wholesale trade.
SECTION 2. (a) Section 1(c), Chapter 286 (H.B. 4765), Acts
of the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, as amended by
Section 37.01, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, 1st
Called Session, 2011, is repealed.
(b) This section takes effect September 1, 2013.
SECTION 3. (a) Section 2, Chapter 286 (H.B. 4765), Acts of
the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, as amended by Section
37.02, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, 1st Called
Session, 2011, and which amended former Subsection (d), Section
171.002, Tax Code, is repealed.
(b) This section takes effect September 1, 2013.
SECTION 4. (a) Section 3, Chapter 286 (H.B. 4765), Acts of
the 81st Legislature, Regular Session, 2009, as amended by Section
37.03, Chapter 4 (S.B. 1), Acts of the 82nd Legislature, 1st Called
Session, 2011, and which amended former Subsection (a), Section
171.0021, Tax Code, is repealed.
(b) This section takes effect September 1, 2013.
SECTION 5. Section 171.006(b), Tax Code, is amended to read
as follows:
(b) Beginning in 2010, on January 1 of each even-numbered
year, the amounts prescribed by Sections 171.002(d)(2)[,
171.0021,] and 171.1013(c) are increased or decreased by an amount
equal to the amount prescribed by those sections on December 31 of
the preceding year multiplied by the percentage increase or
decrease during the preceding state fiscal biennium in the consumer
price index and rounded to the nearest $10,000.
SECTION 6. Sections 171.0021 and 171.1016(d), Tax Code, are
repealed.
SECTION 7. This Act applies only to a report originally due
on or after January 1, 2014.
SECTION 8. Except as otherwise provided by this Act, this
Act takes effect January 1, 2014.