Bill Text: TX SB1083 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Relating to the applicability of the sales and use tax to certain insurance services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-22 - Effective on 1/1/18 [SB1083 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-SB1083-Enrolled.html

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S.B. No. 1083

AN ACT
relating to the applicability of the sales and use tax to certain
insurance services.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 151.0039, Tax Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (b) and adding Subsection (c) to read as
follows:
(b) "Insurance service" does not include:
(1) insurance coverage for which a premium is paid or
commissions paid to insurance agents for the sale of insurance or
annuities; [or]
(2) a service performed on behalf of an insured by a
person licensed under Chapter 4102, Insurance Code;
(3) a service performed by a certified public
accountancy firm, if less than one percent of the firm's total
revenue in the prior calendar year is from services in this state
that would otherwise constitute insurance service under Subsection
(a); or
(4) a service performed on behalf of a certified
public accountancy firm by an owner of the firm or a member of the
firm's affiliated group, if less than one percent of the owner's or
member's total revenue in the prior calendar year is from services
in this state that would otherwise constitute insurance service
under Subsection (a).
(c) In this section:
(1) "Affiliated group" has the meaning assigned by
Section 171.0001.
(2) "Certified public accountancy firm" has the
meaning assigned by Section 901.002, Occupations Code.
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act does not
affect tax liability accruing before the effective date of this
Act. That liability continues in effect as if this Act had not been
enacted, and the former law is continued in effect for the
collection of taxes due and for civil and criminal enforcement of
the liability for those taxes.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect January 1, 2018.
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President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1083 passed the Senate on
April 12, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 31, Nays 0.
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Secretary of the Senate
I hereby certify that S.B. No. 1083 passed the House on
May 9, 2017, by the following vote: Yeas 144, Nays 0, one present
not voting.
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Chief Clerk of the House
Approved:
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Date
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Governor