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1 AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 6012
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend House Bill 6012 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Simplified Municipal Telecommunications
5 Tax Act is amended by changing Section 5-5 as follows:
6 (35 ILCS 636/5-5)
7 (This Section may contain text from a Public Act with a
8 delayed effective date)
9 Sec. 5-5. Legislative intent. The Illinois General
10 Assembly has authorized the corporate authorities of any
11 municipality to impose various fees and taxes on the
12 privilege of originating or receiving telecommunications, and
13 on retailers engaged in the business of transmitting such
14 telecommunications, all of which are remitted by such
15 retailers directly to the imposing municipality. To simplify
16 the imposition and collection of municipal telecommunications
17 taxes and to reduce complication and burden, the General
18 Assembly is repealing the municipal telecommunications tax,
19 the municipal tax on the occupation or privilege of
20 transmitting messages, and the municipal infrastructure
21 maintenance fee, and is enacting this Simplified Municipal
22 Telecommunications Tax Act which provides for a single
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1 municipally imposed telecommunications tax which, for
2 municipalities with populations of less than 500,000, will be
3 collected by the Illinois Department of Revenue, but which,
4 for municipalities of 500,000 or more, will continue to be
5 collected by such municipalities.
6 (Source: P.A. 92-526, eff. 7-1-02.)".
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