Sales and use taxes: exemptions: public schools.

Existing sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. Those laws provide various exemptions from those taxes. This bill would, on and after January 1, 2016, and before January 1, 2021, exempt from those taxes the gross receipts from the sale in this state of, and the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of, any items purchased by a K-12 public school or a K-12 public school district for use by that school or district. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing law authorizes districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in conformity with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Exemptions from state sales and use taxes are incorporated into these laws. This bill would specify that the above-described exemption does not apply to local sales and use taxes, transactions and use taxes, and specified state taxes from which revenues are deposited into the Fiscal Recovery Fund, the Local Public Safety Fund, the Education Protection Account, the Local Revenue Fund, and the Local Revenue Fund 2011. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.