Sales and use taxes: exclusion: garment alterations.

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. Existing law defines "sale" and "purchase" for these purposes and provides certain exclusions from those definitions. This bill, before January 1, 2023, would provide that "sale" and "purchase" do not include alterations to new or used garments if the alteration occurs after the retail sale of the new garment, the person performing the alteration was not the retailer of the new garment, and the person performing the alteration does not have an agreement with a clothing retailer to perform alterations for the clothing retailer or the clothing retailer's customers, thus excluding the purchase or sale of those alterations from imposition of sales and use tax. As a result, the retail sale subject to tax would be the sale of tangible personal property used or furnished in the alteration to the person who performs the alteration. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes cities and counties to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to the Sales and Use Tax Law are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws. Existing law requires the state to reimburse cities and counties for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding these provisions, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse cities and counties for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy, but its operative date would depend on its effective date.