Sales and use taxes: exemption: research and development: design: digital interactive media.

Existing state 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. The Sales and Use Tax Law provides various exemptions from those taxes. This bill would exempt from those taxes, before January 1, 2024, the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person primarily in the research and development and design of digital interactive media, and tangible personal property purchased for use by a qualified person primarily to maintain, repair, measure, or test that property. 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 this exemption does not apply to local sales and use taxes and transactions and use taxes. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy, but its operative date would depend on its effective date.