SENATE BILL No. 1044

 

 

January 22, 2008, Introduced by Senators BROWN, BIRKHOLZ, RICHARDVILLE, PAPPAGEORGE, KAHN, BISHOP, SANBORN, ANDERSON, BASHAM, ALLEN, JANSEN, HARDIMAN, SWITALSKI and KUIPERS and referred to the Committee on Energy Policy and Public Utilities.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 1933 PA 167, entitled

 

"General sales tax act,"

 

(MCL 205.51 to 205.78) by adding section 4ee.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 4ee. A person subject to the tax under this act may

 

exclude from the gross proceeds used for the computation of the tax

 

the sale of tangible personal property to a person engaged in the

 

business of constructing, altering, repairing, or improving real

 

estate for others if the property will be used to construct a new

 

renewable energy facility or will be used to enhance the renewable

 

energy capacity of an existing renewable energy facility. As used

 

in this section, "renewable energy facility" means that term as

 

defined in section 3 of the Michigan renaissance zone act, 1996 PA

 

376, MCL 125.2683.