HOUSE BILL No. 4302

 

February 17, 2011, Introduced by Reps. McBroom, Huuki, Bumstead, Foster, Wayne Schmidt, Daley, Walsh, Pscholka, Santana, Jacobsen, MacMaster and Potvin and referred to the Committee on Tax Policy.

 

     A bill to amend 2006 PA 379, entitled

 

"Qualified forest property recapture tax act,"

 

by amending section 4 (MCL 211.1034).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 4. The recapture tax under this act shall be imposed at

 

the following rate:

 

     (a) If the property is converted by a change in use and there

 

have not been 1 or more harvests of forest products on that

 

property consistent with the approved forest management plan, the

 

recapture tax shall be calculated in the following manner:

 

     (i) Multiply the property's state equalized valuation taxable

 

value at the time the property is converted by a change in use by

 

the total millage rate levied by all taxing units in the local tax

 

collecting unit in which the property is located 18 mills.

 

     (ii) Multiply the product of the calculation under subparagraph


 

(i) by 7.

 

     (iii) Multiply the product of the calculation under subparagraph

 

(ii) by 2.

 

     (b) If the property is converted by a change in use and there

 

have been 1 or more harvests of forest products on that property

 

consistent with the approved forest management plan, the recapture

 

tax shall be calculated in the following manner:

 

     (i) Multiply the property's state equalized valuation taxable

 

value at the time the property is converted by a change in use by

 

the total millage rate levied by all taxing units in the local tax

 

collecting unit in which the property is located 18 mills.

 

     (ii) Multiply the product of the calculation under subparagraph

 

(i) by 7.

 

     (c) In addition to the recapture tax calculated under

 

subdivision (a) or (b), if property is converted by a change in use

 

and the taxable value of the property was not adjusted under

 

section 27a(3) of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL

 

211.27a, after a transfer of ownership of the property due to the

 

provisions of section 27a(7)(o) of the general property tax act,

 

1893 PA 206, MCL 211.27a, the recapture tax shall include the

 

benefit received on that property.