Date of enactment: June 21, 2017
2017 Senate Bill 89   Date of publication*: June 22, 2017
* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."
2017 WISCONSIN ACT 17
An Act to repeal 74.41 (2) (a); to renumber and amend 71.255 (2) (c), 71.34 (1k) (h), 125.02 (18), 139.11 (4) (a) and 196.025 (6) (d) 2.; to consolidate, renumber and amend 196.025 (6) (d) (intro.) and 1.; to amend 70.52, 71.05 (25) (a) 2., 71.255 (7) (b) 7., 74.41 (2) (intro.), 74.41 (2) (b), 77.70, 77.76 (3), 77.82 (8), 77.98 (3), 77.98 (4) (a), 125.29 (6), 139.38 (6), 139.82 (6), 177.24 (3) (a), 196.025 (6) (b) 1., 196.025 (6) (b) 2., 196.025 (6) (c) 2., 565.02 (1) (c), 565.02 (2) (d), 565.25 (4) and 565.30 (5); and to create 71.05 (25) (a) 1m., 71.05 (26) (a) 2m., 71.255 (2) (c) 2., 71.255 (2) (c) 3., 71.34 (1k) (h) 1., 71.34 (1k) (h) 2., 74.41 (2) (bm), 77.51 (13) (fm), 77.52 (2m) (am), 77.54 (64), 125.02 (18) (a) to (h), 139.11 (4) (a) 2., 177.24 (3) (c), 196.025 (6) (cm), 565.01 (6p), 565.17 (1m) and 565.40 (3) of the statutes; relating to: tax administration changes, the police and fire protection fee, defining restaurant for purposes of alcohol beverage regulation, lottery ticket couriers, background investigations of persons associated with the lottery, and providing a criminal penalty.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
17,1 Section 1. 70.52 of the statutes is amended to read:
70.52 Clerks to examine and correct rolls. Each city, village, and town clerk upon receipt of the assessment roll shall carefully examine the roll. The clerk shall correct all double assessments, imperfect descriptions, and other errors apparent upon the face of on the roll, and strike off all correct the value of parcels of real property not liable to taxation. The clerk shall add to the roll any parcel of real property not listed on the assessment roll or item of personal property omitted by the assessors from the roll and immediately notify the assessors of the additions and omissions. The assessors shall immediately view and value the omitted property and certify the valuation to the clerk. The clerk shall enter the valuation upon and property classification on the roll, and the valuation shall be final. To enable the clerk to properly correct defective descriptions, the clerk may request aid, when necessary, from the county surveyor, whose fees for the services rendered shall be paid by the city, village, or town.
17,2 Section 2. 71.05 (25) (a) 1m. of the statutes is created to read:
71.05 (25) (a) 1m. “Investment” means amounts paid to acquire stock or other ownership interest in a partnership, corporation, tax-option corporation, or limited liability company treated as a partnership or corporation.
17,3 Section 3 . 71.05 (25) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
71.05 (25) (a) 2. “Qualifying gain" means a long-term capital gain under the Internal Revenue Code realized from the sale of an investment made after December 31, 2010, and held for at least 5 uninterrupted years in a business that for the year of investment and at least 2 of the 4 subsequent years was a qualified Wisconsin business; except that a qualifying gain may not include any amount for which the claimant claimed a subtraction under sub. (24) (b) or any gain described under sub. (26) (b) and may not exceed the fair market value of the investment on the date sold, less the fair market value of the investment on the date acquired.
17,4 Section 4. 71.05 (26) (a) 2m. of the statutes is created to read:
71.05 (26) (a) 2m. “Investment” means amounts paid to acquire stock or other ownership interest in a partnership, corporation, tax-option corporation, or limited liability company treated as a partnership or corporation.
17,5 Section 5. 71.255 (2) (c) of the statutes is renumbered 71.255 (2) (c) 1. and amended to read:
71.255 (2) (c) 1. Except as provided in par. (d), if 80 percent or more of a corporation's worldwide income is active foreign business income, as defined in section 861 (c) (1) (B) of the Internal Revenue Code, the income and apportionment factor or factors of the corporation shall not be included in the combined report, but the corporation shall compute and allocate or apportion its income from the unitary business separately.
17,6 Section 6. 71.255 (2) (c) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
71.255 (2) (c) 2. For purposes of subd. 1., “active foreign business income” means gross income derived from sources outside the United States, as determined in subchapter N of the Internal Revenue Code, including income of a subsidiary corporation, and attributable to the active conduct of a trade or business in a foreign country or in a U.S. possession.
17,7 Section 7. 71.255 (2) (c) 3. of the statutes is created to read:
71.255 (2) (c) 3. For purposes of subd. 2., a corporation is considered a subsidiary if the parent corporation owns, directly or indirectly, stock with at least 50 percent of the total voting power of the corporation and the stock has a value equal to at least 50 percent of the total value of the stock of the corporation.
17,8 Section 8. 71.255 (7) (b) 7. of the statutes is amended to read:
71.255 (7) (b) 7. Executing waivers, closing agreements, powers of attorney, and other documents as necessary or required regarding the combined report filed under sub. (2) (a). Any waiver, agreement, power of attorney, or document executed by the designated agent relating to a combined report shall be considered as executed by all members of the combined group, including any corporation not included in the combined report that the department asserts is a member of the combined group.
17,9 Section 9. 71.34 (1k) (h) of the statutes is renumbered 71.34 (1k) (h) (intro.) and amended to read:
71.34 (1k) (h) (intro.) Section 162 of the internal revenue code Internal Revenue Code (relating to trade or business expenses) is modified so as follows:
3. So that payments for wages, salaries, bonuses, interest or other expenses paid to an entertainer or entertainment corporation may be deducted only if the corporation complies with ss. 71.63 (3) (b), 71.64 (4) and (5), and 71.80 (15) (e).
17,10 Section 10. 71.34 (1k) (h) 1. of the statutes is created to read:
71.34 (1k) (h) 1. So that payments for wages, salaries, commissions, and bonuses of employees and officers may be deducted only if the name, address, and amount paid to each resident of this state to whom compensation of $600 or more has been paid during the taxable year is reported or if the department of revenue is satisfied that failure to report has resulted in no revenue loss to this state.
17,11 Section 11. 71.34 (1k) (h) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
71.34 (1k) (h) 2. So that payments for rent may be deducted only if the amount paid, together with the names and addresses of the parties to whom rent has been paid, is reported as provided under s. 71.70 (2).
17,12 Section 12. 74.41 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
74.41 (2) Amount required for submission. (intro.) A tax may be included on a form submitted under sub. (1) only if one all of the following applies apply:
17,13 Section 13. 74.41 (2) (a) of the statutes is repealed.
17,14 Section 14. 74.41 (2) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
74.41 (2) (b) The tax under sub. (1) for any single description of property in the tax roll for any one year is $500 $250 or more.
17,15 Section 15. 74.41 (2) (bm) of the statutes is created to read:
74.41 (2) (bm) The tax under sub. (1) was refunded or rescinded for any of the 5 assessment years immediately preceding the year in which the form under sub. (1) is submitted or refunded or rescinded because of a court determination and submitted under sub. (1) no later than one year after the date of the court's determination.
17,18 Section 18 . 77.51 (13) (fm) of the statutes is created to read:
77.51 (13) (fm) A person selling, performing, or furnishing any service under s. 77.52 (2) (a) 5. or 12. to a service provider described in s. 77.52 (2m) (am).
17,20 Section 20 . 77.52 (2m) (am) of the statutes is created to read:
77.52 (2m) (am) A person selling, performing, or furnishing any service in sub. (2) (a) 1., regardless of whether the selling, performing, or furnishing of the service is a retail sale, is the consumer of any services under sub. (2) (a) 5. or 12. purchased by the person for the person's use or for the use of the person's customers.
17,24 Section 24. 77.54 (64) of the statutes is created to read:
77.54 (64) The sales price from the sale of and the storage, use, or other consumption of patient health care records that are sold to the patient or to a person that the patient authorizes to receive the records.
17,25 Section 25. 77.70 of the statutes is amended to read:
77.70 Adoption by county ordinance. Any county desiring to impose county sales and use taxes under this subchapter may do so by the adoption of an ordinance, stating its purpose and referring to this subchapter. The rate of the tax imposed under this section is 0.5 percent of the sales price or purchase price. The county sales and use taxes may be imposed only for the purpose of directly reducing the property tax levy and only in their entirety as provided in this subchapter. That ordinance shall be effective on the first day of January, the first day of April, the first day of July or the first day of October. A certified copy of that ordinance shall be delivered to the secretary of revenue at least 120 days prior to its effective date. The repeal of any such ordinance shall be effective on December 31. A certified copy of a repeal ordinance shall be delivered to the secretary of revenue at least 120 days before the effective date of the repeal. Except as provided under s. 77.60 (9), the department of revenue may not issue any assessment nor act on any claim for a refund or any claim for an adjustment under s. 77.585 after the end of the calendar year that is 4 years after the year in which the county has enacted a repeal ordinance under this section.
17,26 Section 26. 77.76 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
77.76 (3) From the appropriation under s. 20.835 (4) (g) the department of revenue shall distribute 98.25 percent of the county taxes reported for each enacting county, minus the county portion of the retailers' discounts, to the county and shall indicate the taxes reported by each taxpayer, no later than 75 days following the last day of the calendar quarter in which such amounts were reported. In this subsection, the “county portion of the retailers' discount" is the amount determined by multiplying the total retailers' discount by a fraction the numerator of which is the gross county sales and use taxes payable and the denominator of which is the sum of the gross state and county sales and use taxes payable. The county taxes distributed shall be increased or decreased to reflect subsequent refunds, audit adjustments, and all other adjustments of the county taxes previously distributed. Interest paid on refunds of county sales and use taxes shall be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.835 (4) (g) at the rate paid by this state under s. 77.60 (1) (a). The county may retain the amount it receives or it may distribute all or a portion of the amount it receives to the towns, villages, cities, and school districts in the county. After receiving notice from the department of revenue, a county shall reimburse the department for the amount by which any refunds, including interest, of the county's sales and use taxes that the department pays or allows in a reporting period exceeds the amount of the county's sales and use taxes otherwise payable to the county under this subsection for the same or subsequent reporting period. Any county receiving a report under this subsection is subject to the duties of confidentiality to which the department of revenue is subject under s. 77.61 (5) and (6).
17,27 Section 27. 77.82 (8) of the statutes is amended to read:
77.82 (8) Order. If an application under sub. (2), (4m), or (12) is approved, the department shall issue an order designating the land as managed forest land for the time period specified in the application. If an application under sub. (4) is approved, the department shall amend the original order to include the additional parcel. The department shall provide the applicant with a copy of the order or amended order and shall also file a copy with the department of revenue, the supervisor of assessments, and the clerk of each municipality in which the land is located, and shall record the order with the register of deeds in each county in which the land is located.
17,28 Section 28. 77.98 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
77.98 (3) Except as provided in sub. (4), for For purposes of sub. (1) (a), “premises" shall be broadly construed and shall include the lobby, aisles, and auditorium of a theater or the seating, aisles, and parking area of an arena, a rink, or a stadium, or the parking area of a drive-in or an outdoor theater. The premises of a caterer with respect to catered meals or beverages shall be the place where served.
17,29 Section 29. 77.98 (4) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
77.98 (4) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), the tax imposed under this section shall not be imposed on the sale of alcoholic beverages, candy, prepared food, or soft drinks sold by a person primarily engaged, as determined by the department, in the retail trade as a food and beverage store, as classified under sector 44-45, subsector 445, of the North American Industry Classification System, 1997 2017 edition, published by the U.S. office of management and budget, beginning on the first day of the calendar quarter that is at least 120 days after the date on which the bonds issued by the district under subch. II of ch. 229 during the first 60 months after April 26, 1994, and any debt issued to fund or refund those bonds, are retired. The district shall notify the department of revenue, in the manner prescribed by the department, when such bonds and debt are retired.
17,30 Section 30 . 125.02 (18) of the statutes is renumbered 125.02 (18) (intro.) and amended to read:
125.02 (18) (intro.) “Restaurant" means a restaurant, as defined in s. 97.01 (14g). any building, room, or place where meals are prepared or served or sold to transients or the general public, including all places used in connection with it and including any public or private school lunchroom for which food service is provided by contract. For purposes of this subsection, “meals" does not include soft drinks, ice cream, milk, milk drinks, ices, and confections. “Restaurant" does not include any of the following:
17,31 Section 31 . 125.02 (18) (a) to (h) of the statutes are created to read:
125.02 (18) (a) Taverns that serve free lunches consisting of popcorn, cheese, crackers, pretzels, cold sausage, cured fish, or bread and butter.
(b) Churches, religious, fraternal, youths' or patriotic organizations, service clubs and civic organizations which occasionally prepare, serve, or sell meals to transients or the general public.
(c) Any public or private school lunchroom for which food service is directly provided by the school, or a private individual selling foods from a movable or temporary stand at public farm sales.
(d) Any bed and breakfast establishment, as defined in s. 97.01 (1g), that serves breakfasts only to its lodgers.
(e) The serving of food or beverage through a licensed vending machine, as defined in s. 97.01 (15p).
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