Federal Gift Shop Tax Act

Bill: 116-hr-8927
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2020-12-09
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: General public lands matters

Intergovernmental relations

Sales and excise taxes

State and local taxation
Latest action: action_date: 2020-12-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-12-09
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Federal Gift Shop Tax Act</b></p> <p>This bill allows states to levy a sales tax on purchases made from any gift shop located on federal property or made online through the gift shop.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8927 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 9, 2020 Ms. Norton introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary A BILL To permit a State to impose a sales tax on qualifying purchases at any gift shop on Federal property, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Federal Gift Shop Tax Act . 2. Sales tax in gift shops (a) In general A State may levy a sales tax on qualifying purchases made from any gift shop located on Federal property. (b) Definitions In this section: (1) Federal property The term Federal property means any building, land, or other real property owned, leased, or occupied by a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States, or any other instrumentality wholly owned by the United States, including any facility or property of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Gallery of Art, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (2) Qualifying purchase The term qualifying purchase means any purchase made in the gift shop or made online through the gift shop. (3) State The term State means each State of the United States, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, any other territory or possession of the United States, and any political subdivision of the foregoing.