65 ILCS 5/8-11-1.3
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 65 - MUNICIPALITIES|65 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Municipal Code.|Article 8 - Finance

 (from Ch. 24, par. 8-11-1.3)Sec. 8-11-1.3. Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. The corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may impose  a tax upon all persons engaged in the business of selling tangible  personal property, other than on an item of tangible personal property  which is titled and registered by an agency of this State's Government,  at retail in the municipality for expenditure on  public infrastructure or for property tax relief or both as defined in  Section 8-11-1.2 if approved by  referendum as provided in Section 8-11-1.1, of the gross receipts from such  sales made in the course of such business.  If the tax is approved by referendum on or after July 14, 2010 (the effective date of Public Act 96-1057), the corporate authorities of a non-home rule municipality may, until July 1, 2030, use the proceeds of the tax for expenditure on municipal operations, in addition to or in lieu of any expenditure on public infrastructure or for property tax relief. The tax imposed may not be more than 1% and may be imposed only in  1/4% increments. The tax may not be imposed on tangible personal property taxed at the 1% rate under the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act. Beginning December 1, 2019, this tax is not imposed on sales of aviation fuel unless the tax revenue is expended for airport-related purposes. If a municipality does not have an airport-related purpose to which it dedicates aviation fuel tax revenue, then aviation fuel is excluded from the tax.  Each municipality must comply with the certification requirements for airport-related purposes under Section 2-22 of the Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.  For purposes of this Section, "airport-related purposes" has the meaning ascribed in Section 6z-20.2 of the State Finance Act.  This exclusion for aviation fuel only applies for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality.  The tax imposed by a  municipality pursuant to this Section and all civil penalties that may be  assessed as an incident thereof shall be collected and enforced by the  State Department of Revenue.  The certificate of registration which is  issued by the Department to a retailer under the Retailers' Occupation Tax  Act shall permit such retailer to engage in a business which is taxable  under any ordinance or resolution enacted pursuant to  this Section without registering separately with the Department under  such ordinance or resolution or under this Section.  The Department  shall have full power to administer and enforce this Section; to collect  all taxes and penalties due hereunder; to dispose of taxes and penalties  so collected in the manner hereinafter provided, and to determine all  rights to credit memoranda, arising on account of the erroneous payment  of tax or penalty hereunder.  In the administration of, and compliance  with, this Section, the Department and persons who are subject to this  Section shall have the same rights, remedies, privileges, immunities,  powers and duties, and be subject to the same conditions, restrictions,  limitations, penalties and definitions of terms, and employ the same  modes of procedure, as are prescribed in Sections 1, 1a, 1a-1, 1d, 1e,  1f, 1i, 1j, 2 through 2-65 (in respect to all provisions therein other than  the State rate of tax), 2c, 3 (except as to the disposition of taxes and  penalties collected, and except that the retailer's discount is not allowed for taxes paid on aviation fuel that are subject to the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133), 4, 5, 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, 5g, 5h, 5i, 5j, 5k, 5l,  6, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the Retailers'  Occupation Tax Act and Section 3-7 of the Uniform Penalty and Interest  Act as fully as if those provisions were set forth herein.No municipality may impose a tax under this Section unless the municipality  also imposes a tax at the same rate under Section 8-11-1.4 of this Code.Persons subject to any tax imposed pursuant to the authority granted  in this Section may reimburse themselves for their seller's tax  liability hereunder by separately stating such tax as an additional  charge, which charge may be stated in combination, in a single amount,  with State tax which sellers are required to collect under the Use Tax  Act, pursuant to such bracket schedules as the Department may prescribe.Whenever the Department determines that a refund should be made under  this Section to a claimant instead of issuing a credit memorandum, the  Department shall notify the State Comptroller, who shall cause the  order to be drawn for the amount specified, and to the person named,  in such notification from the Department.  Such refund shall be paid by  the State Treasurer out of the non-home rule municipal retailers'  occupation tax fund or the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund, as appropriate.Except as otherwise provided, the Department shall forthwith pay over to the State Treasurer, ex  officio, as trustee, all taxes and penalties collected hereunder for deposit into the Non-Home Rule Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Fund.   Taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019, shall be immediately paid over by the Department to the State Treasurer, ex officio, as trustee, for deposit into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund. The Department shall only pay moneys into the Local Government Aviation Trust Fund under this Section for so long as the revenue use requirements of 49 U.S.C. 47107(b) and 49 U.S.C. 47133 are binding on the municipality.As soon as possible after the first day of each month, beginning January 1, 2011, upon certification of the Department of Revenue, the Comptroller shall order transferred, and the Treasurer shall transfer, to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund the local sales tax increment, as defined in the Innovation Development and Economy Act, collected under this Section during the second preceding calendar month for sales within a STAR bond district.After the monthly transfer to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, on or  before the 25th day of each calendar month, the Department shall  prepare and certify to the Comptroller the disbursement of stated sums  of money to named municipalities, the municipalities to be those from  which retailers have paid taxes or penalties hereunder to the Department  during the second preceding calendar month. The amount to be paid to each  municipality shall be the amount (not including credit memoranda and not including taxes and penalties collected on aviation fuel sold on or after December 1, 2019) collected  hereunder during the second preceding calendar month by the Department plus  an amount the Department determines is necessary to offset any amounts  which were erroneously paid to a different taxing body,  and not including  an amount equal to the amount of refunds made during the second preceding  calendar month by the Department on behalf of such municipality, and not  including any amount which the Department determines is necessary to offset  any amounts which were payable to a different taxing body but were  erroneously paid to the municipality, and not including any amounts that are transferred to the STAR Bonds Revenue Fund, less 1.5% of the remainder, which the Department shall transfer into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund. The Department, at the time of each monthly disbursement to the municipalities, shall prepare and certify to the State Comptroller the amount to be transferred into the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund under this Section. Within 10 days after receipt, by the  Comptroller, of the disbursement certification to the municipalities and the Tax Compliance and Administration Fund  provided for in this Section to be given to the Comptroller by the  Department, the Comptroller shall cause the orders to be drawn for the  respective amounts in accordance with the directions contained in such  certification.For the purpose of determining the local governmental unit whose tax  is applicable, a retail sale, by a producer of coal or other mineral  mined in Illinois, is a sale at retail at the place where the coal or  other mineral mined in Illinois is extracted from the earth.  This  paragraph does not apply to coal or other mineral when it is delivered  or shipped by the seller to the purchaser at a point outside Illinois so  that the sale is exempt under the Federal Constitution as a sale in  interstate or foreign commerce.Nothing in this Section shall be construed to authorize a  municipality to impose a tax upon the privilege of engaging in any  business which under the constitution of the United States may not be  made the subject of taxation by this State.When certifying the amount of a monthly disbursement to a municipality  under this Section, the Department shall increase or decrease such amount  by an amount necessary to offset any misallocation of previous  disbursements. The offset amount shall be the amount erroneously disbursed  within the previous 6 months from the time a misallocation is discovered.The Department of Revenue shall implement Public Act 91-649 so as to collect the tax on and after January 1, 2002.As used in this Section, "municipal" and "municipality" mean a city,  village, or incorporated town, including an incorporated town which has  superseded a civil township.This Section shall be known and may be cited as the Non-Home Rule  Municipal Retailers' Occupation Tax Act.  (Source: P.A. 100-23, eff. 7-6-17; 100-587, eff. 6-4-18; 100-1171, eff. 1-4-19; 101-10, eff. 6-5-19; 101-47, eff. 1-1-20; 101-81, eff. 7-12-19; 101-604, eff. 12-13-19.)