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On April 19, 2001 the House voted to kill it on a roll call 213\u2013171. On April 19, 2001 the House failed \u201cReconsider\u201d on a roll call 164\u2013220. 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Dickinson", "committee": "Ways and Means", "vote_yeas": 14, "vote_nays": 6, "text": "HB 759 would impose a statewide income tax and radically restructure the state's tax and revenue structure. The majority of the committee believes that the income tax would seriously damage and undermine New Hampshire's economy. The recently released study by Standard & Poor's DRI, \"Economic Impact of a New Hampshire Income Tax,\" concluded that the enactment of a broad-based state income tax would result in nearly 20,000 fewer jobs, a $3.3 billion annual reduction in disposable personal income, and a sharp decline in home values. The negative impact of an income tax is widespread but particularly hard hitting in manufacturing, business services (including software), financial services, retail and wholesale trade and construction (including home building). The income tax would be grossly unfair to many in our state. It would not allow for the deduction for home mortgage interest or property taxes. It would tax retirement savings for some, but not for others. It would not allow for the deduction of catastrophic medical expenses. It would tax capital gains. Imposition of an income tax would be a risky and radical choice that could very easily cause great damage to the economy of New Hampshire while also imposing great inequities on our residents. This is not the time to raise over 700 million dollars to solve a 100 million-dollar problem."}, {"side": "Minority", "author": "Rep. Susan W. Almy", "committee": "Ways and Means", "text": "HB759 as amended, solves our current school and general fund problem for the long term, and is also true tax reform. It undoes most of the tax increases in the stopgap solution passed last time and repeals the Interest & Dividends, Legacy and Succession, and Business Enterprise taxes. It replaces these with a lowrate income tax with exemptions keyed to the cost of basic living expenses ($11,000 per taxpayer and $3,000 per dependent). Social security and equivalent pensions are exempt, and a renters' credit gives an equivalent benefit to the homeowners' property tax homestead exemption. The statewide property tax is reduced to $4.50, and all homes receive a $150,000 exemption from it; the income tax allows full exemption of the tax on a more expensive home, for those who live and earn in the state. Together, the income tax, the reduced statewide property tax, and sweepstakes fully fund the education trust fund into the foreseeable future. Existing general fund appropriations for education are no longer necessary, relieving us of the threatened general budget deficit. The revenue estimate is based on one of the best micro-simulation models in the country; it assumes zero growth in taxable income during the current year, and considerably less than the state's 30-year average growth rate during the next four years. The bill's plan is doable, sustainable, fair, and good for New Hampshire. The bill's plan is doable, sustainable, fair, and good for New Hampshire."}], "source": "House Calendar 32, 2001", "date": "", "dated": "", "cite": "HC 32", "cite_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2001%5CNo%2032%20Apri%20l13%202001.pdf"}], "docket_reports": [], "report_actions": [], "veto_message": null, "bill_note": null, "subject": "Taxes - State", "subject_source": "granite record", "house_committee": "Ways and Means", "senate_committee": "", "lsr": "2001-1", "docket_url": "https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=1&sy=2001&txtsessionyear=2001&txtbillnumber=hb759&sortoption=billnumber", "documents": [{"label": "Bill status page", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/Bill_status.aspx?lsr=1&sy=2001&txtsessionyear=2001&txtbillnumber=hb759&sortoption=billnumber", "kind": "status"}, {"label": "Docket", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=1&sy=2001&txtsessionyear=2001&txtbillnumber=hb759&sortoption=billnumber", "kind": "docket"}, {"label": "HC 35", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2001%5CNo%2035%20April%2018%202001.pdf", "kind": "record"}, {"label": "House Calendar 32, 2001, committee report", "url": "https://gc.nh.gov/house/calendars_journals/viewer.aspx?fileName=calendars%5C2001%5CNo%2032%20Apri%20l13%202001.pdf", "kind": "report"}], "amendments": [], "billtext": {"version": "As introduced", "title": "", "analysis": "This bill establishes a flat rate education income tax.\n\nThis bill repeals the education property tax under RSA 76:3 and establishes a new state education property tax.\n\nThe bill also:\n\nI. Establishes a local education tax effort cap grant program and a program for abatement of excessive property taxes.\n\nII. Repeals the interest and dividends tax, and the legacies and successions tax, and the business enterprise tax, and reduces the rate of the business profits tax and the real estate transfer tax.\n\nIII. Changes certain sources of funding of the education trust fund. Provides that the department of revenue administration shall credit all adequate education grant payments to the cooperative school district as a whole for the purpose of determining the amount of taxes to be raised to support the cooperative school district.\n\nIV. Extends the kindergarten construction program through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003 and increases by $10,000,000 the amount of the bonded appropriation for the kindergarten construction program. Increases the amount of funding for new kindergarten programs from $750 per pupil to \u00bd of the base cost per elementary pupil for adequacy.\n\nV. Modifies the formula for calculating the portion of the adequate education grant based on free and reduced-price lunches.\n\nVI. Provides a new formula for adjusting the average base cost per pupil in the second fiscal year in each biennium beginning July 1, 2005. The bill also specifies that the average base cost per pupil for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003 shall be $3,425.", "fiscal": {"lead": "", "tables": [{"caption": "", "raw": ["The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant is unable to complete a fiscal note for this bill as it is awaiting information from an agency."]}]}, "body": "Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:\n\n1 Findings. The general court finds that:\n\nI. New Hampshire needs to adopt a more sufficient and reliable tax structure to fund the state's duty to underwrite the cost of constitutionally adequate education for the public school students of this state consistent with part II, articles 5 and 83 of the New Hampshire constitution.\n\nII. In conjunction with adopting a broad based personal income tax to help fund an adequate education, it is wise to repeal or reduce other less equitable or desirable taxes and return certain other revenues to the general fund from the education trust fund to cover the cost of such other repeals or reductions of taxes and to help meet the cost of other programs of the state including the land and community heritage investment program.\n\nIII. It is to the benefit of this state to:\n\n(a) Revise and improve the formula for funding an adequate education;\n\n(b) Provide targeted aid, above and beyond adequacy funding, to property poor communities to help them achieve excellence in education without excessive local school tax burdens through a tax effort cap program; and\n\n(c) Implement a circuit breaker on the total property tax burden on homesteads so that citizens of modest means do not pay an unreasonable and excessive portion of their income in total property taxes.\n\nIV. In addition to funding an adequate education, it is appropriate and in the public interest to expand the use of the education trust fund to include funding for a local school property tax effort cap program, funding for an extended kindergarten building aid program, and funding for capital improvements to public facilities used for primary, secondary, and higher education in New Hampshire.\n\nV. A uniform standard exemption of income from the education income tax for all taxpayers and dependents is a just, reasonable, and proportionate means to assure that each taxpayer has the ability to earn a minimal subsistence level of income before being subject to the burden of income taxation, and that single heads of households are an appropriate class of people for whom an additional modest exemption from the education income tax is just and reasonable so that they can reasonably provide a minimal level of support for their dependents before being subject to the burden of income taxation.\n\nVI. To promote industry, frugality, and a positive work ethic, a modest exemption from the education income tax on income earned by dependents is just and reasonable.\n\nVII. The general good, benefit and welfare of the state is advanced by promoting home ownership and that an exemption of the first $250,000 of equalized value of primary residences (homesteads) from the statewide education property tax is reasonable, especially considering that resident homeowners will be subject to the education income tax that will become the primary source of revenue to replace the local school property tax.\n\nVIII. It is reasonable to exempt only the first $250,000 of equalized value of homestead property from the statewide education property tax as that amount is approximately twice the current selling price of a home and 135 percent of the average market value of a new home and greater than the median home value in every or nearly every community in the state, and as such represents a reasonable price or value limit within which residents can obtain and maintain a reasonable amount of shelter and comfort from a home and that homestead value, which includes the land on which the home is situated, in excess of $250,000 for each primary residence may reasonably be considered to be in excess of basic shelter and comfort requirements for a home and as such should be subjected to the statewide education property tax that applies to all other property beyond basic homestead requirements.\n\nIX. It is reasonable and just that renters, who do not directly pay property taxes, be allowed a renter's credit against their education income tax liability that approximates the statewide education property tax paid by the owner of the rental dwelling unit.\n\nX. With regard to the repeal of RSA 86:6 on July 1, 2001, it is the intent of the legislature that the estates of persons dying after June 30, 2001 not be subject to the tax or reporting requirements of RSA 86.\n\nXI. With regard to the repeal of RSA 77-E:2 on January 1, 2002 and the remainder of RSA 77-E on December 31, 2002, it is the intent of the legislature that the business enterprise tax not be imposed on taxable periods ending after December 31, 2001 and that reporting and filing requirements for such periods cease.\n\n2 New Chapters; Education Income Tax; State Education Property Tax; Property Tax Abatement Program. Amend RSA by inserting after chapter 76 the following new chapters:\n\nCHAPTER 76-A\n\nEDUCATION INCOME TAX\n\n76-A:1 Definitions. In this chapter:\n\nI. \"Consumer price index\" means the consumer price index for all urban consumers published by the United States Department of Labor.\n\nII. \"Department\" means the department of revenue administration.\n\nIII. \"Education trust fund\" means the education trust fund established in RSA 198:39.\n\nIV. \"Individual\" means a natural person.\n\nV. \"New Hampshire modified gross income\" means New Hampshire modified gross income as determined in RSA 76-A:3.\n\nVI. \"New Hampshire taxable income\" means New Hampshire taxable income as determined in RSA 76-A:3.\n\nVII. \"Nonresident individual\" means an individual who receives wages, self-employment income, or unearned income for the taxable year from sources in this state, who maintains his or her domicile outside the state.\n\nVIII.(a) \"Resident fiduciary\" means:\n\n(1) The executor or administrator of the estate of a decedent who at death was domiciled in this state;\n\n(2) The trustee of a trust created by will of a decedent who at death was domiciled in this state;\n\n(3) The trustee of a trust created by, or consisting of property of, a person domiciled in this state;\n\n(4) The trustee of a trust the property of which includes a business organization as defined in RSA 77-A:1, with business activity in New Hampshire as defined in RSA 77-A:1; or\n\n(5) The trustee of a trust that has at least one beneficiary who is a resident individual, where, in the case of an individual, the trustee of the trust is a resident of New Hampshire or, in the case of a corporation or other business entity, has a place of business in New Hampshire.\n\n(b) \"Resident fiduciary\" shall not include the trustee of any trust which is taxable as a corporation under the United States Internal Revenue Code, a trust to the extent it is considered to be a grantor trust pursuant to sections 671-679 of the United States Internal Revenue Code, and the trustee of a tax-qualified retirement plan under section 401(a) of the United States Internal Revenue Code.\n\nIX. \"Resident individual\" means:\n\n(a) An individual domiciled in the state; or\n\n(b) An individual who maintains a permanent place of abode within the state and spends more than 183 days of the taxable year within the state.\n\nX. \"Taxable year\" means the calendar or fiscal year or portion thereof which the taxpayer uses for federal income tax purposes under the United States Internal Revenue Code.\n\nXI. \"Taxpayer\" means any individual or fiduciary subject to the provisions of this chapter.\n\nXII. \"Unearned income\" means any income which is not wage or self-employment income, including but not limited to capital gains, allocations of income from S corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies or other similar entities, dividends, interests, rents, and royalties.\n\nXIII. \"United States Internal Revenue Code\" means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986 as amended. The forms, procedures, and regulations of the United States Internal Revenue Service may be used by the commissioner of revenue administration in formulating rules for adoption under RSA 541-A. This definition shall be operative unless and until a specific statutory exception to its adoption is provided in this chapter, or until the application of one of its provisions is held to violate the New Hampshire constitution.\n\n76-A:2 Imposition of Tax. A tax is imposed upon every resident and nonresident individual and upon every resident fiduciary at the rate of 3.3 percent of New Hampshire taxable income as determined in RSA 76-A:3.\n\n76-A:3 New Hampshire Taxable Income.\n\nI. \"New Hampshire taxable income\" means, for any taxable year:\n\n(a) In the case of a resident or nonresident individual, the individual's New Hampshire modified gross income, as defined in paragraph II of this section, less the following:\n\n(1) An exemption of $11,000 for the taxpayer and an additional exemption of $11,000 for the taxpayer's spouse if a joint return is made, provided that the taxpayer or spouse is not claimed as a dependent on another taxpayer's federal income tax return or New Hampshire income tax return; and\n\n(2) An additional exemption of $3,000 for each dependent to which the taxpayer is entitled for federal tax purposes under the United States Internal Revenue Code, provided that the dependent is not claimed as a dependent on another person's federal income tax return or New Hampshire income tax return.\n\n(3) A person who is claimed as a dependent under subparagraph (2) and who has earned income from wages, self-employment income, or farm income which is taxable under this chapter, shall be entitled to a separate exemption of $3,000 of such earned income on that person's New Hampshire income tax return; and\n\n(4) An additional exemption of $3,000 for a taxpayer entitled to a head of household status for federal tax purposes under the United States Internal Revenue Code.\n\n(b)(1) In the case of a resident fiduciary, the amount shown as total taxable income on the fiduciary's United States fiduciary income tax return:\n\n(A) Increased by:\n\n(i) Any interest or dividend income on obligations or securities of another state of the United States; and\n\n(ii) Any interest or dividend income on obligations or securities of any authority, commission, or instrumentality of the United States to the extent exempted from the federal income tax; and\n\n(B) Decreased by interest on, and dividends on securities attributable to the interest on, the direct obligations of the United States government.\n\n(2) For a resident fiduciary with at least one beneficiary that is not either a resident individual or another resident fiduciary, the amount of income derived by application of subparagraph (1) shall be multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is income properly accumulated for the benefit of resident individuals or resident fiduciaries and the denominator of which is all income property accumulated.\n\n(c) The amount of the exemptions allowed under this paragraph shall be in place for the first year of the tax only. The commissioner of revenue administration shall increase the exemption amounts allowed in each succeeding year by an amount which equals the percentage increase in the consumer price index for a recent prior annual period established by rule by the commissioner, and rounded to the nearest $10.\n\nII. \"New Hampshire modified gross income\" means, for any taxable year, the amount of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income for federal income tax purposes under the United States Internal Revenue Code:\n\n(a) Decreased by:\n\n(1) Interest on, and dividends on securities attributable to interest on, the direct obligations of the United States government;\n\n(2) Interest and dividend income received from funds invested in the college tuition savings plan under RSA 195-H if used in accordance with RSA 195-H;\n\n(3) The amount of income taxable under this chapter which is also taxed as business profits under RSA 77-A;\n\n(4) The amount of capital gains income directly derived from sales of timber subject to taxation under RSA 79;\n\n(5) The amount of any social security income that is included the taxpayers' adjusted gross income for federal income tax purposes;\n\n(6) The amount of income attributable to pension or retirement income that the taxpayer receives in lieu of social security income (due to employment where the employer was obligated to contribute to a pension plan in lieu of social security contributions), which amount when combined with any social security income shall not exceed the maximum potential regular social security benefit per beneficiary for that year might have otherwise been available to such taxpayer, all as determined by rules adopted by the commissioner; and\n\n(7) The amount of income attributable to pension payments where the taxpayer's contributions to the pension fund were previously subject to federal personal income taxation, as determined by rules adopted by the commissioner.\n\n(b) Increased by:\n\n(1) Any interest or dividend income on obligations or securities of any authority, commission, or instrumentality of the United States to the extent exempted from the federal income tax; and\n\n(2) Any interest or dividend income on obligations or securities of another state of the United States.\n\n76-A:4 Tax; When Due. Subject to the provisions of this chapter concerning the withholding of tax and estimated tax declarations, the tax imposed by this chapter shall be deemed to be assessed and due and payable on the fifteenth day of the fourth month following the close of the taxpayer's taxable year.\n\n76-A:5 Credits. The following credits are allowed against the tax due under this chapter:\n\nI. Taxes withheld pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.\n\nII. Estimated tax payments made pursuant to this chapter.\n\nIII. An annual renter's credit of $330 on a dwelling unit subject to RSA 76-B rented by the taxpayer as his or her primary residence prorated for each full month of residence or alternatively, a renter's credit, likewise prorated monthly which is annually equal to the local assessed value of the rented dwelling unit divided by the municipality's equalization ratio determined according to RSA 21-J:9-a (but which result shall not exceed $250,000) multiplied by the rate of taxation in RSA 76-B:2 for the concurrent tax year, provided the taxpayer presents competent evidence of such value of the dwelling unit. Taxpayers claiming the alternative renter's credit shall bear the burden of proving the claimed value of the rented dwelling unit by a preponderance of the evidence. Such alternative credit claims shall be on forms prescribed by the commissioner. Taxpayers who reside in residential communities, group homes, nursing homes, manufactured housing or mobile home parks, or other facilities which are neither conventional homeowner or tenant situations may be allowed to claim a renter's credit in an amount approximately equal to the state education property tax indirectly paid by the taxpayer through rent, charges or fees for care, pursuant to rules adopted by the commissioner. Persons who have claimed a homestead exemption pursuant to RSA 76-B:4 may claim a renter's credit during the same year only if the exempt homestead is bought or sold during the tax year, in which case the renter's credit may be claimed for the period rent is paid before or after the date of the purchase or sale of the exempt homestead, as the case may be; or in the situation where the taxpayer owns and resides in a manufactured housing dwelling unit and rents the underlying lot or land, in which case a limited or prorated renter's credit for the state education property tax on the home lot may be allowed pursuant to rules adopted by the commissioner. In no case shall the renter's credit exceed the tax due under this chapter.\n\nIV. In the case of a resident individual, a credit calculated by:\n\n(a) Calculating the wages, self-employment income, and unearned income of the individual earned or derived from sources in another state and subject to income tax or a tax measured by income in that state;\n\n(b) Reducing the amount calculated in subparagraph (a) by the portion of the taxpayer's claimed exemptions which bears the same relationship to the taxpayer's total claimed exemptions, as the amount calculated in subparagraph (a) bears to the taxpayer's New Hampshire modified gross income; and\n\n(c) Multiplying the amount calculated in subparagraph (a), as reduced in subparagraph (b), by the rate of tax provided in RSA 76-A:2.\n\nV. In the case of a nonresident individual, a credit calculated by:\n\n(a) Reducing the taxpayer's New Hampshire modified gross income by the amount of wages and self-employment income earned by the taxpayer in New Hampshire and the amount of unearned income from New Hampshire sources;\n\n(b) Reducing the amount calculated in subparagraph (a) by the portion of the taxpayer's claimed exemptions which bears the same relationship to the taxpayer's total claimed exemptions, as the amount calculated in subparagraph (a) bears to the taxpayer's New Hampshire modified gross income; and\n\n(c) Multiplying the amount calculated in subparagraph (a), as reduced in subparagraph (b), by the rate of tax provided in RSA 76-A:2.\n\nReturns\n\n76-A:6 Returns.\n\nI. Every resident individual and nonresident individual having New Hampshire modified gross income greater than the exemption amounts provided in RSA 76-A:3, I and every resident fiduciary shall make a return to the department of revenue administration under such rules and in such form or manner as the commissioner may prescribe, on or before the due date of the tax as provided in RSA 76-A:4.\n\nII. A husband and wife who are both residents or who both earn wages or self-employment income from sources within New Hampshire shall file a joint return for any taxable year for which such a joint return is filed for United States income tax purposes.\n\nIII. Whenever any return shows that overpayment allowable to the taxpayer exceeds the amount of tax due, the department shall certify the amount of overpayment to the state treasurer for refund from the education trust fund created by RSA 198:39 or shall allow the taxpayer a credit against taxes due for a subsequent year, to the extent of the overpayment, at the taxpayer's option.\n\n76-A:7 Information Returns. Each individual, partnership, limited liability partnership corporation, limited liability corporation, proprietorship, joint stock company, association, insurance company, business trust, real estate trust, or other form of organization, organized for gain or profit, being a resident or having a place of business in this state or being a nonresident having income derived from sources subject to tax under this chapter, in whatever capacity acting, including lessors or mortgagors of personal property, fiduciaries, employers, and all officers and employees of the state or of any political subdivision of the state, having the control, receipt, custody, disposal, or payment of salaries, wages, rentals, or other compensation or income subject to the provisions of this chapter paid or payable during any year to any taxpayer subject to a tax under this chapter shall on such date or dates as the department shall from time to time designate, make complete return thereof to the department, in such form as the department may prescribe.\n\nWithholding of Tax\n\n76-A:8 Who Must Withhold. Every employer as defined by section 3401(d) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, employing any person within this state shall deduct and withhold upon wages paid to said employee, a tax equal to 3.3 percent of such wages less claimed exemptions, subject, however, to the provisions of RSA 76-A:11.\n\n79-A:9 Time for Payment of Withheld Taxes and Filing Withheld Taxes Returns.\n\nI. Every employer required to deduct and withhold any tax under RSA 76-A:8 shall make a quarterly return thereof to the department on or before the fifteenth day of the first calendar month following the calendar quarter for which the return is made. However, a return may be filed on or before the last day of the first calendar month following such quarter if timely deposits have been made in full payment of such taxes due for the quarter.\n\nII. Every employer shall pay over to the department, or to a depository designated by the department, the taxes so required to be deducted and withheld at the same time that such employer is required, under federal income tax law and regulations, to pay over federal taxes that are required to be deducted and withheld from wages to employees.\n\nIII. The department may, if such action is necessary in any emergency where collection of the tax may be in jeopardy, require such employer to make such return and pay such tax at any time, or from time to time.\n\n76-A:10 Employer's Liability.\n\nI. Each employer required to deduct and withhold tax under this chapter shall be liable for such tax. In the event an employer fails to withhold and pay over to the department any amount required to be withheld under RSA 76-A:8, the department shall assess such amount against the employer.\n\nII. The amount of tax required to be deducted and withheld and paid over to the department under this chapter, when so deducted and withheld, shall be held to be a special fund in trust for the state. No employee or other person shall have any right of action against the employer in respect to any moneys deducted and withheld from wages and paid over to the department in compliance or in intended compliance with this chapter.\n\n76-A:11 Use of Withholding Tables. At the election of the employer, the employer may deduct and withhold a tax determined on the basis of tables to be prepared and furnished by the department, which tax shall be substantially equivalent to the tax provided in RSA 76-A:8 and which shall be in lieu of the tax required in such section.\n\nEstimated Tax Declarations\n\n76-A:12 Filing of Declarations.\n\nI. On the fifteenth day of the fourth month of the current taxable year every resident individual, nonresident individual, and resident fiduciary, except as provided in paragraph II, shall furnish the department with an estimate of such portion of such person's New Hampshire taxable income for the current taxable year as will not be subject to the withholding provisions of this chapter.\n\nII. The provisions of paragraph I are not applicable to resident individuals and nonresident individuals who reasonably anticipate receiving less than $11,000 of New Hampshire taxable income which will not be subject to withholding during the current taxable year, or to taxpayers receiving their income from farming as defined by the United State Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The provisions of paragraph I are not applicable to resident fiduciaries who reasonably anticipate having a tax obligation under this chapter of less than $400.\n\n76-A:13 Payment of Estimated Tax. Each taxpayer required to file an estimated tax declaration shall include with the declaration of estimated income, payment of not less than 25 percent of the tax due thereon. Thereafter, on the fifteenth day of the sixth and ninth months of the taxable year, the taxpayer shall pay not less than 25 percent of the tax due upon said estimated income or any revised estimate thereof. The fourth installment of estimated tax shall be paid on the fifteenth day of the first month following the close of the taxable year for which the estimate was made.\n\nMiscellaneous Provisions\n\n76-A:14 Extension of Time for Returns. For good cause, the department may extend the time within which a taxpayer is required to file a return or declaration and if such return or declaration is filed during the period of extension no penalty or late payment charge may be imposed for failure to file the return at the time required by this chapter, but the taxpayer shall be liable for interest and late payment charges as prescribed in RSA 21-J:28 and RSA 21-J:33. Failure to file the return during the period of the extension shall void the extension.\n\n76-A:15 Administration.\n\nI. This chapter shall be administered and enforced by the commissioner of revenue administration. The commissioner shall adopt rules, under RSA 541-A, necessary to insure the proper administration of this chapter which shall be consistent with the provisions of RSA 21-J:13.\n\nII. The commissioner shall appoint such additional technical, clerical, and other personnel as the commissioner shall deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.\n\nIII. The department of revenue administration shall collect the taxes, interest, and penalties imposed under this chapter and RSA 21-J and shall pay them to the state treasurer less the administrative and enforcement costs of this chapter. The state treasurer shall deposit the remaining amount in the education trust fund established in RSA 198:39.\n\nIV. The commissioner may institute actions in the name of the state to recover any tax, interest on tax, or the penalties imposed by this chapter and RSA 21-J, as part of the commissioner's authority to administer this chapter and to administer and enforce the tax laws of this state generally under RSA 21-J.\n\nV. In the collection of taxes imposed by this chapter, the department may use all of the powers granted to tax collectors under RSA 80 for the collection of taxes, and it has all of the duties imposed upon the tax collectors by RSA 80 including the optional tax sale procedure under RSA 80:58-86. The following shall also apply:\n\n(a) The provisions of RSA 80:26 apply to the sale of land for the payment of taxes due under this chapter, and the state treasurer is authorized to purchase the land for the state.\n\n(b) If the state purchases the land, the state treasurer shall certify the purchase to the governor and the governor shall draw a warrant for the purchase price out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.\n\nVI. The commissioner shall have the authority to subpoena witnesses, records, and documents, as needed, and to administer oaths to those testifying at hearings. The department and the taxpayer may take the depositions of witnesses residing within and without the state pertaining to a matter under this chapter, in the same way as depositions are taken in civil actions in the superior court.\n\n76-A:16 Fees. Fees of witnesses shall be the same as those allowed to witnesses in the superior court. In the case of witnesses summoned by the commissioner, it shall be considered as an expense of administration of this chapter.\n\n76-A:17 Notice. Any notice required by this chapter to be given by the department to a taxpayer shall be made by mail to the last known address of the taxpayer and in the case of hearings shall be given at least 10 days before the date thereof.\n\n76-A:18 Preference. The taxes and interest imposed by this chapter have preference in any distribution of the assets of the taxpayer, whether in insolvency or otherwise.\n\n76-A:19 Dissolutions, Withdrawals, and Statements of Good Standing.\n\nI.(a) No employer organized under any law of this state may transfer property to its shareholders pursuant to RSA 293-A:14.05(a) or to its members and managers pursuant to RSA 304-C:58 until all taxes required to be withheld by the employer under this chapter, and any interest and penalties that related thereto, have been fully paid and a certificate of dissolution shall have been obtained from the commissioner of revenue administration that no returns, tax required to be withheld, tax interest, or penalties for taxes administered by the department are due and unpaid.\n\n(b) In order to transfer property to its shareholders pursuant to RSA 293-A:14.05(a) or its members or managers pursuant to RSA 304-C:58, an employer shall submit a written request containing the complete corporate or limited liability company name and identification number and accompanied by a non-refundable fee of $30 to the commissioner of revenue administration. This fee shall be deposited into the general fund. If, after reviewing the employer's records, the commissioner determines that no returns, tax required to be withheld, interest, or penalties for taxes administered by the department are due and unpaid, the commissioner shall prepare a certificate in accordance with subparagraph (a).\n\nII. In order to obtain a statement for withdrawal, in accordance with RSA 293-A:15.20(b)(6) or RSA 304-C:68, an employer shall submit a written request containing the complete employer name and identification number and accompanied by a non-refundable fee of $30 to the commissioner of revenue administration. This fee shall be deposited into the general fund. If, after reviewing the employer's records, the commissioner determines that no returns, tax required to be withheld, interest, or penalties for taxes administered by the department are due and unpaid, the commissioner shall prepare a statement for withdrawal for the purposes required under RSA 293-A:15.20(b)(6) or RSA 304-C:68.\n\nIII. In order to obtain a statement that it is in good standing with the department of revenue administration, an employer shall submit a written request containing the complete employer name and identification number and accompanied by a non-refundable fee of $30 to the commissioner of revenue administration. This fee shall be deposited into the general fund. If, after reviewing the employer's records, the commissioner determines that no returns, tax required to be withheld, interest, or penalties for taxes administered by the department are due and unpaid, the commissioner shall prepare a statement of good standing.\n\n76-A:20 Liens for Tax.\n\nI. If any employer required to deduct and withhold a tax under this chapter neglects or refuses to pay the same after demand, the unpaid amount, including any late payment charge and interest together with any costs that may accrue in addition thereto, shall be a lien in favor of the state upon all property and rights to property, whether real or personal, belonging to such employer. Such liens shall arise at the time assessment and demand is made by the department and shall continue until the liability for the full amount of the lien is satisfied or becomes unenforceable. Such lien against personal property shall be valid as against any subsequent mortgagee, pledgee, purchaser, or judgment creditor when notice of such lien and the sum due has been placed on record by the department with the secretary of state and in the office of the town clerk where the taxpayer resides. Such lien against real property shall be valid as against any subsequent mortgagee, pledgee, purchaser, or judgment creditor when notice of such lien and the sum due has been placed on record by the department with the register of deeds for the county in which the property subject to the lien is situated. In the case of any prior mortgage on real or personal property so written as to secure a present debt plus future advances by the mortgagee to the mortgagor, the lien herein provided, when notice thereof has been properly recorded, shall be subject to such prior mortgage unless the department also notifies the mortgagee in writing of the recording of such lien, in which case any indebtedness thereafter created from mortgagor to mortgagee shall be junior to the lien herein provided for.\n\nII. The lien created by paragraph I shall be released upon satisfaction of the amount of the lien or upon a finding by the commissioner that the lien has become unenforceable, or if there is furnished to the department a bond with surety approved by the department in a penal sum sufficient to equal the amount of the lien, said bond to be conditioned upon the payment of the amount of the lien upon a final determination or adjudication of the employer's liability therefor.\n\nIII. The lien created by paragraph I may be foreclosed in the case of real estate agreeably with the provisions of law relating to foreclosure of mortgages on real estate, and in the case of personal property agreeably with the provisions of law relating to the foreclosure of security interests in personal property.\n\nIV. To secure payment of the taxes, fees, charges, and interest imposed by this chapter and RSA 21-J, the department may avail itself of any other provision of law relating to liens for taxes.\n\n76-A:21 Additional Returns. When the commissioner has reason to believe that a taxpayer has failed to file a return or to include any part of New Hampshire modified gross income in a filed return, the commissioner may require the taxpayer to file a return or a supplementary return showing such additional information as the commissioner prescribes. Upon the receipt of the supplementary return, or if none is received, within the time set by the commissioner, the commissioner may find and assess the amount due upon the information that is available. The making of such additional return does not relieve the taxpayer of any penalty for failure to make a correct original return or relieve the taxpayer from liability for interest imposed under RSA 21-J:28 or any other additional charges imposed by the commissioner. This section shall not be construed to modify or extend the statute of limitations provided in RSA 21-J:29.\n\n76-A:22 Corrections. Each taxpayer shall report to the commissioner any change or correction in the amount of the taxpayer's New Hampshire modified gross income or exemptions, such as may result from determinations by the United States Internal Revenue Service, with respect to any previous year for which the taxpayer has made a return under this chapter. Such a report shall be made not later than 6 months after the taxpayer becomes aware of such change or correction, including receipt of notice from the United Stated Internal Revenue Service that a change in the taxpayer's federal adjusted gross income has finally been determined. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a taxpayer reporting a correction pursuant to this section shall be given notice by the department of any adjustment to the tax due with respect to such correction within 6 months of the filing of the report.\n\n76-A:23 Taxpayer Records.\n\nI. Every taxpayer shall:\n\n(a) Keep such records as may be necessary to determine the amount of the taxpayer's liability under this chapter;\n\n(b) Preserve such records for the period of 3 years or until any litigation or prosecution hereunder is finally determined;\n\n(c) Make such records available for inspection by the commissioner or authorized agents, upon demand, at reasonable times.\n\nII. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be subject to the penalties imposed under RSA 21-J:39.\n\n76-A:24 Severability. If any provision or provisions of this chapter, is or are declared unconstitutional or inoperative by a final judgment, order, or decree of the Supreme Court of the United States or of the supreme court of New Hampshire, the remaining provisions of said chapter shall not be affected thereby.\n\nCHAPTER 76-B\n\nSTATE EDUCATION PROPERTY TAX\n\n76-B:1 Definitions. In this chapter:\n\nI. \"Assessing official\" means the assessing authority of any town, city, or unincorporated place.\n\nII. \"Commissioner\" means the commissioner of the department of revenue administration.\n\nIII. \"Department\" means the department of revenue administration.\n\nIV. \"Dwelling\" means the house or habitation for a natural person or persons consisting of a structure that provides shelter from the elements and contains at minimum a space for preparation and consumption of food and for repose on a daily basis.\n\nV. \"Education trust fund\" means the education trust fund established in RSA 198:39.\n\nVI. \"Municipality\" means a city, town, or unincorporated place.\n\nVII. \"Homestead\" or \"homestead property\" means the dwelling owned by a claimant or in the case of a multi-unit dwelling, the portion of the dwelling, which is used as the claimant's principal place of residence and the claimant's domicile for purposes of RSA 654:1. \"Homestead\" shall not include land and buildings taxed under RSA 79-A, 79-B, or 79-C or land and buildings or the portion of land and buildings rented or used for commercial or industrial purposes. In this paragraph the term \"owned by a claimant\" includes a vendee in possession under a land contract, one or more joint tenants or tenants in common, and a trustee of a grantor trust pursuant to sections 671-679 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code.\n\nVIII. \"Tax\" or \"taxes\" means the state education property tax imposed pursuant to RSA 76-B:2.\n\nIX. \"Taxable real estate\" means property subject to tax under RSA 72, except property subject to tax under RSA 82, RSA 83-F, homestead property, and dormitories and dining facilities of not for profit educational institutions otherwise subject to local property taxation under RSA 72:23, IV.\n\nX. \"Tax collector\" means the appointed or elected collector of taxes for a municipality.\n\nXI. \"Taxpayer\" means any person subject to tax under RSA 72 and RSA 73 owning taxable real estate.\n\nXII. \"Tax year\" means the twelve month period beginning April 1 and ending March 31 of the succeeding calendar year.\n\n76-B:2 State Education Property Tax Imposed. An annual state education property tax at the uniform rate of $4.75 on each $1,000 of equal full value taxable real estate is hereby imposed.\n\n76-B:3 The commissioner shall annually equalize the rate of taxation established in RSA 76-B:2 for each municipality by dividing such rate by the municipality's equalization ratio determined in a manner consistent with RSA 21-J:9-a, except that for municipalities which have undergone a total revaluation of taxable property to current full value within the prior year and for municipalities that have a system for annually maintaining local valuations within 1.5 percent of current full value according to standards adopted by the commissioner, the commissioner shall use the rate set in RSA 76-B:2 as the equalized rate.\n\n76-B:4 Commissioner's Warrant.\n\nI. The commissioner shall annually calculate the tax to be raised by each municipality by multiplying each municipality's equalized rate, determined pursuant to RSA 76-B:3, by the local assessed value of all taxable real estate in the municipality.\n\nII. The commissioner shall issue a warrant under the commissioner's hand and official seal for the amount computed in paragraph I to the selectmen or assessing officials of each municipality at the same time as tax rates are set under RSA 21-J:35 directing them to assess such sum and pay such sum to the state treasurer for deposit in the education trust fund in RSA 198:39 as prescribed in RSA 76-B:12.\n\nIII. The commissioner shall report the total amounts assessed to each municipality to the governor, speaker of the house of representatives, president of the senate, state treasurer, and department of education on or before November 30 of each year.\n\n76-B:5 Homestead Exemptions.\n\nI. The first $250,000 of equalized full value of homesteads of qualifying taxpayers are exempt from the tax due under this chapter.\n\nII. A qualifying taxpayer is an individual who:\n\n(a) Is subject to the education income tax as a resident individual under RSA 76-A, whether required to file or not under RSA 76-A:6, or has been granted a local property tax exemption under RSA 72:39-a.\n\n(b) On April 1 owns a homestead or interest in a homestead subject to the state education property tax; and\n\n(c) Files a claim certifying under the pains and penalties of perjury that such taxpayer qualifies under subparagraph (a) and (b) with the selectmen or local assessing official on or before July 31 of the tax year for which the claim is made. Claims filed after July 31 each year shall not be considered timely for the current year, but shall be considered filed for the following tax year. The selectmen or local assessing official may waive the filing of a claim and list the homestead exemption for a taxpayer who has been granted a local property tax exemption under RSA 72:39-a and who is reasonably believed to currently qualify for that exemption.\n\nIII. Upon receipt of a claim for a homestead exemption under RSA 76-B:5, the selectmen or assessing officials shall review the claim and shall grant or deny the claim in writing by September 1 following receipt of the claim. Failure of the selectmen or assessing officials to respond shall constitute acceptance of the claim. Accepted claims shall continue from year to year without necessity for refiling unless there is a change in ownership or use of the property, and except as provided for in subparagraph V(d). Accepted claims may at any time be revoked for any tax year or portion thereof following the occurrence of one or more of the following events:\n\n(a) The claimant fails to file a return as required under RSA 76-B:6 within one year following the close of the tax year for which the exemption is claimed; or\n\n(b) The claimant is no longer qualified for the local property tax exemption under RSA 72:39-a; or\n\n(c) The claimant is no longer qualified under the definition of homestead in RSA 76-B:1, VII due to a change in ownership or use.\n\nIV. Claims shall be made on forms prescribed by the commissioner and provided to each municipality.\n\nV. The following shall apply to the determination of the amount of property value exempted relative to a homestead which is part of a single tax parcel upon which is located other dwelling units not owned or occupied by the taxpayer or significant non-residential use of the property:\n\n(a) If the tax parcel includes property used for business or other nonresidential use, the exempt homestead amount shall include in addition to the actual homestead the lesser of 1,000 square feet of floor area of such non-residential use property or $25,000 of equalized value, except that family owned and operated farms which are not owned by a business entity or held in the name of a non-natural person shall be eligible for the full homestead exemption on all property not assessed under RSA 79-A, 79-B, or 79-C.\n\n(b) If the tax parcel includes other dwellings or dwelling units, the value of the homestead exemption relative to the claimed homestead shall be determined by the assessing official as follows:\n\n(1) Divide the value of the tax parcel by the number of dwelling units; or\n\n(2) If the square footage of each dwelling unit is known, multiply the value of the tax parcel by a fraction consisting of the square footage of the claimed homestead divided by the total square footage of all dwelling units in the parcel; or\n\n(c) In lieu of the methods of determining the amount of homestead exemption in subparagraph (a) or (b), a taxpayer may present competent evidence of a greater proportion of exempt value to the assessing officials. In such instance the taxpayer bears the burden of proving the claimed exemption by the preponderance of the evidence.\n\n(d) The procedure, or exclusion of value resulting from the procedure in subparagraph (b) shall be waived to the extent it pertains to a single additional dwelling unit on the homestead property that is occupied by a direct lineal ascendant or descendant, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece or nephew, by blood, marriage, or law, of the qualifying taxpayer who does not pay rent, other than for utilities, as annually certified by the claimant\n\n(e) In no case shall the total homestead exemption exceed a total equalized full value of $250,000.\n\nVI. If a taxpayer purchases a homestead after April 1 for which no homestead exemption was claimed by the previous owner, the taxpayer may apply to the department for a refund of state education property tax previously paid on the homestead, but for which no application was made. The amount of such refund shall be apportioned according to the number of days in the tax year the taxpayer owned and occupied the homestead. Claims by taxpayers purchasing homestead property shall be filed with the inventory of property transfer required to be filed with the municipality pursuant to RSA 74:18. The selectmen or assessing officials shall, within 30 days of filing of the referral claim, accept or deny it and, if accepted, notify the department. The department shall certify the amount of such refund to the state treasurer for payment from the education trust fund created by RSA 198:39.\n\nVII. Manufactured housing as defined in RSA 674:31 qualifying as homestead property and sited on land not owned by the claimant shall be eligible for the homestead exemption based on the value of such manufactured housing without the land. Such claimant may also be eligible for a reduced renter's credit against their education income tax based on their rental of the lot or land on which the manufactured housing is located pursuant to RSA 76-A:5 III.\n\n76-B:6 Time of Assessment and Payment. Except as provided in this chapter with respect to utility property, the tax shall be deemed assessed on April 1 in each year and is payable at the same time or times as the local property tax assessed by the municipality.\n\n76-B:7 Collection. The assessing officials for each municipality shall make a list of all taxes by them assessed against property under their hands and seals to the tax collector, directing the tax collector to collect the state education property taxes along with other property taxes. It shall be listed as a separate line on the municipal property tax bill. Upon application by the assessing officials, the commissioner for good cause may extend the time for delivery of the state education property tax warrant.\n\n76-B:8 Remedies for Collection. The state education property tax may be collected by all of the means and methods provided by law for the collection of property taxes.\n\n76-B:9 Interest and Charges for Nonpayment. Nonpayment of the tax shall incur the same charges and interest as are imposed by law for nonpayment of local property taxes. Such charges and interest shall be payable to the municipality.\n\n76-B:10 Abatement; Reimbursement of Abatements. The tax may be abated in the same manner as provided by law for abatement of local property taxes. Municipalities shall be reimbursed for the amount of such abatements on an annual basis, or at some more frequent interval at the discretion of the commissioner. Such reimbursement shall be payable by the state treasurer from the education trust fund created by RSA 198:39 upon certification of the amount of reimbursement by the commissioner to the treasurer.\n\n76-B:11 Liability of Cities and Towns; Reimbursement of Uncollectables. Each municipality shall be liable to the state for all taxes lawfully assessed in such municipality. Taxes assessed but never collected, after collection procedures under RSA 80, including tax sale, are completed, shall be subject to reimbursement to the municipality by the state treasurer from the education trust fund created by RSA 198:39, upon certification of the amount of reimbursement by the commissioner to the treasurer.\n\n76-B:12 Payment to State.\n\nI. Each municipality shall cause its tax collector to certify such information as the state treasurer shall require, and shall cause its treasurer to pay over to the state treasurer, amounts assessed to the municipality under RSA 76-B:4 as follows: 40 percent of the tax assessed to the municipality in the prior tax year on or before July 31 and 30 percent of the actual balance of the tax assessed for the current tax year on or before December 31 and March 31; or in such other amounts and on other dates as may be prescribed by the commissioner in the event that the municipality bills only annually for property taxes or due to other extenuating circumstances.\n\nII. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph I, the first tax year payment to be made by July 31, 2002 shall be as estimated by the commissioner.\n\n76-B:13 Computation for Costs. A municipality may retain for its unrestricted use 2 \u00bd percent of the amount of tax assessed by it as compensation for the costs of collecting such state taxes, administering homestead claims and assessments, appraising and valuing taxable real estate in compliance with state standards, and otherwise complying with the provisions of this chapter, RSA 75, RSA 76, RSA 76-A, and RSA 76-C. Such amount shall not be included in the amount payable by the municipality to the state treasurer under RSA 76-B:12. In addition municipalities may keep any interest earned on state taxes that are collected but not due and remitted to the state, as additional compensation for the costs of collection and administration of the state education property tax.\n\n76-B:14 Extents. The state treasurer may also issue an extent for the amounts of all taxes not remitted by any municipality as provided in this chapter.\n\n76-B:15 Local Property Taxes for Expense of Education Beyond Adequacy. Municipalities are hereby authorized to assess and collect property taxes locally, under general provisions of law, to meet budgeted expenses of education not funded through adequate education grants, other distributions from the education trust fund under RSA 198:39, or moneys raised from other sources.\n\n76-B:16 Appeals of Homestead Exemptions.\n\nI. Whenever the selectmen or assessing officials refuse to grant a taxpayer a homestead exemption, or grant an exemption less than the amount claimed by the taxpayer, or the taxpayer is aggrieved by a determination by the assessing official under this chapter, the taxpayer may appeal in writing, on or before March 1 following the date of notice of tax under RSA 72:1-d, to the board of tax and land appeals.\n\nII. When a taxpayer appeals the denial of a claim to the board of tax and land appeals, the board may reverse or affirm, wholly or partly, or may modify the decision brought up for review when there is an error of law or when the board finds the selectmen's or assessing official's action to be arbitrary or unreasonable.\n\nCHAPTER 76-C\n\nPROPERTY TAX ABATEMENT PROGRAM\n\n76-C:1 Purpose; Property Tax Abatement Program. The purpose of the property tax abatement program is to aid in preserving New Hampshire's tradition of home ownership by abating excessive and unreasonable property tax burdens.\n\n76-C:2 Definitions. In this subdivision:\n\nI. \"Homestead\" means \"homestead\" as defined and limited for purposes of the homestead exemption in RSA 76-B:5.\n\nII. \"Household\" includes all persons living with taxpayer in the same dwelling unit that has qualified for a homestead exemption. A person not related by blood or marriage to the taxpayer and who is either a bona fide renter of a room within a dwelling unit/homestead or a bona fide employee providing personal care to a member of the household and who is not related to the person for whom the care is provided shall not be included in the household, provided that if a renter, his or her rent is accounted for in a statement of household income (through a Form 1040 Schedule E or equivalent form approved by commissioner of revenue administration). A household member who files separately from the taxpayer and who only resides in the taxpayer's home for part of the year may pro rate his or her annual income based on the number of months (rounded up to a whole number of months) that the member resided in the household.\n\nIII. \"Household income\" means the sum of the personal incomes of all household members. Personal income is the federal adjusted gross income (as determined by Internal Revenue Code) increased by tax-exempt interest (Form 1040, line 8b), the amount of net capital losses (Form 1040, line 13, Schedule D loss), the amount of other losses (from sales of business property, Form 1040, line 14, Form 4797), the amount of business losses (Form 1040, line 12, Schedule C), the amount of losses from rental real estate, royalties, partnerships, S corporations, estates, trusts, REMICS, etc. (Form 1040, line 17, Schedule E losses), the amount of nontaxable pensions and annuities (Form 1040, line 16a-16b), and the amount of nontaxable social security benefits (Form 1040 lines 20a-20b). Federal Internal Revenue Service form and line numbers are for reference in defining the meaning of terms. If federal form and line numbers change subsequent to the effective date of this paragraph, the commissioner of revenue administration may establish comparable revised defining references by rules, adopted pursuant to RSA 541-A.\n\nIV. \"Qualifying taxpayer\" means a taxpayer whose total property taxes on the taxpayer's homestead exceeds 8 percent of household income for a given year and who has an eligibility percentage of greater than zero percent.\n\n76-C:3 Applications.\n\nI. The commissioner of revenue administration shall provide municipalities with notices of the availability of and instructions for claiming property tax abatements under this subdivision, to be mailed with property tax bills beginning in November 2002 and with all property tax bills for each billing thereafter.\n\nII. The commissioner of revenue administration shall adopt rules, pursuant to RSA 541-A, relative to the forms for applications for property tax abatements and statements of household income.\n\nIII. Applications for abatement may be filed any time during a given calendar year based on the prior year's personal income and property taxes, including local, county, and state property taxes, assessed on the homestead. Applications should be filed before April 30 of each year. Those applications filed between May 1 and December 31 will be accepted as late and may be delayed in payment or denied if funds are not available.\n\nIV. An application for property tax abatement and a statement of household income shall be submitted and signed, as true to the best knowledge and belief of the applicants under penalties of perjury, by all adult members of the household who contribute income to the household. Copies of all federal and state personal income tax returns shall be filed with the application. An applicant who is not required to file federal or state personal income tax returns due to low income, shall complete and sign these forms if requested to do so by the commissioner of revenue administration.\n\n76-C:4 Qualifying Taxpayers.\n\nI. Each taxpayer who submits a complete application for abatement shall be assigned an eligibility percentage based on household income. The eligibility percentage shall be the lesser of 100 percent or a ratio equal to (twice the household exemptions minus household income) divided by household exemptions, where household exemptions equal the total amount of exemptions that household members qualify for under RSA 76-A:3, I(a).\n\nII. Each qualifying taxpayer's abatement shall equal their eligibility percentage times their maximum excess property tax burden. The maximum excess property tax burden is the entire amount of property taxes on the taxpayer's homestead in excess of the circuit breaker limit for the year. By July 31 of each year the commissioner shall determine the circuit breaker limit for the current year's applications (based on prior year's income and property taxes) by establishing it as the lowest percentage, rounded to the nearest 1/10 percentage point, where all payments of abatements due on approved applications received by April 30 will be less than available dedicated and appropriated funds on hand as of June 30, but not less than 8 percent.\n\n76-C:5 Payments of Approved Abatements.\n\nI. By June 30 of each year, the commissioner of revenue administration shall pay abatements due on approved applications that were received prior to May 1 of that year. Abatements due on approved applications that were received on or after May 1 may be paid at the convenience of the department of revenue administration as funds are available during the remainder of that fiscal year or rejected if funds are not available.\n\nII. The department of revenue administration shall make abatement payments either jointly to the taxpayer and the tax assessor of the taxpayer's homestead municipality, or if so directed on the application, directly to the municipality of the taxpayer's homestead on the taxpayer's account, so the abatement may be used as a payment of property taxes due.\n\nIII. Abatements not deposited within one year of issuance may be canceled and forfeited back to the property tax abatement program fund.\n\nIV. If the department determines that an abatement was overpaid due to subsequent audit, amended return, or error correction, the taxpayer shall return the overpayment and the amount may be withheld from future abatements or the amount of overpayment due plus interest shall accrue as a lien against the taxpayer's homestead, to be paid upon sale of the real estate.\n\nV. The property tax abatement program fund is established within the office of the state treasurer. This fund shall be nonlapsing and shall be for the sole purpose of making payments on approved abatement applications under this section. Moneys from a portion of real estate transfer tax revenues shall be deposited in this fund, in accordance with RSA 78-B:13, II.\n\n3 Reference to Interest and Dividend Tax Deleted; Education Income Tax Added. Amend RSA 72:34, II to read as follows:\n\nII. For those exemptions having income or asset limitations, the assessing officials may request true copies of any of the following, as needed to verify eligibility. Any documents submitted shall be considered confidential, handled so as to protect the privacy of the applicant, and returned to the applicant at the time a decision is made on the application. The documents are:\n\n(a) Federal income tax form; [ and]\n\n(b) [ State interest and dividends tax form; and\n\n(c)] Property tax inventory form filed in any other town; and\n\n(c) Education income tax form.\n\nRSA 359-C shall not apply to the documents requested for verification under this section.\n\n4 Adjustment to Business Profits Tax; Reference Changed. Amend RSA 77-A:4, I to read as follows:\n\nI. In the case of a business organization which is subject to taxation under RSA [ 77] 76-A, a deduction of such amount of gross business profits as is attributable to income which is taxable or is specifically exempted from taxation under RSA [ 77] 76-A.\n\n5 Meals and Rooms Tax; Distribution of Motor Vehicle Rentals Revenue. Amend RSA 78-A:26, III to read as follows:\n\nIII. Beginning on July 1, 1999, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the department shall pay over all revenue collected pursuant to RSA 78-A:6, II-a to the state treasurer [ for deposit in the education trust fund established by RSA 198:39]. One half of such revenues shall be deposited in the general fund and \u00bd of such revenues shall be deposited in the travel and tourism development fund established in RSA 12-A:43-A.\n\n6 Fiscal Year 2002 Meals and Rooms Tax Motor Vehicle Rentals Revenue. Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 78-A:26, III as inserted by section 5 of this act, \u00bd of the revenues collected shall be deposited in the education trust fund instead of the general fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002 only.\n\n7 New Section; Department of Resources and Economic Development; Travel and Tourism Development; Travel and Tourism Development Fund. Amend RSA 12-A by inserting after section 43 the following new section:\n\n12-A:43-a Travel and Tourism Development Fund.\n\nI. There is hereby established in the office of the state treasurer a fund to be known as the travel and tourism development fund. Moneys dedicated by RSA 78-A:26, III shall be deposited in the fund, as well as any other appropriations to the fund. Moneys in the fund and any interest earned on the fund shall be used for the purpose of promoting and developing appropriate travel and tourism initiatives through the division of travel and tourism development and shall not be used for any other purpose. The director of travel and tourism development shall oversee expenditures from the fund. The moneys in the fund shall be nonlapsing and shall be continually appropriated to the department of resources and economic development.\n\nII. The commissioner of resources and economic development shall prepare an annual report to be presented no later than December 1 of each year to the president of the senate, the speaker of the house of representatives, and the governor and council, and filed with the state library. The report shall detail the specific activities supported by, and expenditures from, the fund during the past year.\n\n8 Real Estate Transfer Tax; Transfer Tax; Rate. RSA 78-B:1, I(b) is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\n(b) The rate of the tax is $.70 per $100, or fractional part thereof, of the price or consideration for such sale, grant, or transfer; except that where the price or consideration is $4,000 or less there shall be a minimum tax of $28. The tax imposed shall be computed to the nearest whole dollar.\n\n9 Real Estate Transfer Tax; Distribution of Funds. RSA 78-B:13 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\n78-B:13 Distribution of Funds.\n\nI. The commissioner shall determine the additional amounts of revenue produced by an increase of $.104 per $100 and $.096 per $100 in the rate of tax imposed by RSA 78-B:1 for each fiscal year and shall certify such amounts to the state treasurer by October 1 of that year.\n\nII. The state treasurer shall deposit the amount of revenue produced by the increase of $.104 per $100 in the property tax abatement program fund established under RSA 76-C:5, V and the amount of revenue produced by the increase of $.096 per $100 into the trust fund for the New Hampshire land and community heritage investment program under RSA 227-M.\n\n10 Land and Community Heritage Investment Program; Trust Fund. Amend RSA 227-M:7, I to read as follows:\n\nI. There is established in the office of the state treasurer the trust fund for the New Hampshire land and community heritage investment program. Moneys dedicated for such program by RSA 78-B:13, II shall be deposited in the fund. Moneys in the fund and any interest earned on the fund shall be used for the purpose of this chapter and shall not be used for any other purpose. The trust fund shall be non-lapsing.\n\n11 Reference Deleted. Amend RSA 87:1, I to read as follows:\n\nI. [ In addition to the taxes imposed by RSA 86] An estate tax is hereby imposed upon the transfer of the estate of every decedent leaving an estate which is subject to an estate tax under the provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and who has property within this state.\n\n12 Cooperative School Districts; Adequate Education Grants. Amend RSA 195:7, I to read as follows:\n\nI. If a cooperative school district was organized prior to July 1, 1963, during the first 5 years after the formation of a cooperative school district each preexisting district shall pay its share of all capital outlay costs and all operational costs in excess of the amount determined necessary to provide an adequate education under RSA 198:40, I(a) in accordance with either one of the following formulas as determined by a majority vote of the cooperative district meeting:\n\n13 Cooperative School Districts; Certification of District Taxes; Adequate Education Grants. Amend RSA 195:14, I (b) to read as follows:\n\n(b) The commissioner of revenue administration shall examine such certificates and delete any appropriations which appear not made in accordance with the law, and adjust any sum, in accordance with RSA 21-J:35, which may be used as a setoff against the amount appropriated when it appears to the commissioner of revenue administration such adjustment is in the best public interest. The commissioner of the department of revenue administration shall apply the total amount of all adequate education grants received pursuant to RSA 198:42 as a setoff against the amount appropriated.\n\n14 Cooperative School Districts; Certification of District Taxes Amended. Amend RSA 195:14, I (c) to read as follows:\n\n(c) The commissioner of revenue administration shall certify to the state department of education the total amount [ to be apportioned among the pre-existing school districts. Such total shall include the adequate education cost for the district under RSA 198:38, XII, and the amount above the cost of an adequate education to be assessed and collected as local educational taxes] of taxes to be raised for the support of the cooperative school district.\n\n15 Cooperative School Districts; Certification of District Taxes; Determination of Proportional Share Amended. RSA 195:14, I (d) is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\n(d) The state department of education shall determine the proportional share of said taxes to be borne by each preexisting school district and notify the commissioner of revenue administration of its determination.\n\n16 Cooperative School Districts; Educational Adequacy Grant Computation Amended. Amend RSA 195:15 to read as follows:\n\n195:15 State Aid. The state aid to which a cooperative elementary and/or secondary district shall be entitled shall be the total of those shares of the aid to which the pupils attending the cooperative district would have entitled the pre-existing districts, had they remained in the pre-existing districts. [ For the purposes of crediting the cooperative district's adequate education cost to the pre-existing districts, each such pre-existing district shall have its adequate education cost under RSA 198:38, XII credited against its share of the cooperative school district budget. However, cooperative school districts formed by 2 or more pre-existing districts whose boundaries approximate those of a single township in which they are located shall be treated as a single school district for the purposes of this section].\n\n17 Cooperative School Districts; Formation procedures; Computation of Adequate Education Grants. Amend RSA 195:18, III (e) to read as follows:\n\n(e) The method of apportioning [ the] all operating expenses in excess of the amount determined necessary to provide an adequate education under RSA 198:40, I(a) of the cooperative school district among the several preexisting districts and the time and manner of payment of such shares. Home education pupils who do not receive services from the cooperative school district, except an evaluation pursuant to RSA 193-A:6, II shall not be included in the average daily membership relative to apportionment formulas.\n\n18 Cooperative School Districts; Formation Procedures; Adequate Education Grant Apportionment Amended. Amend RSA 195:18, IX to read as follows:\n\nIX. The organization meeting of a cooperative school district shall be called to order by the chairperson of the cooperative school district planning board, or by the clerk-treasurer thereof, who shall serve as temporary chairperson for the first order of business which shall be the election of a moderator and of a temporary clerk, by ballot, who shall be qualified voters of the district. From and after the issuance of the certificate of formation by the board to the date of operating responsibility of the cooperative school district, such district shall have all the authority and powers of a regular school district for the purposes of incurring indebtedness, for the construction of school facilities and for such other functions as are necessary to obtain proper facilities for a complete program of education. When necessary in such interim, the school board of the cooperative school district is authorized to prepare a budget and call a special meeting of the voters of the district, which meeting shall have the same authority as an annual meeting, for the purpose of adopting the budget, making necessary appropriations, and borrowing money. Whenever the organization meeting is held on or before April 20 in any calendar year, no annual meeting need be held in such calendar year. Sums of money raised and appropriated at the organization meeting or any interim meeting prior to the first annual meeting shall be forthwith certified to the commissioner of revenue administration and the state department of education upon blanks prescribed and provided by the commissioner of revenue administration for the purpose, together with a certificate of estimated revenues, so far as known, and such other information as the commissioner of revenue administration may require. The commissioner of revenue administration shall examine such certificates and delete any appropriations which appear not made in accordance with the law, and adjust any sum which may be used as a setoff against the amount appropriated when it appears to the commissioner such adjustment is in the best public interest. The commissioner of the department of revenue administration shall apply the total amount of all adequate education grants received pursuant to RSA 198:42 as a setoff against the amount appropriated. The commissioner of revenue administration shall certify to the state department of education the total amount of taxes to be raised for said cooperative school district and the state department of education shall determine the proportional share of said taxes to be borne by each preexisting school district and notify the commissioner of revenue administration of its determination. Upon certification by the commissioner of revenue administration the selectmen of each town shall seasonably assess the taxes as provided by law. The selectmen shall pay over to the treasurer of the cooperative district such portion of the sums so raised as may reasonably be required according to a schedule of payments needed for the year as prepared by the treasurer and approved by the cooperative school board, but no such payment shall be greater in percentage to the total sum to be raised by one local district than that of any other local district comprising such cooperative school district.\n\n19 School Money; Kindergarten Construction Program Extended. Amend RSA 198:15-r, I to read as follows:\n\nI. There is established in the department of education a kindergarten construction program. For the [ 5-year] 6-year period starting July 1, 1997, and ending June 30, [ 2002] 2003, the commissioner of education shall make grants available to eligible districts that currently do not operate a public kindergarten program to cover 75 percent of the actual cost of construction of kindergarten facilities, exclusive of site acquisition and core facilities. The commissioner shall also make grants available to eligible districts that currently operate a public kindergarten program for 75 percent of the cost of construction, exclusive of site acquisition, needed to provide the kindergarten program with classrooms that meet the appropriate standards for school building construction established by the state board of education, pursuant to RSA 541-A and under the authority of RSA 21-N:9, II(c). Grants shall also cover the cost of initial equipment needed to operate a kindergarten program.\n\n20 Kindergarten Construction Program; Appropriation Amended. Amend 1997, 348:6 to read as follows:\n\n348:6 Appropriation; Kindergarten Construction. A sum not to exceed [ $22,500,000] $32,500,000 is hereby appropriated to the department of education for the purposes of constructing kindergarten classrooms. The appropriation in paragraph V for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003 shall be made from the education trust fund established in RSA 198:39. This appropriation shall be nonlapsing and in addition to any other appropriation to the department of education; provided, however, that the department of education shall not approve grant requests for such purposes for more than:\n\nI. $6,000,000 in the biennium ending June 30, 1999.\n\nII. $5,000,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2000.\n\nIII. $5,000,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2001.\n\nIV. $6,500,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002.\n\nV. $10,000,000 in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003.\n\n21 New Paragraph; School Money; Kindergarten Funding. Amend RSA 198:40 by inserting after section III the following new paragraph:\n\nIV.(a) For the purpose of calculations made under this section, a school district which implements a new public kindergarten program on July 1, 2001, or thereafter, shall receive reimbursement for each kindergarten pupil at the rate of \u00bd of the average base cost per pupil of an elementary school pupil.\n\n(b) When enrollments in a new public kindergarten program are included in the school district's average daily membership in residence for the purpose of determining and distributing adequate education grants, a school district shall, in place of the amount in subparagraph (a), receive reimbursement for each kindergarten pupil equal to the adequate education grant amount as determined under this section and RSA 198:41.\n\n22 School Money; State Aid for Educational Adequacy; Free and Reduced Price Lunches Amended. RSA 198:38, VII(d) is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\nVII.(d) An elementary school pupil who is eligible to receive a free or reduced-price meal shall receive an additional weight as follows:\n\n(1) If the pupil is in a district in which less than 8 percent of the elementary school pupils are eligible to receive a free or reduced-price meal, an additional weight of zero.\n\n(2) If the pupil is in a district in which 8 percent or more of the elementary school pupils are eligible to receive a free or reduced-price meal, an additional weight equal to the lesser of 1.3 or a number equal to 5 times the difference between the percentage of elementary school pupils eligible to receive a free or reduced-price meal and .08, provided there are 10 or more elementary school pupils in the district. If there are less than 10 elementary school pupils in the district, and such pupils attend a school in another school district, the percentage of elementary school pupils eligible to receive a free or reduced-price meal shall be equal to the eligible percentage at the school which the pupils attend.\n\n23 Education Trust Fund. RSA 198:39 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\n198:39 Education Trust Fund Created and Invested.\n\nI. The state treasurer shall establish an education trust fund in the treasury. Moneys in such fund shall not be used for any purpose other than to fund:\n\n(a) Adequate education grants to municipalities' school districts pursuant to RSA 198:42.\n\n(b) Local education tax effort caps pursuant to RSA 198:40-a.\n\n(c) Kindergarten construction aid pursuant to RSA 198:15-r.\n\n(d) Other public school building aid programs including the payment of principal and interest on public debt for educational facilities including those of the state's public primary and secondary schools, the community-technical colleges, and the university system of New Hampshire.\n\n(e) The necessary costs of administration of the education trust fund and taxes dedicated to it including refunds due taxpayers for overpayment of taxes pursuant to 76-A:6, III, or due municipalities for reimbursement of abatements or uncollectable tax amounts pursuant to RSA 76-B:10-11.\n\nII. The state treasurer shall deposit into this fund immediately upon receipt:\n\n(a) Funds collected and paid over to the state treasurer by the department of revenue administration pursuant to RSA 83-F:7, I, relative to the utility property tax.\n\n(b) The full amount of excess education property tax payments from the department of revenue administration pursuant to RSA 198:46.\n\n(c) All moneys due the fund in accordance with RSA 284:21-j, relative to sweepstakes.\n\n(d) Tobacco settlement funds in the amount of $40,000,000 annually.\n\n(e) The school portion of any revenue sharing funds distributed pursuant to RSA 31-A:4 which were apportioned to school districts in the property tax rate calculations in 1998.\n\n(f) Funds collected and paid over to the state treasurer by the department of revenue administration pursuant to RSA 83-F:7, I, relative to the utility property tax.\n\n(g) The full amount of excess education property tax payments from the department of revenue administration pursuant to RSA 198:46.\n\n(h) All moneys due the fund in accordance with RSA 284:21-j, relative to sweepstakes.\n\n(i) Tobacco settlement funds in the amount of $40,000,000 annually.\n\n(j) The net revenue from the education income tax from the department of revenue administration pursuant to RSA 76-A:15, after deducting the necessary costs of collection and administration including taxpayer refunds under RSA 76-A:6, III.\n\n(k) Revenue from the state education property tax under RSA 76-B.\n\n(l) Any other moneys appropriated from the general fund.\n\nIII. The education trust fund shall be nonlapsing, except as provided in paragraph V. The state treasurer shall invest that part of the fund which is not needed for immediate distribution in short-term interest-bearing investments. The income from these investments shall be returned to the fund.\n\nIV. The state treasurer shall maintain a separate accounting within the education trust fund for all moneys received from any state run lottery and all the interest received on such moneys and ensure that all such moneys are used exclusively for the school districts of the state.\n\nV. At the end of each fiscal year the state treasurer shall account for any surplus funds in the education trust fund, exclusive of unexpended lottery funds which shall not lapse and shall carry over as a balance to fund future state aid to education. Surplus funds, excluding lottery funds, shall be divided into equal thirds. One third shall carry forward as general surplus toward future appropriations from the fund; 1/3 shall lapse into a dedicated account for local education tax effort cap grants pursuant to RSA 198:40-a; and the remaining 1/3 shall lapse into a dedicated account for public education facilities, including specifically kindergarten construction aid pursuant to RSA 198:15-r and debt service on state bonds for the university system of New Hampshire.\n\n24 Education Trust Fund; July 1, 2002. RSA 198:39, II is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\nII. The state treasurer shall deposit into this fund immediately upon receipt:\n\n(a) Funds collected and paid over to the state treasurer by the department of revenue administration pursuant to RSA 83-F:7, I, relative to the utility property tax.\n\n(b) All moneys due the fund in accordance with RSA 284:21-j, relative to sweepstakes.\n\n(c) The net revenue from the education income tax from the department of revenue administration pursuant to RSA 76-A:15, after deducting the necessary costs of collection and administration including taxpayer refunds under RSA 76-A:6, III.\n\n(d) Revenue from the state education property tax under RSA 76-B.\n\n(e) Any other moneys appropriated from the general fund.\n\n25 School Money; Determination of Per Pupil Adequate Education Cost; Reference Amended. Amend the introductory paragraph of RSA 198:40, I to read as follows:\n\nI. For the biennium beginning July 1, 1999, and for the first year of every biennium thereafter, the cost per pupil shall be established using the following formula:\n\n26 New Paragraph; School Money; Determination of Per Pupil Adequacy Grants. Amend RSA 198:40 by inserting after paragraph III the following new paragraph:\n\nIV. Beginning July 1, 2005, and in the second fiscal year of each biennium thereafter, the average base cost per pupil shall be increased by multiplying the average base cost per pupil in the first fiscal year of the current biennium by one plus \u00bd of a fraction whose numerator is a number equal to the difference between the average base cost per pupil in the first fiscal year of the current biennium and the average base cost per pupil of the first fiscal year of the immediately preceding biennium, and whose denominator is the average base cost per pupil of the first fiscal year in the immediately preceding biennium.\n\n27 Average Base Cost Per Pupil of an Elementary School Pupil; Per Pupil Amount for Fiscal Year 2003. Notwithstanding the provisions of RSA 198:40 and 198:41, the average base cost per pupil of an elementary school pupil for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003 shall be $3,425. Moneys from the education trust fund shall be used, as necessary, to provide this average base cost per pupil amount.\n\n28 New Sections; Local Education Tax Effort Cap Program. Amend RSA 198 by inserting after section 40 the following new section:\n\n198:40-a Local Education Tax Effort Cap Grant Program.\n\nI. In conjunction with issuing local school tax warrants beginning in 2002, the commissioner shall calculate local education tax effort cap grants by computing a local education tax effort ratio for each municipality in the state by first computing for each municipality the equalized property value per pupil and then dividing that by the average equalized property value per pupil for all municipalities in the state that have an average daily membership in residence of at least 5.\n\nII. The equalized property value per pupil is the equalized assessed value of real property in each municipality (the sum of modified local assessed value plus the department of revenue administration's inventory adjustment including utility property but excluding any capitalized railroad tax, revenue sharing payments or payments in lieu of taxes) divided by the latest available average daily membership in residence for the municipality.\n\nIII. The sum of equalized assessed value for all municipalities with an average daily membership in residence of at least 5, divided by the sum of average daily membership in residence for those communities is the state average.\n\nIV. The commissioner of revenue administration shall determine the tax effort cap grant for each municipality by allocating a portion of available dedicated funds to the municipality with the smallest tax effort ratio toward the local school property tax amount to be raised, such that the effective tax effort ratio for that year is raised to that of the municipality with the next smallest ratio. Then another portion of available funds shall be allocated to the municipalities with the smallest effective tax effort ratio to raise them to the level of the municipality with the next smallest ratio, and so on until the available funds are exhausted.\n\nV. Once all available funds for local education tax effort cap grants are allocated, then the commissioner shall calculate the local school property tax rate by using the grants as an offset against the amount to be raised. The grants shall be paid to the municipality for transfer to and use by their school districts from the dedicated account for local education tax effort cap grants established within the education trust fund under RSA 198:39, V.\n\n29 Education; School Money; Excess Education Property Tax Payment; Maintenance of Local Control. Amend RSA 198:48 to read as follows:\n\n198:48 Maintenance of Local Control. Distributions under RSA 198:42 depend only on weighted average daily membership in residence and the per pupil adequacy cost amounts as determined in this subdivision and are independent of how the [ municipalities] school districts decide to spend the distributions or other funds they may raise for education. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, nothing in this subdivision is intended in any way to limit or control how school districts operate or spend their budgets, except that adequate education grants must be expended for educational purposes. Adequate education grants and local education tax effort cap grants shall not be considered unanticipated funds under RSA 198:20-b. In determining the local school property tax rate, the commissioner of revenue administration shall apply the total amount of adequate education grants and local education tax effort cap grants received by school districts as a setoff against the amount appropriated in the officially approved budget.\n\n30 New Subparagraphs; Travel and Tourism Development Fund; Land and Community Heritage Investment Program. Amend RSA 6:12, I by inserting after subparagraph (dddd) the following new subparagraphs:\n\n(eeee) Transfer of real property tax moneys pursuant to RSA 78-A:26, III which shall be deposited in the travel and tourism development fund established by RSA 12-A:43-a, I.\n\n(ffff) Moneys received in accordance with RSA 78-B:13, II, which shall be deposited in the trust fund for the New Hampshire land and community heritage investment program established in RSA 227-M:7, I.\n\n(gggg) Moneys received for the property tax abatement program, in accordance with RSA 78-B:13, II, which shall be deposited in the property tax abatement fund established in RSA 76-C:5, V.\n\n31 Business Profits Tax; Rate Reduced; January 1, 2002. Amend RSA 78-B:13, II to read as follows:\n\n77-A:2 Imposition of Tax. A tax is imposed at the rate of [ 8] 7.5 percent upon the taxable business profits of every business organization.\n\n32 Initial Funding; Bonds Authorized. To provide initial funding for start-up costs including consultants, facilities, equipment and computer purchases, and other administrative and enforcement costs under RSA 76-A, RSA 76-B and RSA 76-C, in excess of funds appropriated, the state treasurer is hereby authorized to borrow upon the credit of the state not exceeding an amount certified by the commissioner of revenue administration and for said purposes may issue bonds and notes in the name of and on behalf of the state of New Hampshire in accordance with RSA 6-A. Payments of principal and interest of the bonds and notes shall be made from the education trust fund established in RSA 198:39. The bonds shall be 5-year bonds.\n\n33 Appropriations.\n\nI. The sum of $15,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002 is hereby appropriated to the department of revenue administration to fund the costs necessary to implement RSA 76-A and RSA 76-B including measures necessary to ensure that the state education property tax is applied and administered in a constitutional manner and may include reasonable costs reimbursed to municipalities for the cost of implementing RSA 76-B. This appropriation shall be non-lapsing. The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for said sum out of any money in the treasury, including the education trust fund, not otherwise appropriated.\n\nII. The sum of $1,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002 and $3,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003 is hereby appropriated to the department of education to fund the costs to implement improved accountability and performance standards for public schools, including grants for local school district costs. The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for said sums out of any money in the treasury, including the education trust fund, not otherwise appropriated.\n\nIII. The sum of $1,200,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2002 and $4,800,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2003 is hereby appropriated to the department of education to fund the costs to implement an early learning and literacy initiative for public schools, including grants to local school districts. The governor is authorized to draw a warrant for said sums out of any money in the treasury, including the education trust fund, not otherwise appropriated.\n\n34 First Taxable Year of Income Tax. The first taxable period under RSA 76-A, as inserted by section 2 of this act, begins January 1, 2002, and ends December 31, 2002. Persons liable for a tax during the first taxable period and who do not report the payment of federal income taxes on a calendar year basis are entitled to such proportion of the exemptions allowed in RSA 76-A as the period bears to their taxable year. The determination of the tax shall be made under rules adopted by the commissioner of revenue administration under RSA 541-A, consistent with the general purposes and provisions of RSA 76-A. Persons required to make information returns for the first taxable period shall make them on a proportional basis in such form as the commissioner requires. For such first taxable period under RSA 76-A, all penalties, but not interest, shall be waived for underpayment of estimated taxes and insufficient withholding for calendar year 2002.\n\n35 Returns for Certain Taxes. All persons who are liable for a tax under RSA 77 as of December 31, 2001, who thereafter are no longer liable for a tax under RSA 77 because of the passage of this act shall make a return of such taxes due the commissioner of revenue administration in such manner and on such forms as the commissioner shall prescribe in rules adopted under RSA 541-A. The administrative provisions of RSA 77 shall remain in effect to permit the collection of taxes upon income taxable under RSA 77 which is received by persons subject to taxation under that chapter through December 31, 2001, and to permit the distribution of that revenue. Persons who are liable for a tax under RSA 77 who do not report the payment of federal income taxes on a calendar year basis are entitled to such proportion of the exemptions allowed in RSA 77 as the reporting period bears to their taxable year.\n\n36 Severability. If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is deemed invalid, the invalidity does not affect the other provisions or applications of this act which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications and to this end the provision of this act are severable.\n\n37 Prospective Repeal Date of Education Property Tax Changed; Repeals of Adequate Education Grants Determination Deleted. 1999, 338:21 is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:\n\n338:21 Repeal. RSA 76:3, relative to the education property tax is repealed.\n\n38 Effective Dates of Repeal of Education Property Tax and Hardship Relief Provisions. Amend 1999, 338:25, I and II to read as follows:\n\nI. Section 21 of this act shall take effect [ January 2, 2003] March 31, 2002.\n\nII. Section 22 of this act shall take effect July 1, [ 2003] 2002.\n\n39 Repeals; Effective July 1, 2001. The following are repealed:\n\nI. RSA 86, relative to the legacies and succession tax.\n\nII. RSA 87:12, relative to applications of RSA 86 to RSA 87.\n\n40 Repeals; Effective January 1, 2002. The following are repealed:\n\nI. RSA 76:8, relative to the commissioner's warrant.\n\nII. RSA 76:9, relative to the commissioner's report.\n\nIII. RSA 77, relative to taxation of incomes.\n\nIV. RSA 77-A:20-a, relative to the distribution of business profits tax revenues.\n\nV. RSA 77-B, relative to the commuter income tax.\n\nVI. RSA 77-E:2, relative to the imposition of the business enterprise tax.\n\nVII. RSA 261:52-a, relative to notice that the interest and dividends tax may be due.\n\nVIII. RSA 391:3, relative to the taxation of common trust funds under RSA 77.\n\n41 Repeals; April 1, 2002. The following are repealed:\n\nI. RSA 198:39, I(b), relative to excess education property tax payments in the education trust fund.\n\nII. RSA 198:46, I-III, relative to excess education property tax payments.\n\nIII. RSA 198:47, relative to forms for reporting and remitting excess education property tax.\n\n42 Repeals; Effective July 1, 2002. The following are repealed:\n\nI. RSA 78:32, relative to distribution of tobacco tax revenues.\n\nII. 1999, 281:4, relative to apportioning the costs of an adequate education within a cooperative school district.\n\nIII. RSA 281:12, relative to the definition of state aid for educational adequacy.\n\n43 Repeal; Effective December 31, 2002. RSA 77-E, relative to the business enterprise tax, is repealed.\n\n44 Effective Date.\n\nI. Sections 2-4, 31, and 40 of this act shall take effect January 1, 2002.\n\nII. Section 41 of this act shall take effect April 1, 2002.\n\nIII. Sections 24 and 42 of this act shall take effect July 1, 2002.\n\nIV. Section 43 of this act shall take effect December 31, 2002.\n\nV. 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