Bill Text - HB15 (2021)

Relative to including under the meals and rooms tax facilitators of Internet transactions of motor vehicle rentals and facilitators of Internet transactions of room occupancies.


Revision: March 30, 2021, 10:29 a.m.

Rep. Baxter, Rock. 20

March 3, 2021

2021-0599h

10/08

 

 

Amendment to HB 15-FN

 

Amend the bill by replacing section 1 with the following:

 

1  Meals and Rooms Tax; Definition; Gross Rental Receipts; Motor Vehicle Rentals.  Amend RSA 78-A:3, VI to read as follows:

VI.  "Gross rental receipts" means value received or promised as consideration to the owner of a motor vehicle and any rental facilitator for [rental of the vehicle , but] a rental agreement, including any fee, service, or other charge or amount required to be paid by the renter as a condition for the rental agreement.  The term shall not include:

(a) Separately stated charges for insurance;

(b) Charges for damages to the motor vehicle occurring during the rental agreement period;

(c) Separately stated charges for motor fuel sold by the owner of the motor vehicle[.];

(d) Amounts paid by an operator to a travel agent as commission or compensation for the travel agent’s services.

 

Amend the bill by replacing section 3 with the following:

 

3  Definition; Rent; Room Facilitators Added.  Amend RSA 78-A:3, XVII(a) to read as follows:

(a)  The [consideration received] full retail price charged for occupancy valued in money, whether received in money or otherwise, including all receipts, cash, credits, and property, or services of any kind or nature, and also any amount for which the occupant is liable for the occupancy without any deduction of any kind, including any fee, service, or other charge required to be paid by the occupant to a room facilitator, except that the term rent shall not include amounts paid by an operator to a travel agent as commission or compensation for the travel agent’s services; and