Sales and use taxes: exemptions: unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturing: income taxes: credits: hiring.

The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state, and provides various exemptions from the taxes imposed by that law. Existing law includes an exemption from those taxes, on and after July 1, 2014, and before January 1, 2022, for the gross receipts from the sale of, and the storage, use, or other consumption of, qualified tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person, including persons engaged in aircraft manufacturing, for use primarily in manufacturing, processing, refining, fabricating, or recycling of property, or research and development, and qualified tangible personal property purchased for use by a contractor for specified purposes, as provided. Existing law specifies that this exemption does not apply to local sales and use taxes, transactions and use taxes, and specified state taxes from which revenues are deposited into the Local Public Safety Fund, the Education Protection Account, the Local Revenue Fund, the Fiscal Recovery Fund, or the Local Revenue Fund 2011. This bill, on and after January 1, 2015, would instead provide that the exemption also applies to local sales and use taxes and those specified state taxes with respect to qualified tangible personal property purchased by a qualified person that is engaged in aircraft manufacturing of unmanned aerial vehicles. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing law authorizes districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to state sales and use taxes are incorporated into these laws. Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code provides that the state will reimburse counties and cities for revenue losses caused by the enactment of sales and use tax exemptions. This bill would provide that, notwithstanding Section 2230 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, no appropriation is made and the state shall not reimburse any local agencies for sales and use tax revenues lost by them pursuant to this bill. The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow various credits against the taxes imposed by those laws. This bill would allow, under both laws, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2015, and before January 1, 2025, a credit in an amount equal to a specified percentage of the qualified wages, as defined, paid or incurred by a qualified taxpayer that manufactures unmanned aerial vehicles with respect to qualified employees, as defined, during the taxable year, not to exceed $20,000 per year, per qualified employee. This bill would take effect immediately as a tax levy.