CHAPTER 298
FORMERLY
HOUSE BILL NO. 341
AS AMENDED BY
HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 30 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE USE TAX ON LEASES OF TANGIBLE PERSONAL PROPERTY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:
Section 1. Amend § 4302(a), Title 30 of the Delaware Code by making insertions as shown by underlining as follows:
(a) There is imposed by this section on every lessee a use tax, for the use within this State, under a lease of tangible personal property (other than motor vehicles, household furniture, household fixtures or household furnishings, hospital equipment and any and all medical and remedial equipment, aids and devices leased by or to elderly, ill, injured or handicapped persons for their own use, including television sets leased to patients in a health care facility, motion picture films leased
for by a film society organization that is exempt from federal income tax under the provisions of Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code,
and manufacturing equipment under leveraged leases in which rental payments are guaranteed, in whole or in part, by the Economic Development Administration of the United States Department of Commerce pursuant to Public Law 89-136 [42 U.S.C. § 3121 et seq.], as amended) equal to 2.0114% of the rent under such lease.
Section 2. If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the Act which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to that end the provisions of this Act are declared to be severable.
Section 3. This Act shall become effective for taxable periods beginning after December 31, 2011.
Approved July 05, 2012