HOUSE BILL No. 6291

 

June 24, 2010, Introduced by Reps. Sheltrown, Booher, Green, Caul, Ball, Hansen, Lemmons, LeBlanc, Neumann, Wayne Schmidt and Pearce and referred to the Committee on Tourism, Outdoor Recreation and Natural Resources.

 

     A bill to amend 2006 PA 379, entitled

 

"Qualified forest property recapture tax act,"

 

by amending section 4 (MCL 211.1034).

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 4. The recapture tax under this act shall be imposed at

 

the following rate:

 

     (a) If the property is converted by a change in use and there

 

have not been 1 or more harvests of forest products on that

 

property consistent with the approved forest management plan, the

 

recapture tax shall be calculated in the following manner:

 

     (i) Multiply the property's state equalized valuation at the

 

time the property is converted by a change in use by the total

 

millage rate levied by all taxing units in the local tax collecting

 

unit in which the property is located number of mills for which the

 


property is exempt under section 1211 of the revised school code,

 

1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1211.

 

     (ii) Multiply the product of the calculation under subparagraph

 

(i) by 7 or the number of years that the property was exempt under

 

section 7jj of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL

 

211.7jj[1], whichever is less.

 

     (iii) Multiply the product of the calculation under subparagraph

 

(ii) by 2.

 

     (b) If the property is converted by a change in use and there

 

have been 1 or more harvests of forest products on that property

 

consistent with the approved forest management plan, the recapture

 

tax shall be calculated in the following manner:

 

     (i) Multiply the property's state equalized valuation at the

 

time the property is converted by a change in use by the total

 

millage rate levied by all taxing units in the local tax collecting

 

unit in which the property is located number of mills for which the

 

property is exempt under section 1211 of the revised school code,

 

1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1211.

 

     (ii) Multiply the product of the calculation under subparagraph

 

(i) by 7 or the number of years that the property was exempt under

 

section 7jj of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL

 

211.7jj[1], whichever is less.

 

     (c) In addition to the recapture tax calculated under

 

subdivision (a) or (b), if property is converted by a change in use

 

and the taxable value of the property was not adjusted under

 

section 27a(3) of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL

 

211.27a, after a transfer of ownership of the property due to the

 


provisions of section 27a(7)(o) of the general property tax act,

 

1893 PA 206, MCL 211.27a, the recapture tax shall include the

 

benefit received on that property.