HOUSE BILL No. 6029

 

 

November 9, 2016, Introduced by Rep. Hughes and referred to the Committee on Tax Policy.

 

     A bill to amend 2014 PA 86, entitled

 

"Local community stabilization authority act,"

 

by amending sections 13 and 16a (MCL 123.1353 and 123.1356a),

 

section 13 as amended by 2015 PA 122.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 13. (1) Not later than June 5, 2014, the assessor for

 

each city and township shall report to the county equalization

 

director all of the following:

 

     (a) The 2013 taxable value of commercial personal property and

 

industrial personal property for each municipality in the city or

 

township.

 

     (b) The 2014 taxable value of commercial personal property and

 

industrial personal property for each municipality in the city or

 

township.

 

     (c) The small taxpayer exemption loss for each municipality in


the city or township.

 

     (2) Not later than June 20, 2014, the equalization director

 

for each county shall report to the department the information

 

described in subsection (1) for each municipality in the county.

 

For each municipality levying a millage in more than 1 county, the

 

county equalization director responsible for compiling the

 

municipality's taxable value under section 34d of the general

 

property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.34d, shall compile the

 

municipality's information described in subsection (1).

 

     (3) Not later than June 5, 2015, and each June 5 thereafter,

 

the assessor for each city and township shall report to the county

 

equalization director the current year taxable value of commercial

 

personal property and industrial personal property for each

 

municipality in the city or township. Not later than June 20, 2015,

 

and each June 20 thereafter, the equalization director for each

 

county shall report to the department the current year taxable

 

value of commercial personal property and industrial personal

 

property for each municipality in the county. For each municipality

 

levying a millage in more than 1 county, the county equalization

 

director responsible for compiling the municipality's taxable value

 

under section 34d of the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL

 

211.34d, shall compile the municipality's information described in

 

this subsection.

 

     (4) Not later than August 15, 2014, and each August 15

 

thereafter, each municipality shall report to the department the

 

millage rate levied or to be levied that year for a millage

 

described in section 5(g) or (w) that is used to calculate an


appropriation under section 17(1)(a) or a distribution under

 

section 17(4)(a)(i). For 2014 and 2015, the rate of that millage

 

shall be calculated using the sum of the municipality's taxable

 

value and the municipality's small taxpayer exemption loss.

 

Beginning in 2016 and each year thereafter, the rate of that

 

millage shall be calculated using the sum of the municipality's

 

taxable value and the municipality's personal property exemption

 

loss. For 2014 and 2015, the department shall calculate each

 

municipality's debt loss or school debt loss by multiplying the

 

municipality's millage rate reported under this subsection by the

 

municipality's small taxpayer exemption loss. Beginning in 2016 and

 

each year thereafter, the department shall calculate each

 

municipality's school debt loss by multiplying the municipality's

 

millage rate reported under this subsection by the municipality's

 

personal property exemption loss.

 

     (5) The department shall calculate and make available to each

 

municipality by May 1 of each year that municipality's sum of the

 

lowest rate of each individual millage levied in the period between

 

2012 2013 and the year immediately preceding the current year. For

 

a municipality, other than a municipality described in section 14,

 

the calculation shall exclude debt millage. For an individual

 

millage rate not levied in 1 of the years, the lowest millage rate

 

is zero. A millage used to make the calculations under this act

 

must be levied against both real property and personal property.

 

     (6) Not later than June 5, 2016, and each June 5 thereafter,

 

the assessor for each city and township shall report to the county

 

equalization director the increased value from expired tax


exemptions for each municipality that is subject to section 14(2)

 

and that levies taxes in the city or township. Not later than June

 

20, 2016, and each June 20 thereafter, the equalization director

 

for each county shall report to the department the increased value

 

from expired tax exemptions for each municipality that is subject

 

to section 14(2) and that levies taxes in the city or township. For

 

each municipality subject to section 14(2) that levies a millage in

 

more than 1 county, the county equalization director responsible

 

for compiling the municipality's taxable value under section 34d of

 

the general property tax act, 1893 PA 206, MCL 211.34d, shall

 

compile the municipality's information described in this

 

subsection.

 

     Sec. 16a. (1) Not later than June 15, 2014 and June 15, 2015,

 

each municipality that is a tax increment finance authority shall

 

calculate and report to the department the municipality's tax

 

increment small taxpayer loss for the current calendar year.

 

     (2) Not later than June 15, 2016, and each June 15 thereafter,

 

each municipality that is a tax increment finance authority shall

 

do all of the following for each of its tax increment financing

 

plans:

 

     (a) Calculate the total captured value of all industrial

 

personal property and commercial personal property in the

 

municipality that is a tax increment finance authority in 2013 and

 

add any increased captured value for the current year.

 

     (b) From the amount calculated in subdivision (a), subtract

 

the total captured value of all industrial personal property and

 

commercial personal property in the municipality that is a tax


increment finance authority in the current year. If the resulting

 

amount, when added to the taxable value of all property within the

 

tax increment finance authority in the current year, would result

 

in a captured value for all property within the tax increment

 

finance authority that is less than the resulting amount, then this

 

captured value shall be used instead of the resulting amount.

 

     (c) Multiply the result of the calculation in subdivision (b)

 

by the sum of the lowest rate of each individual millage levied in

 

the period between 2012 2013 and the year immediately preceding the

 

current year, to the extent the millage is subject to capture by

 

that tax increment finance authority. For an individual millage

 

rate not levied in 1 of the years, the lowest millage rate is zero.

 

A millage used to make the calculation under this subdivision must

 

be eligible to be levied against both real property and personal

 

property.

 

     (d) Adjust the amount calculated under subdivision (c) by the

 

amount required to reflect the final order of a court or body of

 

competent jurisdiction related to any prior year calculation under

 

this section.

 

     (e) For an obligation refinanced after 2012, estimate for the

 

term of the obligation:

 

     (i) The cumulative school district operating tax and state

 

education tax that would have been captured to repay the obligation

 

had the obligation not been refinanced.

 

     (ii) The cumulative amount calculated under subdivision (c),

 

as adjusted by subdivision (d), for school district operating tax

 

and state education tax for the obligation had it not been


refinanced.

 

     (f) Once the amount included in subdivision (c), as adjusted

 

by subdivision (d), for the current and prior years for school

 

operating tax and state education tax for the refinanced obligation

 

equals the amount estimated in subdivision (e)(ii), subtract from

 

the amount calculated under subdivision (c), as adjusted by

 

subdivision (d), the amount calculated under subdivision (c), as

 

adjusted by subdivision (d), for school district operating tax and

 

state education tax for the refinanced obligation.

 

     (g) Once the amount of school district operating tax and state

 

education tax captured for the current and prior years to pay the

 

refinanced obligation equals the amount estimated under subdivision

 

(e)(i), subtract from the amount calculated in subdivision (c), as

 

adjusted by subdivision (d), the amount of school operating tax and

 

state education tax captured to repay the refinanced obligation.

 

     (3) Not later than June 15, 2016, and each June 15 thereafter,

 

each municipality that is a tax increment finance authority shall

 

report to the department the results of the calculations under

 

subsection (2) for each tax increment financing plan.