Senate Bill No. 500
(By Senators Williams, Sypolt and Unger)
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[Introduced March 6 2009; referred to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §11-14C-5a, relating
to reducing the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off-road fuel,
kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes or
off-road use to four and eighty-five hundredths percent; and
an effective date of January 1, 2010.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended
by adding thereto a new section, designated §11-14C-5a, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 14C. MOTOR FUEL EXCISE TAX.
§11-14C-5a. Wholesale tax on heating fuel, off-road fuels,
kerosene and propane used for home heating
purposes or off-road use; effective date.
Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary,
effective January 1, 2010, the wholesale tax on heating fuel, off-road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home heating purposes
or off-road use, shall be four and eighty-five hundredths percent.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to reduce the wholesale tax
on heating fuel, off-road fuels, kerosene and propane used for home
heating purposes or off road use to four and eighty-five hundredths
percent effective January 1, 2010.
§11-14c-5a is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring
have been omitted.