HOUSE BILL 143

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007

INTRODUCED BY

Mary Helen Garcia

FOR THE NEW MEXICO FINANCE AUTHORITY OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE

AN ACT

RELATING TO TAXATION; PROVIDING A DEDUCTION FROM GROSS RECEIPTS FOR RECEIPTS FROM ADMISSIONS TO NONATHLETIC SPECIAL EVENTS AT CERTAIN POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. A new section of the Gross Receipts and Compensating Tax Act is enacted to read:

     "[NEW MATERIAL] DEDUCTION--GROSS RECEIPTS--NONATHLETIC SPECIAL EVENT AT POST-SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.--Receipts received from July 1, 2007 through June 30, 2012 from admissions to a nonathletic special event held at a venue that is located on the campus of a post-secondary educational institution within fifty miles of the New Mexico border and that accommodates at least ten thousand persons may be deducted from gross receipts."