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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Taylor, J.

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/07/07

2/26/07 HB

SHORT TITLE Aircraft Manufacturer Gross Receipts

SB 477/aSCORC

ANALYST Schardin

REVENUE (dollars in thousands)

Estimated Revenue

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

FY09

($158.4)

($237.6) Recurring General Fund

($105.6)

($158.4) Recurring

Local

Governments

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Revenue Decreases)

Duplicates HB 530, Conflicts with HB 256

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Eclipse Aviation

Responses Received From

Economic Development Department (EDD)

Taxation and Revenue Department (TRD)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of SCORC Amendment

In response to technical issues raised by TRD, the Senate Corporations and Transportation

Committee amendment to Senate Bill 477 provides definitions to several terms used in the bill.

The amendment defines an “aircraft manufacturer" as a business entity that designs and builds

FAA certified private or commercial aircraft. “Control" of a business is defined to mean at least

50 percent of total voting power and at least 50 percent of equity in the business.

Synopsis of Original Bill

Senate Bill 477 expands an existing deduction for receipts of an aircraft manufacturer from

selling aircraft to include receipts from an aircraft manufacturer’s affiliate from selling aircraft

parts, components, flight support, pilot training, or maintenance training services.

Senate Bill 477/aSCORC – Page

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An affiliate is defined as a business entity that is directly or indirectly controlled by an aircraft

manufacturer. Flight support is defined as providing navigation data, charts, weather

information, online maintenance records and other aircraft or flight-related information and the

software needed to access such information.

The effective date of these provisions will be July 1, 2007.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

Based on industry information and the Report 80, “Analysis of Gross Receipts by Standard

Industrial Classification," TRD estimates taxable gross receipts for the new deduction will total

about $4 million in FY08 and about $6 million thereafter. With a statewide average gross

receipts tax of 6.6 percent, the bill will reduce gross receipts tax revenue by about $264 thousand

in FY08. About 60 percent of this revenue loss will accrue to the general fund and the remaining

40 percent will accrue to local governments.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

According to EDD and Eclipse Aviation, this bill will help aviation manufacturing companies

located in New Mexico competitively provide manufacturing services. New Mexico aircraft

service providers compete with providers in other states that may not be subject to gross receipts

or sales tax and that may have more convenient locations.

The language contained in this bill will benefit Eclipse Aviation’s JetComplete program, which

provides pilot and maintenance training, data services, flight support services, and aircraft repair

and maintenance services on a fixed payment basis. Eclipse asserts that the deduction creates a

favorable business climate for aircraft owners to have services performed in New Mexico instead

of other out-of-state locations.

Eclipse currently plans to develop a national customer and product support headquarters in

Albuquerque. This facility is expected to employ 77 workers at an average annual salary of $42.8

thousand and a median annual salary of $32 thousand.

LFC notes that while individual deductions from the gross receipts tax may have small fiscal

impacts, their cumulative effect significantly narrows the gross receipts tax base. Narrowing the

gross receipts tax base increases revenue volatility and requires a higher tax rate to generate the

same amount of revenue.

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

Administrative impacts on TRD will be minor.

CONFLICT, DUPLICATION, COMPANIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP

Senate Bill 477 duplicates House Bill 530.

Senate Bill 477 conflicts with House Bill 256, which creates amends the same section to create a

gross receipts tax deduction for belowground irrigation systems.

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