Initiative: Provides funding to cover the initial costs of the Bureau of Revenue Services to administer the milk handling tax.

General Fund 2002-03

All Other $10,000

Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this Act takes effect when approved.

SUMMARY

This bill reinstitutes the milk handling tax, which was in effect in 1995 and 1996, at the rate of 8¢ per quart on all milk handled for retail sale in Maine. The tax is paid on a monthly basis by the wholesale handler or, if there is none, by the retail handler. Proceeds of the tax are paid to the State's General Fund for general purposes of State Government and are not dedicated to any particular purpose. The bill also repeals the tax on January 1, 2005.