{"id":26427,"date":"2019-05-23T14:09:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=26427"},"modified":"2019-05-23T14:09:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T20:09:21","slug":"certain-public-power-equipment-exempted-from-sales-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=26427","title":{"rendered":"Certain public power equipment exempted from sales tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Streetlights and power poles owned by a city are exempt from state sales and use tax under a bill passed by lawmakers May 23.<figure id=\"attachment_20149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20149\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"20149\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?attachment_id=20149\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLindstrom_inline.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"297,445\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"senlindstrom_inline\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Brett Lindstrom&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sen. Brett Lindstrom&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLindstrom_inline.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLindstrom_inline-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sen. Brett Lindstrom\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLindstrom_inline-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SenLindstrom_inline.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-20149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Brett Lindstrom<\/figcaption><\/figure> <\/p>\n<p>LB218, introduced by Omaha Sen. Brett Lindstrom, adds electric generation, transmission, distribution and street lighting structures or facilities owned by a political subdivision to the definition of real property, thereby making those items exempt from state sales and use tax.<\/p>\n<p>It also excludes from the definition of \u201cgross receipts\u201d the gross income received by political subdivisions for the lease or use of those structures or facilities, making that income exempt from state sales and use tax.<\/p>\n<p>LB218 passed on a vote of 48-0 and takes effect immediately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Streetlights and power poles owned by a city are exempt from state sales and use tax under a bill passed by lawmakers May 23. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[140],"class_list":["post-26427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-revenue","tag-sen-brett-lindstrom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26429,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26427\/revisions\/26429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}