83R2686 KLA-D
 
  By: Hilderbran H.B. No. 1289
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the exclusion of certain transportation services costs
  in determining total revenue for purposes of the franchise tax.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Section 171.1011, Tax Code, is amended by adding
  Subsection (v) to read as follows:
         (v)  A taxable entity primarily engaged in the business of
  transporting commodities by waterways that does not subtract cost
  of goods sold in computing its taxable margin shall exclude from its
  total revenue direct costs of providing inbound and outbound
  transportation services by intrastate or interstate waterways to
  the same extent that a taxable entity that sells in the ordinary
  course of business real or tangible personal property would be
  authorized by Section 171.1012 to subtract those costs as costs of
  goods sold in computing its taxable margin.
         SECTION 2.  This Act applies only to a report originally due
  on or after the effective date of this Act.
         SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect January 1, 2014.