99F.11 - WAGERING TAX -- RATE -- ALLOCATIONS.

        99F.11  WAGERING TAX -- RATE -- ALLOCATIONS.
         1.  A tax is imposed on the adjusted gross receipts received each
      fiscal year from gambling games authorized under this chapter at the
      rate of five percent on the first one million dollars of adjusted
      gross receipts and at the rate of ten percent on the next two million
      dollars of adjusted gross receipts.
         2.  The tax rate imposed each fiscal year on any amount of
      adjusted gross receipts over three million dollars shall be as
      follows:
         a.  If the licensee is an excursion gambling boat or gambling
      structure, twenty-two percent.
         b.  If the licensee is a racetrack enclosure conducting
      gambling games and another licensee that is an excursion gambling
      boat or gambling structure is located in the same county, then the
      following rate, as applicable:
         (1)  If the licensee of the racetrack enclosure has not been
      issued a table games license during the fiscal year or if the
      adjusted gross receipts from gambling games of the licensee in the
      prior fiscal year were less than one hundred million dollars,
      twenty-two percent.
         (2)  If the licensee of the racetrack enclosure has been issued a
      table games license during the fiscal year or prior fiscal year and
      the adjusted gross receipts from gambling games of the licensee in
      the prior fiscal year were one hundred million dollars or more,
      twenty-two percent on adjusted gross receipts received prior to the
      operational date and twenty-four percent on adjusted gross receipts
      received on or after the operational date.  For purposes of this
      subparagraph, the operational date is the date the commission
      determines table games became operational at the racetrack enclosure.

         c.  If the licensee is a racetrack enclosure conducting
      gambling games and no licensee that is an excursion gambling boat or
      gambling structure is located in the same county, twenty-four
      percent.
         3.  The taxes imposed by this section shall be paid by the
      licensee to the treasurer of state within ten days after the close of
      the day when the wagers were made and shall be distributed as
      follows:
         a.  If the gambling excursion originated at a dock located in
      a city, one-half of one percent of the adjusted gross receipts shall
      be remitted to the treasurer of the city in which the dock is located
      and shall be deposited in the general fund of the city.  Another
      one-half of one percent of the adjusted gross receipts shall be
      remitted to the treasurer of the county in which the dock is located
      and shall be deposited in the general fund of the county.
         b.  If the gambling excursion originated at a dock located in
      a part of the county outside a city, one-half of one percent of the
      adjusted gross receipts shall be remitted to the treasurer of the
      county in which the dock is located and shall be deposited in the
      general fund of the county.  Another one-half of one percent of the
      adjusted gross receipts shall be remitted to the treasurer of the
      Iowa city nearest to where the dock is located and shall be deposited
      in the general fund of the city.
         c.  Eight-tenths of one percent of the adjusted gross receipts
      tax shall be deposited in the county endowment fund created in
      section 15E.311.
         d.  Two-tenths of one percent of the adjusted gross receipts
      tax shall be allocated each fiscal year as follows:
         (1)  Five hundred twenty thousand dollars is appropriated each
      fiscal year to the department of cultural affairs with one-half of
      the moneys allocated for operational support grants and the remaining
      one-half allocated for the community cultural grants program
      established under section 303.3.
         (2)  One-half of the moneys remaining after the appropriation in
      subparagraph (1) is appropriated to the community development
      division of the department of economic development for the purposes
      of regional tourism marketing.  The moneys appropriated in this
      subparagraph shall be disbursed to the department in quarterly
      allotments.  However, none of the moneys appropriated under this
      subparagraph shall be used for administrative purposes.
         (3)  One-half of the moneys remaining after the appropriation in
      subparagraph (1) shall be credited, on a quarterly basis, to the
      general fund of the state for the purpose of funding the endow Iowa
      tax credit provided in section 15E.305.
         e.  The remaining amount of the adjusted gross receipts tax
      shall be credited to the general fund of the state.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         89 Acts, ch 67, §11; 89 Acts, ch 139, §7; 94 Acts, ch 1021, §25;
      94 Acts, ch 1186, §33; 98 Acts, ch 1221, §11; 2003 Acts, ch 178,
      §107, 121; 2003 Acts, ch 179, §142; 2004 Acts, ch 1136, §50; 2006
      Acts, ch 1151, §6, 8; 2007 Acts, ch 100, §1; 2007 Acts, ch 188, §15;
      2007 Acts, ch 215, §87; 2009 Acts, ch 182, §104
         Referred to in § 8.57, 15E.305, 99F.4A, 99F.10, 99G.39, 123.53 
         Footnotes
         For provisions relating to FY 2005 and FY 2006 rebuild Iowa
      infrastructure assessments imposed on licensees of excursion gambling
      boats licensed to conduct gambling games as of January 1, 2004, see
      2004 Acts, ch 1136, §64, 65