Committee extends manufacturing sales and use tax exemption 10 years; amendment for shorter sunset fails

CHEYENNE — The House Revenue Committee on [date not specified] voted to advance House Bill 11, a committee-sponsored measure that extends the sunset on Wyoming's manufacturing sales and use tax exemption by 10 years and adds conforming language to update the use-tax provisions that were omitted from changes enacted last year.

The bill’s sponsor in interim proceedings was the Joint Minerals, Business and Economic Development Interim Committee, and Brett Fanning, excise tax administrator at the Wyoming Department of Revenue, described the measure to the committee. "This bill...extends the sunset date for this manufacturing exemption," Fanning said, and it also contains a repealer described as "conforming language from House Bill 197 from last year." He told the committee the underlying exemption itself is unchanged and that the bill mainly extends the statutory sunset and corrects use-tax language left out…