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Title or on any assessment made against the person is liable
for a penalty of 1% of the unpaid tax for each month or
fraction of a month during which the failure continues, to a
maximum in the aggregate of 25% of the unpaid tax.

 
Sec. A-4. 36 MRSA §1752, sub-§15 is amended to read:

 
15. Storage. "Storage" includes any keeping or retention in
this State for any purpose, except subsequent use outside of this
State, of tangible personal property purchased at retail sale.

 
Sec. A-5. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1997, c. 729, Pt. A,
§1, is further amended to read:

 
2. Certain governmental agencies. Sales to the State or any
political subdivision, or to the Federal Government, or to any
unincorporated agency or instrumentality of either of them or to
any incorporated agency or instrumentality of them wholly owned
by them. This exemption does not apply where when title is held
or taken as security for any financing arrangement. This
exemption also does not apply to corporations organized under
Title IV, Part E of the Farm Credit Act of 1971, 12 United States
Code, Sections 2211 to 2214.

 
Sec. A-6. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§80 is enacted to read:

 
80.__Sales of certain printed materials.__Sales of advertising
or promotional materials printed on paper and purchased for the
purpose of subsequently transporting such materials outside the
State for use by the purchaser thereafter solely outside the
State.

 
Sec. A-7. 36 MRSA §4064, first ¶, as amended by PL 1995, c. 281, §22,
is further amended to read:

 
A tax is imposed upon the transfer of real property situated
in this State, including real property held in trust, and upon
the transfer of tangible personal property located in this State,
including tangible personal property held in trust, of every
person who at the time of death was not a resident of this State.
The amount of this tax is a sum equal to that proportion of the
credit for state death taxes provided by section the Code,
Section 2011 of the code that the value of Maine real and
tangible personal property taxed in this State that qualifies for
the credit bears to the value of the decedent's total federal
gross estate. All values are as finally determined for federal
estate tax purposes.

 
Sec. A-8. Application. That section of this Part that amends the
Maine Revised Statutes, Title 36, section 1752, subsection 15 and
that section of this Part that enacts Title 36,


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