The Geographic Names Information System Feature Identifier (GNIS Feature ID) has superseded the Federal Information Processing Standards 55 (FIPS 55) database place code as the federal and national standard geographical feature record identifier. ...

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
Sales and Use Tax

RULE NO: RULE TITLE
12A-19.071: Department of Revenue Electronic Database
12A-19.100: Public Use Forms
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The Geographic Names Information System Feature Identifier (GNIS Feature ID) has superseded the Federal Information Processing Standards 55 (FIPS 55) database place code as the federal and national standard geographical feature record identifier.
Effective October 3, 2009, the Department’s Address/Jurisdiction Database, maintained by the Department for purposes of assigning communications service addresses and insurance policies and premiums to local taxing jurisdictions, contains a combination of both GNIS Feature ID place codes and FIPS 55 place codes. The FIPS 55 place code will remain as a field in the database. Local taxing jurisdictions submit address/jurisdiction changes to the Department using the Guide for Address Change Requests. This guide contains the required record layout using the specified place codes.
Providers of communications services address/jurisdiction database and vendors of such databases may request that the Department certify their database for accuracy of the address/jurisdictions contained within the database. To apply, service providers and database vendors must submit Form DR-700012 (Application for Certification of Communications Services Database) and their database in the required record layout using the specified place codes. The required database layout contains a combination of Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 55 place codes and the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) Feature Identifier place codes.
The purpose of the proposed amendments to Rule 12A-19.071, F.A.C. (Department of Revenue Electronic Database), and to Rule 12A-19.100, F.A.C. (Public Use Forms), is to adopt, by reference, updates to Form DR-7000012 and to the Guide for Address Change Requests necessary to the Department’s Address/Jurisdiction Database to include the GNIS Feature Identifier place codes.
SUMMARY: The proposed amendments to Rule 12A-19.071, F.A.C. (Department of Revenue Electronic Database), and to Rule 12A-19.100, F.A.C. (Public Use Forms), adopt changes to the Guide for Address Change Requests to the Department’s Address/Jurisdiction Database, and to Form DR-700012 (Application for Certification of Communications Services Database), necessary to include the Geographic Names Information System Feature Identifier places codes.
SUMMARY OF STATEMENT OF ESTIMATED REGULATORY COSTS: No Statement of Estimated Regulatory Cost was prepared.
Any person who wishes to provide information regarding a statement of estimated regulatory costs, or provide a proposal for a lower cost regulatory alternative must do so in writing within 21 days of this notice.
SPECIFIC AUTHORITY: 175.1015(5), 185.085(5), 202.151, 202.16(2), 202.26(3)(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (g), (j), 202.27(7) FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 175.1015, 185.085, 202.11(3), (10), (11), 202.12(1), (3), 202.13(2), 202.151, 202.16(2), (4), 202.17(6), 202.19(1), (7), 202.22(2), (6), 202.23, 202.27, 202.28(1), (2), 202.30(3), 202.33, 202.34(3), (4)(c), 202.35(1), (2) FS.
A HEARING WILL BE HELD AT THE DATE, TIME AND PLACE SHOWN BELOW:
DATE AND TIME: May 3, 2010, 3:00 p.m.
PLACE: Room 118, Carlton Building, 501 S. Calhoun Street, Tallahassee, Florida
Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this workshop/meeting is asked to advise the agency at least 48 hours before the workshop/meeting by contacting: Larry Green at [phone]. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the agency using the Florida Relay Service, 1(800)955-8771 (TDD) or 1(800)955-8770 (Voice).
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE IS: Janet Young, Tax Law Specialist, Technical Assistance and Dispute Resolution, Department of Revenue, P. O. Box 7443, Tallahassee, Florida 32314-7443, telephone [phone]

THE FULL TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE IS:

12A-19.071 Department of Revenue Electronic Database.

(1) No change.

(2)(a) No change.

(b) Local taxing jurisdictions must submit information requesting changes to the Address/Jurisdiction Database electronically following the on-line Guide for Address Change Requests (October 4, 2009 February 7, 2007, hereby incorporated by reference, effective______12/07). Only local taxing jurisdictions that are registered users of the Department’s electronic change submission process can access the Guide for Address Change Requests. Authorized local jurisdiction contact persons may access the login screen for registered users at http://geotax.state.fl.us. Local taxing jurisdictions that do not have access to computers with Internet access should contact the Department to request authorization to submit changes through alternative electronic media. The information must also be submitted on Form DR-700022, Notification of Jurisdiction Change for Local Communications Services and Local Insurance Premium Tax (incorporated by reference in Rule 12A-19.100, F.A.C.).

(c) through (e) No change.

(3) No change.

Rulemaking Specific Authority 202.26(3)(b), (g) FS. Law Implemented 202.22(2), 202.23 FS. History–New 11-14-05, Amended 12-20-07,________.

 

12A-19.100 Public Use Forms.

(1)(a) The Department employs the following public-use forms and instructions in the administration of Chapter 202, F.S., Communications Services Tax, and in the administration of the Department’s electronic Address/Jurisdiction Database created pursuant to Sections 175.1015 and 185.085, F.S. These forms are hereby incorporated by reference in this rule.

(b) No change.

(2) No change.

Form Number          Title                                                                                                 Effective Date

(3) DR-700012        Application for Certification of Communications Services Database

                                (R. 10/09 01/08)                                                                              _____01/09

(4) through (12) No change.

Rulemaking Authority 175.1015(5), 185.085(5), 202.151, 202.16(2), 202.26(3)(a), (c), (d), (e), (j), 202.27(7) FS. Law Implemented 175.1015, 185.085, 202.11(3), (10), (11), 202.12(1), (3), 202.13(2), 202.151, 202.16(2), (4), 202.17(6), 202.19(1), (7), 202.22(6), 202.27, 202.28(1), (2), 202.30(3), 202.33, 202.34(3), (4)(c), 202.35(1), (2) FS. History–New 4-17-03, Amended 7-31-03, 10-1-03, 9-28-04, 6-28-05, 11-14-05, 7-16-06, 4-5-07, 11-6-07, 12-20-07, 1-28-08, 1-27-09, 1-11-10,.

NAME OF PERSON ORIGINATING PROPOSED RULE: Janet Young, Tax Law Specialist, Technical Assistance and Dispute Resolution, Department of Revenue, P. O. Box 7443, Tallahassee, Florida 32314-7443, telephone [phone]
NAME OF AGENCY HEAD WHO APPROVED THE PROPOSED RULE: Governor and Cabinet
DATE PROPOSED RULE APPROVED BY AGENCY HEAD: March 23, 2010
DATE NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT PUBLISHED IN FAW: A Notice of Rule Development was published in the Florida Administrative Weekly on December 31, 2009 (Vol. 35, No. 52, pp. 6695-6696). No comments have been received by the Department.