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29 Support legislation to explore and authorize use of alternate, sustainable revenue options or funding sources like licenses, taxes and/or fees for beach, inlet and waterway maintenance(as proposed via 2009 CRC and CRAC resolution for Trust Fund; Senate DRS 85164-SB-12 Beach Management Study Commission Section 2.2 (3) Trust Fund, 2012 Session H1181 Study Municipal Local Option Sales Tax, and 2004 Session H142 Dare County Sale Tax). TF-8: Replace current non-profit sales tax refund process with a revenue-neutral exemption. Support legislation to eliminate the requirement for tax-exempt non-profit corporations to pay sales tax. The current burdensome process, which requires the eligible non-profits to pay sales taxes and then seek a refund from the State has resulted in significant negative impacts upon county budgets. Sales tax revenues received by the local governments that include payments from tax-exempt corporations overstate the amount of funding actually available to the local government, and state audit adjustments result in unpredictable repayment obligations over which the local government has no control. TF-9: Replace current refund sales tax process for public institutions with a revenue-neutral exemption. Seek legislation that streamlines the sales tax refund regulatory process by exempting public institutions (counties, cities, school boards, community colleges, local utility authorities, etc.) from payment of state and local sales taxes on purchases within the state and thereby diminish the administrative burden on the local and state level to pursue/account for/recoup sales tax proceeds. TF-10: Extend Article 44 hold harmless. Seek legislation that extends hold harmless payments for local governments whose expected Article 44 receipts do not replace their repealed state reimbursements. The 2004 Appropriations Act(H1414) amended G.S. 105-521 by guaranteeing hold harmless payments through 2012 for local governments. The 2012-13 payment is scheduled to be the last unless additional legislation is passed. The Article 44 hold harmless payments are approximately $15 million, and these funds are an important source of revenue for the economically distressed counties and municipalities that receive them. TF-11:Allow counties to provide triple credit toward renewable energy portfolios. Support legislation similar to legislation passed in 2010 (Cleanfields of 20 10) to allow counties to provide triple credit toward renewable energy portfolios. TF-12:Authorize greater county oversight of legal electronic gaming operations and support legislation to authorize counties to levy privilege license taxes on these operations. Support legislation to authorize counties to levy privilege license taxes on internet sweepstakes businesses. Counties do not have the same authority as municipalities to levy a privilege license tax on video sweepstakes businesses, and this disparity may create an incentive for such businesses to locate in rural areas outside the corporate limits of municipalities. Seek legislation similar to Hl 180 from the 2011-12 session that would give counties and municipalities the same authority to levy privilege license taxes on internet sweepstakes businesses in order to discourage the proliferation of those businesses in rural areas outside corporate limits.