Iowa Admin. Code r. 701—270.9(423B) — Allocation procedure when sourcing of local option sales tax remitted to the department is unknown

If the director is unable to determine from which county local option sales tax was collected, that local option sales tax shall be allocated among the various counties in which local option sales and services tax is imposed according to the following procedure: 1. The calculations performed under this procedure shall be performed at least quarterly, but in no event less often than the treasurer of the state is obligated to distribute shares of each county’s account in the local sales and services tax fund. 2. The total amount of receipts for which the director is unable to determine a county of collection that have accumulated since the last allocation of these receipts shall be added together to form one lump sum. 3. The amount of population (according to the most recent certified federal census) within the areas of each individual county in which a local option sales and services tax is imposed shall be determined. 4. The amount of population so determined in numbered paragraph “3” above for each county shall be added to the amount for every other county in Iowa in which the local option sales and services tax is imposed, until the figure for the amount of population of all areas of Iowa in which the local option sales and services tax is imposed is determined. 5. The sum determined to exist in numbered paragraph “2” above shall be multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the population of any one county determined in numbered paragraph “3” above and the denominator of which is the number calculated by the method described in numbered paragraph “4.” The procedure described herein in numbered paragraph “5” shall be used until the amount of tax due to every county imposing local option sales and services tax is calculated. After calculations are complete, the treasurer of the state must distribute shares of each county’s account in the local sales and services tax fund. Characterization of the term “most recent certified federal census” can be found in rule 701—270.1(423B), and methods of rounding off percentages and monetary sums can be found in rule 701—270.8(423B).