One casualty of the deadlock over state tax reform might be efforts to continue the gross receipts tax (GRT) on purchases made by national laboratories in New Mexico.
The
issue is important in Northern New Mexico because the parties interested in managing Los Alamos National Laboratory operations include the University of Texas System and Texas A&M. As nonprofit educational institutions, each would be exempt from paying gross receipts taxes on the millions of dollars spent at the lab for goods and services.
Final proposals are due next month to the National Nuclear Security
Administration, an arm of the U.S. Department of Energy. The for-profit entity that now manages the lab, Los Alamos National Security, is a consortium led by the University of California and senior industry partner Bechtel. Its contract ends Sept. 30.
