N.M. Stat. § 27-10-4
Alternative revenue source to imposition of county health
care gross receipts tax; transfer to county-supported medicaid
fund.
A. In the event a county does not enact an ordinance imposing a county health care
gross receipts tax pursuant to Section 7-20D-3 [7-20E-18] NMSA 1978, the county
shall, by ordinance to be effective July 1, 1993, dedicate to the county-supported
medicaid fund an amount equal to a gross receipts tax rate of one-sixteenth of one
percent applied to the taxable gross receipts reported during the prior fiscal year by
persons engaging in business in the county. For purposes of this subsection, a county
may use funds from any existing authorized revenue source of the county.
B. For each county that has in effect an ordinance enacted pursuant to Subsection
A of this section on July 1 of each year, the taxation and revenue department shall
certify to the county by September 15, 1993 and by September 15 of each subsequent
fiscal year the amount of gross receipts reported for the county for purposes of the
gross receipts tax during the prior fiscal year. Upon certification by the department, any
county enacting an ordinance pursuant to Subsection A of this section shall transfer to
the county-supported medicaid fund by the last day of March, June, September and
December of each year an amount equal to a rate of one-sixty-fourth of one percent
applied to the certified amount.
C. The requirements of an ordinance enacted pursuant to this section may be
terminated for a county only on the effective date of an ordinance enacted by the county
imposing the county health care gross receipts tax; provided that if the effective date of
the ordinance imposing the tax is January 1, the termination does not apply to the
payments required for September and December of that year.