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79-3271. Apportionment of net income; definitions. As used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) For tax years commencing prior to January 1, 2008, "business income" means income arising from transactions and activity in the regular course of the taxpayer's trade or business and includes income from tangible and intangible property if the acquisition, management, and disposition of the property constitute integral parts of the taxpayer's regular trade or business operations, except that a taxpayer may elect that all income constitutes business income. For tax years commencing after December 31, 2007, "business income" means: (1) Income arising from transactions and activity in the regular course of the taxpayer's trade or business; (2) income arising from transactions and activity involving tangible and intangible property or assets used in the operation of the taxpayer's trade or business; or (3) income of the taxpayer that may be apportioned to this state under the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and laws thereof, except that a taxpayer may elect that all income constitutes business income. Any election made under this subsection shall be effective and irrevocable for the tax year in which the election is made and the following nine tax years and shall be binding on all members of a unitary group of corporations.

(b) "Commercial domicile" means the principal place from which the trade or business of the taxpayer is directed or managed.

(c) "Compensation" means wages, salaries, commissions and any other form of remuneration paid to employees for personal services.

(d) "Financial organization" means any bank, trust company, savings bank, industrial bank, land bank, safe deposit company, private banker, savings and loan association, credit union, cooperative bank, or any type of insurance company, but such term shall not be deemed to include any business entity, other than those hereinbefore enumerated, whose primary business activity is making consumer loans or purchasing retail installment contracts from one or more sellers.

(e) "Nonbusiness income" means all income other than business income.

(f) "Public utility" means any business entity which owns or operates for public use any plant, equipment, property, franchise, or license for the transmission of communications, transportation of goods or persons, or the production, storage, transmission, sale, delivery, or furnishing of electricity, water, steam, oil, oil products or gas.

(g) "Original return" means the first return filed to report the income of a taxpayer for a taxable year or period, irrespective of whether such return is filed on a single entity basis or a combined basis.

(h) "Sales" means, except as otherwise provided in K.S.A. 79-3285, and amendments thereto, all gross receipts of the taxpayer not allocated under K.S.A. 79-3274 through 79-3278, and amendments thereto.

(i) "State" means any state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any territory or possession of the United States, and any foreign country or political subdivision thereof.

(j) "Telecommunications company" means any business entity or unitary group of entities whose primary business activity is the transmission of communications in the form of voice, data, signals or facsimile communications by wire or fiber optic cable.

(k) "Distressed area taxpayer" means a corporation which: (1) Is located in a county which has a population of not more than 45,000 persons and which, as certified by the department of commerce, has sustained an adverse economic impact due to the closure of a state hospital in such county pursuant to the recommendations of the hospital closure commission; and (2) which has a total annual payroll of $20,000,000 or more for employees employed within such county.

(l) For the purposes of this subsection and subsection (b)(5) of K.S.A. 79-3279, and amendments thereto, the following terms are defined:

(1) "Administration services" include clerical, fund or shareholder accounting, participant record keeping, transfer agency, bookkeeping, data processing, custodial, internal auditing, legal and tax services performed for an investment company;

(2) "distribution services" include the services of advertising, servicing, marketing, underwriting or selling shares of an investment company, but, in the case of advertising, servicing or marketing shares, only where such service is performed by a person who is, or in the case of a closed end company, was, either engaged in the services of underwriting or selling investment company shares or affiliated with a person who is engaged in the service of underwriting or selling investment company shares. In the case of an open end company, such service of underwriting or selling shares must be performed pursuant to a contract entered into pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 80a-15(b), as in effect on the effective date of this act;

(3) "investment company", means any person registered under the federal Investment Company Act of 1940, as in effect on the effective date of this act, or a company which would be required to register as an investment company under such act except that such person is exempt to such registration pursuant to § 80a-3(c)(1) of such act;

(4) "investment funds service corporation" includes any corporation or S corporation headquartered in and doing business in this state which derives more than 50% of its gross income from the provision of management, distribution or administration services to or on behalf of an investment company or from trustees, sponsors and participants of employee benefit plans which have accounts in an investment company;

(5) "management services" include the rendering of investment advice to an investment company making determinations as to when sales and purchases of securities are to be made on behalf of the investment company, or the selling or purchasing of securities constituting assets of an investment company, and related activities, but only where such activity or activities are performed:

(A) Pursuant to a contract with the investment company entered into pursuant to 15 U.S.C. § 80a-15(a), in effect on the effective date of this act; or

(B) for a person that has entered into such contract with the investment company;

(6) "qualifying business income" is business income derived from the provision of management, distribution or administration services to or on behalf of an investment company or from trustees, sponsors and participants of employee benefit plans which have accounts in an investment company; and

(7) "residence" is the fund shareholder's primary residence address.

History: L. 1963, ch. 485, § 1; L. 1980, ch. 316, § 6; L. 1991, ch. 283, § 1; L. 1996, ch. 264, § 1; L. 2002, ch. 185, § 12; L. 2003, ch. 158, § 10; L. 2004, ch. 180, § 14; L. 2008, ch. 182, § 20; July 1.

Revisor's Note:

Section was amended twice in the 2002 session, see also 79-3271a.

Section was amended twice in the 2003 session, see also 79-3271b.

Law Review and Bar Journal References:

"The Kansas Conformity Income Tax Act: Part II," Donald L. Cordes, 17 K.L.R. 289, 299, 300, 305, 307 (1969).

"Survey of Kansas Law: Taxation," Sandra Craig McKenzie and Eric B. Milstead, 37 K.L.R. 961, 999 (1989).

"The Uniform Statute and Rule Construction Act: Help, Hindrance, or Irrelevancy?" Adrienne L. Mickells, 44 K.L.R. 423, 447 (1996).

"2002 Legislative Wrap-Up," Paul T. Davis, 71 J.K.B.A. No. 7, 15 (2002).

Toni M. Ruo, "Not (Taxable) in Kansas Anymore: A Statutory Analysis of K.S.A. § 79-3271(a) and Its Application to the Gain on Sale of a Nondomiciliary Taxpayer’s Pass-Through Equity Interest," 70 U. KAN. L. REV. 753 (2022).

Attorney General's Opinions:

Kansas retailers' sales tax; exemptions. 92-126.

CASE ANNOTATIONS

1. Controlling factor determining business income is nature of particular transaction. Western Natural Gas Co. v. McDonald, 202 Kan. 98, 99, 446 P.2d 781.

2. Income from sale of oil and gas leases constituted nonbusiness income from intangible personal property; taxable at commercial domicile. Western Natural Gas Co. v. McDonald, 202 Kan. 98, 99, 100, 446 P.2d 781.

3. Act construed in action challenging order requiring multistate corporation to apportion net business income under separate accounting method. Amoco Production Co. v. Armold, Director of Taxation, 213 Kan. 636, 637, 639, 653, 518 P.2d 453.

4. Subsection (a) mentioned in construing term "regular part-time employment" as used in 44-710(c). Weight Watchers of Greater Wichita, Inc. v. Secretary of Human Resources, 225 Kan. 534, 538, 592 P.2d 887.

5. Cited; dissent; declaratory action dismissed; authority to require combined reporting of corporate income. Department of Revenue v. Dow Chemical Co., 231 Kan. 37, 642 P.2d 104 (1982).

6. Structure and purpose of act restated; alternative methods under 79-3288 are exceptions to three-factor formula. Pioneer Container Corp. v. Beshears, 235 Kan. 745, 750, 752, 684 P.2d 396 (1984).

7. Cited; use of interrogatories and subpoena duces tecum after commencement of hearing on assessment examined. Kansas Dept. of Revenue v. Coca Cola Co., 240 Kan. 548, 731 P.2d 273 (1987).

8. Whether transactional or functional test governs whether taxpayer's sale of common stock is business income examined. In re Tax Appeal of Chief Industries, Inc., 255 Kan. 640, 641, 644, 875 P.2d 278 (1994).

9. Under transactional test, borrowing money to defend against a hostile takeover is not an expense in regular course of business. In re Tax Appeal of The Kroger Co., 270 Kan. 148, 12 P.3d 889 (2000).


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