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Adopted Uniformity Recommendations
Note: The models below organized into the following general categories: Allocation and Apportionment Regulations, Business Income Tax - General, Other Income Tax, Sales and Use or Transaction Taxes, and Tax Administration
Title
Related
Documents
Date Adopted or Amended by Commission
General Function
Information on Adoption by States
Allocation and Apportionment Regulations
Model General Allocation and Apportionment Regulations
Model in Word
Document Library
- archive for Sections 1 and 17 rules.
Document Library
- archive for Section 18 rules.
Originally adopted 1973; revised multiple times through 2010;
amended to implement changes to Art. IV (UDITPA) in 2017 and 2018.
Provides general rules for implementing UDITPA--which is incorporated in the Multistate Tax Compact as Article IV. The current version of the rules implement changes adopted by the MTC to Sections 1, 17, and 18 in 2014 and 2015 to change the definition of "receipts," to source receipts from services and intangibles on a market basis, and to provide additional guidance on the use of equitable apportionment.
Special Rule: Airlines
1983
Provides special industry rules for allocating and apportioning the income of airlines and for sourcing receipts, property, and payroll.
CCH Chart: Airlines
Special Rule: Construction Contractors
1980
Provides special industry rules for allocating and apportioning the income of construction contractors.
CCH Chart: Construction
Special Rule: Publishing
Hearing Officer Report
Hearing Officer Report
(Interim)
1993
Provides special industry rules for publishers including rules for sourcing advertising receipts using a "circulation factor."
CCH Chart: Publishing
Special Rule: Railroads
1981
Provides special industry rules for allocating and apportioning the income of railroads and for sourcing receipts, property, and payroll.
CCH Chart: Railroads
Special Rule: Television and Radio Broadcasting
Hearing Officer Report
(1989)
Hearing Officer Report
(1995)
Adopted - 1990
Amended - 1996
Provides special industry rules for allocating and apportioning the income from television and radio broadcasters including rules for sourcing receipts using an "audience factor."
CCH Chart: Broadcasting
Special Rule: Trucking Companies
Hearing Officer Report
Adopted -1986
Amended - 1989
Provides special industry rules for allocating and apportioning the income of trucking companies.
CCH Chart: Trucking
Special Rule: Telecommunications and Ancillary Service Providers
Hearing Officer Report
(2008)
Supplemental Hearing Officer's Report
(2008)
2008
Provides special industry rules for allocating and apportioning income of telecommunications and ancillary service providers.
CCH Chart: Telecommunications
Special Rule: Receipts Factor - Bank Holding Companies and Subsidiaries
Document Library
2018
Expands the scope of the special industry rules for financial institutions’ to include bank holding companies, bank subsidiaries, and savings and loan holding companies and subsidiaries
Recommended Formula for the Apportionment and Allocation of Net Income of Financial Institutions
Document Library
Original - 1994
Amended - 2015
Provides special industrty allocation and apportionment rules for the financial industry. The 2015 version modified the property factor of the original to exclude loans (and therefore disposed of the SINAA test). The 2015 version also modified the receipts factor to increase “market state” orientation and to reflect changes in services provided by the financial industry.
Business Income Tax - General
ABA Model S Corporation Income Tax Act
Hearing Officer Report
1991
Provides general rules for taxing S corporations based on a model drafted by the American Bar Association Section of Taxation Committee with certain modifications.
Statement of Information Concerning Practices of MTC and Signatory States under Public Law 86-272
Hearing Officer Report, 1994
Hearing Officer Report, 2001
Original - 1986
Revisied -1994
Revised - 2001
Sets out the concensus view of states on the application of the federal statute to particular, common factual scenarios, updated as necessary to reflect changes in business practices and any judicial authorities.
Status Report Regarding State Adoption of "Phase III" Revision of Public
Law 86-272 "Statement of Information"
Model Statute for Combined Reporting
(Joyce Method)
(See also the Model for Compilation of State Tax Return Data below.)
Hearing Officer Report
(2005)
Supplemental Report
(2005)
Memo to the Full Commission
(2006)
Tax Haven Project
Staff Report
(2010)
Staff Report
(2011)
GAO Report
(2008)
Hearing Officer Report
(2011)
Original - 2006
Amended - 2011
Provides a model for combined reporting using the Joyce method. The model defaults to worldwide unitary combination with a “water’s edge” election. The 2011 amended model includes tax haven entities in the water's edge group based on criteria for what is considered a tax haven.
Disclosure of Reportable Transactions
Tax Avoidance Transaction Voluntary Compliance Program
Preliminary Hearing Officer Report
(2005)
Final Hearing Officer Report
(2006)
Memo to Commission
(2006)
2006
These models promote corporate income tax compliance by requiring taxpayers and advisors to disclose reportable transactions and provide for a voluntary compliance program with respect to those transactions. Penalties are imposed for failures to disclose and relief is given under the voluntary program. The models follow existing federal law on reportable transactions with modifications where necessary to reflect state tax law.
Factor Presence Nexus Standard for Business Activity Taxes
Press Release
(2002)
Explanation of the Factor Presence Model
2002
This model provides a simple bright-line nexus test for business activity taxes. A taxpayer will have nexus if it exceeds any of the following apportionment factor numerator thresholds in that state during a tax period:
$50,000 of property;
$50,000 of payroll;
$500,000 of sales; or
25% of total property, total payroll, or total sales.
Requiring the Add-back of Certain Intangible and Interest Expenses
Hearing Officer's Report
Memo to Executive Committee
(2006)
Status Memo to Full Committee
(2006)
2006
This model addresses the use of intangible holding companies to shift income earned in the state to another jurisdiction in which that income is not taxed. The model adds back expenses for intangibles and for interest (in separate sections), incorporating specific exceptions.
Compilation of State Tax Return Data
2006
This model provides for important information reporting and record keeping for corporations filing a combined report to allow state audits. (See the model Statute for Combined Reporting, above).
Taxation of Captive Real Estate Investment Trusts
REIT Final Hearing Officer's Report
2008
This model requires a “captive REIT” add back its dividends paid deduction. A "captive REIT" is a REIT the shares or beneficial interests of which are not regularly traded and that has more than fifty percent of its voting power or value of its beneficial interests or shares owned or controlled by a single nonexempt corporation. (See also the model for Disallowance of Certain Payments to Captive REITs, below.)
Disallowance of Certain Payments to Captive REITs
Hearing Officer Report
2011
This model disallows deductions like rent and interest for payments made by affiliates to a captive REIT. (See also the model for Taxation of Captive Real Estate Investment Trusts, above.)
Other Income Tax
Defining the Residence of a Funeral Trust - Statutory or Regulatory Provision
Hearing Officer Report
(2001)
2001
This model provides a uniform standard for determining the location of a funeral trust.
Mobile Workforce Legislation
Hearing Officer Report
Status Memo to Uniformity Committee
2011
This model sets out proposed uniform rules establishing when a nonresident employee is subject to tax and when the employer is required to withhold on that non-resident employee’s wage income. The model incorporates specific exceptions to the threshold and specifies information employers can rely on.
Reporting Options for Nonresident Members of Pass-Through Entities with Withholding Requirement
Hearing Officer Report
(2002)
Second Hearing Officer Report
(2003)
Supplemental Hearing Officer Report
(2003)
2003
This model establishes a withholding requirement for pass-through entities that have nonresident owners and also authorizes a composite return that can be filed by the entity.
Sales & Use or Excise Tax
Applicability of Sales and/or Use Tax to Sales of Computer Software
1988
This guideline lays out a series of definitions to establish a uniform standard by which the signatory states will distinguish between canned and custom sales of computer software.
Collection and Remittance of Lodging Taxes by Accommodations Intermediaries
First Hearing Officer’s Report
Second Hearing Officer’s Report
Second Hearing Officer’s Report (As Amended)
2012
This model requires accommodations intermediaries to collect tax from customers purchasing accomodations--whether the tax is owed by the intermediary or the accommodation provider. Then the model provides two options for reporting and remitting the tax to the state or local tax agency.
Principles Governing State Transactional Taxation of Telecommunications
1993
This uniformity recommendation proposes uniform principles to govern state transactional taxation of basic telecommunication services, as distinguished from enhanced services.
Sales and Use Tax Nexus (Engaging in Business)
Document Library
2016
NOTE: This model was adopted before the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in
Wayfair.
The Commission has since developed a white paper on best practices for implementing that decision.
Sales and Use Tax Priority: Construction Inventory
2002
This model provides for a credit on certain building materials that are resold or incorporated into other building components that are resold/installed in a construction project.
Sales and Use Tax Priority: Leasing Transactions
2004
This model establishes standard rules for claiming tax credits to avoid double or multiple taxation of portions of a single leasing transaction of property that may be leased in multiple states.
Model Direct Payment Permit Regulation
Initial Hearing Officer Report
(2000)
Final Hearing Officer Report
(2000)
2000
This provision allows the state to grant holders the ability to accrue and pay state and local sales taxes directly to the state on taxable purchases.
Provision for the Collection of Tax on Fundraising Transactions
Hearing Officer Report
2000
This model provides that nonprofit or charitable organizations are not required to collect sales tax on the sales of tangible personal property for fundraising purposes.
Tax Administration
Audit Sampling Authorization Statute and Accompanying Regulation
Hearing Officer's Report
Exhibit A (COST)
Exhibit B (Redlined)
Exhibit C (Clean)
2007
This model statute allows the state tax department to use statistical sampling techniques or other sampling techniques when necessary during audit. The accompanying regulation defines judgmental, probability and statistical sampling techniques.
Communications Transaction Tax Centralized Administration
2012
This model includes three options for centralized collection of communications taxes. Option I provides for state imposition and administration, with revenue sharing to local governments. Option II provides for state and local imposition and state level administration. Option III provides for local imposition and centralized local administration.
2018 Model Uniform Statute for Reporting Adjustments to Federal Taxable Income and Federal Partnership Audit Adjustments
- With Technical Corrections Adopted November 2020
2018 Model - Prior to Technical Corrections
Hearing Officer Report (2018)
2003 Model for Reporting Federal Tax Adjustments
Hearing Officer Report (2003 model)
Document Library
Original - 2003
Amended to address centralized partnership adjustments - 2019
This model sets out uniform rules for taxpayers to follow in reporting the state tax effects of federal tax adjustments including amended returns and audit adjustments. The model was amended in 2019 to accomodate the reporting of federal adjustments from centralized partnership audits and allows for a partnership-pays election for state taxes.
Uniform Protest Statute
1990
This model lays out the procedure by which a taxpayer may contest an assessment.
Model Recordkeeping and Retention Regulation
Hearing Officer Report
(1997)
1998
This model imposes requirements for the maintenance and retention of books, records, and other sources of information for tax purposes. It also addresses requirements applicable to electronic records.
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