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<section article="gtg" article_name="Tax - General" number="10-101" title_number="10" title_name="Income Tax" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Definitions; General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this title the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="a–1">
    <text>“Active duty” has the meaning stated in § 9–901 of the State Government Article.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>“Applicable tax base” means the portion of the income of an investment conduit or a special exempt entity on which a tax is imposed under:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>§ 11, § 527(b), § 528(b), § 852(b)(1), § 857(b)(1) or (4)(a), or § 860G(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>any other section of the Internal Revenue Code that the Comptroller determines by regulation to impose an entity level income tax on an entity that the Comptroller determines to be:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an investment conduit under subsection (h)(2) of this section; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a special exempt entity under subsection (m)(2) of this section.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>“Corporation” includes an association or joint–stock company.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>“County income tax” means the county tax on income authorized in § 10–103 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>“Federal adjusted gross income” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>for an individual other than a fiduciary, the individual’s adjusted gross income as determined under the Internal Revenue Code;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>for a fiduciary other than one described in item (3) of this subsection, the fiduciary’s taxable income, as determined under the Internal Revenue Code, increased by the amount allowed to the fiduciary as a deduction for a personal exemption under § 642(b) of the Internal Revenue Code; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>for a fiduciary exempt from taxation under § 408(e)(1) or § 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, the fiduciary’s unrelated business taxable income as defined under § 512 of the Internal Revenue Code.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Fiduciary” means a person holding the legal title to property for the use and benefit of another person.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Fiduciary” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an agent holding custody or possession of property that the principal of the agent owns; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a guardian, as defined in § 13–101 of the Estates and Trusts Article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="g">
    <text>“Individual” means, unless expressly provided otherwise, a natural person or a fiduciary.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="h">
    <text>“Investment conduit” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>any of the following entities described in the Internal Revenue Code:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a regulated investment company;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a real estate investment trust; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a real estate mortgage investment conduit; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>any other entity that the Comptroller determines by regulation to enjoy a status under the Internal Revenue Code pursuant to which the entity is not generally subject to income tax at the entity level so long as substantially all of its profits are distributed to the holders of equity interests in the entity.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="i">
    <text>“Maryland taxable income” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>for an individual, Maryland adjusted gross income, less the exemptions and deductions allowed under this title; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>for a corporation, Maryland modified income as allocated under this title.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="j">
    <text>“Nonresident” means an individual who is not a resident.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="k">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Resident” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an individual, other than a fiduciary, who:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>is domiciled in this State on the last day of the taxable year; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>for more than 6 months of the taxable year, maintained a place of abode in this State, whether domiciled in this State or not;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a personal representative of an estate if the decedent was domiciled in this State on the date of the decedent’s death; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a fiduciary, other than a personal representative, of a trust if:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the trust was created, or consists of property transferred, by the will of a decedent who was domiciled in the State on the date of the decedent’s death;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the creator or grantor of the trust is a current resident of the State; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>the trust is principally administered in the State.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Resident” includes, for the part of the taxable year that an individual resides in this State, an individual who:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>moves to this State with the intent to be domiciled in this State; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>is domiciled in this State and moves outside this State before the last day of the taxable year with the bona fide intention to remain permanently outside of this State.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>If an individual under paragraph (2)(ii) of this subsection again resides in this State within 6 months after having moved outside this State, there is a rebuttable presumption that the individual did not have a bona fide intention to remain permanently outside this State.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="l">
    <text>“S corporation” means a corporation that elects to be taxed as a small business corporation under Subchapter S of the Internal Revenue Code.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="m">
    <text>“Special exempt entity” means:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>any of the following entities described in the Internal Revenue Code:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a farmers’ cooperative;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a political organization; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a homeowners association; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>any other entity not described in § 10–104(2) of this subtitle that the Comptroller determines by regulation to be exempt from federal income tax on all or some part of its income.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="n">
    <text>“State income tax” means the State tax on income imposed under this title.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="o">
    <level label="1">
      <text>“Taxable year” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the period for which Maryland taxable income is computed under this title; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the annual accounting period defined in § 441 of the Internal Revenue Code.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Taxable year” includes:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a calendar year ending on December 31, as defined in § 441 of the Internal Revenue Code;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a fiscal year ending on the last day of a month other than December, as defined in § 441 of the Internal Revenue Code;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>if a return is made for a period of less than 1 year, the period for which the return is made; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>if an election is made under § 441(f) of the Internal Revenue Code, the period for which a return is made.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
