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<section article="gtg" article_name="Tax - General" number="10-403" title_number="10" title_name="Income Tax" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Special Treatment of Income">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>“Financial institution” means:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>a credit company;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>except as provided in subparagraph (ii)1 of this paragraph, a finance company;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>an international banking facility;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>a loan company;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>a mortgage company;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="6">
          <text>a safe-deposit company; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="7">
          <text>a savings and loan association.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>“Financial institution” does not include:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>a finance company that makes loans only to farmers for agricultural purposes;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>a company licensed under the federal Small Business Investment Act of 1958;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>a corporation that elects to be taxed as a small business corporation under Subchapter S of the Internal Revenue Code;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>an entity that is a real estate mortgage investment conduit as defined in the Internal Revenue Code;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="5">
          <text>a limited liability company; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="6">
          <text>a commercial bank, savings bank, trust company, or company that substantially competes with national banks in the State.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Financial institution holding company” means a financial institution whose only activities are:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the maintenance and management of intangible investments; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the collection and distribution of income from intangible investments.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Notwithstanding § 10-402 of this subtitle, interest received by a financial institution holding company from one of its subsidiary corporations that is a financial institution shall be allocated to this State only to the extent that the interest is derived from the trade or business of the subsidiary corporation within this State.</text>
  </level>
</section>
