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<section article="gtg" article_name="Tax - General" number="10-804.1" title_number="10" title_name="Income Tax" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Returns and Declarations">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>“corporate group” means:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an affiliated group or controlled group under § 1504 or § 1563 of the Internal Revenue Code; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>an affiliated group of corporations:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>that is engaged in a unitary business; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>more than 50% of the voting stock of each member of which is directly or indirectly owned by a common owner or common owners, either corporate or noncorporate, or by one or more members of the group; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“corporate group” does not include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>any corporation that, for any reason, is not subject to United States federal income tax;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>an insurer as defined in § 1–101 of the Insurance Article; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>a regulated investment company, as defined in § 851(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Each corporation that is required to file an income tax return under this title and is a member of a corporate group shall file with the Comptroller:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a pro forma “water’s edge” combined corporate income tax return filed in accordance with regulations adopted by the Comptroller; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>in a format specified by the Comptroller:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the sales factor that would be calculated for this State and the difference in Maryland income tax that would be owed if the corporation were required to include in the numerator of the sales factor for purposes of apportioning income to the State all sales of property shipped from an office, store, warehouse, factory, or other place of storage in this State where:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the purchaser is the federal government; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the property is shipped or delivered to a customer in a state in which the selling corporation is not subject to a state corporate income tax or state franchise tax measured by net income and could not be subjected to such a tax if the state were to impose it; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>for any income that the taxpayer has identified, on the income tax return filed under this title or on an income tax return filed in any state, as income that is nonoperational and therefore not apportionable:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>the amount and source of that nonoperational income; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>if the commercial domicile of the corporation is in this State, the difference in tax that would be owed if the corporation were required to allocate 100% of the nonoperational income to Maryland to the fullest extent allowed under the United States Constitution.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The statements required under subsection (b) of this section:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>shall be filed annually, for all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2005, but before January 1, 2011, on or before dates specified by the Comptroller in an electronic format as specified by the Comptroller;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>shall be:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>made under oath and signed in the same manner as required for income tax returns under § 10–804 of this subtitle; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>subject to audit by the Comptroller in the course of and under the normal procedures applicable to corporate income tax return audits; and</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>notwithstanding any other provision of law, shall be treated as confidential taxpayer information subject to Title 13, Subtitle 2 of this article.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Comptroller shall develop and implement an oversight and penalty system to ensure that corporations provide the required disclosure statements in a timely and accurate manner.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The Comptroller shall publish the name of, and penalty imposed on, any corporation failing to file a statement required under this section or filing an inaccurate statement.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A corporation submitting a statement required under this section may submit supplemental information that, in its sole judgment and discretion, could facilitate proper interpretation of the information included in the statement.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A corporation shall file a supplemental statement under this section within 60 days after:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the corporation files an amended tax return under this title; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the corporation’s tax liability for a tax year is changed as the result of an audit adjustment or final determination of liability by the Comptroller or by a court of law.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Comptroller shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>collect, compile, and analyze the information submitted under this section;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>use the information submitted under this section to provide analyses as requested by the Governor or the General Assembly relating to the corporate income tax or proposals for changes to the corporate income tax; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>on or before March 1 of each year, based on information provided in income tax returns and the data submitted under this subsection, submit a report to the Governor and, subject to § 2–1257 of the State Government Article, to the General Assembly, concerning the corporate income tax.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The report required under this subsection shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>summarize the information submitted under this section; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>provide detailed analyses of the characteristics of corporate taxpayers, including:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>historical series of data and detailed reports for the reported year; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the distribution of Maryland taxable income, income tax liability, and other elements of the corporate income tax such as tax credits, modifications to income, and net operating loss carryovers.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The information provided in the report shall be provided by various categories, including:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>business category; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>various measures of size, such as taxable income, in–State and worldwide payroll, and in–State and worldwide gross receipts.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>The Comptroller shall adopt appropriate regulations to implement the provisions of this section.</text>
  </level>
</section>
