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Senate Study Bill 267

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  1  1    Section 1.  NEW SECTION.  422.11  FRANCHISE TAX CREDIT.
  1  2    The taxes imposed under this division, less the credits
  1  3 allowed under section 422.12, shall be reduced by a franchise
  1  4 tax credit.  A taxpayer who is a shareholder in a financial
  1  5 institution, as defined in section 581 of the Internal Revenue
  1  6 Code, which has in effect for the tax year an election under
  1  7 subchapter S of the Internal Revenue Code shall compute the
  1  8 amount of the tax credit by dividing the financial institution
  1  9 income taxed to the taxpayer by Iowa by the taxpayer's total
  1 10 Iowa income and multiplying the resulting percentage times the
  1 11 amount of tax under this division after the deduction for the
  1 12 credits allowed under section 422.12.  The resulting amount,
  1 13 which shall not exceed the taxpayer's pro rata share of the
  1 14 franchise tax paid by the financial institution, is the amount
  1 15 of the franchise tax credit allowed.
  1 16    Sec. 2.  Section 422.61, subsection 3, Code 1997, is
  1 17 amended by adding the following new paragraph:
  1 18    NEW PARAGRAPH.  g.  Where a financial institution as
  1 19 defined in section 581 of the Internal Revenue Code is not
  1 20 subject to income tax and the shareholders of the financial
  1 21 institution are taxed on the financial institution's income
  1 22 under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, such tax
  1 23 treatment shall be disregarded and the financial institution
  1 24 shall compute its net income for franchise tax purposes in the
  1 25 same manner under this subsection as a financial institution
  1 26 that is subject to or liable for federal income tax under the
  1 27 Internal Revenue Code in effect for the applicable year.
  1 28    Sec. 3.  This Act applies retroactively to January 1, 1997,
  1 29 for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 1997.  
  1 30                           EXPLANATION
  1 31    The bill amends Code section 422.61 to disallow the federal
  1 32 treatment for Iowa individual income tax purposes where a
  1 33 financial institution, as defined in section 581 of the
  1 34 Internal Revenue Code, is not subject to income tax and where
  1 35 the shareholders of the financial institution are taxed on the
  2  1 financial institutions' income on the shareholder's federal
  2  2 individual income tax return.  This federal provision is known
  2  3 as a subchapter S corporation election.  This amendment to
  2  4 Code section 422.61 is intended to prevent any discrimination
  2  5 in the taxation of federal obligation income of all financial
  2  6 institutions because income of financial institutions would
  2  7 only be taxed under the state franchise tax.
  2  8    The bill provides for a franchise tax credit for
  2  9 individuals who are shareholders of those financial
  2 10 institutions that chose subchapter S tax treatment.  Since the
  2 11 financial institution is subject to the state franchise tax on
  2 12 its income and the shareholder has included its pro rata share
  2 13 of such income in its adjusted gross income for federal tax
  2 14 purposes which is the shareholders net income for state tax
  2 15 purposes such income would be taxed twice.  The credit for the
  2 16 shareholder prevents this.  The amount of credit is determined
  2 17 by dividing the shareholder's pro rata financial institution's
  2 18 income by the shareholder's total Iowa income.  This
  2 19 percentage is then applied to the shareholder's state tax of
  2 20 deduction of the personal credits and the resulting amount is
  2 21 subtracted from shareholder's state tax after deduction of the
  2 22 personal credits.
  2 23    The bill applies retroactively to January 1, 1997, for tax
  2 24 years beginning on or after that date.  
  2 25 LSB 2764SC 77
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