0001| HOUSE BILL 735 | 0002| 43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997 | 0003| INTRODUCED BY | 0004| JAMES ROGER MADALENA | 0005| | 0006| | 0007| | 0008| | 0009| | 0010| AN ACT | 0011| RELATING TO INCOME TAX; AMENDING SECTIONS OF THE NMSA 1978; | 0012| DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. | 0013| | 0014| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO: | 0015| Section 1. Section 7-2-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1986, | 0016| Chapter 20, Section 26, as amended) is amended to read: | 0017| "7-2-2. DEFINITIONS.--For the purpose of the Income Tax | 0018| Act and unless the context requires otherwise: | 0019| A. "adjusted gross income" means adjusted gross | 0020| income as defined in Section 62 of the Internal Revenue Code, | 0021| as that section may be amended or renumbered; | 0022| B. "base income": | 0023| (1) means, for estates and trusts, that part | 0024| of the estate's or trust's income defined as taxable income and | 0025| upon which the federal income tax is calculated in the Internal | 0001| Revenue Code for income tax purposes plus, for taxable years | 0002| beginning on or after January 1, 1991, the amount of the net | 0003| operating loss deduction allowed by Section 172(a) of the | 0004| Internal Revenue Code, as that section may be amended or | 0005| renumbered, and taken by the taxpayer for that year; | 0006| (2) means, for taxpayers other than estates or | 0007| trusts, that part of the taxpayer's income defined as adjusted | 0008| gross income plus, for taxable years beginning on or after | 0009| January 1, 1991, the amount of the net operating loss deduction | 0010| allowed by Section 172(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, as that | 0011| section may be amended or renumbered, and taken by the taxpayer | 0012| for that year; and | 0013| (3) includes, for all taxpayers, any other | 0014| income of the taxpayer not included in adjusted gross income | 0015| but upon which a federal tax is calculated pursuant to the | 0016| Internal Revenue Code for income tax purposes, except amounts | 0017| for which a calculation of tax is made pursuant to Section 55 | 0018| of the Internal Revenue Code, as that section may be amended or | 0019| renumbered; "base income" also includes interest received on a | 0020| state or local bond; | 0021| C. "compensation" means wages, salaries, | 0022| commissions and any other form of remuneration paid to | 0023| employees for personal services; | 0024| D. "department" means the taxation and revenue | 0025| department, the secretary of taxation and revenue or any | 0001| employee of the department exercising authority lawfully | 0002| delegated to that employee by the secretary; | 0003| E. "fiduciary" means a guardian, trustee, executor, | 0004| administrator, committee, conservator, receiver, individual or | 0005| corporation acting in any fiduciary capacity; | 0006| F. "filing status" means "married filing joint | 0007| returns", "married filing separate returns", "head of | 0008| household", "surviving spouse" and "single", as those terms are | 0009| generally defined for federal tax purposes; | 0010| G. "fiscal year" means any accounting period of | 0011| twelve months ending on the last day of any month other than | 0012| December; | 0013| H. "head of household" means "head of household" as | 0014| generally defined for federal income tax purposes; | 0015| I. "individual" means a natural person, an estate, | 0016| a trust or a fiduciary acting for a natural person, trust or | 0017| estate; | 0018| J. "Internal Revenue Code" means the United States | 0019| Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; | 0020| K. "lump-sum amount" means an amount that, for the | 0021| purpose of determining liability for federal income tax, was | 0022| not included in adjusted gross income but upon which the five- | 0023| year-averaging or the ten-year-averaging method of tax | 0024| computation provided in Section 402 of the Internal Revenue | 0025| Code, as that section may be amended or renumbered, was | 0001| applied; | 0002| L. "modified gross income" means all income of the | 0003| taxpayer and, if any, the taxpayer's spouse and dependents, | 0004| undiminished by losses and from whatever source derived, | 0005| including: | 0006| (1) compensation; | 0007| (2) net profit derived from business; | 0008| (3) gains derived from dealings in property; | 0009| (4) interest; | 0010| (5) net rents; | 0011| (6) royalties; | 0012| (7) dividends; | 0013| (8) alimony and separate maintenance payments; | 0014| (9) annuities; | 0015| (10) income from life insurance and endowment | 0016| contracts; | 0017| (11) pensions; | 0018| (12) discharge of indebtedness; | 0019| (13) distributive share of partnership income; | 0020| (14) income in respect of a decedent; | 0021| (15) income from an interest in an estate or | 0022| trust; | 0023| (16) social security benefits; | 0024| (17) unemployment compensation benefits; | 0025| (18) workers' compensation benefits; | 0001| (19) public assistance and welfare benefits; | 0002| (20) cost-of-living allowances; and | 0003| (21) gifts; | 0004| M. "modified gross income" does not include: | 0005| (1) payments for hospital, dental, medical or | 0006| drug expenses whether made to or on behalf of the taxpayer; | 0007| (2) the value of room and board provided by | 0008| federal, state or local governments or by private individuals | 0009| or agencies based upon financial need and not as a form of | 0010| compensation; | 0011| (3) payments made pursuant to a federal, state | 0012| or local government program directly or indirectly to a third | 0013| party on behalf of the taxpayer when identified to a particular | 0014| use or invoice by the payer; or | 0015| (4) payments made pursuant to Sections | 0016| 7-2-14, [7-2-14.1] 7-2-18, 7-2-18.1 and 7-3-9 NMSA 1978; | 0017| N. "net income" means, for estates and trusts, base | 0018| income adjusted to exclude amounts that the state is prohibited | 0019| from taxing because of the laws or constitution of this state | 0020| or the United States and means, for taxpayers other than | 0021| estates or trusts, base income adjusted to exclude: | 0022| (1) an amount equal to the standard deduction | 0023| allowed the taxpayer for the taxpayer's taxable year by Section | 0024| 63 of the Internal Revenue Code, as that section may be amended | 0025| or renumbered; | 0001| (2) an amount equal to the itemized | 0002| deductions, as defined in Section 63 of the Internal Revenue | 0003| Code, as that section may be amended or renumbered, allowed the | 0004| taxpayer for the taxpayer's taxable year less the amount | 0005| excluded pursuant to Paragraph (1) of this subsection; | 0006| (3) an amount equal to the product of the | 0007| exemption amount allowed for the taxpayer's taxable year by | 0008| Section 151 of the Internal Revenue Code, as that section may | 0009| be amended or renumbered, multiplied by the number of personal | 0010| exemptions allowed for federal income tax purposes; | 0011| (4) income from obligations of the United | 0012| States of America less expenses incurred to earn that income; | 0013| (5) other amounts that the state is prohibited | 0014| from taxing because of the laws or constitution of this state | 0015| or the United States; | 0016| (6) for taxable years that began prior to | 0017| January 1, 1991, an amount equal to the sum of: | 0018| (a) net operating loss carryback | 0019| deductions to that year from taxable years beginning prior to | 0020| January 1, 1991 claimed and allowed, as provided by the | 0021| Internal Revenue Code; and | 0022| (b) net operating loss carryover | 0023| deductions to that year claimed and allowed; and | 0024| (7) for taxable years beginning on or after | 0025| January 1, 1991, an amount equal to the sum of any net | 0001| operating loss carryover deductions to that year claimed and | 0002| allowed, provided that the amount of any net operating loss | 0003| carryover from a taxable year beginning on or after January 1, | 0004| 1991 may be excluded only as follows: | 0005| (a) in the case of a timely filed | 0006| return, in the taxable year immediately following the taxable | 0007| year for which the return is filed; or | 0008| (b) in the case of amended returns or | 0009| original returns not timely filed, in the first taxable year | 0010| beginning after the date on which the return or amended return | 0011| establishing the net operating loss is filed; and | 0012| (c) in either case, if the net operating | 0013| loss carryover exceeds the amount of net income exclusive of | 0014| the net operating loss carryover for the taxable year to which | 0015| the exclusion first applies, in the next four succeeding | 0016| taxable years in turn until the net operating loss carryover is | 0017| exhausted; in no event shall a net operating loss carryover be | 0018| excluded in any taxable year after the fourth taxable year | 0019| beginning after the taxable year to which the exclusion first | 0020| applies; | 0021| O. "net operating loss" means any net operating | 0022| loss, as defined by Section 172(c) of the Internal Revenue | 0023| Code, as that section may be amended or renumbered, for a | 0024| taxable year as further increased by the income, if any, from | 0025| obligations of the United States for that year less related | 0001| expenses; | 0002| P. "net operating loss carryover" means the amount, | 0003| or any portion of the amount, of a net operating loss for any | 0004| taxable year that, pursuant to Paragraph (6) or (7) of | 0005| Subsection N of this section, may be excluded from base income; | 0006| Q. "nonresident" means every individual not a | 0007| resident of this state; | 0008| R. "person" means any individual, estate, trust, | 0009| receiver, cooperative association, club, corporation, company, | 0010| firm, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, | 0011| syndicate or other association; "person" also means, to the | 0012| extent permitted by law, any federal, state or other | 0013| governmental unit or subdivision or agency, department or | 0014| instrumentality thereof; | 0015| S. "resident" means an individual who is domiciled | 0016| in this state during any part of the taxable year; but any | 0017| individual who, on or before the last day of the taxable year, | 0018| changed his place of abode to a place without this state with | 0019| the bona fide intention of continuing actually to abide | 0020| permanently without this state is not a resident for the | 0021| purposes of the Income Tax Act; | 0022| T. "secretary" means the secretary of taxation and | 0023| revenue or the secretary's delegate; | 0024| U. "state" means any state of the United States, | 0025| the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any | 0001| territory or possession of the United States or any political | 0002| subdivision of a foreign country; | 0003| V. "state or local bond" means a bond issued by a | 0004| state other than New Mexico, [or] by a local government other | 0005| than one of New Mexico's political subdivisions or by a tribal | 0006| government other than an Indian nation, tribe or pueblo located | 0007| in whole or in part in New Mexico, the interest from which is | 0008| excluded from income for federal income tax purposes under | 0009| Section 103 of the Internal Revenue Code, as that section may | 0010| be amended or renumbered; | 0011| W. "surviving spouse" means "surviving spouse" as | 0012| generally defined for federal income tax purposes; | 0013| X. "taxable income" means net income less any lump- | 0014| sum amount; | 0015| Y. "taxable year" means the calendar year or fiscal | 0016| year upon the basis of which the net income is computed under | 0017| the Income Tax Act and includes, in the case of the return made | 0018| for a fractional part of a year under the provisions of the | 0019| Income Tax Act, the period for which the return is made; and | 0020| Z. "taxpayer" means any individual subject to the | 0021| tax imposed by the Income Tax Act." | 0022| Section 2. Section 7-2A-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1986, | 0023| Chapter 20, Section 33, as amended) is amended to read: | 0024| "7-2A-2. DEFINITIONS.--For the purpose of the Corporate | 0025| Income and Franchise Tax Act and unless the context requires | 0001| otherwise: | 0002| A. "affiliated group" means that term as it is used | 0003| in the Internal Revenue Code; | 0004| B. "bank" means any national bank, national banking | 0005| association, state bank or bank holding company; | 0006| C. "base income" means that part of the taxpayer's | 0007| income defined as taxable income and upon which the federal | 0008| income tax is calculated in the Internal Revenue Code for | 0009| income tax purposes plus, for taxable years beginning on or | 0010| after January 1, 1991, the amount of the net operating loss | 0011| deduction allowed by Section 172(a) of the Internal Revenue | 0012| Code, as that section may be amended or renumbered, and claimed | 0013| by the taxpayer for that year; "base income" also includes | 0014| interest received on a state or local bond; | 0015| D. "corporation" means corporations, joint stock | 0016| companies, real estate trusts organized and operated under the | 0017| Real Estate Trust Act, financial corporations and banks, other | 0018| business associations and, for corporate income tax purposes, | 0019| partnerships and limited liability companies taxed as | 0020| corporations under the Internal Revenue Code; | 0021| E. "department" means the taxation and revenue | 0022| department, the secretary of taxation and revenue or any | 0023| employee of the department exercising authority lawfully | 0024| delegated to that employee by the secretary; | 0025| F. "financial corporation" means any savings or | 0001| building and loan association or any incorporated savings and | 0002| loan company, trust company, mortgage banking company, consumer | 0003| finance company or other financial corporation; | 0004| G. "fiscal year" means any accounting period of | 0005| twelve months ending on the last day of any month other than | 0006| December; | 0007| H. "Internal Revenue Code" means the United States | 0008| Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended; | 0009| I. "net income" means base income adjusted to | 0010| exclude: | 0011| (1) amounts that have been taxed as income | 0012| under the Banking and Financial Corporations Tax Act; | 0013| (2) income from obligations of the United | 0014| States less expenses incurred to earn that income; | 0015| (3) other amounts that the state is prohibited | 0016| from taxing because of the laws or constitution of this state | 0017| or the United States; | 0018| (4) for taxable years that began prior to | 0019| January 1, 1991, an amount equal to the sum of: | 0020| (a) net operating loss carryback | 0021| deductions to that year from taxable years beginning prior to | 0022| January 1, 1991 claimed and allowed, as provided by the | 0023| Internal Revenue Code; and | 0024| (b) net operating loss carryover | 0025| deductions to that year claimed and allowed; and | 0001| (5) for taxable years beginning on or after | 0002| January 1, 1991, an amount equal to the sum of any net | 0003| operating loss carryover deductions to that year claimed and | 0004| allowed, provided that the amount of any net operating loss | 0005| carryover from a taxable year beginning on or after January 1, | 0006| 1991 may be excluded only as follows: | 0007| (a) in the case of a timely filed | 0008| return, in the taxable year immediately following the taxable | 0009| year for which the return is filed; or | 0010| (b) in the case of amended returns or | 0011| original returns not timely filed, in the first taxable year | 0012| beginning after the date on which the return or amended return | 0013| establishing the net operating loss is filed; and | 0014| (c) in either case, if the net operating | 0015| loss carryover exceeds the amount of net income exclusive of | 0016| the net operating loss carryover for the taxable year to which | 0017| the exclusion first applies, in the next four succeeding | 0018| taxable years in turn until the net operating loss carryover is | 0019| exhausted; in no event may a net operating loss carryover be | 0020| excluded in any taxable year after the fourth taxable year | 0021| beginning after the taxable year to which the exclusion first | 0022| applies; | 0023| J. "net operating loss" means any net operating | 0024| loss, as defined by Section 172(c) of the Internal Revenue | 0025| Code, as that section may be amended or renumbered, for a | 0001| taxable year as further increased by the income, if any, from | 0002| obligations of the United States for that year less related | 0003| expenses; | 0004| K. "net operating loss carryover" means the amount, | 0005| or any portion of the amount, of a net operating loss for any | 0006| taxable year that, pursuant to Paragraph (4) or (5) of | 0007| Subsection I of this section, may be excluded from base income; | 0008| L. "person" means any individual, estate, trust, | 0009| receiver, cooperative association, club, corporation, company, | 0010| firm, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, | 0011| syndicate or other association; "person" also means, to the | 0012| extent permitted by law, any federal, state or other | 0013| governmental unit or subdivision or agency, department or | 0014| instrumentality thereof; | 0015| M. "secretary" means the secretary of taxation and | 0016| revenue or the secretary's delegate; | 0017| N. "state" means any state of the United States, | 0018| the District of Columbia, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, any | 0019| territory or possession of the United States or political | 0020| subdivision thereof or any political subdivision of a foreign | 0021| country; | 0022| O. "state or local bond" means a bond issued by a | 0023| state other than New Mexico, [or] by a local government other | 0024| than one of New Mexico's political subdivisions or by a tribal | 0025| government other than an Indian nation, tribe or pueblo located | 0001| in whole or in part in New Mexico, the interest from which is | 0002| excluded from income for federal income tax purposes under | 0003| Section 103 of the Internal Revenue Code, as that section may | 0004| be amended or renumbered; | 0005| P. "taxable year" means the calendar year or fiscal | 0006| year upon the basis of which the net income is computed under | 0007| the Corporate Income and Franchise Tax Act and includes, in the | 0008| case of the return made for a fractional part of a year under | 0009| the provisions of that act, the period for which the return is | 0010| made; | 0011| Q. "taxpayer" means any corporation subject to the | 0012| taxes imposed by the Corporate Income and Franchise Tax Act; | 0013| and | 0014| R. "unitary corporations" means two or more | 0015| integrated corporations, other than any foreign corporation | 0016| incorporated in a foreign country and not engaged in trade or | 0017| business in the United States during the taxable year, that are | 0018| owned in the amount of more than fifty percent and controlled | 0019| by the same person and for which at least one of the following | 0020| conditions exists: | 0021| (1) there is a unity of operations evidenced | 0022| by central purchasing, advertising, accounting or other | 0023| centralized services; | 0024| (2) there is a centralized management or | 0025| executive force and centralized system of operation; or | 0001| (3) the operations of the corporations are | 0002| dependent upon or contribute property or services to one | 0003| another individually or as a group." | 0004| Section 3. EMERGENCY.--It is necessary for the public | 0005| peace, health and safety that this act take effect immediately. | 0006|  State of New Mexico | 0007| House of Representatives | 0008| | 0009| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE | 0010| FIRST SESSION, 1997 | 0011| | 0012| | 0013| March 17, 1997 | 0014| | 0015| | 0016| Mr. Speaker: | 0017| | 0018| Your TAXATION AND REVENUE COMMITTEE, to whom has | 0019| been referred | 0020| | 0021| HOUSE BILL 735 | 0022| | 0023| has had it under consideration and reports same with | 0024| recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows: | 0025| | 0001| 1. On page 9, line 5, after "New Mexico" insert "or other | 0002| than a council of several Indian nations, tribes or pueblos | 0003| located within New Mexico"., | 0004| | 0005| and thence referred to the APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE | 0006| COMMITTEE. | 0007| | 0008| Respectfully submitted, | 0009| | 0010| | 0011| | 0012| | 0013| | 0014| Jerry W. Sandel, Chairman | 0015| | 0016| | 0017| Adopted Not Adopted | 0018| | 0019| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk) | 0020| | 0021| Date | 0022| | 0023| The roll call vote was 10 For 0 Against | 0024| Yes: 10 | 0025| Excused: Russell, Sandoval, Sandel | 0001| Absent: None | 0002| | 0003| | 0004| .118951.1 | 0005| G:\BILLTEXT\BILLW_97\H0735 State of New Mexico | 0006| House of Representatives | 0007| | 0008| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE | 0009| FIRST SESSION, 1997 | 0010| | 0011| | 0012| March 19. 1997 | 0013| | 0014| | 0015| Mr. Speaker: | 0016| | 0017| Your APPROPRIATIONS AND FINANCE COMMITTEE, to | 0018| whom has been referred | 0019| | 0020| HOUSE BILL 735, as amended | 0021| | 0022| has had it under consideration and reports same with | 0023| recommendation that it DO PASS. | 0024| | 0025| Respectfully submitted, | 0001| | 0002| | 0003| | 0004| | 0005| | 0006| Max Coll, Chairman | 0007| | 0008| | 0009| Adopted Not Adopted | 0010| | 0011| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk) | 0012| | 0013| Date | 0014| | 0015| The roll call vote was 16 For 0 Against | 0016| Yes: 16 | 0017| Excused: Watchman | 0018| Absent: None | 0019| | 0020| | 0021| G:\BILLTEXT\BILLW_97\H0735 | 0022| | 0023| FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE | 0024| FIRST SESSION, 1997 | 0025| | 0001| | 0002| March 20, 1997 | 0003| | 0004| Mr. President: | 0005| | 0006| Your WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE, to whom has been | 0007| referred | 0008| | 0009| HOUSE BILL 735, as amended | 0010| | 0011| has had it under consideration and reports same with | 0012| recommendation that it DO PASS. | 0013| | 0014| Respectfully submitted, | 0015| | 0016| | 0017| | 0018| | 0019| __________________________________ | 0020| Carlos R. Cisneros, Chairman | 0021| | 0022| | 0023| | 0024| Adopted_______________________ Not | 0025| Adopted_______________________ | 0001| (Chief Clerk) (Chief Clerk) | 0002| | 0003| | 0004| Date ________________________ | 0005| | 0006| | 0007| The roll call vote was 9 For 0 Against | 0008| Yes: 9 | 0009| No: 0 | 0010| Excused: None | 0011| Absent: None | 0012| | 0013| | 0014| H0735WM1 |