Bill Text: IL HB3588 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes changes to the definition of investment partnership to provide that a dealer in qualifying investment securities may be considered an investment partnership. Allows a partnership interest to be considered a qualified security if the interest qualifies as a security within the meaning of Section 2(a)(1) of the federal Securities Act of 1933. In provisions requiring that no less than 90% of the investment partnership's gross income shall consist of interest, dividends, and gains from the sale or exchange of qualifying investment securities, provides that that includes the distributive share of partnership income from lower-tier partnership interests and does not include income from partnerships that are operating at a federal taxable loss. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB3588 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2021-HB3588-Introduced.html

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2021 and 2022 HB3588 Introduced , by Rep. Jonathan Carroll SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
35 ILCS 5/1501 from Ch. 120, par. 15-1501
Amends the Illinois Income Tax Act. Makes changes to the definition of investment partnership to provide that a dealer in qualifying investment securities may be considered an investment partnership. Allows a partnership interest to be considered a qualified security if the interest qualifies as a security within the meaning of Section 2(a)(1) of the federal Securities Act of 1933. In provisions requiring that no less than 90% of the investment partnership's gross income shall consist of interest, dividends, and gains from the sale or exchange of qualifying investment securities, provides that that includes the distributive share of partnership income from lower-tier partnership interests and does not include income from partnerships that are operating at a federal taxable loss. Effective immediately.
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AN ACT concerning revenue.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Income Tax Act is amended by
changing Section 1501 as follows:
(35 ILCS 5/1501) (from Ch. 120, par. 15-1501)
Sec. 1501. Definitions.
(a) In general. When used in this Act, where not otherwise
distinctly expressed or manifestly incompatible with the
intent thereof:
(1) Business income. The term "business income" means
all income that may be treated as apportionable business
income under the Constitution of the United States.
Business income is net of the deductions allocable
thereto. Such term does not include compensation or the
deductions allocable thereto. For each taxable year
beginning on or after January 1, 2003, a taxpayer may
elect to treat all income other than compensation as
business income. This election shall be made in accordance
with rules adopted by the Department and, once made, shall
be irrevocable.
(1.5) Captive real estate investment trust:
(A) The term "captive real estate investment

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trust" means a corporation, trust, or association:
(i) that is considered a real estate
investment trust for the taxable year under
Section 856 of the Internal Revenue Code;
(ii) the certificates of beneficial interest
or shares of which are not regularly traded on an
established securities market; and
(iii) of which more than 50% of the voting
power or value of the beneficial interest or
shares, at any time during the last half of the
taxable year, is owned or controlled, directly,
indirectly, or constructively, by a single
corporation.
(B) The term "captive real estate investment
trust" does not include:
(i) a real estate investment trust of which
more than 50% of the voting power or value of the
beneficial interest or shares is owned or
controlled, directly, indirectly, or
constructively, by:
(a) a real estate investment trust, other
than a captive real estate investment trust;
(b) a person who is exempt from taxation
under Section 501 of the Internal Revenue
Code, and who is not required to treat income
received from the real estate investment trust

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as unrelated business taxable income under
Section 512 of the Internal Revenue Code;
(c) a listed Australian property trust, if
no more than 50% of the voting power or value
of the beneficial interest or shares of that
trust, at any time during the last half of the
taxable year, is owned or controlled, directly
or indirectly, by a single person;
(d) an entity organized as a trust,
provided a listed Australian property trust
described in subparagraph (c) owns or
controls, directly or indirectly, or
constructively, 75% or more of the voting
power or value of the beneficial interests or
shares of such entity; or
(e) an entity that is organized outside of
the laws of the United States and that
satisfies all of the following criteria:
(1) at least 75% of the entity's total
asset value at the close of its taxable
year is represented by real estate assets
(as defined in Section 856(c)(5)(B) of the
Internal Revenue Code, thereby including
shares or certificates of beneficial
interest in any real estate investment
trust), cash and cash equivalents, and

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U.S. Government securities;
(2) the entity is not subject to tax
on amounts that are distributed to its
beneficial owners or is exempt from
entity-level taxation;
(3) the entity distributes at least
85% of its taxable income (as computed in
the jurisdiction in which it is organized)
to the holders of its shares or
certificates of beneficial interest on an
annual basis;
(4) either (i) the shares or
beneficial interests of the entity are
regularly traded on an established
securities market or (ii) not more than
10% of the voting power or value in the
entity is held, directly, indirectly, or
constructively, by a single entity or
individual; and
(5) the entity is organized in a
country that has entered into a tax treaty
with the United States; or
(ii) during its first taxable year for which
it elects to be treated as a real estate
investment trust under Section 856(c)(1) of the
Internal Revenue Code, a real estate investment

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trust the certificates of beneficial interest or
shares of which are not regularly traded on an
established securities market, but only if the
certificates of beneficial interest or shares of
the real estate investment trust are regularly
traded on an established securities market prior
to the earlier of the due date (including
extensions) for filing its return under this Act
for that first taxable year or the date it
actually files that return.
(C) For the purposes of this subsection (1.5), the
constructive ownership rules prescribed under Section
318(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, as modified by
Section 856(d)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code, apply
in determining the ownership of stock, assets, or net
profits of any person.
(D) For the purposes of this item (1.5), for
taxable years ending on or after August 16, 2007, the
voting power or value of the beneficial interest or
shares of a real estate investment trust does not
include any voting power or value of beneficial
interest or shares in a real estate investment trust
held directly or indirectly in a segregated asset
account by a life insurance company (as described in
Section 817 of the Internal Revenue Code) to the
extent such voting power or value is for the benefit of

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entities or persons who are either immune from
taxation or exempt from taxation under subtitle A of
the Internal Revenue Code.
(2) Commercial domicile. The term "commercial
domicile" means the principal place from which the trade
or business of the taxpayer is directed or managed.
(3) Compensation. The term "compensation" means wages,
salaries, commissions and any other form of remuneration
paid to employees for personal services.
(4) Corporation. The term "corporation" includes
associations, joint-stock companies, insurance companies
and cooperatives. Any entity, including a limited
liability company formed under the Illinois Limited
Liability Company Act, shall be treated as a corporation
if it is so classified for federal income tax purposes.
(5) Department. The term "Department" means the
Department of Revenue of this State.
(6) Director. The term "Director" means the Director
of Revenue of this State.
(7) Fiduciary. The term "fiduciary" means a guardian,
trustee, executor, administrator, receiver, or any person
acting in any fiduciary capacity for any person.
(8) Financial organization.
(A) The term "financial organization" means any
bank, bank holding company, trust company, savings
bank, industrial bank, land bank, safe deposit

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company, private banker, savings and loan association,
building and loan association, credit union, currency
exchange, cooperative bank, small loan company, sales
finance company, investment company, or any person
which is owned by a bank or bank holding company. For
the purpose of this Section a "person" will include
only those persons which a bank holding company may
acquire and hold an interest in, directly or
indirectly, under the provisions of the Bank Holding
Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841, et seq.), except
where interests in any person must be disposed of
within certain required time limits under the Bank
Holding Company Act of 1956.
(B) For purposes of subparagraph (A) of this
paragraph, the term "bank" includes (i) any entity
that is regulated by the Comptroller of the Currency
under the National Bank Act, or by the Federal Reserve
Board, or by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
and (ii) any federally or State chartered bank
operating as a credit card bank.
(C) For purposes of subparagraph (A) of this
paragraph, the term "sales finance company" has the
meaning provided in the following item (i) or (ii):
(i) A person primarily engaged in one or more
of the following businesses: the business of
purchasing customer receivables, the business of

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making loans upon the security of customer
receivables, the business of making loans for the
express purpose of funding purchases of tangible
personal property or services by the borrower, or
the business of finance leasing. For purposes of
this item (i), "customer receivable" means:
(a) a retail installment contract or
retail charge agreement within the meaning of
the Sales Finance Agency Act, the Retail
Installment Sales Act, or the Motor Vehicle
Retail Installment Sales Act;
(b) an installment, charge, credit, or
similar contract or agreement arising from the
sale of tangible personal property or services
in a transaction involving a deferred payment
price payable in one or more installments
subsequent to the sale; or
(c) the outstanding balance of a contract
or agreement described in provisions (a) or
(b) of this item (i).
A customer receivable need not provide for
payment of interest on deferred payments. A sales
finance company may purchase a customer receivable
from, or make a loan secured by a customer
receivable to, the seller in the original
transaction or to a person who purchased the

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customer receivable directly or indirectly from
that seller.
(ii) A corporation meeting each of the
following criteria:
(a) the corporation must be a member of an
"affiliated group" within the meaning of
Section 1504(a) of the Internal Revenue Code,
determined without regard to Section 1504(b)
of the Internal Revenue Code;
(b) more than 50% of the gross income of
the corporation for the taxable year must be
interest income derived from qualifying loans.
A "qualifying loan" is a loan made to a member
of the corporation's affiliated group that
originates customer receivables (within the
meaning of item (i)) or to whom customer
receivables originated by a member of the
affiliated group have been transferred, to the
extent the average outstanding balance of
loans from that corporation to members of its
affiliated group during the taxable year do
not exceed the limitation amount for that
corporation. The "limitation amount" for a
corporation is the average outstanding
balances during the taxable year of customer
receivables (within the meaning of item (i))

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originated by all members of the affiliated
group. If the average outstanding balances of
the loans made by a corporation to members of
its affiliated group exceed the limitation
amount, the interest income of that
corporation from qualifying loans shall be
equal to its interest income from loans to
members of its affiliated groups times a
fraction equal to the limitation amount
divided by the average outstanding balances of
the loans made by that corporation to members
of its affiliated group;
(c) the total of all shareholder's equity
(including, without limitation, paid-in
capital on common and preferred stock and
retained earnings) of the corporation plus the
total of all of its loans, advances, and other
obligations payable or owed to members of its
affiliated group may not exceed 20% of the
total assets of the corporation at any time
during the tax year; and
(d) more than 50% of all interest-bearing
obligations of the affiliated group payable to
persons outside the group determined in
accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles must be obligations of the

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corporation.
This amendatory Act of the 91st General Assembly
is declaratory of existing law.
(D) Subparagraphs (B) and (C) of this paragraph
are declaratory of existing law and apply
retroactively, for all tax years beginning on or
before December 31, 1996, to all original returns, to
all amended returns filed no later than 30 days after
the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1996, and
to all notices issued on or before the effective date
of this amendatory Act of 1996 under subsection (a) of
Section 903, subsection (a) of Section 904, subsection
(e) of Section 909, or Section 912. A taxpayer that is
a "financial organization" that engages in any
transaction with an affiliate shall be a "financial
organization" for all purposes of this Act.
(E) For all tax years beginning on or before
December 31, 1996, a taxpayer that falls within the
definition of a "financial organization" under
subparagraphs (B) or (C) of this paragraph, but who
does not fall within the definition of a "financial
organization" under the Proposed Regulations issued by
the Department of Revenue on July 19, 1996, may
irrevocably elect to apply the Proposed Regulations
for all of those years as though the Proposed
Regulations had been lawfully promulgated, adopted,

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and in effect for all of those years. For purposes of
applying subparagraphs (B) or (C) of this paragraph to
all of those years, the election allowed by this
subparagraph applies only to the taxpayer making the
election and to those members of the taxpayer's
unitary business group who are ordinarily required to
apportion business income under the same subsection of
Section 304 of this Act as the taxpayer making the
election. No election allowed by this subparagraph
shall be made under a claim filed under subsection (d)
of Section 909 more than 30 days after the effective
date of this amendatory Act of 1996.
(F) Finance Leases. For purposes of this
subsection, a finance lease shall be treated as a loan
or other extension of credit, rather than as a lease,
regardless of how the transaction is characterized for
any other purpose, including the purposes of any
regulatory agency to which the lessor is subject. A
finance lease is any transaction in the form of a lease
in which the lessee is treated as the owner of the
leased asset entitled to any deduction for
depreciation allowed under Section 167 of the Internal
Revenue Code.
(9) Fiscal year. The term "fiscal year" means an
accounting period of 12 months ending on the last day of
any month other than December.

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(9.5) Fixed place of business. The term "fixed place
of business" has the same meaning as that term is given in
Section 864 of the Internal Revenue Code and the related
Treasury regulations.
(10) Includes and including. The terms "includes" and
"including" when used in a definition contained in this
Act shall not be deemed to exclude other things otherwise
within the meaning of the term defined.
(11) Internal Revenue Code. The term "Internal Revenue
Code" means the United States Internal Revenue Code of
1954 or any successor law or laws relating to federal
income taxes in effect for the taxable year.
(11.5) Investment partnership.
(A) The term "investment partnership" means any
entity that is treated as a partnership for federal
income tax purposes that meets the following
requirements:
(i) no less than 90% of the partnership's cost
of its total assets consists of qualifying
investment securities, deposits at banks or other
financial institutions, and office space and
equipment reasonably necessary to carry on its
activities as an investment partnership;
(ii) no less than 90% of its gross income
consists of interest, dividends, and gains from
the sale or exchange of qualifying investment

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securities, and the distributive share of
partnership income from lower-tier partnership
interests meeting the definition of qualifying
investment security under subparagraph (B)(xiii);
gross income does not include income from
partnerships that are operating at a federal
taxable loss; and
(iii) (blank). the partnership is not a dealer
in qualifying investment securities.
(B) For purposes of this paragraph (11.5), the
term "qualifying investment securities" (other than
securities with respect to which the taxpayer is
required to apply the rules of Internal Revenue Code
Section 475(a)) includes all of the following:
(i) common stock, including preferred or debt
securities convertible into common stock, and
preferred stock;
(ii) bonds, debentures, and other debt
securities;
(iii) foreign and domestic currency deposits
secured by federal, state, or local governmental
agencies;
(iv) mortgage or asset-backed securities
secured by federal, state, or local governmental
agencies;
(v) repurchase agreements and loan

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participations;
(vi) foreign currency exchange contracts and
forward and futures contracts on foreign
currencies;
(vii) stock and bond index securities and
futures contracts and other similar financial
securities and futures contracts on those
securities;
(viii) options for the purchase or sale of any
of the securities, currencies, contracts, or
financial instruments described in items (i) to
(vii), inclusive;
(ix) regulated futures contracts;
(x) commodities (not described in Section
1221(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code) or
futures, forwards, and options with respect to
such commodities, provided, however, that any item
of a physical commodity to which title is actually
acquired in the partnership's capacity as a dealer
in such commodity shall not be a qualifying
investment security;
(xi) derivatives; and
(xii) a partnership interest in another
partnership that is an investment partnership; and
.
(xiii) a partnership interest which, in the

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hands of the partnership, qualifies as a security
within the meaning of Section 2(a)(1) of the
federal Securities Act of 1933.
(12) Mathematical error. The term "mathematical error"
includes the following types of errors, omissions, or
defects in a return filed by a taxpayer which prevents
acceptance of the return as filed for processing:
(A) arithmetic errors or incorrect computations on
the return or supporting schedules;
(B) entries on the wrong lines;
(C) omission of required supporting forms or
schedules or the omission of the information in whole
or in part called for thereon; and
(D) an attempt to claim, exclude, deduct, or
improperly report, in a manner directly contrary to
the provisions of the Act and regulations thereunder
any item of income, exemption, deduction, or credit.
(13) Nonbusiness income. The term "nonbusiness income"
means all income other than business income or
compensation.
(14) Nonresident. The term "nonresident" means a
person who is not a resident.
(15) Paid, incurred and accrued. The terms "paid",
"incurred" and "accrued" shall be construed according to
the method of accounting upon the basis of which the
person's base income is computed under this Act.

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(16) Partnership and partner. The term "partnership"
includes a syndicate, group, pool, joint venture or other
unincorporated organization, through or by means of which
any business, financial operation, or venture is carried
on, and which is not, within the meaning of this Act, a
trust or estate or a corporation; and the term "partner"
includes a member in such syndicate, group, pool, joint
venture or organization.
The term "partnership" includes any entity, including
a limited liability company formed under the Illinois
Limited Liability Company Act, classified as a partnership
for federal income tax purposes.
The term "partnership" does not include a syndicate,
group, pool, joint venture, or other unincorporated
organization established for the sole purpose of playing
the Illinois State Lottery.
(17) Part-year resident. The term "part-year resident"
means an individual who became a resident during the
taxable year or ceased to be a resident during the taxable
year. Under Section 1501(a)(20)(A)(i) residence commences
with presence in this State for other than a temporary or
transitory purpose and ceases with absence from this State
for other than a temporary or transitory purpose. Under
Section 1501(a)(20)(A)(ii) residence commences with the
establishment of domicile in this State and ceases with
the establishment of domicile in another State.

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(18) Person. The term "person" shall be construed to
mean and include an individual, a trust, estate,
partnership, association, firm, company, corporation,
limited liability company, or fiduciary. For purposes of
Section 1301 and 1302 of this Act, a "person" means (i) an
individual, (ii) a corporation, (iii) an officer, agent,
or employee of a corporation, (iv) a member, agent or
employee of a partnership, or (v) a member, manager,
employee, officer, director, or agent of a limited
liability company who in such capacity commits an offense
specified in Section 1301 and 1302.
(18A) Records. The term "records" includes all data
maintained by the taxpayer, whether on paper, microfilm,
microfiche, or any type of machine-sensible data
compilation.
(19) Regulations. The term "regulations" includes
rules promulgated and forms prescribed by the Department.
(20) Resident. The term "resident" means:
(A) an individual (i) who is in this State for
other than a temporary or transitory purpose during
the taxable year; or (ii) who is domiciled in this
State but is absent from the State for a temporary or
transitory purpose during the taxable year;
(B) The estate of a decedent who at his or her
death was domiciled in this State;
(C) A trust created by a will of a decedent who at

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his death was domiciled in this State; and
(D) An irrevocable trust, the grantor of which was
domiciled in this State at the time such trust became
irrevocable. For purpose of this subparagraph, a trust
shall be considered irrevocable to the extent that the
grantor is not treated as the owner thereof under
Sections 671 through 678 of the Internal Revenue Code.
(21) Sales. The term "sales" means all gross receipts
of the taxpayer not allocated under Sections 301, 302 and
303.
(22) State. The term "state" when applied to a
jurisdiction other than this State means any state of the
United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, any Territory or Possession of the United
States, and any foreign country, or any political
subdivision of any of the foregoing. For purposes of the
foreign tax credit under Section 601, the term "state"
means any state of the United States, the District of
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any
territory or possession of the United States, or any
political subdivision of any of the foregoing, effective
for tax years ending on or after December 31, 1989.
(23) Taxable year. The term "taxable year" means the
calendar year, or the fiscal year ending during such
calendar year, upon the basis of which the base income is
computed under this Act. "Taxable year" means, in the case

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of a return made for a fractional part of a year under the
provisions of this Act, the period for which such return
is made.
(24) Taxpayer. The term "taxpayer" means any person
subject to the tax imposed by this Act.
(25) International banking facility. The term
international banking facility shall have the same meaning
as is set forth in the Illinois Banking Act or as is set
forth in the laws of the United States or regulations of
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
(26) Income Tax Return Preparer.
(A) The term "income tax return preparer" means
any person who prepares for compensation, or who
employs one or more persons to prepare for
compensation, any return of tax imposed by this Act or
any claim for refund of tax imposed by this Act. The
preparation of a substantial portion of a return or
claim for refund shall be treated as the preparation
of that return or claim for refund.
(B) A person is not an income tax return preparer
if all he or she does is
(i) furnish typing, reproducing, or other
mechanical assistance;
(ii) prepare returns or claims for refunds for
the employer by whom he or she is regularly and
continuously employed;

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(iii) prepare as a fiduciary returns or claims
for refunds for any person; or
(iv) prepare claims for refunds for a taxpayer
in response to any notice of deficiency issued to
that taxpayer or in response to any waiver of
restriction after the commencement of an audit of
that taxpayer or of another taxpayer if a
determination in the audit of the other taxpayer
directly or indirectly affects the tax liability
of the taxpayer whose claims he or she is
preparing.
(27) Unitary business group.
(A) The term "unitary business group" means a
group of persons related through common ownership
whose business activities are integrated with,
dependent upon and contribute to each other. The group
will not include those members whose business activity
outside the United States is 80% or more of any such
member's total business activity; for purposes of this
paragraph and clause (a)(3)(B)(ii) of Section 304,
business activity within the United States shall be
measured by means of the factors ordinarily applicable
under subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), or (h) of
Section 304 except that, in the case of members
ordinarily required to apportion business income by
means of the 3 factor formula of property, payroll and

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sales specified in subsection (a) of Section 304,
including the formula as weighted in subsection (h) of
Section 304, such members shall not use the sales
factor in the computation and the results of the
property and payroll factor computations of subsection
(a) of Section 304 shall be divided by 2 (by one if
either the property or payroll factor has a
denominator of zero). The computation required by the
preceding sentence shall, in each case, involve the
division of the member's property, payroll, or revenue
miles in the United States, insurance premiums on
property or risk in the United States, or financial
organization business income from sources within the
United States, as the case may be, by the respective
worldwide figures for such items. Common ownership in
the case of corporations is the direct or indirect
control or ownership of more than 50% of the
outstanding voting stock of the persons carrying on
unitary business activity. Unitary business activity
can ordinarily be illustrated where the activities of
the members are: (1) in the same general line (such as
manufacturing, wholesaling, retailing of tangible
personal property, insurance, transportation or
finance); or (2) are steps in a vertically structured
enterprise or process (such as the steps involved in
the production of natural resources, which might

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include exploration, mining, refining, and marketing);
and, in either instance, the members are functionally
integrated through the exercise of strong centralized
management (where, for example, authority over such
matters as purchasing, financing, tax compliance,
product line, personnel, marketing and capital
investment is not left to each member).
(B) In no event, for taxable years ending prior to
December 31, 2017, shall any unitary business group
include members which are ordinarily required to
apportion business income under different subsections
of Section 304 except that for tax years ending on or
after December 31, 1987 this prohibition shall not
apply to a holding company that would otherwise be a
member of a unitary business group with taxpayers that
apportion business income under any of subsections
(b), (c), (c-1), or (d) of Section 304. If a unitary
business group would, but for the preceding sentence,
include members that are ordinarily required to
apportion business income under different subsections
of Section 304, then for each subsection of Section
304 for which there are two or more members, there
shall be a separate unitary business group composed of
such members. For purposes of the preceding two
sentences, a member is "ordinarily required to
apportion business income" under a particular

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subsection of Section 304 if it would be required to
use the apportionment method prescribed by such
subsection except for the fact that it derives
business income solely from Illinois. As used in this
paragraph, for taxable years ending before December
31, 2017, the phrase "United States" means only the 50
states and the District of Columbia, but does not
include any territory or possession of the United
States or any area over which the United States has
asserted jurisdiction or claimed exclusive rights with
respect to the exploration for or exploitation of
natural resources. For taxable years ending on or
after December 31, 2017, the phrase "United States",
as used in this paragraph, means only the 50 states,
the District of Columbia, and any area over which the
United States has asserted jurisdiction or claimed
exclusive rights with respect to the exploration for
or exploitation of natural resources, but does not
include any territory or possession of the United
States.
(C) Holding companies.
(i) For purposes of this subparagraph, a
"holding company" is a corporation (other than a
corporation that is a financial organization under
paragraph (8) of this subsection (a) of Section
1501 because it is a bank holding company under

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the provisions of the Bank Holding Company Act of
1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841, et seq.) or because it is
owned by a bank or a bank holding company) that
owns a controlling interest in one or more other
taxpayers ("controlled taxpayers"); that, during
the period that includes the taxable year and the
2 immediately preceding taxable years or, if the
corporation was formed during the current or
immediately preceding taxable year, the taxable
years in which the corporation has been in
existence, derived substantially all its gross
income from dividends, interest, rents, royalties,
fees or other charges received from controlled
taxpayers for the provision of services, and gains
on the sale or other disposition of interests in
controlled taxpayers or in property leased or
licensed to controlled taxpayers or used by the
taxpayer in providing services to controlled
taxpayers; and that incurs no substantial expenses
other than expenses (including interest and other
costs of borrowing) incurred in connection with
the acquisition and holding of interests in
controlled taxpayers and in the provision of
services to controlled taxpayers or in the leasing
or licensing of property to controlled taxpayers.
(ii) The income of a holding company which is

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a member of more than one unitary business group
shall be included in each unitary business group
of which it is a member on a pro rata basis, by
including in each unitary business group that
portion of the base income of the holding company
that bears the same proportion to the total base
income of the holding company as the gross
receipts of the unitary business group bears to
the combined gross receipts of all unitary
business groups (in both cases without regard to
the holding company) or on any other reasonable
basis, consistently applied.
(iii) A holding company shall apportion its
business income under the subsection of Section
304 used by the other members of its unitary
business group. The apportionment factors of a
holding company which would be a member of more
than one unitary business group shall be included
with the apportionment factors of each unitary
business group of which it is a member on a pro
rata basis using the same method used in clause
(ii).
(iv) The provisions of this subparagraph (C)
are intended to clarify existing law.
(D) If including the base income and factors of a
holding company in more than one unitary business

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group under subparagraph (C) does not fairly reflect
the degree of integration between the holding company
and one or more of the unitary business groups, the
dependence of the holding company and one or more of
the unitary business groups upon each other, or the
contributions between the holding company and one or
more of the unitary business groups, the holding
company may petition the Director, under the
procedures provided under Section 304(f), for
permission to include all base income and factors of
the holding company only with members of a unitary
business group apportioning their business income
under one subsection of subsections (a), (b), (c), or
(d) of Section 304. If the petition is granted, the
holding company shall be included in a unitary
business group only with persons apportioning their
business income under the selected subsection of
Section 304 until the Director grants a petition of
the holding company either to be included in more than
one unitary business group under subparagraph (C) or
to include its base income and factors only with
members of a unitary business group apportioning their
business income under a different subsection of
Section 304.
(E) If the unitary business group members'
accounting periods differ, the common parent's

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accounting period or, if there is no common parent,
the accounting period of the member that is expected
to have, on a recurring basis, the greatest Illinois
income tax liability must be used to determine whether
to use the apportionment method provided in subsection
(a) or subsection (h) of Section 304. The prohibition
against membership in a unitary business group for
taxpayers ordinarily required to apportion income
under different subsections of Section 304 does not
apply to taxpayers required to apportion income under
subsection (a) and subsection (h) of Section 304. The
provisions of this amendatory Act of 1998 apply to tax
years ending on or after December 31, 1998.
(28) Subchapter S corporation. The term "Subchapter S
corporation" means a corporation for which there is in
effect an election under Section 1362 of the Internal
Revenue Code, or for which there is a federal election to
opt out of the provisions of the Subchapter S Revision Act
of 1982 and have applied instead the prior federal
Subchapter S rules as in effect on July 1, 1982.
(30) Foreign person. The term "foreign person" means
any person who is a nonresident alien individual and any
nonindividual entity, regardless of where created or
organized, whose business activity outside the United
States is 80% or more of the entity's total business
activity.

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(b) Other definitions.
(1) Words denoting number, gender, and so forth, when
used in this Act, where not otherwise distinctly expressed
or manifestly incompatible with the intent thereof:
(A) Words importing the singular include and apply
to several persons, parties or things;
(B) Words importing the plural include the
singular; and
(C) Words importing the masculine gender include
the feminine as well.
(2) "Company" or "association" as including successors
and assigns. The word "company" or "association", when
used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to
embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company
or association", and in like manner as if these last-named
words, or words of similar import, were expressed.
(3) Other terms. Any term used in any Section of this
Act with respect to the application of, or in connection
with, the provisions of any other Section of this Act
shall have the same meaning as in such other Section.
(Source: P.A. 99-213, eff. 7-31-15; 100-22, eff. 7-6-17.)
Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.