Act No. 184

Public Acts of 2011

Approved by the Governor

October 17, 2011

Filed with the Secretary of State

October 18, 2011

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 2012

STATE OF MICHIGAN

96TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2011

Introduced by Senator Brandenburg

ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 654

AN ACT to amend 1967 PA 281, entitled “An act to meet deficiencies in state funds by providing for the imposition, levy, computation, collection, assessment, and enforcement by lien and otherwise of taxes on or measured by net income; to prescribe the manner and time of making reports and paying the taxes, and the functions of public officers and others as to the taxes; to permit the inspection of the records of taxpayers; to provide for interest and penalties on unpaid taxes; to provide exemptions, credits and refunds of the taxes; to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act; to provide an appropriation; and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 685 (MCL 206.685), as added by 2011 PA 38.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 685. (1) An annual or final return shall be filed with the department in the form and content prescribed by the department by the last day of the fourth month after the end of the taxpayer’s tax year. Any final liability shall be remitted by the annual due date of the taxpayer’s annual or final return, excluding any extension of time to file the return as provided under subsections (2) and (3). A taxpayer, other than a taxpayer subject to the tax imposed under chapter 12 or 13, whose apportioned or allocated gross receipts are less than $350,000.00 does not need to file a return or pay the tax imposed under this part. The apportioned or allocated gross receipts of a flow-through entity shall be imputed to each of its members based upon the same percentage that each member’s proportionate share of distributive income is to the total distributive income of the flow-through entity. A taxpayer whose tax liability under this part is less than or equal to $100.00 does not need to file a return or pay the tax imposed under this part.

(2) If a taxpayer has apportioned or allocated gross receipts for a tax year of less than 12 months, the threshold amount of $350,000.00 in subsection (1) shall be multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of months in the tax year and the denominator of which is 12.

(3) The department, upon application of the taxpayer and for good cause shown, may extend the date for filing the annual return. Interest at the rate under section 23(2) of 1941 PA 122, MCL 205.23, shall be added to the amount of the tax unpaid for the period of the extension. The state treasurer shall require with the application payment of the estimated tax liability unpaid for the tax period covered by the extension.

(4) If a taxpayer is granted an extension of time within which to file the federal income tax return for any tax year, the filing of a copy of the request for extension together with a tentative return and payment of an estimated tax with the department by the due date provided in subsection (1) shall automatically extend the due date for the filing of an annual or final return under this part until the last day of the eighth month following the original due date of the return. Interest at the rate under section 23(2) of 1941 PA 122, MCL 205.23, shall be added to the amount of the tax unpaid for the period of the extension.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect January 1, 2012.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Secretary of the Senate

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Approved

Governor