Connecticut Statutes

§ 12-218 — Apportionment of net income.

Connecticut § 12-218
JurisdictionConnecticut
Title 12Taxation
Ch. 208Corporation Business Tax

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Conn. Gen. Stat. § 12-218 (2026).

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(a)Any taxpayer which is taxable both within and without this state shall apportion its net income as provided in this section. For purposes of apportionment of income under this section, a taxpayer is taxable in another state if in such state such taxpayer conducts business and is subject to a net income tax, a franchise tax for the privilege of doing business, or a corporate stock tax, or if such state has jurisdiction to subject such taxpayer to such a tax, regardless of whether such state does, in fact, impose such a tax.
(b)Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, on and after January 1, 2016, the net income of the taxpayer shall be apportioned within and without the state by means of an apportionment fraction. The apportionment fraction shall represent the part of the taxpayer

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Legislative History

(1949 Rev., S. 1899; 1951, 1953, S. 1094d; 1957, P.A. 515, S. 3; 1959, P.A. 147, S. 1; 1961, P.A. 381; 1967, P.A. 586, S. 1; 1969, P.A. 266, S. 1; June, 1969, P.A. 1, S. 14; 1972, P.A. 271, S. 2; P.A. 73-350, S. 9, 27; P.A. 75-501, S. 1, 3; P.A. 77-539, S. 1, 3; P.A. 81-245, S. 3, 4; 81-411, S. 2, 42; P.A. 89-211, S. 24; P.A. 93-403, S. 2, 3; P.A. 96-111, S. 1, 2; 96-197, S. 5, 11; 96-265, S. 4, 5; P.A. 97-243, S. 10, 67; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-4, S. 1, 11; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-11, S. 63, 65; P.A. 98-110, S. 14–18, 27; P.A. 99-121, S. 4, 28; P.A. 00-170, S. 25, 42; P.A. 02-103, S. 44, 45; P.A. 14-122, S. 93; P.A. 15-244, S. 149; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 139; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-1, S. 40; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3, S. 199.) History: 1959 act changed technical language, changed proviso in Subdiv. (1) re allocation of dividends and interest to state so that allocation dependent on whether and to what extent business is carried on in state, and changed Subdiv. (2) to apply to goods situated in state at time of, rather than prior to, sale, etc.; 1961 act deleted reference to royalties in Subdiv. (1), added list of specific inclusions in determining the third fraction, and changed technical language; 1967 act amended Subdiv. (3)(b) to substitute “tangible” for “real” property, and to include in third fraction receipts from sales of tangible property if property delivered or shipped to in-state purchaser regardless of f.o.b. point or other conditions of sale rather than if transactions chiefly negotiated and executed in-state; 1969 acts substituted apportionment for allocation in Subdiv. (3) and changed second fraction to consist of wages, etc. “paid in this state” and specified what “paid in this state” means, replacing previous provision re second fraction and in Subdiv. (2) specified applicability to telephone companies taxable under Sec. 12-214 “for income years beginning on and after January 1, 1971”; 1972 act added provisions re allocation of dividends from DISC or former DISC; P.A. 73-350 deleted provisions re telephone companies in Subdiv. (2) and specifically excluded insurance companies from provisions of section, effective May 9, 1973, and applicable to income years beginning on or after January 1, 1973; P.A. 75-501 replaced former provisions setting out general applicability re maintenance of office without the state with new provisions re taxpayers taxable in another state, effective July 3, 1975, and applicable to income years ending on or after that date; P.A. 77-539 included in general applicability provision taxpayers conducting business and taxable in another state; P.A. 81-245 amended Subdiv. (3)(a) to exclude from the numerator and the denominator any gross receipts attributable to an international banking facility and amended Subdiv. (3)(b) to exclude from the second apportionment fraction wages, salaries or other compensation attributable to the production of gross income of an international banking facility and to exclude from the third apportionment fraction any gross receipts attributable to an international banking facility, effective upon adoption by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of amendments to Regulations D and Q pertaining to international banking facilities (adopted June 9, 1981, with an effective date of December 3, 1981); P.A. 81-411 eliminated the procedure for allocation of net income and modified the apportionment formula by increasing the effect of receipts from sales, effective June 18, 1981, and applicable to income years commencing on or after December 28, 1980; P.A. 89-211 clarified reference to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; P.A. 93-403 divided existing section into Subsecs. and incorporated definition of gross receipts with respect to corporations applying the multiple factor apportionment to corporations using the single factor fraction, effective June 29, 1993, and applicable to taxable years commencing on and after January 1, 1993; P.A. 96-111 inserted new provisions re regulated investment companies and securities brokerage services as Subsecs. (f) and (g), respectively, effective May 24, 1996, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1996; P.A. 96-197 added new provisions re companies that are limited partners in a partnership as Subsec. (h) (enacted as Subsec. (e)), effective June 3, 1996, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1996; P.A. 96-265 inserted new provisions re apportionment of net income of motor carriers which transport property for hire as Subsec. (e), effective June 10, 1996, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1996 (Revisor's note: Subsec. indicators assigned to new provisions were changed editorially by the Revisors to maintain an orderly progression of section concepts and previously existing Subsec. (e) was designated as Subsec. (i) to retain its logical position at the end of the section); P.A. 97-243 amended Subsec. (g)(1) to change reference from “subsection” to “section”, effective June 24, 1997, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1997; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-4 added Subsec. (j) re apportionment of income derived from credit card activities, effective June 30, 1997, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1997; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-11 changed effective date of June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-4 but without affecting this section; P.A. 98-110 amended Subsec. (f) to remove election option, effective May 19, 1998 and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2001, and to make technical changes, effective May 19, 1998 and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1999, and prior to January 1, 2001, amended Subsec. (g) to remove election option, effective May 19, 1998, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1999, and amended Subsec. (j) to make section applicable to financial service companies with net income derived from credit card activities and to remove the election option and to make technical changes, effective May 19, 1998, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2002; P.A. 99-121 amended Subsec. (h) to revise apportionment provisions for investment partnerships and financial services industry, effective June 3, 1999, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1999; P.A. 00-170 added Subsec. (k) re apportionment of income by certain manufacturing businesses, applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2001, added Subsec. (l) re apportionment of income by certain broadcasting businesses, applicable to income years commencing on or after October 1, 2001, and made a conforming change in Subsec. (c), effective May 26, 2000; P.A. 02-103 made technical changes in Subsecs. (k)(3) and (l)(3)(B)(iii); (Revisor's note: In 2003 a reference in Subsec. (j)(4)(D) to “chapter 208” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “this chapter”); P.A. 14-122 made a technical change in Subsec. (b); P.A. 15-244 amended Subsec. (h)(1) to extend exception for taxation under Subdiv. (3) to company that the commissioner determines is member of a combined group that files a combined unitary tax return, and added Subsec. (m) re apportionment of net income by taxable member of combined group required to file combined unitary tax return, effective June 30, 2015, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 changed effective date of P.A. 15-244, S. 149, from June 30, 2015, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2015, to January 1, 2016, and applicable to income years commencing on or after that date, effective June 30, 2015; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-1 deleted former Subsec. (b) re apportionment of net income of taxpayer derived from business other than manufacture, sale or use of tangible personal or real property, redesignated existing Subsecs. (c) to (m) as Subsecs. (b) to (l), amended redesignated Subsec. (b) by replacing “subsection (k) or (l) of this section” with reference to this chapter and Secs. 12-218e to 12-218g, inclusive, on and after January 1, 2016, and deleting former Subdivs. (1) and (2) re computation of apportionment fraction, amended redesignated Subsec. (j) by deleting provisions re numerator and denominator of apportionment fraction and adding reference to apportionment fraction calculated under Subsec. (b) in Subdiv. (2), and by designating provision re election of apportionment by taxpayer as Subpara. (A) and adding Subpara. (B) re computation of apportionment of net income of taxpayer making election in Subdiv. (3), and made conforming changes, effective January 1, 2016, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2016; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 16-3 amended Subsec. (b) re apportionment of net income and gross receipts assignable to state by designating existing provision re receipts from sales of tangible property as Subdiv. (1) and amending same by replacing “receipts” with “gross receipts”, replacing “tangible property” with “tangible personal property” and adding “are assignable to this state”, designating existing provisions re receipts from services as Subdiv. (2) and substantially amending same, adding Subdiv. (3) re gross receipts from rental, lease or license of real or tangible personal property, adding Subdiv. (4) re gross receipts from rental, lease or license of intangible property, designating existing provisions re interest managed or controlled within state as Subdiv. (5) and substantially amending same, adding Subdiv. (6) re exclusion of gross receipts from sale or other disposition of property from calculation of apportionment fraction, adding Subdiv. (7) re gross receipts assignable to state and adding Subdiv. (8) re taxpayer cannot reasonably determine assignment of receipts, effective June 2, 2016, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2016. Dividends received by Connecticut corporation on stock of wholly-owned Canadian corporations carrying on business solely in Canada should be allocated without the state. 122 C. 547. The words “held and owned” include goods of corporation in warehouses and in transit. 132 C. 158. General Assembly has power to impose a tax on a corporation doing business both within and without the state. 135 C. 37. Cited. 179 C. 363; 196 C. 1; 202 C. 412; Id., 583; 203 C. 455; 215 C. 134; 220 C. 665; 224 C. 426. Section is tax imposition statute; any ambiguity must be resolved in favor of taxpayer. 228 C. 137. Storage contracts fall within definition of rental arrangements contained in section; rental payments, “tangible property” and bailments discussed; treatment of payments for use of warehouse storage space as rental payments discussed. 232 C. 325. Cited. 240 C. 422. Cited. 17 CA 82. Where taxpayer could not have acquired information necessary to its business without use of tangible personal property, the three-factor analysis of former Subsec. (b) applied. 73 CA 757. Cited. 15 CS 205; 26 CS 373; 41 CS 271; 42 CS 356; 43 CS 314.

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