*See Sec. 10-228b re tax credits for donations of computers to boards of education and public schools.
See Secs. 10-416, 10-416a re tax credits for rehabilitation of historic homes and certified historic structures.
See Sec. 12-217i re tax credits for investments in vehicles powered by clean alternative fuels and electricity.
Cited. 90 C. 460.
Sec. 12-249. Tax on gross earnings.
Sec. 12-250. Definitions. Returns.
Sec. 12-251. Basis. Rate. Deductions.
Sec. 12-252. Commissioner to determine gross earnings. Assessment of tax.
Sec. 12-255. Tax to be in lieu of certain other taxes.
Sec. 12-249. Tax on gross earnings. Each corporation operating a railroad, and carrying on business for profit in this state, shall, on or before July first, annually, pay a tax computed upon its gross earnings from all sources from operations in this state; gross earnings being all receipts classified as railway operating revenues by the Interstate Commerce Commission or its successor agency in the classification of accounts prescribed by said commission. No deduction shall be made from such gross earnings for any commission, rebate or other payment, except a refund resulting from an error or overcharge.
(1949 Rev., S. 1927; P.A. 87-124, S. 1, 18; P.A. 96-222, S. 6, 41.)
History: P.A. 87-124 specified that payments be made on or before July first, effective January 1, 1988, and applicable with respect to the tax imposed under chapter 210 on gross earnings in the calendar year ending December 31, 1987, and in each calendar year thereafter; P.A. 96-222 inserted “or its successor agency” after “Interstate Commerce Commission”, effective July 1, 1996.
See chapter 138c re tax credits for donations to Rental Housing Assistance Trust Fund.
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Sec. 12-250. Definitions. Returns. “Authorized agent or officer”, as used in this chapter, includes any trustee, mortgagee or receiver in possession of or operating any such railroad in the state, and “net railway operating income” means railway operating revenues less railway operating expenses, railway tax accruals and uncollectible railway revenue, including in the computation thereof debits and credits arising from equipment rents and joint facility rents. Each such corporation, on or before the first day of July in each year, shall make a return to the Commissioner of Revenue Services, in such form as the commissioner may prescribe and signed by its treasurer or an authorized agent or officer, specifying: (1) The name of each railroad operated by such corporation during the year ended the thirty-first day of December next preceding; (2) the number of miles of all railroad tracks, including yard tracks, sidings, branches and spurs, which were operated by such corporation at any time during the year ended said thirty-first day of December, and the number of miles within this state of all such railroad tracks, including yard tracks, sidings, branches and spurs so operated; (3) the amount of gross earnings of such corporation from all sources from its operation, and the amount of net railway operating income of such railroad during the year ended said thirty-first day of December, or the portion of such year that such corporation has carried on business in this state; and (4) the assessed value of all real estate in this state assessed in the name of such corporation, or of a corporation all of whose property is operated by it, with a specific list of the same and the amount of taxes paid upon any such real estate in any town, in the year ended said thirty-first day of December.
(1949 Rev., S. 1928; P.A. 75-486, S. 27, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 139, 162, 610; P.A. 80-482, S. 19, 348; P.A. 87-124, S. 2, 18; P.A. 90-28, S. 2; P.A. 98-244, S. 11, 35.)
History: P.A. 75-486 substituted public utilities control authority for public utilities commission; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of revenue services for tax commissioner and division of public utility control within the department of business regulation for public utilities control authority, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 80-482 made division of public utility control a separate department and deleted reference to abolished department of business regulation; P.A. 87-124 changed return date from March thirty-first to July first, effective January 1, 1988, and applicable with respect to the tax imposed under chapter 210 on gross earnings in the calendar year ending December 31, 1987, and in each calendar year thereafter; P.A. 90-28 made a technical change in Subdiv. (3); P.A. 98-244 eliminated notarization requirement, effective June 8, 1998, and applicable to calendar years commencing on or after January 1, 1998.
See Sec. 16-27 re time for filing returns and penalty for failure to meet deadline.
Assessment of benefits not a tax to be deducted; 36 C. 255; nor is compensation paid for street railway as an additional burden. 67 C. 198. What property regarded as used for railway purposes. 40 C. 498. Purposes of tax. 42 C. 103; 48 C. 53. As to leased lines in another state, see 48 C. 44. Tax on railroads running into another state is constitutional. 60 C. 327.
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Sec. 12-251. Basis. Rate. Deductions. (a)(1) Such tax shall be based on the amount of gross earnings from all sources from operations in this state as determined by one-half of a railroad's revenues generated by its shipments from all origins in this state and to all destinations in this state or as follows: (A) In case of a corporation operating a railroad which is entirely within the limits of this state, the amount of gross earnings from all sources from operations; (B) in case of a corporation operating a railroad when only part of such railroad lies in this state, such portion of the amount of gross earnings from all sources from operations as is represented by the ratio of the number of miles of tracks, including yard tracks, sidings, branches and spurs, operated in this state during the year ended said thirty-first day of December, to the number of miles of such tracks, including yard tracks, sidings, branches and spurs, operated by it during such year. (2) The net railway operating income for the purpose of computing the rate of tax shall constitute: (A) In the case of a corporation operating a railroad which is entirely within the limits of this state, the entire net railway operating income; (B) in the case of a corporation operating a railroad, only a part of which railroad is in this state, such portion of the net railway operating income as is represented by the ratio of the number of miles of tracks, including yard tracks, sidings, branches and spurs, operated in this state during the year ended said December thirty-first, to the number of miles of such tracks, including yard tracks, sidings, branches and spurs, operated by it during such year.
(b) The rate of tax on gross earnings of railroads shall be fixed as follows: (1) When there is no net railway operating income, or the net railway operating income does not exceed eight per cent of the gross earnings, two per cent of the gross earnings; (2) when the net railway operating income exceeds eight per cent of the gross earnings, but does not exceed ten per cent, two and one quarter per cent; (3) when the net railway operating income exceeds ten per cent of the gross earnings, but does not exceed twelve per cent, two and one-half per cent; (4) when the net railway operating income exceeds twelve per cent of the gross earnings, but does not exceed fourteen per cent, two and three-quarters per cent; (5) when the net railway operating income exceeds fourteen per cent of the gross earnings, but does not exceed sixteen per cent, three per cent; (6) when the net railway operating income exceeds sixteen per cent of the gross earnings, but does not exceed eighteen per cent, three and one-quarter per cent; (7) when the net railway operating income exceeds eighteen per cent of the gross earnings, three and one-half per cent, provided with respect to the tax under subdivisions (1) to (7), inclusive, when there has been filed with the Governor by the Commissioner of Transportation the annual certificate of eligibility for exemption required by section 13b-232 with respect to the year ended said thirty-first day of December, there shall be no tax on gross earnings but a fee of twenty dollars shall be paid to the Commissioner of Revenue Services with the statement required by section 12-250. The amount of taxes paid during the year ended said thirty-first day of December, in any town in this state, on the real estate not used exclusively in the business of such corporation, or of any corporation all of whose property is operated by such corporation, shall be deducted from the amount of the tax upon such gross earnings.
(1949 Rev., S. 1929; 1961, P.A. 11, S. 2; P.A. 75-486, S. 28, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 139, 162, 610; P.A. 78-291, S. 1, 2, 16; 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 85-518, S. 1; P.A. 94-175, S. 2, 32; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-4, S. 80, 85; P.A. 95-160, S. 64, 69.)
History: 1961 act added provision for exemption, by public utilities commission, from taxation under Subdiv. (a); P.A. 75-486 substituted public utilities control authority for public utilities commission; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 substituted commissioner of revenue services for tax commissioner and division of public utility control within the department of business regulation for public utilities control authority, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-291 replaced proviso re $20 fee in lieu of tax on gross earnings with similar provision wherein required certificate of eligibility is filed by commissioner of transportation rather than by division of public utility control as was the case previously, effective January 1, 1979, and applicable with respect to tax imposed by this chapter on gross earnings in the calendar year ending December 31, 1978, and in each calendar year thereafter; P.A. 85-518 specified that gross earnings may be determined by one-half of revenues generated by shipments “from all origins in this state and to all destinations in this state” and applied proviso re payment of $20 fee in lieu of gross earnings tax to all cases where previously it applied only to Subparas. (a) to (c), inclusive; P.A. 94-175 divided section into Subsecs. and Subdivs., effective June 2, 1994; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-4 and P.A. 95-160 revised effective date of P.A. 94-175 but without affecting this section.
See Secs. 13b-226 to 13b-233, inclusive, re standards of service required to maintain exemption.
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Sec. 12-252. Commissioner to determine gross earnings. Assessment of tax. Section 12-252 is repealed, effective January 1, 1988, and applicable with respect to the tax imposed under this chapter on gross earnings in the calendar year ending December 31, 1987, and in each calendar year thereafter.
(1949 Rev., S. 1930; P.A. 77-614, S. 139, 610; P.A. 82-62, S. 1; P.A. 85-562, S. 1; P.A. 87-124, S. 17, 18.)
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Secs. 12-252a and 12-252b. Credit against tax for expenditures for air pollution abatement facilities. Tax credit for expenditures for industrial waste treatment facilities. Sections 12-252a and 12-252b are repealed, effective July 8, 1997, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1998.
(1967, P.A. 754, S. 21; 1969, P.A. 291, S. 1; 758, S. 17; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 34, 146; P.A. 97-295, S. 24, 25; P.A. 98-262, S. 14, 22.)
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Secs. 12-253 and 12-254. Tax, when payable; warrant for collection; state tax lien against real estate and foreclosure procedure. Interest on unpaid installments. Sections 12-253 and 12-254 are repealed, effective January 1, 1988, and applicable with respect to the tax imposed under this chapter on gross earnings in the calendar year ending December 31, 1987, and in each calendar year thereafter.
(1949 Rev., S. 1932; 1969, P.A. 388, S. 6; P.A. 76-322, S. 6, 27; P.A. 80-307, S. 10, 31; P.A. 81-411, S. 18, 42; 81-472, S. 16, 159; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 81-4, S. 24, 32; P.A. 82-172, S. 4, 14; P.A. 82-325, S. 3, 7; P.A. 87-124, S. 17, 18.)
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Sec. 12-255. Tax to be in lieu of certain other taxes. The tax provided for in this chapter upon the gross earnings of each corporation included in section 12-249 shall be in lieu of all other taxes in this state for the year ended the thirty-first day of December of the year for which such statement is required to be made on its rights, franchises, funded and floating debt and property in this state, and on the property of each corporation, which property is operated in this state by any such corporation so liable to such tax upon gross earnings, but the real estate in this state owned by such corporation, or by a corporation whose property is operated by it, when not used exclusively for railroad purposes, shall be assessed and taxed where it is located.
(1949 Rev., S. 1933; 1961, P.A. 517, S. 118; P.A. 85-562, S. 2; P.A. 87-124, S. 3, 18.)
History: 1961 act deleted exemption of stockholders and bondholders from taxation; P.A. 85-562 added Subsecs. (b), (c) and (d) concerning administration and enforcement of the tax, which administrative and enforcement provisions are similar in most aspects to those applicable with respect to other state taxes; P.A. 87-124 deleted Subsecs. (b) to (d), inclusive, concerning determination of the amount of tax by the commissioner, effective January 1, 1988, and applicable with respect to the tax imposed under chapter 210 on gross earnings in the calendar year ending December 31, 1987, and in each calendar year thereafter.
Exemption of shares of stock issued to increase capital stock. 30 C. 290. Exemption of bonds in hands of holders considered. 33 C. 187. Under former law, what property regarded as used for railroad purposes. 40 C. 498.
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