Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-111
Section 8904-C - Tax liability attributable to Keystone Special Development Zone(a)Determinations of attributable tax liability.--Tax liability attributable to business activity conducted within a Keystone Special Development Zone shall be computed, construed, administered and enforced in conformity with Article III, IV, VI, VII, VIII or XV, whichever is applicable, and with specific reference to the following: (1) If the entire business of the employer in this Commonwealth is transacted wholly within the Keystone Special Development Zone, the tax liability attributable to business activity within a Keystone Special Development Zone shall consist of the Pennsylvania income as determined under Article III, IV, VI, VII, VIII or XV, whichever is applicable.(2) If the entire business of the employer in this Commonwealth is not transacted wholly within the Keystone Special Development Zone, the tax liability of an employer in a Keystone Special Development Zone shall be determined upon such portion of the Pennsylvania tax liability of such employer attributable to business activity conducted within the Keystone Special Development Zone and apportioned in accordance with subsection (b).(b)Tax liability apportionment.--The tax liability of an employer shall be apportioned to the Keystone Special Development Zone by multiplying the Pennsylvania tax liability by a fraction, the numerator of which is the property factor plus the payroll factor and the denominator of which is two, in accordance with the following: (1) The property factor is a fraction, the numerator of which is the average value of the employer's real and tangible personal property owned or rented and used in the Keystone Special Development Zone during the tax period and the denominator of which is the average value of the employer's real and tangible personal property owned or rented and used in this Commonwealth during the tax period but shall not include the security interest of any employer as seller or less or in personal property sold or leased under a conditional sale, bailment lease, chattel mortgage or other contract providing for the retention of a lien or title as security for the sale price of the property.(2) The payroll factor is a fraction, the numerator of which is the total amount paid in the Keystone Special Development Zone during the tax period by the employer to an employee as compensation and the denominator of which is the total compensation paid by the employer in this Commonwealth during the tax period.Added by P.L. 270 2013 No. 52, § 32, eff. 7/9/2013.