25120
. As used in Sections 25120 to 25139, inclusive, which shall
hereafter be referred to as "this act," unless the context otherwise
requires:
(a) "Business income" means income arising from transactions and
activity in the regular course of the taxpayer's trade or business
and includes income from tangible and intangible property if the
acquisition, management, and disposition of the property constitute
integral parts of the taxpayer's regular trade or business
operations.
(b) "Commercial domicile" means the principal place from which the
trade or business of the taxpayer is directed or managed.
(c) "Compensation" means wages, salaries, commissions and any
other form of remuneration paid to employees for personal services.
(d) "Nonbusiness income" means all income other than business
income.
(e) For taxable years beginning before January 1, 2011, "sales"
means all gross receipts of the taxpayer not allocated under Sections
25123 to 25127, inclusive.
(f) For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2011:
(1) "Sales" means all gross receipts of the taxpayer not allocated
under Sections 25123 to 25127, inclusive.
(2) "Gross receipts" means the gross amounts realized (the sum of
money and the fair market value of other property or services
received) on the sale or exchange of property, the performance of
services, or the use of property or capital (including rents,
royalties, interest, and dividends) in a transaction that produces
business income, in which the income, gain, or loss is recognized (or
would be recognized if the transaction were in the United States)
under the Internal Revenue Code, as applicable for purposes of this
part. Amounts realized on the sale or exchange of property shall not
be reduced by the cost of goods sold or the basis of property sold.
Gross receipts, even if business income, shall not include the
following items:
(A) Repayment, maturity, or redemption of the principal of a loan,
bond, mutual fund, certificate of deposit, or similar marketable
instrument.
(B) The principal amount received under a repurchase agreement or
other transaction properly characterized as a loan.
(C) Proceeds from issuance of the taxpayer's own stock or from
sale of treasury stock.
(D) Damages and other amounts received as the result of
litigation.
(E) Property acquired by an agent on behalf of another.
(F) Tax refunds and other tax benefit recoveries.
(G) Pension reversions.
(H) Contributions to capital (except for sales of securities by
securities dealers).
(I) Income from discharge of indebtedness.
(J) Amounts realized from exchanges of inventory that are not
recognized under the Internal Revenue Code.
(K) Amounts received from transactions in intangible assets held
in connection with a treasury function of the taxpayer's unitary
business and the gross receipts and overall net gains from the
maturity, redemption, sale, exchange, or other disposition of those
intangible assets. For purposes of this subparagraph, "treasury
function" means the pooling, management, and investment of intangible
assets for the purpose of satisfying the cash flow needs of the
taxpayer's trade or business, such as providing liquidity for a
taxpayer's business cycle, providing a reserve for business
contingencies, and business acquisitions, and also includes the use
of futures contracts and options contracts to hedge foreign currency
fluctuations. A taxpayer principally engaged in the trade or business
of purchasing and selling intangible assets of the type typically
held in a taxpayer's treasury function, such as a registered
broker-dealer, is not performing a treasury function, for purposes of
this subparagraph, with respect to income so produced.
(L) Amounts received from hedging transactions involving
intangible assets. A "hedging transaction" means a transaction
related to the taxpayer's trading function involving futures and
options transactions for the purpose of hedging price risk of the
products or commodities consumed, produced, or sold by the taxpayer.
(3) Exclusion of an item from the definition of "gross receipts"
shall not be determinative of its character as business or
nonbusiness income.
(4) The changes to this section by the act adding this sentence
pertaining to taxable years beginning before January 1, 2011,
constitute clarifying, nonsubstantive changes.
(g) "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 political
subdivision thereof.