Utah Code § 59-7-317

Sales factor for apportionment of business income -- Transportation revenue of an
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airline -- Sales of a financial institution.
(1) As used in this section:
(a)
(i) "Finance lease" means a lease transaction that is the functional equivalent of an extension of
credit and that transfers substantially all of the benefits and risks incident to the ownership
of property.
(ii) "Finance lease" includes a direct financing lease or leverage lease that meets the criteria
of Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 13, Accounting for Leases, or any
other lease that is accounted for as a financing lease by a lessor under generally accepted
accounting principles.
(b) "Financial institution" means:
(i) a corporation or other business entity registered under state law as a bank holding company,
under the Federal Bank Holding Act of 1956, as amended, or registered as a savings and
loan holding company under the Federal National Housing Act, as amended;

(ii) a national bank organized and existing as a national bank association in accordance with
the National Bank Act, 12 U.S.C. Secs. 21 et seq.;
(iii) a savings association or federal savings bank as defined in 12 U.S.C. Secs. 1813(b)(1) and
(2);
(iv) a bank, industrial loan corporation, or thrift institution incorporated or organized under the
laws of any state;
(v) a corporation organized under the provisions of 12 U.S.C. Secs. 611 through 631;
(vi) an agency or a branch of a foreign bank as defined in 12 U.S.C. Sec. 3101;
(vii) a production credit association organized under the Federal Farm Credit Act of 1933,
if all of the production credit association's stock held by the Federal Production Credit
Corporation has been retired;
(viii) a corporation, other than an insurance company taxable under Chapter 9, Taxation of
Admitted Insurers, for which voting stock is more than 50% owned, directly or indirectly, by
any person described in Subsections (1)(b)(i) through (1)(b)(vii);
(ix) a corporation or other business entity that derives from finance leases more than 50%
of the corporation's or the business entity's total gross income for financial accounting
purposes:
(A) using the average of the gross income in the current tax year and immediately preceding
two tax years; and
(B) disregarding gross income from incidental or occasional transactions; or
(x) another person, other than an insurance company, a credit union exempt from the
corporation franchise tax under Section 59-7-102, a real estate broker, or a securities
dealer, that derives more than 50% of the person's gross income, excluding non-recurring,
extraordinary items, from activities that a person described in Subsections (1)(b)(ii) through
(vii) and (1)(b)(ix) is authorized to transact unless the commission excludes the person upon
receipt of proof, by clear and convincing evidence, that the income-producing activity of the
person is not in substantial competition with the persons described in Subsections (1)(b)(ii)
through (vii) and (1)(b)(ix).
(c)
(i) "Sales from investment activities and assets and trading activities and assets" means
receipts from interest, dividends, a net gain, but not less than zero, or other income from an
investment security, a trading account asset, federal funds, a security purchased and sold
under an agreement to resell or repurchase, an option, a future contract, a forward contract,
equities, a foreign currency transaction, or a notional principal contract, such as swaps.
(ii) "Sales from investment activities and assets and trading activities and assets" includes:
(A) the amount by which interest from federal funds sold and securities purchased under
resale agreements exceeds interest expense on federal funds purchased and securities
sold under repurchase agreements; and
(B) the amount by which interest, dividends, gains, and other income from foreign currency
transactions and trading assets and activities, including assets and activities in the
matched book and arbitrage book, exceed amounts paid in lieu of interest, amounts paid
in lieu of dividends, and losses from trading assets and activities.
(iii) "Sales from investment activities and assets and trading activities and assets" does not
include:
(A) receipts from the lease of real property;
(B) receipts from the lease of tangible personal property;
(C) interest from a loan secured by real property;
(D) interest from a loan not secured by real property;

(E) a net gain from the sale of a loan;
(F) receipts from a credit card receivable;
(G) a net gain from the sale of a credit card receivable;
(H) a credit card issuer's reimbursement fees;
(I) receipts from a merchant discount;
(J) a loan servicing fee;
(K) receipts from a service; or
(L) other receipts not addressed in Subsection (1)(c)(i) or Subsections (1)(c)(iii)(A) through
(K).
(2) Except as provided in Subsections (3) and (4), the sales factor is a fraction, the numerator of
which is the total sales of the taxpayer in this state during the tax period, and the denominator
of which is the total sales of the taxpayer everywhere during the tax period.
(3) The total sales of an airline in this state during the tax period attributable to transportation
revenue in this state during the tax period for purposes of the numerator of the fraction
described in Subsection (1) shall be calculated by determining the product of:
(a) the total transportation revenue during the tax period of the airline; and
(b) a fraction, the numerator of which is the Utah revenue ton miles and the denominator of which
is the airline revenue ton miles.
(4)
(a) Except as provided in Subsection (4)(b), the commission shall make rules, in accordance
with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, that establish the sales to be
included in the sales factor fraction of a financial institution.
(b) In calculating the sales factor of a financial institution:
(i) the numerator may not include sales from investment activities and assets and trading
activities and assets; and
(ii) the denominator shall include sales from investment activities and assets and trading
activities and assets.

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