A bill to provide for equality of State taxation of domestic and foreign corporations.
Domestic Corporation Taxation Equality Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit, with specified exceptions, the States from imposing tax on corporate taxpayers on a worldwide unitary basis, unless a taxpayer unconditionally elects to be taxed that way. Includes an express prohibition against the unitary method with respect to a domestic corporation whose average U.S. payroll, property, and sales represent less than 20 percent of its total payroll, property, and sales.
Permits a State to tax dividends received by domestic corporations from their foreign affiliates only to the extent that the State excludes from the tax base of the U.S. corporation: (1) at least 85 percent of such dividends; or (2) the portion of such dividends that effectively bears no Federal income tax after application of the foreign tax credit.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic and Commercial Law.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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