(A) For the purpose of this subchapter, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except as and if the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
(1) “Adjusted federal taxable income” means a C corporation’s federal taxable income before net operating losses and special deductions as determined under Internal Revenue Code, adjusted as follows:
(a) Deduct intangible income to the extent included in federal taxable income. The deduction shall be allowed regardless of whether the intangible income relates to assets in a trade or business or assets held for the production of income;
(b) Add an amount equal to 5% of intangible income deducted under division (A)(1)(a) of this section, but excluding that portion of intangible income directly related to the sale, exchange, or other disposition of property described in § 1221 of the Internal Revenue Code;
(c) Add any losses allowed as a deduction in the computation of federal taxable income if the losses directly related to the sale, exchange, or other disposition of an asset described in § 1221 or 1231 of the Internal Revenue Code;
(d) (i) Except as provided in division (A)(1)(d)(ii) of this section, deduct income and gain included in federal taxable income to the extent the income and gain directly related to the sale, exchange, or other disposition of an asset described in § 1221 or 1231 of the Internal Revenue Code;
(ii) Division (A)(1)(d)(i) of this section does not apply to the extent the income or gain is described in § 1245 or 1250 of the Internal Revenue Code;
(e) Add taxes on or measured by net income allowed as a deduction in the computation of federal taxable income;
(f) In the case of a real estate investment trust and regulated investment company, add all amounts with respect to dividends to, distributions to, or amounts set aside for or credited to the benefit of investors and allowed as a deduction in the computation of federal taxable income;
(g) If the taxpayer is not a C corporation and is not an individual, the taxpayer shall compute adjusted federal taxable income as if the taxpayer were a C corporation, except:
(i) Guaranteed payments and other similar amounts paid or accrued to a partner, former partner, member, or former member shall not be allowed as a deductible expense; and
(ii) Amounts paid or accrued to a qualified self-employed retirement plan with respect to an owner or owner-employee of the taxpayer, amounts paid or accrued to or for health insurance for an owner or owner-employee, and amounts paid or accrued to or for life insurance for an owner or owner-employee shall not be allowed as a deduction.
Nothing in division (A)(1) of this section shall be construed as allowing the taxpayer to add or deduct any amount more than once or shall be construed as allowing any taxpayer to deduct any amount paid or accrued for purposes of federal self-employment tax.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as limiting or removing the ability of any municipal corporation to administer, audit and enforce the provisions of its municipal income tax.
(2) “Association” means a partnership, limited partnership, S corporation or any other form of unincorporated enterprise owned by one or more persons.
(3) “Banking day” means that part of any day on which a bank is open to the public for carrying on substantially all of its banking functions.
(4) “Board of Review” means the Board of Review created and constituted as provided in § 35.12.
(5) “Business” means an enterprise, activity, profession or undertaking of any nature conducted for profit or ordinarily conducted for profit, whether by an individual, partnership, fiduciary, trust, association, corporation or any other entity including but not limited to the renting or leasing of property, real, personal or mixed.
(6) “Corporation” means a corporation or joint stock association organized under the laws of the United States, State of Ohio, or any other state, territory or foreign country or dependency.
(7) “Domicile” means a principal residence that the taxpayer intends to use for an indefinite time and to which whenever he or she is absent he or she intends to return. A taxpayer has only one domicile even though he or she may have more than one residence.
(8) “Employee” means one who works for wages, salary, commissions, or other types of compensation in the service of an employer.
(9) “Employer” means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, governmental body, unit or agency, or any other entity, whether or not organized for profit, who or that employs one or more persons on a salary, wage, commission or other compensation basis.
(10) “Finance Director” means the individual charged with the responsibility of managing the fiscal affairs of the municipality.
(11) “Fiscal year” means an accounting period of 12 months or less ending on any day other than December 31.
(12) “Form 5754, Statement by Person(s) Receiving Gambling Winnings” means Internal Revenue Service Form 5754 filed by a taxpayer pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code.
(13) “Form 1099-MISC, Miscellaneous Income” means Internal Revenue Service Form 1099-MISC filed by a taxpayer pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code.
(14) “Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement” means Internal Revenue Service Form W-2 filed by a taxpayer pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code.
(15) “Form W-2G, Certain Gambling Winnings” means Internal Revenue Service Form W-2G filed by a taxpayer pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code.
(16) “Form 2106” means Internal Revenue Service Form 2106 filed by a taxpayer pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code.
(17) “Generic form” means an electronic or paper form designed for reporting estimated municipal income taxes and annual municipal income tax liability or for filing a refund claim that is not prescribed by a particular municipal corporation for the reporting of that municipal corporation’s tax on income. Any municipality that requires taxpayers to file income tax returns, reports, or other documents shall accept for filing a generic form of such return, report, or document if the generic form, once completed and filed, contains all of the information required to be submitted with the municipality’s prescribed returns, reports, or documents.
(18) “Gross receipts” means total income of taxpayers from whatever source derived.
(19) “Income from a pass-through entity” means partnership income of partners, membership interests of members of a limited liability company, or other distributive or proportionate ownership shares of income from other pass-through entities.
(20) “Intangible income” means income of any of the following types: income yield, interest, capital gains, dividends, or other income arising from the ownership, sale, exchange, or other disposition of intangible property including, but not limited to: investments, deposits, money, or credits as those defined in R.C. Chapter 5701, and patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade names, investments in real estate trusts, investments in regulated investment companies, and appreciation on deferred compensation. “Intangible income” does not include prizes, awards, or other income associated with any lottery winnings or other similar games of chance.
(21) “Internal Revenue Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 1, as amended.
(22) “Internet” means the international computer network of both Federal and nonfederal interoperable packet switched data networks, including the graphical sub network known as the World Wide Web.
(23) “Limited liability company” means a limited liability company formed under R.C. Chapter 1705 or under the laws of another state.
(24) “Municipality” means the City of Dublin, Ohio.
(25) “Net profit” for a taxpayer other than an individual means adjusted federal taxable income and “net profit” for a taxpayer who is an individual means the individual's profit, other than amounts described in division (F) of § 35.03, required to be reported on federal schedules C, E or F.
(26) “Nonqualified deferred compensation plan” means a compensation plan described in § 3121(v)(2)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code.
(27) “Nonresident” means an individual domiciled outside the municipality.
(28) “Nonresident incorporated business entity” means an incorporated business entity not having an office or place of business within the municipality.
(29) “Nonresident unincorporated business entity” means an unincorporated business entity not having an office or place of business within the municipality.
(a) “Other payer” means any person, other than an individual’s employer or the employer’s agent that pays an individual any amount included in the federal gross income of the individual.
(b) “Owner” means a partner of a partnership, a member of a limited liability company, or other person with an ownership interest in a pass-through entity.
(c) “Owner’s proportionate share,” with respect to each owner of a pass-through entity, means the ratio of (a) the owner’s income from the pass-through entity that is subject to taxation by the municipal corporation, to (b) the total income from that entity of all owners whose income from the entity is subject to taxation by that municipal corporation.
(d) “Pass-through entity” means a partnership, limited liability company, or any other class of entity the income or profits from which are given pass-through treatment under the Internal Revenue Code.
(30) “Person” includes individuals, firms, companies, business trusts, estates, trusts, partnerships, limited liability companies, associations, corporations, governmental entities, and any other entity. Whenever used in any clause prescribing and imposing a penalty, the term “person” as applied to any unincorporated entity shall mean the parties or members thereof, and as applied to corporations, the officers thereof.
(31) “Place of business” means any bona fide office, other than a mere statutory office, factory, warehouse or other space, which is occupied and used by the taxpayer in carrying on any business activity individually or through any one or more of his or her regular employees regularly in attendance.
(32) “Principal place of business” means in the case of an employer having headquarters activities at a place of business within a taxing municipality, the place of business at which the headquarters is situated. In the case of any employer not having its headquarters activities at a place of business within a taxing municipality, the term means the largest place of business located in a taxing municipality.
(33) “Qualified plan” means a retirement plan satisfying the requirements under § 401 of the Internal Revenue Code as amended.
(34) “Qualifying wages” means wages, as defined in § 3121(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, without regard to any wage limitations, adjusted in accordance with R.C. § 718.03(A)(2).
(35) “Resident” means an individual domiciled in the municipality.
(36) “Resident unincorporated business entity” means an unincorporated business entity whose office; place of operations or business situs is within the municipality.
(37) “Resident unincorporated business entity" means an unincorporated business entity having an office or place of business within the municipality.
(38) “Return preparer” means any person other than a taxpayer that is authorized by a taxpayer to complete or file an income tax return, report, or other document for or on behalf of the taxpayer.
(39) “Schedule C” means Internal Revenue Service schedule C filed by a taxpayer pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code.
(40) “Schedule E” means Internal Revenue Service schedule E filed by a taxpayer pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code.
(41) “Schedule F” means Internal Revenue Service schedule F filed by a taxpayer pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code.
(42) “S corporation” means a corporation that has made an election under subchapter S of Chapter 1 of Subtitle A of the Internal Revenue Code for its taxable year.
(43) “Tax Administrator” means the city employee designated by the city's Finance Director to perform the duties of the Tax Administrator. The Director of Taxation is the Tax Administrator for the city for the purposes of applying this chapter.
(44) “Taxable income” means qualifying wages, paid by an employer or employers, compensation for personal services, other income defined by statute as taxable, and/or adjusted federal taxable income from the operation of a business, profession, or other enterprise or activity adjusted in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(45) “Taxable year” means the corresponding tax-reporting period as prescribed for the taxpayer under the Internal Revenue Code. In the case of a return for a fractional part of a year, the period for which such return is required to be made.
(46) “Taxing municipality” means a municipality levying a tax on income earned by nonresidents working within such municipality or on income earned by its residents.
(47) “Taxpayer” means a person subject to a tax on income levied by a municipal corporation. “Taxpayer” does not include any person that is a disregarded entity or a qualifying subchapter S subsidiary for federal income tax purposes, but “taxpayer” includes any other person who owns the disregarded entity or qualifying subchapter S subsidiary.
(B) The singular shall include the plural, the masculine gender shall include the feminine and the neuter, and all periods set forth shall be inclusive of the first and last mentioned dates.
('80 Code, § 181.01) (Ord. 100-90, passed 11-5-90; Am. Ord. 116-03, passed 11-17-03)