(a) As used in this Chapter 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 the Internal Revenue Code, adjusted per Section 181.03(a)(5).
(2) “Association” means a partnership, limited partnership, S corporation or any other form of unincorporated enterprise, owned by one or more persons.
(3) “Board of Review” means the Board created by and constituted as provided for in Section 181.13.
(4) “Business” means an enterprise, activity, profession or undertaking of any nature conducted for profit or ordinarily conducted for profit, whether by an individual, partnership, association, corporation or any other entity, including but not limited to the renting or leasing of property, real, personal or mixed.
(5) “Corporation” means a corporation or joint stock association organized under the laws of the United States, the State of Ohio, or any other state, territory, or foreign country or dependency.
(6) “Domicile” means a principal residence that the taxpayer intends to use for an indefinite time and to which whenever he is absent he intends to return. A taxpayer has only one domicile even though he may have more than one residence.
(7) “Employee” means one who works for wages, salary, commission or other types of compensation in the services of an employer.
(8) “Employer” means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, governmental body, unit or agency, or any other entity, whether or not organized for profits, who or that employs one or more persons on a salary, wage, commission or other compensation basis.
(9) “Fiscal year” means an accounting period of twelve (12) months or less ending on any day other than December 31.
(10) “Form 2106” means Internal Revenue Service Form 2106 filed by a taxpayer pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code.
(11) “Generic form” means an electronic or paper form designed for reporting estimated municipal income taxes and annual municipal income tax liability that is not prescribed by a particular corporation for the reporting of that municipal corporation’s tax on income.
(12) “Gross receipts” means total income of taxpayers from whatever source derived.
(13) “Income from a pass-through entity” means partnership income of partners, membership interests of members of a limited liability company, distributive shares of shareholders of an S corporation, or other distributive or proportionate ownership shares of income from other pass-through entities.
(14) “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 terms are defined in Chapter 5701. of the Ohio Revised Code, and patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade names, investments in real estate investment 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.
(15) “Internal Revenue Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C.1, as amended.
(16) “Internet” means the international computer network of both Federal and nonfederal interoperable packet switched data networks, including the graphical subnetwork known as the World Wide Web.
(17) “Joint Economic Development District” means districts created under the Ohio Revised Code sections 715.70 through 715.83 as amended from time to time.
(18) “Limited liability company” means a limited liability company formed under Chapter 1705 of the Ohio Revised Code or under the laws of another state.
(19) “Municipality” means the City (Village) of Gallipolis.
(20) “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 Section 181.03, required to be reported on schedule C, schedule E, or schedule F.
(21) “Nonqualified deferred compensation plan” means a compensation plan described in section 3121(v)(2)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code.
(22) “Nonresident” means an individual domiciled outside the Municipality.
(23) “Nonresident incorporated business entity” means an incorporated business entity not having an office or place of business within the Municipality.
(24) “Nonresident unincorporated business entity” means an unincorporated business entity not having an office or place of business within the Municipality.
(25) “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.
(26) “Owner” means a partner of a partnership, a member of a limited liability company, a shareholder of an S corporation, or other person with an ownership interest in a pass-through entity.
(27) “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.
(28) “Pass-through entity” means a partnership, Limited Liability Company, S corporation, or any other class of entity the income or profits from which are given pass-through treatment under the Internal Revenue Code.
(29) “Person” includes individuals, firms, companies, business trusts, estates, trusts, partnerships, limited liability companies, associations, corporations, governmental entities, and any other entity.
(30) “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 one or more of his regular employees regularly in attendance.
(31) “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.
(32) “Qualified plan” means a retirement plan satisfying the requirements under section 401 of the Internal Revenue Code as amended.
(33) “Qualifying wages” means wages, as defined in section 3121(a) of the Internal Revenue Code, without regard to any wage limitations, adjusted in accordance with section 718.03(A) of the Ohio Revised Code.
(34) “Resident” means an individual domiciled in the Municipality.
(35) “Resident incorporated business entity” means an incorporated business entity whose office, place or operations or business site is within the Municipality.
(36) “Resident unincorporated business entity” means an unincorporated business entity having an office or place of business within the Municipality.
(37) “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 person appointed to administer the Municipality’s Income Tax Ordinance and to direct the operation of the Municipal Income Tax Department.
(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.
(46) “Taxing municipality” means a municipality levying an income tax.
(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 shall include the feminine and the neuter, and all periods set forth shall be inclusive of the first and last mentioned dates.
(Ord. 2003-78. Passed 12-2-03.)