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In General. Sales means all gross receipts of a taxpayer not allocated as nonapportionable income. The sales factor for each trade or business of the taxpayer includes all gross receipts derived by the taxpayer from transactions and activity in the regular course of that trade or business or otherwise required to be included as apportionable income.
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Examples.
a. If a taxpayer manufactures and sells or purchases and resells goods or products, sales includes all gross receipts from sales of the goods or products held primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of the taxpayer's trade or business. Sales also includes gross receipts from the sale of other property that would be properly included in the taxpayer's inventory if on hand at the close of the taxable year. Gross receipts means gross sales, less returns and allowances and includes all interest income, service charges, carrying charges, or time-price differential charges incidental to the sales. Federal and state excise taxes, including sales taxes, are included in gross receipts if these taxes are passed on to the buyer or included in the product's selling price.
b. In the case of cost plus fixed fee contracts, such as the operation of a government-owned plant for a fee, sales includes the entire reimbursed cost plus the fee.
c. If a taxpayer provides services, such as operating an advertising agency, or performing equipment service contracts or research and development contracts, sales includes the gross receipts from performing the service, including fees, commissions, and similar items.
d. If a taxpayer rents real or tangible property, sales includes the gross receipts from the renting, leasing, or licensing the use of the property.
e. If a taxpayer sells, assigns, or licenses intangible personal property, such as patents and copyrights, sales includes the gross receipts from these transactions.
f. If a taxpayer derives receipts from selling equipment used in its business, the receipts constitute sales. For example, a trucking company owns a fleet of trucks and sells its trucks according to a regular replacement program. The gross receipts from the sale of the trucks are included in the sales factor.
g. If a taxpayer derives receipts from foreign source dividends that are apportionable income, the receipts constitute sales. No other apportionment factor relief is permitted to include this dividend income. Section 78, Internal Revenue Code, foreign dividend gross-up is excluded from sales.
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Disregarding Gross Receipts. In some cases, certain gross receipts should be disregarded in determining the sales factor so that the apportionment formula operates fairly to apportion the income of the taxpayer's trade or business to Idaho. See Rule 570 of these rules.
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Year to Year Consistency. If a taxpayer departs from or modifies the basis used for excluding or including gross receipts in the sales factor in prior year Idaho returns, the taxpayer is to disclose the nature and extent of all modifications in its current year return.
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State to State Consistency. If the returns or reports filed by a taxpayer with all states to which the taxpayer reports pursuant to Section 63-3027, Idaho Code; Article IV of the Multistate Tax Compact; or the Uniform Division of Income for Tax Purposes Act are not uniform in including or excluding gross receipts, the taxpayer is to disclose the nature and extent of the variance in its current year Idaho return.
