Illinois Administrative Code
Title 86 - REVENUE
Part 100 - INCOME TAX
Subpart D - ILLINOIS NET LOSS DEDUCTIONS FOR LOSSES OCCURRING ON OR AFTER DECEMBER 31, 1986
Section 100.2360 - Illinois Net Losses and Illinois Net Loss Deductions for Losses of Cooperatives Occurring On or After December 31, 1986 (IITA Section 203(e)(2)(F))
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 38, September 20, 2024
a) Under Internal Revenue Code section 1382(b), cooperatives are allowed to deduct distributions of profits made to their members, or "patronage dividends". The deduction may only be taken against a cooperative's taxable income from transactions with its members, or "patronage income". If patronage income is negative, the cooperative may not offset that "patronage loss" against its income from transactions with nonmembers, or "nonpatronage income", but instead carries the patronage loss over as a net operating loss under IRC section 172 to offset patronage income in the carryover year. (See Farm Service Cooperative v. Commissioner, 615 F.2d 1235 (8th Cir. 1980).)
b) IITA Prior to PA 96-932. Under IITA Section 203(b), the base income of a cooperative for a taxable year is its taxable income for the year, as properly reportable for federal income tax purposes, after modifications in IITA Section 203(b)(2). IITA Section 203(b)(2)(D) requires a cooperative to add back to its taxable income any net operating loss deduction claimed under IRC section 172 for a loss incurred in a taxable year ending on or after December 31, 1986. As a result, a cooperative that incurred a patronage loss in the same year it had positive nonpatronage income would receive no tax benefit from the deductions or losses that caused the patronage loss, because the patronage loss could not offset its nonpatronage income in the year it was incurred and any deduction of a carryover of the loss would be added back to taxable income in the carryover years under IITA Section 203(b)(2)(D).
c) PA 96-932 amended IITA Section 203(e)(2)(F) to provide that the taxable income of a cooperative is determined in accordance with the provisions of IRC sections 1381 through 1388, but without regard to the prohibition against offsetting losses from patronage activities against income from nonpatronage activities, However, IITA Section 203(e)(2)(F) provides that a cooperative may make an election to follow its federal income tax treatment of patronage losses and nonpatronage losses. In the event the election is made, the losses are computed and carried over in a manner consistent with IITA Section 207(a) and apportioned by the apportionment factor reported by the cooperative on its Illinois income tax return filed for the taxable year in which the losses are incurred. PA 96-932 provided that it is declaratory of existing law.
d) Making the Election. The election to follow the federal income tax treatment of patronage losses is made by the cooperative checking the appropriate box on Schedule INL, Illinois Net Loss Adjustment for Cooperatives and REMIC Owners, on its original return for its first taxable year ending on or after December 31, 2010 to which it intends the election to apply. The election may be made for years ending prior to December 31, 2010 by filing an amended return for any open year, claiming a deduction under IITA Section 207 for any patronage loss carryover to that year, as allowed under PA 96-932 for those making the election.
