Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - REVENUE, DEPARTMENT OF
Title 316 - NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE
Chapter 22 - INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX REGULATIONS
Section 316-22-020 - SPECIAL CAPITAL GAINS
Current through March 20, 2024
020.01 Any resident individual may make an election to subtract from federal adjusted gross income the capital gain from the sale of stock which meets the following conditions:
020.02 A qualified corporation is a corporation which, at the time of the first sale or exchange for which the election was made, was in existence and actively doing business in Nebraska for at least three years and had at least five shareholders and at least two groups of unrelated shareholders, with not more than ninety percent of the stock being held by a single related group of shareholders.
020.03 An employee of a corporation is a person who is paid wages or other payments which are subject to withholding under the Internal Revenue Code and are payments made by employers to employees.
020.04 If a person who has acquired stock of a qualified corporation while an employee of the corporation has died without making an election, the surviving spouse or the oldest surviving issue, if there is no surviving spouse, may make an election for such stock.
020.05 After an election has been made, the following persons and entities may subtract the capital gains from the sale of qualifying stock from federal adjusted gross income:
020.06 Capital gains from the sale of stock which has been received by the spouse or issue of the employee through inheritance or which was sold by a testamentary trust does not qualify.
020.07 The amount of capital gain subtracted from federal adjusted gross income cannot exceed the amount of capital gain reported on the taxpayer's income tax return by more than three thousand dollars ($3, 000.00 ) or one thousand five hundred dollars ($1, 500.00 ) if a married filing separate return is filed. On a joint return, if both spouses have capital gains which qualify as special capital gains, the total amount of capital gains subtracted by both spouses cannot exceed the total capital gains reported on their joint return by more than three thousand dollars ($3, 000.00 ).