New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 3 - TAXATION
Chapter 6 - PROPERTY TAXES
Part 5 - CLASSIFICATION OF PROPERTY
Section 3.6.5.39 - SPECIAL METHOD OF VALUATION - COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT

(a) "Commercial aircraft" means any contrivance used or designed for navigation of or flight in the air, including but not limited to airplanes, hydroplanes, helicopters and balloons when this contrivance is used by an airline; however, "commercial aircraft" excludes parachutes and other contrivances used primarily as safety equipment. Commercial aircraft are valued in accordance with Section 7-36-32 NMSA 1978.

(b) "Equipment" means all personal property other than commercial aircraft and material and supplies used by an airline in the conduct of its airline business, which personal property is located in New Mexico on January 1 of the tax year. Equipment located in New Mexico on January 1 of the tax year is valued in accordance with Section 7-36-33 NMSA 1978.

(c) "Material and supplies" means all material and supplies owned or leased and used by an airline in the conduct of its airline business, which material and supplies are located in New Mexico on January 1 of the tax year. Material and supplies located in New Mexico on January 1 of the tax year are valued in accordance with Section 7-36-33 NMSA 1978.

(d) "Related facilities" means office buildings, terminals, warehouses, shops, residential housing, land and any other real property other than construction work in progress, which property is located in New Mexico on January 1 of the tax year and used by an airline in the conduct of its airline business. Related facilities located in New Mexico on January 1 of the tax year are valued in accordance with Section 7-36-15 NMSA 1978.

(e) "Construction work in progress" means related facilities located in New Mexico on January 1 of the tax year which are in the process of construction. These related facilities are valued as construction work in progress in accordance with Section 7-36-33 NMSA 1978.

(a) The net taxable value of an airline's commercial aircraft is multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the total ground time of all commercial aircraft of an airline in New Mexico during the preceding tax year and the denominator of which is the total ground time of commercial aircraft of the airline for the preceding tax year. Also, the net taxable value is multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is the flight time of all commercial aircraft of an airline over New Mexico during the preceding tax year, and the denominator of which is the total flight time of all commercial aircraft of an airline, exclusive of flight time outside the continental limits of the United States, during the preceding tax year. The product of these two multiplications then is added and the sum divided by two, with the result being the allocation of net taxable values of commercial aircraft of an airline to New Mexico for the tax year.

(b) The net taxable value of commercial aircraft of an airline allocated to New Mexico is further allocated to the governmental units in New Mexico. For each jurisdiction in New Mexico in which the commercial aircraft of the airline landed during the preceding year, the allocation to that jurisdiction is determined by multiplication of the net taxable value allocated to New Mexico by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of landings by commercial aircraft of the airline in the jurisdiction in New Mexico, and the denominator of which is the total number of landings by commercial aircraft of the airline in New Mexico. The product of this multiplication is the allocation of net taxable value of commercial aircraft of the airline to the jurisdiction.