Apportionment
Income
Tax Return
That Smelly Category
MTS Peeps
100

This apportionment factor calculates the amount of compensation paid in California and total.

What is the payroll factor?
100

This type of income is allocated rather than apportioned.

What is non-business income?

100

This form is used for taxpayers filing via the default methodology in California.

What is the Form 100?

100

Taxpayers who have nexus in California and have done this are required to pay the minimum tax.

What is registered to do business in California?

100

This person's full name is James Dean

Who is J.D.?

200

This concept requires sales of tpp be included in the California sales factor numerator if the taxpayer is not 'taxable' in the destination state.

What is throwback?

200

California's starting point for taxable income is this line from the federal tax return.

What is line 28?

200

This form tracks net operating losses.

What is the Form 3805Q?

200

This penalty applies automatically when a taxpayer's understatement exceeds 1M or 20% of the tax shown on the original return.

What is the large corporate understatement penalty (LCUP)?

200

This person once lost a push-up contest to Natasha

Who is George?

300

This is the year California went to mandatory single sales factor for all taxpayers (not engaged in a qualified business activity).

What is 2013?

300

These state taxes my be deducted from California taxable income.

What are taxes not based on income/profit?

300

These types of dividends are tracked on the Schedule H, Part III.  

What are dividends from insurance companies?

300

This federal law protects taxpayers from the California franchise tax if the only activity engaged in the state is the solicitation or sales of tpp.

What is P.L. 86-272?

300

This person is the loudest typer of all time.

Who is Ben?

400

This regulation section covers apportionment for taxpayers engaged in commercial fishing.

What is CCR Section 25137-5?

400

Intercompany transactions generating income result in this tax treatment for the California tax purposes.

What is deferral?

400

This schedule calculates the taxpayer's contributions adjustment.

What is the schedule R-6?

400

This credit may, per the FTB, reduce AMT.

What is an EZ hiring or sales and use credit?

(also Solar credits)

400

This person once interviewed me for a job not at Deloitte.

Who is Lindsay M.?

(I did not get a call back).

500

This is the year California adopted UDIPTA.

What is 1966?

500

This is required for income if a taxpayer has corporations with different accounting periods as part of the same combined report.

What is fiscalization?

500

This form reports deferred intercompany stock account (DISA) transactions.

What is Form 3726?

500

Foreign sales corporations, export trade corporations, domestic corporations and these are fully included in a California unitary water's-edge combined reporting group.

What are corporations with 20% or more average apportionment factors in the US?

500

This person is the 4th best coach I have ever had. 

Who is Lauren?

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