1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to taxation; corporate franchise; expanding the definition of domestic 
1.3 	corporations to include certain foreign corporations incorporated in tax havens;
1.4 	amending Minnesota Statutes 2014, sections 290.01, subdivision 5, by adding 
1.5 	a subdivision; 290.17, subdivision 4.
1.6 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.7 	Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 290.01, subdivision 5, is amended to read:
1.8 		Subd. 5.Domestic corporation. The term "domestic" when applied to a corporation 
1.9 	means a corporation:
1.10 	(1) created or organized in the United States, or under the laws of the United 
1.11 	States or of any state, the District of Columbia, or any political subdivision of any of 
1.12 	the foregoing but not including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any possession 
1.13 	of the United States; or
1.14 	(2) which that qualifies as a DISC, as defined in section 992(a) of the Internal 
1.15 	Revenue Code.;
1.16 	(3) that is incorporated in a tax haven;
1.17 	(4) that reports that 20 percent or more of its gross income derive from sources in 
1.18 	one or more tax havens; or
1.19 	(5) that has the average of its property, payroll, and sales factors, as defined under 
1.20 	section 290.191, within the 50 states of the United States and the District of Columbia of 
1.21 	20 percent or more.

1.22 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective for taxable years beginning after 
1.23 	December 31, 2015.

2.1 	Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 290.01, is amended by adding a subdivision 
2.2 	to read:
2.3 		Subd. 5c.Tax haven. (a) "Tax haven" means the following foreign jurisdictions, 
2.4 	unless the listing of the jurisdiction does not apply under paragraph (b):
2.5 	(1) Andorra;
2.6 	(2) Anguilla;
2.7 	(3) Antigua and Barbuda;
2.8 	(4) Aruba;
2.9 	(5) Bahamas;
2.10 	(6) Bahrain;
2.11 	(7) Barbados;
2.12 	(8) Belize;
2.13 	(9) Bermuda;
2.14 	(10) Bonaire;
2.15 	(11) British Virgin Islands;
2.16 	(12) Cayman Islands;
2.17 	(13) Cook Islands;
2.18 	(14) Curacao;
2.19 	(15) Cyprus;
2.20 	(16) Dominica;
2.21 	(17) Gibraltar;
2.22 	(18) Grenada;
2.23 	(19) Guatemala;
2.24 	(20) Guernsey-Sark-Alderney;
2.25 	(21) Isle of Man;
2.26 	(22) Jersey;
2.27 	(23) Liberia;
2.28 	(24) Liechtenstein;
2.29 	(25) Luxembourg;
2.30 	(26) Malta;
2.31 	(27) Marshall Islands;
2.32 	(28) Mauritius;
2.33 	(29) Monaco;
2.34 	(30) Montserrat;
2.35 	(31) Nauru;
2.36 	(32) Niue;
3.1 	(33) Panama;
3.2 	(34) St. Kitts and Nevis;
3.3 	(35) St. Lucia;
3.4 	(36) St. Vincent and Grenadines;
3.5 	(37) Saba;
3.6 	(38) Samoa;
3.7 	(39) San Marino;
3.8 	(40) Seychelles;
3.9 	(41) Sint Eustatius;
3.10 	(42) Sint Maarten;
3.11 	(43) Trinidad and Tobago;
3.12 	(44) Turks and Caicos;
3.13 	(45) United States Virgin Islands; and
3.14 	(46) Vanuatu.
3.15 	(b) A foreign jurisdiction's listing under paragraph (a) does not apply to the first 
3.16 	taxable year after:
3.17 	(1) the United States enters into a tax treaty or other agreement with the foreign 
3.18 	jurisdiction that provides for prompt, obligatory, and automatic exchange of information 
3.19 	with the United States government relevant to enforcing the provisions of federal tax 
3.20 	laws applicable to both individuals and all corporations and other entities, and the treaty 
3.21 	or other agreement was in effect for the taxable year; and
3.22 	(2) the foreign jurisdiction imposes a tax rate of at least ten percent on a tax base 
3.23 	equal to at least 90 percent of the tax base that applies to corporations under the Internal 
3.24 	Revenue Code.

3.25 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective for returns filed for taxable years 
3.26 	beginning after December 31, 2015.

3.27 	Sec. 3. Minnesota Statutes 2014, section 290.17, subdivision 4, is amended to read:
3.28 		Subd. 4.Unitary business principle. (a) If a trade or business conducted wholly 
3.29 	within this state or partly within and partly without this state is part of a unitary business, 
3.30 	the entire income of the unitary business is subject to apportionment pursuant to section 
3.31 	290.191. Notwithstanding subdivision 2, paragraph (c), none of the income of a unitary 
3.32 	business is considered to be derived from any particular source and none may be allocated 
3.33 	to a particular place except as provided by the applicable apportionment formula. The 
3.34 	provisions of this subdivision do not apply to business income subject to subdivision 5, 
4.1 	income of an insurance company, or income of an investment company determined under 
4.2 	section 290.36.
4.3 	(b) The term "unitary business" means business activities or operations which 
4.4 	result in a flow of value between them. The term may be applied within a single legal 
4.5 	entity or between multiple entities and without regard to whether each entity is a sole 
4.6 	proprietorship, a corporation, a partnership or a trust.
4.7 	(c) Unity is presumed whenever there is unity of ownership, operation, and use, 
4.8 	evidenced by centralized management or executive force, centralized purchasing, 
4.9 	advertising, accounting, or other controlled interaction, but the absence of these 
4.10 	centralized activities will not necessarily evidence a nonunitary business. Unity is also 
4.11 	presumed when business activities or operations are of mutual benefit, dependent upon or 
4.12 	contributory to one another, either individually or as a group.
4.13 	(d) Where a business operation conducted in Minnesota is owned by a business 
4.14 	entity that carries on business activity outside the state different in kind from that 
4.15 	conducted within this state, and the other business is conducted entirely outside the state, it 
4.16 	is presumed that the two business operations are unitary in nature, interrelated, connected, 
4.17 	and interdependent unless it can be shown to the contrary.
4.18 	(e) Unity of ownership does not exist when two or more corporations are involved 
4.19 	unless more than 50 percent of the voting stock of each corporation is directly or indirectly 
4.20 	owned by a common owner or by common owners, either corporate or noncorporate, or 
4.21 	by one or more of the member corporations of the group. For this purpose, the term 
4.22 	"voting stock" shall include membership interests of mutual insurance holding companies 
4.23 	formed under section 66A.40.
4.24 	(f) The net income and apportionment factors under section 290.191 or 290.20 of 
4.25 	foreign corporations and other foreign entities which are part of a unitary business shall not 
4.26 	be included in the net income or the apportionment factors of the unitary business; except 
4.27 	that the income and apportionment factors of a foreign entity, other than an entity treated 
4.28 	as a C corporation for federal income tax purposes, that are included in the federal taxable 
4.29 	income, as defined in section 63 of the Internal Revenue Code as amended through the 
4.30 	date named in section 290.01, subdivision 19, of a domestic corporation, domestic entity, 
4.31 	or individual must be included in determining net income and the factors to be used in the 
4.32 	apportionment of net income pursuant to section 290.191 or 290.20. A foreign corporation 
4.33 	or other foreign entity which is not included on a combined report and which is required to 
4.34 	file a return under this chapter shall file on a separate return basis. The legislature intends 
4.35 	that the provisions of this paragraph are not severable from the provisions of section 
5.1 	290.01, subdivision 5, clauses (3) to (5), and if any of those provisions are found to be 
5.2 	unconstitutional, the provisions of this paragraph are void for the respective taxable years.
5.3 	(g) For purposes of determining the net income of a unitary business and the factors 
5.4 	to be used in the apportionment of net income pursuant to section 290.191 or 290.20, there 
5.5 	must be included only the income and apportionment factors of domestic corporations 
5.6 	or other domestic entities that are determined to be part of the unitary business pursuant 
5.7 	to this subdivision, notwithstanding that foreign corporations or other foreign entities 
5.8 	might be included in the unitary business; except that the income and apportionment 
5.9 	factors of a foreign entity, other than an entity treated as a C corporation for federal 
5.10 	income tax purposes, that is included in the federal taxable income, as defined in section 
5.11 	63 of the Internal Revenue Code as amended through the date named in section 290.01, 
5.12 	subdivision 19, of a domestic corporation, domestic entity, or individual must be included 
5.13 	in determining net income and the factors to be used in the apportionment of net income 
5.14 	pursuant to section 290.191 or 290.20.
5.15 	(h) Each corporation or other entity, except a sole proprietorship, that is part of a 
5.16 	unitary business must file combined reports as the commissioner determines. On the 
5.17 	reports, all intercompany transactions between entities included pursuant to paragraph 
5.18 	(g) must be eliminated and the entire net income of the unitary business determined in 
5.19 	accordance with this subdivision is apportioned among the entities by using each entity's 
5.20 	Minnesota factors for apportionment purposes in the numerators of the apportionment 
5.21 	formula and the total factors for apportionment purposes of all entities included pursuant 
5.22 	to paragraph (g) in the denominators of the apportionment formula. Except as otherwise 
5.23 	provided by paragraph (f), all sales of the unitary business made within this state pursuant 
5.24 	to section 290.191 or 290.20 must be included on the combined report of a corporation or 
5.25 	other entity that is a member of the unitary business and is subject to the jurisdiction of 
5.26 	this state to impose tax under this chapter.
5.27 	(i) If a corporation has been divested from a unitary business and is included in a 
5.28 	combined report for a fractional part of the common accounting period of the combined 
5.29 	report:
5.30 	(1) its income includable in the combined report is its income incurred for that part 
5.31 	of the year determined by proration or separate accounting; and
5.32 	(2) its sales, property, and payroll included in the apportionment formula must 
5.33 	be prorated or accounted for separately.

5.34 	EFFECTIVE DATE. This section is effective for returns filed for taxable years 
5.35 	beginning after December 31, 2015.