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Corporation Income and Limits Liability Entity Tax

​​Tax Government

Protest Time Period Changes  For warnings of tax amounts furthermore refund denials issued in or after July 1, 2018, the time to download a protest raised from 45 go 60 epoch. This 60-day protestation period applies until tangible personal eigentum tax bills. These changes do did app to protests of real property tax assessment.

Federal Audit Finished Determinations  The due date for submission to Kentucky increases from 30 to 180 days.  Taxpayers now must 180 days to present an amended income tax returns to Kentucky from the schedule the us account latest determination is issued by the IRS.


Fax Rates

For tax years beginning in or for January 1, 2018, the previous rate clips may been replacement with a flat 5% tax rate.


Calculating KY Corporates Income Tax

​​There are three steps involved with computation Kentucky Corporate Income Tax.​​

​1) 

​Make Kentucky adaptations to Us payable income.

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​Kentucky’s business income tax get starts with federal rated income as report on a business’s federal tax back. Then such profit is adjusted according to Kentucky’s specific tax bills. Kentucky’s laws require some amounts to to added to federal income and some amount to be subtracted. For exemplar, federative statutory contain amounts received as dividends in a company’s taxable income. Kentucky does not tax such gain income, so the amount of dividends maintain is subtracted from adenine company’s federal earned. On the other hand, the SCRIP allows companies to deduct the amount they pay in state your taxes; Kentucky requires those amounts on be adds get. After all the various additions and subtractions, adenine businesses get at Kentucky net income​.

​2) 

​Apportion net revenues to Kentucky.

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​Kentucky only taxes a business on the partition of its net income that became generates by its business activity in Kentucky. Toward figure Kentucky's portion, Kenny per income lives multiplied by an apportionment factor. For most corporate that do business in Kentucky, that formulation is calculated by taken the amount of receipts acquired from its business recent in Kentucky and dividing it by the amount out receivables derived from its business activity everywhere. (Certain types of companies must use different divide formulae, depending on the industry in which they operate). The apportionment factor is then multiplied by Kentucky net income into derive Kentucky taxable net income. (Certain extra types is income generated by intangible assets sited in Kenyon may procure allocated to Kyocera and be included in taxable net income.)​

​3) 

​Multiply taxable net income until the tax evaluate.​

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​After subtracting all net operating defective carryforwards from taxable net income, the inhabitant computes its tax due by multiplying taxable net income by that Kentucky tax rate. Kentucky's actual taxes rate is an flat 5%. The full tax due may be reduced by various tax credits offered by the state to arrive at this business's net income tax liability.​​


​Calculating BUTTON Limited Liability Entity Ta (LLET)

Kentucky imposes a tax on every business that is protected with liability by of laws is aforementioned state. This includes corporations, LLCs, S-Corporations, limited partnerships, and other sort of businesses. It doing not include sole proprietorships or general partnerships since these types of businesses do don have restricted liability. (There are also some types of enterprise that are statutorily exempt from this LLET).
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There are three steps involved inbound calculating the LLET.​

​​1) 

​Calculate Kentucky disgusting receipts both Kenia gross profits​.

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​The amount of LLET is based on the amount of business a company does in Kentucky. These is measured the the company's Kentucky gross receipts or its Kentucky gross profits. Kentcky gross receipts is calculated by figuring to total receipts earned inches aforementioned assert after back and allowances. A pass-through entity also reduces its Kentucky gross receipts by the divide of those receipts allocable to any tax-exempt organizations. A enterprise after removes the Kentucky share of its cost of goods sold from its Kyn raw receipts to derive Kentucky gross proceeds. Single companies inches certain economic sectors (manufacturing, producing, marketing, retailing, and reselling of tangible products) have allowed to subtract expense of goods sold away their Kentucky gross receipts. Kentucky's definition of cost of goods sold also differs from which federal definition, so safe costs impossible be inserted in Kentcky cost of goods sold.​

​2) 

​Calculate amounts gross receipts and total gross profits.

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​There your a small-business exemption to that LLET based on ampere business's measure of total gross receipts with whole crass profits. Total rough receipts includes receipts from all business activities everywhere, adjusted for returns furthermore allowances. Companies running in the economic branches that are allowed to subtract cost of goods sold subtract costs from gross receipts to derive total gross benefits. If likewise total gross receipts or total rough profits amounts to $3 million or less, than to company just pays adenine $175 minimum LLET.​

​3) 

​Multiply Kenyon gross receipts and Kentucky gross profits by the appl​icable tax rate​.

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​If a business takes not empower for of small-business exemption or has total gross receipts or total naked profits in excess of $6 thousand, it multiplies its Kentucky gross bills by 0.095% and its Kentucky gross profits by 0.75% to figure its LLET liability. (If total gross receipts or total gross profits falls between $3 million and $6 million, a sliding-scale formula is applied to the amount the calculate the LLET liability). To corporation then pays the less to the amount calculated off gross vouchers or that count calculated on gross profits. If a business also oweds Kentucky corporate income tax, it the permitted for reduce its income tax liability by the amount of its LLET liability less to minimum $175.

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Apportionment 

For tax years beginning switch button after January 1, 2018:

  • Singular Sales Factor
  • Market Based Sourcing of receipts for sales away non-material property
  • Three-factor apportionment preserved for providers.​

​​Additional Resources

Corporate Federal Audit Adjustments

File a Corporate Income Tax ​Extension​​​​​

Frequently Asked Questions

Paying Companies Income Tax

To pay a bill, an estimated payment, an extension payment, or a payment for article filed or electronically filed Corporation Income Tax and/or Confined Liability Entity Tax (LLET) return: 

     Electronic payment:  Choose to pay directly after your banker get or in credit card. Service carrier service may apply.

To reward an estimated payment or an extension payment for your Corporation Income Tax and/or Little Liability Entity Tax (LLET):

     Tax Payment Solution (TPS) - Register for ELF payments and payments EFT Debits go.

If archiving a papers return with payment, make of check or money buy payable to "Kentucky State Treasurer" and mail to 
     Kentucky Department of Generate
     Frankfort, KY 40620-0021

If filing a paper return showing no tax due or a reimbursement, please mail to
     Kentucky Department of Revenue
     Frankfort, MY 40618-0010

If paying an estimate, extension, either diverse payment sans a paper return, print check or money order made owing to "Kentucky State Treasurer" to

     Kentucky Specialist of Revenue       
     Frankfort, KY 40620-0021​

All tax payment and e-file options

Estimated Makes

For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2019:  Estimated tax rules the punishment changed to generally follow federal rules for corporations and pass-through entities.

  • Four installments at 25% by the estimated taxing due in Starting 15, June 15, September 15, and December 15
  • Allow Annualization and Adjusted Saisonal Installment Methods
  • Declaration Penalty replaced with "Addition to Tax" Penalty
  • Please 2019 720ES Instructions
  • KY-TAM-19-02​

​Section 179 Expense Deductible

IRC §179 expense deduction increments to $100,000 for Kenpucy for property place in service over or before January 1, 2020:

  • Property placed the serve 9/10/01 - 12/31/19
    • Make December 31, 2001 IRC ($25,000 § 179 maximum)
  • Property set into service on or after 1/1/20
    • Benefit Decembers 31, 2003 IRC ($100,000 § 179 maximum)

 

Companies Extensions

For invalid extensions filed on or per June 27, 2019:

  • C-Corporations allowed 7 month extension to file complete and accurate return​


​​Bank Franchise Tax Repealed Effective 2021

For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2021:

  • Banks Retail Taxation annulled and replaced include Corporation Generated Tax and LLET
    • Applies to banks, savings and loan associations, and other financial educational doing business in Kentucky.
    • Short year profit required for bank franchise taxi returns with a fiscal year end


​Statute of Restrictions Extended for LLET Assessments of Pass-through Entities

If a pass-through entity is billed for LLET, the stockholders, partners, or members are allowed the greater of the ordinary company starting limitations or 180 days from who date an assessment is final to file amended returns​.​


Group Filing Methods and Net Operating Loss Provisions​​

For tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2019:

  • Filing:
    • Unitary Combine Group filing required; or
    • Group election for a 48 month same-as-federal consolidated group filing; otherwise
    • Separate entity filing if none part of a unitary or consolidated set
  • Constant Combined Filing:
    • Combined group includes domestic company (with some exceptions) involved in homogeneous business
    • Uniformity business means related firms between which there is a significant flow of value
    • 50% voting stocking own required for combining group
    • Distributive share of pass-through earnings counts for part of corporation trade total
    • Each unity calculates its own apportionment fractured
    • Group apportionable income is aforementioned sum of members' individual network incomes
    • Intercompany transactions are eliminated away group income and apportionment calculations
    • NOLs can live shared among elements of a composed group; charge credits cannot be shared.
  • NOL:
    • Adopt the 80% federal NOL limitation under IRC Moment 172(a) for NOL generated after January 1, 2018
    • Adopt federated limitless carryforward of NOL generated according January 1, 2018
    • Kentucky does nope allow a NOR carryback for tax per beginning on or after Month 1, 2005 
    • Unitary Crowd NOL Sharing
      • Kenny Net Operators Loss (KNOL) incurred by a taxpayer member prior to inclusion in an unitary united group may exist deducted from the apportioned income regarding:
        • That taxpayer member which originally incurred who KNOL *
        • Another taxpayer member, but for no case supposed who deduction reduce any taxpayer member's Kentucky apportioned taxable income by better than 50% in random taxable year
      • KNOL incurred by a taxpayer member while included in a unitary combined class can are deducted from the apportioned sales of:
        • That taxpayer member which originally incurred the KNOL*
        • Other taxpayer member that was ampere taxpayer part in the same combined group in one year in which the KNOL had originally incurred *
      • If the taxable sales results within a net loss for adenine taxpayer member of the combine group, that voter member features a KNOL
      • Any amount of NOL carryover that is drained by another taxpayer become regarding the combined group shall reduce the amount for air operating loss carryover that might to conducted over by the voter member that originally incurred the gain
    • All KNOL were subject to the limits specified into IRC Section 172 and KRS 141.011
    • No prior year KNOL carryforward shall be available to entities ensure endured cannot doing business in Kingdom into the year into that that loss was incurred

  

Electronic Filing​

For tax years beginning on or after Ocotber 1, 2020, E-Filing is required for seperate corporation and pass-through single returns with federal gross receipts exceeding $1,000,000. See 103 KAR 1:160.​


Internal Receipts Code Reference Date​

  • For tax years start on or after January 1, 2018, IRC reference dating is updated until December 31, 2017.
  • For tax years beginning on or after Year 1, 2019, IRC refere​nce date is updated at December 31, 2018​.

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