14. (a) The director shall require any taxpayer or managerial member to submit, as part of a full and complete New Jersey return, copies or pertinent extracts of its federal income tax returns, or of any other tax return filed with any agency of the federal government, or of this or any other state, or of any statement or registration made pursuant to any state or federal law pertaining to securities or securities exchange regulation. The director shall issue regulations describing which federal extracts are required and which extracts are optional.

(b) The director may require all taxpayers to keep such records as the director may prescribe, and the director may require the production of books, papers, documents and other data, to provide or secure information pertinent to the determination of the tax hereunder and the enforcement and collection thereof. The director may, also, by general rule or by special notice require any taxpayer to make and file information returns, under oath, of facts pertinent to the determination of the tax or liability for tax hereunder, pursuant to such regulations, at such times and in such form and manner and to such extent as the director may prescribe pursuant to law.

(c) Each taxpayer filing a return that is a member of an affiliated group filing an elective New Jersey combined return or a combined group shall, upon the request of the director and 90 days’ notice thereof, disclose the amount of all inter-member costs or expenses reflected in the return for the privilege period, including but not limited to management fees, rents, and other services, for the privilege period. If the taxpayer acquires products or services from another member of its affiliated group or a combined group, which it re-sells or otherwise uses to generate revenue, the taxpayer shall, upon the request of the director and 90 days’ notice thereof, disclose the amount of revenue generated from those products or services. The director shall promulgate rules and procedures for the manner of disclosure. A failure to file such a disclosure shall be deemed the filing of an incomplete tax return, subject to the penalties of the State Uniform Tax Procedure Law, R.S.54:48-1 et seq.

(d) For privilege periods ending on and after July 31, 2021, the director shall create a simplified standardized return for combined groups, banking corporations, financial business corporations, and separate return filers, but shall maintain the New Jersey S Corporations returns for New Jersey S Corporations that file separate returns. The standardized return shall include the accompanying forms and schedules to administer and implement the various requirements of the Corporation Business Tax Act (1945), or such accompanying schedules shall be made inconspicuously and readily available on the Division of Taxation’s website, and the instructions for the standardized return shall clearly indicate which schedules are required to be completed by combined groups, banking corporations, financial business corporations, and separate return filers respectively.

L.1945, c.162, s.14; amended 1949, c.236, s.4; 2002, c.40, s.11; 2018, c.48, s.10; 2020, c.118, s.11.