South Carolina Code 12-6-2295. Items included and excluded from terms “sales” and “gross receipts”
(1) receipts from the sale or rental of property maintained for sale or rental to customers in the ordinary course of the taxpayer‘s trade or business including inventory;
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 12-6-2295
- Business: includes trade, profession, occupation, or employment. See South Carolina Code 12-6-30
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Intangible property: Property that has no intrinsic value, but is merely the evidence of value such as stock certificates, bonds, and promissory notes.
- Intangible property: means all property other than tangible property. See South Carolina Code 12-6-30
- Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
- person: includes any individual, trust, estate, partnership, receiver, association, company, limited liability company, corporation, or other entity or group; and
(2) "individual" means a human being. See South Carolina Code 12-2-20 - Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- Taxpayer: includes an individual, trust, estate, partnership, association, company, corporation, or any other entity subject to the tax imposed by this chapter or required to file a return. See South Carolina Code 12-6-30
(2) receipts from the sale of accounts receivable acquired in the ordinary course of trade or business for services rendered or from the sale or rental of property maintained for sale or rental to customers in the ordinary course of the taxpayer’s trade or business if the accounts receivable were created by the taxpayer or a related party. For purposes of this item, a related person includes a person that bears a relationship to the taxpayer as described in Section 267 of the Internal Revenue Code;
(3) receipts from the use of intangible property in this State including, but not limited to, royalties from patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade names;
(4) net gain from the sale of property used in the trade or business. For purposes of this subsection, property used in the trade or business means property subject to the allowance for depreciation, real property used in the trade or business, and intangible property used in the trade or business which is:
(a) not property of a kind that properly would be includible in inventory of the business if on hand at the close of the taxable year; or
(b) held by the business primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of the trade or business;
(5) receipts from services if the entire income-producing activity is within this State. If the income-producing activity is performed partly within and partly without this State, sales are attributable to this State to the extent the income-producing activity is performed within this State;
(6) receipts from the sale of intangible property which are unable to be attributed to any particular state or states are excluded from the numerator and denominator of the factor.
(7) receipts from the operation of a cable system, as defined in § 58-12-300, including receipts from cable service and including receipts from services provided over the network that are associated with or classified as noncable or nonvideo services under federal law, receipts from video service as defined in § 58-12-300, or receipts from the provision of direct broadcast satellite service that are attributable to this State in pro rata proportion of the costs of performing the service, including the costs of acquiring programming distribution rights and constructing and maintaining distribution infrastructure, that the service provider incurs within this State. For purposes of this subsection, if a pass-through business operates a cable system or a direct broadcast satellite service, or if it has receipts from video service, then a corporation that owns an interest in that pass-through business, either directly or indirectly, must be treated as operating a cable system or a direct broadcast satellite service, or as having receipts from video service. As used in this subsection, the term "direct broadcast satellite service" means the distribution or broadcasting of programming or services by satellite directly to the subscriber’s premises without the use of ground receiving or distribution equipment, except at the subscriber’s premises or in the uplink process to the satellite.
(B) The terms "sales" as used in § 12-6-2280 and "gross receipts" as used in § 12-6-2290 do not include:
(1) repayment, maturity, or redemption of the principal of a loan, bond, or mutual fund or certificate of deposit or similar marketable instrument;
(2) the principal amount received under a repurchase agreement or other transaction properly characterized as a loan;
(3) proceeds from the issuance of the taxpayer’s stock or from sale of treasury stock;
(4) damages and other amounts received as the result of litigation;
(5) property acquired by an agent on behalf of another;
(6) tax refunds and other tax benefit recoveries;
(7) pension reversions;
(8) contributions to capital, except for sales of securities by securities dealers;
(9) income from forgiveness of indebtedness; or
(10) amounts realized from exchanges of inventory that are not recognized by the Internal Revenue Code.