Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 11 > Article 13N - Tax Credit for New Steel Manufacturing Operations After July 1, 1998

• Affiliate: means and includes all persons, as defined in this section, which are affiliates of each other when either directly or indirectly:

  (A) One person controls or has the power to control the other. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2

• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Association: means a partnership, limited partnership or any other form of unincorporated enterprise, owned or conducted by two or more persons. See West Virginia Code 11-22-1
• Commissioner: means the State Tax Commissioner. See West Virginia Code 11-22-1
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• 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.
• Corporation: includes any corporation, a joint-stock company and any association or other organization which is classified as a corporation under federal income tax law. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• Designee: when used in reference to the Tax Commissioner, means any officer or employee of the Tax Division of the Department of Tax and Revenue duly authorized by the Tax Commissioner directly, or indirectly by one or more redelegations of authority, to perform the functions mentioned or described in this article. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• Eligible taxpayer: means a person who after June 30, 1998, begins manufacturing a value-added steel product at a new manufacturing facility located in this state, or begins manufacturing a new value-added steel product line at an existing manufacturing facility located in this state, which results in the creation of new jobs filled by full-time employees. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• Employer: means the person for whom an individual performs or performed any service, of whatever nature, as the employee of such person, except that if the person for whom the individual performs or performed the service does not have control of the payment of wages for such services, the term "employer" means the person having control of the payment of such wages. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Existing manufacturing facility: means a building which, at anytime during the twelve months preceding the month in which manufacture of a value-added steel product begins, was used by the taxpayer, or by a related person, to manufacture tangible personal property. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• Full-time employee: means a permanent hourly employee of an eligible taxpayer, who is a West Virginia domiciled resident, and works in a new value-added steel product manufacturing facility in this state, or in a new value-added steel product line of an existing manufacturing facility in this state, more than eighteen hundred hours during the entire twelve-month period ending on the last day of the taxable year of the eligible employer, whether these hours are hours worked at the manufacturing facility, or include hours of employer paid vacation leave or other employer paid leave. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• Internal Revenue Code: means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, of the United States. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• Limited liability company: means a limited liability company organized under the laws of this state, the United States or by any other state, territory or the District of Columbia. See West Virginia Code 11-22-1
• Manufacturing facility: means any facility which is used in the manufacturing of tangible personal property (including processing resulting in a change in the condition of such property). See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• New job: means a job at a new value-added steel product manufacturing facility located in this state, or at a new value-added steel product line at an existing manufacturing facility located in this state, which did not exist in this state with any employer as of the first day of the second calendar month preceding the calendar month in which the new value-added steel product manufacturing facility begins to manufacture value-added steel products, or in which the new value-added steel product line begins to manufacture value-added steel products in an existing manufacturing facility located in this state, that is filled by a full-time employee of the eligible taxpayer. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• New value-added steel product line: means the manufacture of a value-added steel product in an existing manufacturing facility in this state that first begins manufacturing the new value-added steel product line after June 30, 1998. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• New value-added steel product manufacturing facility: means a building that is primarily used by the eligible taxpayer to manufacture a value-added steel product that is first placed in service and used for that purpose by the eligible taxpayer after June 30, 1998. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• Partnership: means and includes a syndicate, group, pool, joint venture or other unincorporated organization through or by means of which any business, financial operation or venture is carried on, which is classified as a partnership for federal income tax purposes for the taxable year. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means and includes an individual, a trust, estate, partnership, association, company or corporation. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• personal property: includes goods, chattels, real and personal, money, credits, investments, and the evidences thereof. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
• State: when applied to a part of the United States and not restricted by the context, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" also include the said district and territories. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
• Tax Commissioner: means the Tax Commissioner of the State of West Virginia, or the Tax Commissioner'. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• Tax year: means the calendar year following the July first assessment day or, in the case of a public service business assessed pursuant to article six of this chapter, the calendar year beginning on the January first assessment day. See West Virginia Code 11-5-3
• taxable year: means the tax year of the taxpayer for federal income tax purposes. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• Taxpayer: means any person subject to the tax imposed by article twenty-one, twenty-three or twenty-four of this chapter. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• Temporary employee: means an employee performing services under a contractual arrangement with the employer of two years or less duration. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2
• Value: means in the case of any document not a gift, the amount of the full actual consideration for the document, paid or to be paid, including the amount of any lien or liens assumed. See West Virginia Code 11-22-1
• Value-added steel product: means any product that adds to, increases or enhances the value of any raw, base or unimproved steel or wrought nickel-based product through processes including, but not limited to, anodization, coating, fabrication, machining, molding, melting, stamping and any other processing which adds value. See West Virginia Code 11-13N-2