CT Gen Stat § 12-217 (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 12 - Taxation|Chapter 208 - Corporation Business Tax|Section 12-217 - Deductions from gross income. Net income and operating loss carry-over of S corporations and combined groups.

 (a)(1) In arriving at net income as defined in section 12-213, whether or not the taxpayer is taxable under the federal corporation net income tax, there shall be deducted from gross income, (A) all items deductible under the Internal Revenue Code effective and in force on the last day of the income year except (i) any taxes imposed under the provisions of this chapter which are paid or accrued in the income year and in the income year commencing January 1, 1989, and thereafter, any taxes in any state of the United States or any political subdivision of such state, or the District of Columbia, imposed on or measured by the income or profits of a corporation which are paid or accrued in the income year, (ii) deductions for depreciation, which shall be allowed as provided in subsection (b) of this section, (iii) deductions for qualified domestic production activities income, as provided in Section 199 of the Internal Revenue Code, and (iv) in the case of any captive real estate investment trust, the deduction for dividends paid provided under Section 857(b)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code, and (B) additionally, in the case of a regulated investment company, the sum of (i) the exempt-interest dividends, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code, and (ii) expenses, bond premium, and interest related to tax-exempt income that are disallowed as deductions under the Internal Revenue Code, and (C) in the case of a taxpayer maintaining an international banking facility as defined in the laws of the United States or the regulations of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as either may be amended from time to time, the gross income attributable to the international banking facility, provided, no expense or loss attributable to the international banking facility shall be a deduction under any provision of this section, and (D) additionally, in the case of all taxpayers, all dividends as defined in the Internal Revenue Code effective and in force on the last day of the income year not otherwise deducted from gross income, including dividends received from a DISC or former DISC as defined in Section 992 of the Internal Revenue Code and dividends deemed to have been distributed by a DISC or former DISC as provided in Section 995 of said Internal Revenue Code, other than thirty per cent of dividends received from a domestic corporation in which the taxpayer owns less than twenty per cent of the total voting power and value of the stock of such corporation, and (E) additionally, in the case of all taxpayers, the value of any capital gain realized from the sale of any land, or interest in land, to the state, any political subdivision of the state, or to any nonprofit land conservation organization where such land is to be permanently preserved as protected open space or to a water company, as defined in section 25-32a, where such land is to be permanently preserved as protected open space or as Class I or Class II water company land, and (F) in the case of manufacturers, the amount of any contribution to a manufacturing reinvestment account established pursuant to section 32-9zz in the income year that such contribution is made to the extent not deductible for federal income tax purposes, and (G) the amount of any contribution made on or after December 23, 2017, by the state of Connecticut or a political subdivision thereof to the extent included in a company's gross income under Section 118(b)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code.(2) (A) No deduction shall be allowed for (i) expenses related to dividends that are allowable as a deduction or credit under the Internal Revenue Code, and (ii) federal taxes on income or profits, losses of other calendar or fiscal years, retroactive to include all calendar or fiscal years beginning after January 1, 1935, interest received from federal, state and local government securities, if any such deductions are allowed by the federal government.(B) For purposes of this subdivision, expenses related to dividends shall equal five per cent of all dividends received by a company during an income year. The net income associated with the disallowance of expenses related to dividends shall be apportioned, if the company conducts business within and without the state or is required to apportion its income under section 12-218b, in accordance with this chapter.(3) Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, no dividend received from a real estate investment trust shall be deductible under this section by the recipient unless the dividend is: (A) Deductible under Section 243 of the Internal Revenue Code; (B) received by a qualified dividend recipient from a qualified real estate investment trust and, as of the last day of the period for which such dividend is paid, persons, not including the qualified dividend recipient or any person that is either a related person to, or an employee or director of, the qualified dividend recipient, have outstanding cash capital contributions to the qualified real estate investment trust that, in the aggregate, exceed five per cent of the fair market value of the aggregate real estate assets, valued as of the last day of the period for which such dividend is paid, then held by the qualified real estate investment trust; or (C) received from a captive real estate investment trust that is subject to the tax imposed under this chapter. For purposes of this section, a “related person” is as defined in subdivision (7) of subsection (a) of section 12-217m, “real estate assets” is as defined in Section 856 of the Internal Revenue Code, a “qualified dividend recipient” means a dividend recipient who has invested in a qualified real estate investment trust prior to April 1, 1997, and a “qualified real estate investment trust” means an entity that both was incorporated and had contributed to it a minimum of five hundred million dollars' worth of real estate assets prior to April 1, 1997, and that elects to be a real estate investment trust under Section 856 of the Internal Revenue Code prior to April 1, 1998.(4) Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, (A) any excess of the deductions provided in this section for any income year commencing on or after January 1, 1973, over the gross income for such year or the amount of such excess apportioned to this state under the provisions of this chapter, shall be an operating loss of such income year and shall be deductible as an operating loss carry-over for operating losses incurred prior to income years commencing January 1, 2000, in each of the five income years following such loss year, and for operating losses incurred in income years commencing on or after January 1, 2000, in each of the twenty income years following such loss year, except that (i) for income years commencing prior to January 1, 2015, the portion of such operating loss which may be deducted as an operating loss carry-over in any income year following such loss year shall be limited to the lesser of (I) any net income greater than zero of such income year following such loss year, or in the case of a company entitled to apportion its net income under the provisions of this chapter, the amount of such net income which is apportioned to this state pursuant thereto, or (II) the excess, if any, of such operating loss over the total of such net income for each of any prior income years following such loss year, such net income of each of such prior income years following such loss year for such purposes being computed without regard to any operating loss carry-over from such loss year allowed under this subparagraph and being regarded as not less than zero, and provided further the operating loss of any income year shall be deducted in any subsequent year, to the extent available for such deduction, before the operating loss of any subsequent income year is deducted, (ii) for income years commencing on or after January 1, 2015, the portion of such operating loss which may be deducted as an operating loss carry-over in any income year following such loss year shall be limited to the lesser of (I) fifty per cent of net income of such income year following such loss year, or in the case of a company entitled to apportion its net income under the provisions of this chapter, fifty per cent of such net income which is apportioned to this state pursuant thereto, or (II) the excess, if any, of such operating loss over the operating loss deductions allowable with respect to such operating loss under this subparagraph for each of any prior income years following such loss year, such net income of each of such prior income years following such loss year for such purposes being computed without regard to any operating loss carry-over from such loss year allowed under this subparagraph and being regarded as not less than zero, and provided further the operating loss of any income year shall be deducted in any subsequent year, to the extent available for such deduction, before the operating loss of any subsequent income year is deducted, and (iii) if a combined group so elects, the combined group shall relinquish fifty per cent of its unused operating losses incurred prior to the income year commencing on or after January 1, 2015, and before January 1, 2016, and may utilize the remaining operating loss carry-over without regard to the limitations prescribed in subparagraph (A)(ii) of this subdivision. The portion of such operating loss carry-over that may be deducted shall be limited to the amount required to reduce a combined group's tax under this chapter, prior to surtax and prior to the application of credits, to two million five hundred thousand dollars in any income year commencing on or after January 1, 2015. Only after the combined group's remaining operating loss carry-over for operating losses incurred prior to income years commencing January 1, 2015, has been fully utilized, will the limitations prescribed in subparagraph (A)(ii) of this subdivision apply. The combined group, or any member thereof, shall make such election on its return for the income year beginning on or after January 1, 2015, and before January 1, 2016, by the due date for such return, including any extensions. Only combined groups with unused operating losses in excess of six billion dollars from income years beginning prior to January 1, 2013, may make the election prescribed in this clause, and (B) any net capital loss, as defined in the Internal Revenue Code effective and in force on the last day of the income year, for any income year commencing on or after January 1, 1973, shall be allowed as a capital loss carry-over to reduce, but not below zero, any net capital gain, as so defined, in each of the five following income years, in order of sequence, to the extent not exhausted by the net capital gain of any of the preceding of such five following income years, and (C) any net capital losses allowed and carried forward from prior years to income years beginning on or after January 1, 1973, for federal income tax purposes by companies entitled to a deduction for dividends paid under the Internal Revenue Code other than companies subject to the gross earnings taxes imposed under chapters 211 and 212, shall be allowed as a capital loss carry-over.(5) This section shall not apply to a life insurance company as defined in the Internal Revenue Code effective and in force on the last day of the income year. For purposes of this section, the unpaid loss reserve adjustment required for nonlife insurance companies under the provisions of Section 832(b)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, shall be applied without making the adjustment in Subparagraph (B) of said Section 832(b)(5).(6) For purposes of determining net income under this section for income years commencing on or after January 1, 2018, the deduction allowed for business interest paid or accrued shall be determined as provided under the Internal Revenue Code, except that in making such determination, the provisions of Section 163(j) shall not apply.(b) (1) For purposes of determining net income under this section, the deduction allowed for depreciation shall be determined as provided under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, provided in making such determination, the provisions of Section 168(k) of said code shall not apply.(2) (A) For purposes of determining net income under this section for taxable years ending after December 31, 2008, and to the extent any income from the discharge of indebtedness, under Section 108 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended by Section 1231 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, in connection with any reacquisition, after December 31, 2008, and before January 1, 2011, of an applicable debt instrument or instruments, as those terms are defined in said Section 108, as amended by said Section 1231, is not properly includable in gross income for federal income tax purposes for the taxable year, any deferral of the recognition of any such income shall not be allowed.(B) To the extent that any income from the discharge of indebtedness in connection with any reacquisition, after December 31, 2008, and before January 1, 2011, of an applicable debt instrument or instruments, as those terms are defined in Section 108 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended by Section 1231 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, is properly includable in gross income for federal income tax purposes for the taxable year, any such income shall be deductible in computing net income under this section for a taxable year ending after December 31, 2008, to the extent that the deferral of recognition of such income from such discharge was not allowed pursuant to subparagraph (A) of this subdivision in computing net income for a preceding taxable year.(C) For income years commencing on or after January 1, 2018, eighty per cent of any deduction claimed under Section 179 of the Internal Revenue Code for federal income tax purposes shall be disallowed. To the extent such a deduction is disallowed for purposes of computing the tax under this chapter, twenty-five per cent of the disallowed portion of the deduction shall be allowed as a deduction in each of the four succeeding income years.(c) (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, “net income”, in the case of an S corporation, means the percentage of the nonseparately computed income or loss, as defined in Section 1366(a)(2) of the Internal Revenue Code, of such S corporation, without separate state adjustment pursuant to section 12-233 or 12-226a for the compensation of any officer or employee, to which shall be added (A) any taxes imposed under the provisions of this chapter which are paid or accrued in the income year and (B) any taxes in any state of the United States or any political subdivision of such state, or the District of Columbia, imposed on or measured by the income or profits of a corporation which are paid or accrued in the income year as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection.(2) For income years commencing prior to January 1, 1997, “net income” means one hundred per cent of the amount computed under subdivision (1) of this subsection; for income years commencing on or after January 1, 1997, and prior to January 1, 1998, “net income” means ninety per cent of the amount computed under subdivision (1) of this subsection; for income years commencing on or after January 1, 1998, and prior to January 1, 1999, “net income” means seventy-five per cent of the amount computed under subdivision (1) of this subsection; for income years commencing on or after January 1, 1999, and prior to January 1, 2000, “net income” means fifty-five per cent of the amount computed under subdivision (1) of this subsection; for income years commencing on or after January 1, 2000, and prior to January 1, 2001, “net income” means thirty per cent of the amount computed under subdivision (1) of this subsection; for income years commencing on or after January 1, 2001, net income of S corporations as computed under subdivision (1) of this subsection shall not be subject to the tax under this chapter. Any S corporation subject to the tax on net income as provided in this section shall be eligible for any credit against the tax otherwise available to taxpayers under this chapter only to the extent and in the same percentage as net income of such S corporation is subject to taxation under this chapter, except that any S corporation with an income year commencing on or after January 1, 1999, but before December 31, 2000, shall be eligible for the entire credit available under sections 8-395, 12-633, 12-634, 12-635 and 12-635a.(d) The commissioner may adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54, relating to mergers or consolidations of corporations providing for the deduction, by the surviving or new corporation provided for in the plan of consolidation, of operating losses that were incurred by a merging or consolidating corporation, respectively, before the merger or consolidation, respectively. Such regulations may follow the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, or the regulations thereunder.(e) Where a combined group is required to file a combined unitary tax return pursuant to section 12-222, the combined group's net income shall be computed as provided in subsection (a) of section 12-218e.(f) Where a combined group is required to file a combined unitary tax return pursuant to section 12-222, a taxable member's net operating loss apportioned to this state shall be deducted and carried over by the taxable member as provided in subsection (d) of section 12-218e.(1949 Rev., S. 1898; 1949, S. 1093d; 1957, P.A. 560, S. 8; 1961, P.A. 428, S. 2; 1963, P.A. 651, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 461; June, 1971, P.A. 8, S. 28; 1972, P.A. 285, S. 12; P.A. 73-350, S. 8, 27; P.A. 77-16, S. 1, 2; 77-550, S. 1, 2; P.A. 80-483, S. 55, 186; P.A. 81-66, S. 1, 5; 81-245, S. 2, 4; 81-411, S. 1, 42; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 81-7, S. 1, 3; P.A. 85-159, S. 1, 19; 85-469, S. 4, 6; P.A. 89-211, S. 23; 89-251, S. 22, 203; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 100, 168; P.A. 93-74, S. 6, 67; 93-332, S. 9, 12, 42; 93-435, S. 64, 95; P.A. 96-175, S. 1, 5; 96-197, S. 4, 11; P.A. 97-119, S. 1, 2; 97-283, S. 1, 2; P.A. 99-83, S. 1, 2; 99-173, S. 39, 65; 99-235, S. 5, 7; P.A. 00-170, S. 24, 42; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-1, S. 56; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3, S. 95; June 19 Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-2, S. 4; P.A. 10-188, S. 2, 3; P.A. 11-140, S. 5; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 194; P.A. 15-244, S. 87, 143; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 139, 482; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-1, S. 38; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 169; P.A. 18-26, S. 10; 18-49, S. 12, 13; 18-169, S. 41; P.A. 19-117, S. 376.)History: 1961 act added Subdiv. (2); 1963 act extended exception in Subdiv. (2) to all taxpayers for year 1963 and thereafter; 1971 acts added provisions applicable to taxpayers whose income reported in consolidated return and changed 2.5% rate to 60% for banking institutions beginning in 1971 income year, deleting obsolete reference to January 1, 1962; 1972 act deleted mutual banks and trust companies in Subdiv. (2), included building and loan associations and increased 60% interest by 10% each year beginning in 1973 until 100% level reached; P.A. 73-350 changed 5% rate for other taxpayers to 90% in 1973 and 100% thereafter, added provisions re operating losses and net capital losses, added phrase re taxpayers who file as part of consolidated return with federal government but not with the state and added provision clarifying applicability of provisions to life insurance companies; P.A. 77-16 added provisions specially applicable to regulated investment companies, effective March 29, 1977, and applicable to income years commencing on and after January 1, 1977; P.A. 77-550 added provisions calling for consideration of excess of deductions allocated and apportioned to state under Sec. 12-218 as operating loss; P.A. 80-483 made technical changes; P.A. 81-66 eliminated Connecticut corporation business tax paid in the income year as a deduction from gross income in determining taxable income under said tax, effective May 4, 1981, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1981; P.A. 81-245 added a deduction for the gross income attributable to an international banking facility, provided no expense or loss attributable to such facility shall be a deduction, effective upon adoption by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of amendments to Regulations D and Q pertaining to international banking facilities (adopted June 9, 1981, with an effective date of December 3, 1981); P.A. 81-411 allowed dividends received to be deducted from gross income and provided that net income be apportioned only, eliminating references to allocation, effective June 18, 1981, and applicable to income years commencing on or after December 28, 1980; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 81-7 amended section to permit deductions for depreciation, adding Subpara. (2) of Subdiv. (1) in previously existing provisions designated as Subsec. (a) and Subsec. (b) detailing such deductions, effective January 27, 1982, and applicable to corporations' income years commencing on or after January 1, 1981; P.A. 85-159 provided for a depreciation deduction for income years commencing in 1985 of 88% of the amount of the deduction allowed for federal income tax purposes; P.A. 85-469 revised effective date of P.A. 85-159 but without affecting this section; P.A. 89-211 clarified reference to the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; P.A. 89-251 amended Subsec. (a) by adding to the list of items deductible from gross income in determining net income under the federal income tax which may not be so deducted for purposes of the Connecticut tax on net income of corporations, the following: Taxes in any state or political subdivision thereof imposed on or measured by the income or profits of a corporation, effective July 1, 1989, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1989; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3 amended Subsec. (b) to provide for the nondeductibility of 30% of dividends received from a domestic corporation in which the taxpayer owns less than 20% of the total voting power and value of the stock of such corporation and added Subsec. (c) concerning net income of S corporations, effective August 22, 1991, and applicable to income years of corporations commencing on or after January 1, 1991; P.A. 93-74 specified that with respect to nonlife insurance companies the unpaid loss reserve adjustment shall not be made, effective May 19, 1993, and applicable to taxable years commencing on or after January 1, 1993; P.A. 93-332 made technical change in language added in Sec. 6 of P.A. 93-74 to specify that with respect to nonlife insurance companies the unpaid loss reserve adjustment shall not be made and amended Subsec. (c) to prohibit any separate state adjustment to the net income of an S corporation with respect to the compensation of any officer or employee, effective June 25, 1993, and applicable to taxable years on or after January 1, 1993; P.A. 93-435 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective June 28, 1993; P.A. 96-175 amended Subsec. (c) by adding Subdiv. (2) re phase-out of net income, effective May 31, 1996, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1997; P.A. 96-197 added Subsec. (d) to permit commissioner to adopt regulations relating to mergers and consolidations, effective June 3, 1996, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1996; P.A. 97-119 added Subsec. (a)(3) re real estate investment trusts and made technical and renumbering changes, effective June 6, 1997, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1997; P.A. 97-283 amended Subsec. (c) to make any S corporation subject to tax on net income eligible for credits against tax in the same percentage as net income subject to tax under chapter, effective June 26, 1997, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1997; P.A. 99-83 amended Subsec. (c) to add exception for S corporations with income year commencing on or after January 1, 1999, but prior to December 31, 2000, effective June 3, 1999, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1999; P.A. 99-173 amended Subsec. (a) to extend the net operating loss carry forward provision from five to twenty years applicable to losses incurred on or after January 1, 2000, and provide a deduction for gains realized from sale of open space land, effective June 23, 1999, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1999; P.A. 99-235 amended Subsec. (a)(1)(E) to replace “watershed” with “water company”, effective June 29, 1999; P.A. 00-170 amended Subsec. (c) to allow S corporations to be eligible for credits under Sec. 8-395 for income years commencing on and after January 1, 1999, but before December 31, 2000, effective May 26, 2000, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2000; May 9 Sp. Sess. P.A. 02-1 amended Subsec. (b) to delete former Subdivs. (1) and (2) and provide for a depreciation deduction to be determined as provided under the Internal Revenue Code, except that Section 168(k) of said code shall not apply, effective July 1, 2002, and applicable to property placed in service after September 10, 2001, in income years ending after said date; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by adding Subpara. (A)(iii) re qualified domestic production activities income, effective September 9, 2009, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2009; June 19 Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-2 amended Subsec. (b) by designating existing provision as Subdiv. (1) and adding Subdiv. (2) re treatment of income from discharge of indebtedness, effective June 22, 2009, and applicable to taxable years ending after December 31, 2008; P.A. 10-188 amended Subsec. (a)(1) to add Subpara. (A)(iv) re deduction for dividends paid in the case of any captive real estate investment trust, and added Subsec. (a)(3)(C) re dividend received from a captive real estate investment trust, effective July 1, 2010, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2010; P.A. 11-140 amended Subsec. (a)(1) to add Subpara. (F) re contribution to manufacturing reinvestment account, effective July 1, 2011, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2012 (Revisor's note: An internal reference in P.A. 11-140, S. 5, to “section 5 of this act” was determined by the Revisors to properly refer to section 4 of said act and was therefore codified in Subsec. (a)(1)(F) as “section 32-9zz”); June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 amended Subsec. (a)(1)(F) by replacing “taxable” with “income” re year and adding “to the extent not deductible for federal income tax purposes”, effective June 15, 2012, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2011; P.A. 15-244 amended Subsec. (a)(4)(A) to designate existing provisions re deduction limits as clause (i) for income years commencing prior to January 1, 2015, make technical changes, and add new clause (ii) re operating loss carry-over for income years commencing on or after January 1, 2015, effective June 30, 2015, and added Subsec. (e) re computing combined group's net income, and Subsec. (f) re deduction and carry-over of taxable member's net operating loss, effective June 30, 2015, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 changed effective date of P.A. 15-244, S. 143, from June 30, 2015, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2015, to January 1, 2016, and applicable to income years commencing on or after that date, effective June 30, 2015, and amended Subsec. (a)(4)(A) to add clause (iii) re optional operating loss carry-over limited to 50 per cent of unused operating losses incurred prior to income year commencing on or after January 1, 2015, and before January 1, 2016, for combined groups with unused operating losses in excess of $6 billion from income years beginning prior to January 1, 2013, effective June 30, 2015; Dec. Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-1 amended Subsec. (a)(4)(A) by replacing references to Sec. 12-218 with references to this chapter and Secs. 12-218e to 12-218g, replacing provision limiting deductible portion of operating loss carry-over to net income greater than zero in income year commencing on or after January 1, 2017, with provision limiting deductible portion of operating loss carry-over to amount required to reduce combined group's tax under this chapter and Secs. 12-218e to 12-218g, prior to surtax and application of credits, to $2.5 million in income year commencing on or after January 1, 2015, replacing “combined group's operating loss carry-over” with “combined group's remaining operating loss carry-over” re operating losses incurred prior to income years commencing January 1, 2015, adding “, or any member thereof,” re combined group election on return for income year beginning on or after January 1, 2015, and before January 1, 2016, replacing “the operating loss carry-over of said combined group, shall be limited to” with “the combined group shall relinquish” and adding provision re utilization of remaining operating loss carry-over in clause (iii), and making technical changes, effective December 29, 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 amended Subsec. (a)(1) to add Subpara. (G) re deduction for amount paid by 7/7 participant for remediation of a brownfield, effective October 31, 2017, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2017; P.A. 18-26 made a technical change in Subsec. (a)(3); P.A. 18-49 amended Subsec. (a) to add Subpara. (H) re deduction from gross income of amount of any contribution made on or after December 23, 2017, by the state or a political subdivision thereof in Subdiv. (1), amend Subdiv. (2) to designate existing provision re prohibited deduction for certain expenses related to dividends and for certain federal taxes on income or profits, losses and interest as Subpara. (A), add Subpara. (B) re rate of expenses related to dividends, and make conforming changes, add Subdiv. (6) re determination of business interest paid or accrued for purposes of determining net income for income years commencing on or after January 1, 2018, effective May 31, 2018, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2017, and amended Subsec. (b)(2) to add Subpara. (C) re disallowance of 80 per cent of deduction claimed under Sec. 179 of Internal Revenue Code for income years commencing on or after January 1, 2018, and deduction in 4 succeeding income years, effective May 31, 2018; P.A. 18-169 made identical changes in Subsec. (a) as P.A. 18-49, effective June 14, 2018, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2017; P.A. 19-117 amended Subsec. (a)(1) to delete former Subpara. (G) re deduction for amount paid by 7/7 participant for remediation of brownfield and redesignate existing Subpara. (H) as new Subpara. (G), effective June 26, 2019.