2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 12 - Taxation › Chapter 210 - Railroad Companies Tax › Section 12-251. - Basis. Rate. Deductions.

(a)(1) Such tax shall be based on the amount of gross earnings from all sources from operations in this state as determined by one-half of a railroad's revenues generated by its shipments from all origins in this state and to all destinations in this state or as follows: (A) In case of a corporation operating a railroad which is entirely within the limits of this state, the amount of gross earnings from all sources from operations; (B) in case of a corporation operating a railroad when only part of such railroad lies in this state, such portion of the amount of gross earnings from all sources from operations as is represented by the ratio of the number of miles of tracks, including yard tracks, sidings, branches and spurs, operated in this state during the year ended said thirty-first day of December, to the number of miles of such tracks, including yard tracks, sidings, branches and spurs, operated by it during such year. (2) The net railway operating income for the purpose of computing the rate of tax shall constitute: (A) In the case of a corporation operating a railroad which is entirely within the limits of this state, the entire net railway operating income; (B) in the case of a corporation operating a railroad, only a part of which railroad is in this state, such portion of the net railway operating income as is represented by the ratio of the number of miles of tracks, including yard tracks, sidings, branches and spurs, operated in this state during the year ended said December thirty-first, to the number of miles of such tracks, including yard tracks, sidings, branches and spurs, operated by it during such year.
(b) The rate of tax on gross earnings of railroads shall be fixed as follows: (1) When there is no net railway operating income, or the net railway operating income does not exceed eight per cent of the gross earnings, two per cent of the gross earnings; (2) when the net railway operating income exceeds eight per cent of the gross earnings, but does not exceed ten per cent, two and one quarter per cent; (3) when the net railway operating income exceeds ten per cent of the gross earnings, but does not exceed twelve per cent, two and one-half per cent; (4) when the net railway operating income exceeds twelve per cent of the gross earnings, but does not exceed fourteen per cent, two and three-quarters per cent; (5) when the net railway operating income exceeds fourteen per cent of the gross earnings, but does not exceed sixteen per cent, three per cent; (6) when the net railway operating income exceeds sixteen per cent of the gross earnings, but does not exceed eighteen per cent, three and one-quarter per cent; (7) when the net railway operating income exceeds eighteen per cent of the gross earnings, three and one-half per cent, provided with respect to the tax under subdivisions (1) to (7), inclusive, when there has been filed with the Governor by the Commissioner of Transportation the annual certificate of eligibility for exemption required by section 13b-232 with respect to the year ended said thirty-first day of December, there shall be no tax on gross earnings but a fee of twenty dollars shall be paid to the Commissioner of Revenue Services with the statement required by section 12-250. The amount of taxes paid during the year ended said thirty-first day of December, in any town in this state, on the real estate not used exclusively in the business of such corporation, or of any corporation all of whose property is operated by such corporation, shall be deducted from the amount of the tax upon such gross earnings.
(1949 Rev., S. 1929; 1961, P.A. 11, S. 2; P.A. 75-486, S. 28, 69; P.A. 77-614, S. 139, 162, 610; P.A. 78-291, S. 1, 2, 16; 78-303, S. 85, 136; P.A. 85-518, S. 1; P.A. 94-175, S. 2, 32; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-4, S. 80, 85; P.A. 95-160, S. 64, 69.)
History: 1961 act added provision for exemption, by public utilities commission, from taxation under Subdiv. (a); P.A. 75-486 substituted public utilities control authority for public utilities commission; P.A. 77-614 and P.A. 78-303 substituted commissioner of revenue services for tax commissioner and division of public utility control within the department of business regulation for public utilities control authority, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 78-291 replaced proviso re $20 fee in lieu of tax on gross earnings with similar provision wherein required certificate of eligibility is filed by commissioner of transportation rather than by division of public utility control as was the case previously, effective January 1, 1979, and applicable with respect to tax imposed by this chapter on gross earnings in the calendar year ending December 31, 1978, and in each calendar year thereafter; P.A. 85-518 specified that gross earnings may be determined by one-half of revenues generated by shipments “from all origins in this state and to all destinations in this state” and applied proviso re payment of $20 fee in lieu of gross earnings tax to all cases where previously it applied only to Subparas. (a) to (c), inclusive; P.A. 94-175 divided section into Subsecs. and Subdivs., effective June 2, 1994; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-4 and P.A. 95-160 revised effective date of P.A. 94-175 but without affecting this section.
See Secs. 13b-226 to 13b-233, inclusive, re standards of service required to maintain exemption.