Concerning the apportionment of certain business income of an airline or a qualified air freight forwarder for purposes of Iowa corporate income tax, and including retroactive applicability provisions

This bill relates to the apportionment of income of an airline and of a qualified air freight forwarder for purposes of the Iowa corporate income tax. A corporation doing business both within and without Iowa is required to apportion its business income among Iowa and the other states in which it does business. The amount of business income apportioned to Iowa is generally in the same percentage as the business’s gross sales made within Iowa if the business involves the manufacture or sale of goods and products, or in the same percentage as the business’s gross receipts earned within Iowa if the business involves something other than the manufacture or sale of goods and products. However, airlines and other specified industries have special rules provided by administrative rule for apportioning the income of those industries.7(2), an airline deriving income from transportation operations is required to apportion its business income to Iowa in the same proportion that its mileage traveled in Iowa bears to its total mileage traveled everywhere.7(2). The bill also provides rules for apportioning income derived by a qualified air freight forwarder from transportation operations through an affiliated airline. _____ primarily engaged in the facilitation of the transportation of property by air, and that does not itself operate aircraft but that is in the same affiliated group as an airline. The bill states that the qualified air freight forwarder income derived from transportation operations shall be apportioned to Iowa either under the current rules of the director of revenue (current statutory rules), or in the same proportion that the miles of the qualified air freight forwarder’s affiliated airline traveled in this state bears to the total miles of the affiliated airline traveled everywhere (affiliated airline mileage rules), based on increasing percentages as enumerated in the bill over a number of tax years. The bill applies retroactively to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.