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What is NYC AC § 11-620?

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This section defines 'gross income' for tax purposes, encompassing various forms of income including gains from business activities, property dealings, and compensation for services. It specifies how to allocate gross income derived from business conducted both within and outside the city. Applies to taxpayers calculating their gross income for tax obligations.

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§ 11-620 Gross income defined.

AC § 11-620

1.The term "gross income" includes gains, profits and income derived from the business, of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, including gains, profits or income from dealings in property, whether real or personal, or gains, profits or income received as compensation for services, as interest, rents, commissions, brokerage or other fees, or otherwise in carrying on such business, including all dividends received on stocks and all interest received from federal, state, municipal or other bonds.

2.If the gross income of a taxpayer is derived from business carried on both within and without the city, "gross income" means that proportion thereof which is derived from business carried on within the city, to be allocated and determined on the basis of separate accounting for each office or branch or, at the election of the taxpayer, under rules and regulations prescribed by the commissioner of finance.

3."Gross income" of a savings bank shall include the amount received by it in any taxable year as a distribution in liquidation of the mutual savings bank fund.

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