PRINTER'S NO. 1437

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


SENATE BILL

No. 1188 Session of 1977


        INTRODUCED BY REIBMAN, NOVEMBER 1, 1977

        REFERRED TO FINANCE, NOVEMBER 1, 1977

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), entitled "An
     2     act relating to tax reform and State taxation by codifying
     3     and enumerating certain subjects of taxation and imposing
     4     taxes thereon; providing procedures for the payment,
     5     collection, administration and enforcement thereof; providing
     6     for tax credits in certain cases, conferring powers and
     7     imposing duties upon the Department of Revenue, certain
     8     employers, fiduciaries, individuals, persons, corporations
     9     and other entities; prescribing crimes, offenses and
    10     penalties," exempting certain corporations organized as
    11     cooperatives to provide housing and not conducted for profit
    12     from the capital stock tax.

    13     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
    14  hereby enacts as follows:
    15     Section 1.  The first paragraph of section 601, act of March
    16  4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as the "Tax Reform Code of 1971,"
    17  is amended to read:
    18     Section 601.  Valuation of Capital Stock.--Hereafter, except
    19  in the case of corporations of the first class, nonprofit
    20  corporations, which shall include every corporation organized as
    21  a cooperative for the purpose of supplying housing and not
    22  conducted for profit, and cooperative agricultural associations
    23  not having capital stock and not conducted for profit, banks,


     1  savings institutions, title insurance, or trust companies,
     2  building and loan associations, and insurance companies, it
     3  shall be the duty of every corporation having capital stock,
     4  every joint-stock association, limited partnership, and every
     5  company whatsoever, now or hereafter organized or incorporated
     6  by or under any laws of this Commonwealth, and of every
     7  corporation, joint-stock association, limited partnership, and
     8  company whatsoever, now or hereafter incorporated or organized
     9  by or under the law of any other state or territory of the
    10  United States, or by the United States, or by any foreign
    11  government, and doing business in and liable to taxation within
    12  this Commonwealth or having capital or property employed or used
    13  in this Commonwealth by or in the name of any limited
    14  partnership or joint-stock association, company, or corporation
    15  whatsoever, association or associations, copartnership or
    16  copartnerships, person or persons, or in any other manner, to
    17  make annually a report in writing to the Department of Revenue
    18  on a form or forms to be prescribed and furnished by it setting
    19  forth in addition to any other information required by the
    20  Department of Revenue.
    21     * * *
    22     Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.






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