WEST virginia Legislature

2016 regular session

Introduced

Senate Bill 672

By Senators Hall and Trump

[Introduced February 22, 2016;
Referred to the Committee on Finance.]

A BILL to amend and reenact §11-21-32 and §11-21-77 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to clarifying that a lottery prize is a West Virginia source income for a nonresident; and providing that lottery winnings are not compensation for personal services performed within the state by nonresidents.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That §11-21-32 and §11-21-77 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:

ARTICLE 21. PERSONAL INCOME TAX.

§11-21-32. West Virginia source income of nonresident individual.

(a) General. -- The West Virginia source income of a nonresident individual shall be the sum of the net amount of income, gain, loss and deduction entering into his or her federal adjusted gross income, as defined in the laws of the United States and section nine of this article, for the taxable year, derived from or connected with West Virginia sources, including:

(1) His or her or her distributive share of partnership income, gain, loss and deduction, determined under section thirty-seven; and

(2) His or her or her pro rata share of S corporation income, loss and deduction, determined under section thirty-seven, increased by reductions for taxes described in paragraphs (2) and (3), subsection (f), section 1366 of the Internal Revenue Code; and

(3) His or her or her share of estate or trust income, gain, loss and deduction, determined under section thirty-nine of this article.

(b) Income and deductions from West Virginia sources.

(1) Items of income, gain, loss and deduction derived from or connected with West Virginia sources shall be those items attributable to:

(A) The ownership of any interest in real or tangible personal property in this state; or

(B) A business, trade, profession or occupation carried on in this state; or

(C) In the case of a shareholder of an S corporation, the ownership of shares issued by such corporation, to the extent determined under section thirty-seven; or

(D) Prizes awarded under article twenty-two, chapter twenty-nine of this code by the West Virginia State Lottery Commission.

(2) Income from intangible personal property, including annuities, dividends, interest, and gains from the disposition of intangible personal property, shall constitute income derived from West Virginia sources only to the extent that such income is from property employed in a business, trade, profession or occupation carried on in this state.

(3) Deductions with respect to capital losses and net operating losses shall be based solely on income, gain, loss and deduction derived from or connected with West Virginia sources, under regulations of the Tax Commissioner, but otherwise shall be determined in the same manner as the corresponding federal deductions.

(4) The deduction allowed by section 215 of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to alimony, shall not constitute a deduction derived from West Virginia sources.

(c) Income and deductions partly from West Virginia sources. -- If a business, trade, profession or occupation is carried on partly within and partly without this state, as determined under regulations of the Tax Commissioner, the items of income, gain, loss and deduction derived from or connected with West Virginia sources shall be determined by apportionment and allocation under such regulations.

(d) Purchase and sale for own account. -- A nonresident, other than a dealer holding property for sale to customers in the ordinary course of his or her trade or business, shall not be deemed to carry on a business, trade, profession or occupation in this state solely by reason of the purchase and sale of property for his or her own account.

(e) Husband and wife. -- If a husband and wife determine their federal income tax on a joint return but determine their West Virginia income taxes separately, they shall determine their West Virginia source incomes separately as if their federal adjusted gross incomes had been determined separately.

(f) Effective date. -- This section as amended and reenacted in the year 1992 shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1991. As to prior taxable years, the provisions of this section and of section thirty-one of this article, as then in effect, are fully and completely preserved.

PART I. GENERAL.

§11-21-77. Extension of withholding to certain lottery winnings.

(a) Lottery winnings subject to withholding. -- Proceeds of more than $5,000 from any lottery prize awarded by the West Virginia State Lottery Commission is subject to withholding. The commission in making any payment of a lottery prize subject to withholding shall deduct and withhold from the payment a tax in an amount equal to six and one-half percent of the payment.

(b) Statement by recipient. -- Every person who is to receive payment of winnings which are subject to withholding shall furnish the person making the payment a statement made under the penalties of perjury, containing the name, address and taxpayer identification number of the person receiving the payment and each person entitled to any portion of the payment.

(c) Coordination with other sections. -- For the purposes of determining liability for payment of taxes and filing of returns, payments of winnings which are subject to withholding shall be treated as if they were wages paid by an employer to an employee, but may not be treated as compensation for personal services performed within this state for purposes of sections forty and forty-one of this article.

(d) Backup withholding. -- Beginning July 1, 2012, every person who is required to file Internal Revenue Service form W-2G, and who is subject to backup withholding under federal law, is subject to West Virginia backup withholding. The payor in making any payment of a gambling prize subject to backup withholding shall deduct and withhold from the payment a tax in an amount equal to six and one-half percent of the payment.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to clarify that a lottery prize is a West Virginia source income for a nonresident. The bill provides that lottery winnings are not compensation for personal services performed within the state by nonresidents.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.