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Taxation-State and Local

University of Georgia School of Law

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1978

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Construing The Uniform Division Of Income For Tax Purposes Act: Reflections On The Illinois Supreme Courts Reading Of The "Throwback" Rule, Walter Hellerstein Jul 1978

Construing The Uniform Division Of Income For Tax Purposes Act: Reflections On The Illinois Supreme Courts Reading Of The "Throwback" Rule, Walter Hellerstein

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Part I of this article examines the structure and underlying policy of the Uniform Division of income for Tax Purposes Act's provisions relating to the apportionment of income arising from economic activity conducted across state lines. In particular, it considers the Act's "throwback" rule, which reapportions income ordinarily apportioned to a state in which it is not taxable to one in which it is. Part II explores in detail the Illinois court's resolution of the problem raised by GTE, namely, how to assign sales of tangible personal property, which are used as a basis for apportioning income, when such sales …