434.7 Gross earnings.
For the purpose of making reports to the department of revenue, the gross earnings of railway companies, owning or operating a line or lines of railway partly within this state and partly within another state, or other states, or territory, or territories, upon their line or lines within this state, shall be ascertained and reported by said railway companies as follows, to wit: The aggregate of the earnings upon business originating and terminating within this state, upon business originating in this state and terminating elsewhere, upon business originating elsewhere and terminating in this state, and upon business neither originating nor terminating in this state but carried on or done over the line or lines in this state or over some part thereof, shall be reported; and with respect to all such interstate business the earnings in this state for the purpose of report shall be actually computed upon the basis of the length of haul or carriage in this state as compared with the length of haul or carriage elsewhere. It is hereby declared that for the purpose of making reports looking to the assessment of railway property for taxation, the gross earnings or business done or carried partly within this state and partly in another state, or other states, or territories, shall be that proportion of the entire earnings of such business that the haul or carriage in this state bears to the entire haul or carriage.
[S13, §1340-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §7052; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §434.7]
2003 Acts, ch 145, §286
Referred to in §434.10, 434.12
Structure Iowa Code
Chapter 434 - RAILWAY COMPANIES TAX
Section 434.2 - When assessed — statement required.
Section 434.6 - Sleeping and dining cars.
Section 434.7 - Gross earnings.
Section 434.8 - Method of accounting.
Section 434.10 - Reports additional.
Section 434.11 - Additional rules and regulations.
Section 434.12 - Refusal to obey.
Section 434.13 - Operating expenses.
Section 434.14 - Amended statement.
Section 434.15 - Assessment of railways.
Section 434.16 - Assessment of sleeping and dining cars.
Section 434.17 - Certification to county auditors.
Section 434.19 - Failure to file.
Section 434.20 - Property assessed by local authorities.