(a) If the method of apportionment prescribed in sections 12-218, 12-218a and 12-219a, as administered by the Commissioner of Revenue Services and applied to the business of any company, unfairly attributes to this state an undue proportion of its net income or minimum tax base, such company may petition for an alternate method of apportionment by filing with its return to the commissioner a statement of its objections and of such other proposed method of apportionment as it believes proper and equitable under the circumstances, accompanied by supporting details and proofs. The commissioner, within a reasonable time thereafter, shall notify the company whether the proposed method is accepted as reasonable and equitable and, if so accepted, shall adjust the return and tax accordingly.

(b) With respect to any company subject to the tax imposed under this chapter, the commissioner, at any time within three years after the due date for the filing of such return, or in the case of a completed return filed after such due date, within three years after the date on which such return was received by the commissioner, which return is based on the method of apportionment provided for in said sections 12-218, 12-218a and 12-219a, may change such method if, in his opinion, such method has operated or will operate so as to subject the company to taxation on a lesser portion of its net income or minimum tax base than is equitably attributable to this state and shall thereupon proceed to assess and collect taxes in accordance with such method as so changed by him. On and after January 1, 1995, the commissioner may change such method only in accordance with regulations establishing standards for such action, which the commissioner may adopt in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54.

(c) The provisions of this section shall also apply to a combined group required to file a combined unitary tax return pursuant to section 12-222.

(1969, P.A. 258, S. 1; 1971, P.A. 683, S. 4; P.A. 73-350, S. 14, 27; P.A. 77-614, S. 139, 610; P.A. 81-411, S. 3, 42; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-4, S. 8, 85; P.A. 95-160, S. 64, 69; P.A. 96-197, S. 9, 11; P.A. 15-244, S. 155; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5, S. 139.)

History: 1971 act substituted “additional tax base” for “minimum tax base”; P.A. 73-350 substituted reference to Secs. 12-218a and 12-219a for reference to repealed Sec. 12-220a; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of revenue services for tax commissioner, effective January 1, 1979; P.A. 81-411 deleted reference to allocation, effective June 18, 1981, and applicable to income years commencing on or after December 28, 1980; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-4 divided existing section into Subsecs. (a) and (b) and in Subsec. (b) added provision requiring the adoption of regulations re change in apportionment methods, effective June 9, 1994; P.A. 95-160 revised effective date of May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-4 but without affecting this section; P.A. 96-197 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) re replace “additional” with “minimum” in reference to the tax base, effective June 3, 1996, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 1996; P.A. 15-244 added Subsec. (c) providing that section apply to combined group required to file a combined unitary tax return, effective June 30, 2015, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2015; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 15-5 changed effective date of P.A. 15-244, S. 155, from June 30, 2015, and applicable to income years commencing on or after January 1, 2015, to January 1, 2016, and applicable to income years commencing on or after that date, effective June 30, 2015.

Cited. 202 C. 412; 236 C. 156.

Under former section, taxpayer could not, on its own initiative, omit filing the return prescribed by statute and file only a return pursuant to an alternative method which had not yet been accepted or approved by tax commissioner. 26 CS 373. Cited. 41 CS 271; 44 CS 90.